The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.
Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
The Soviet Union's robotic probe Luna 24 successfully lands on the Moon.
Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors.
Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain, takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the 'eighth great power'.
The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, one of Mars's moons.
Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.