The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.

Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.

The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.

Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.

Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.

Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.

NASA launches Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.

The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.

A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.

Military coup in Turkey.

Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.

''Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral'' is founded in Guinea-Bissau.

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.

Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)

Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.

President Kennedy delivers an address at Rice University in which he announces that it is a goal of the United States to "land a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth".

The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.

Premiere of ''Bonanza'', the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.

Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.

Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.

World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.

World War II: RMS ''Laconia'', carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.

An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.

Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.

Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.

Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's ''Symphony No. 8'' in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)

The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.

Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi

Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.

Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.

The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.

The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.

Switzerland becomes a Federal state.

Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

Great Turkish War|Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna

Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the ''Halve Maen''.

The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.

Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.