NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.
World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wirele...
The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses killing more than hundred people. The event was a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire.
American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.