1922 - The British Mandate for Palestine was announced. It came into effect at the end of the month, despite Arab protests.
1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, passed away at the age of 71, one year after his country's independence from Britain.
1973 - Chilean President Salvador Allende died under mysterious circumstances during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
1988 - Canadian runner Ben Johnson broke the world record, winning the gold medal in the 100-meter race at the Olympics.
1994 - Actress Jessica Tandy, known for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and an Oscar winner for "Driving Miss Daisy," passed away at the age of 85.
1997 - Scotland voted in favor of the British government’s plan to grant it its own parliament for the first time in nearly 300 years.
2001 - Four hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania, resulting in the deaths of 2,973 people in an unprecedented coordinated attack in modern history.
2004 - Armin Cruz, the first American military intelligence soldier to be court-martialed for mistreating detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, was sentenced to eight months in prison, demoted, and discharged due to misconduct.
2007 - Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz with his band Weather Report, died in his hometown of Vienna at the age of 75.
2012 - An attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulted in the death of an American staff member during the clashes.
2015 - A construction crane collapsed in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, resulting in over a hundred deaths.
