The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at {{convert|1389|ft|m}}, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.

U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.

National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.

Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.

''60 Minutes'' debuts on CBS.

Swaziland joins the United Nations.

United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.

The Honda Motor Company is founded.

Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.

Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion

"Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels {{convert|17|mi|km}} from Paris to Trappes.

The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.

The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.

Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.

Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles

Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.

Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.