Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, China until August 24.
An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
First flight of the nuclear capable Convair B-36, heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft at the time.
World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.
World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers' first public flight, at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in Ohio in exchange for land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Wapakoneta.
Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.