Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the...
The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.
Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.