Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
U.S. president George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
First Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.
The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
The Spanish siege of Alkmaar ends with the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.