The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.

An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.

The United States recognize the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.

NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.

The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.

''CBS Evening News'' becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.

United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.

The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.

Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}} in Tokyo Bay.

World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.

The U.S. Zeppelin {{USS|Shenandoah|ZR-1|6}} crashes, killing 14.

Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.

Battle of Omdurman

Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.

Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan

Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as ''Lady Haruko''. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.

American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.

American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.

The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.

Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.

The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.

Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.

The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.

The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.