China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.

A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.

The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.

Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.

Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.

Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.

World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.

Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.

Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the ''Telekino'' in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.

The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.

U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.

The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.

The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).

''Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick'', the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.

The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.

On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.

In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.