1905 - The signing of the Portsmouth Treaty (New Hampshire) ended the Russo-Japanese War. Russia ceded Port Arthur to Japan.
1972 - During the Olympics, Arab militants from the Black September Movement attacked an Israeli dormitory in the Olympic village in Munich, resulting in the deaths of two members of the Israeli team. Nine other Israelis, five militants, and a West German police officer later died in a shootout at Munich airport.
1975 - In Sacramento, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1995 - France conducted an underground nuclear test at Moruroa Atoll, drawing global condemnation. Anti-nuclear power protesters rioted in Tahiti for two days.
1997 - During a severe storm in Asunción, Paraguay, a stadium collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 37 people at a political gathering. At least 100 were injured.
1997 - Mother Teresa, 87, died of a heart attack in Kolkata, where she founded the Missionaries of Charity. She opened her first school in the slums of Kolkata in 1949.
2001 - Britney Spears performed with a snake during the live broadcast of the MTV Video Music Awards.
2002 - The last section of the concrete track was laid in Shanghai for the world's first operational magnetic levitation train.
2008 - Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tripoli on the first visit by a U.S. Secretary of State to Libya since 1953.
2012 - An explosion in an ammunition depot in Afyon, western Turkey, killed 25 soldiers.
