The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.
Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the French negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.
World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae during the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.