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Syrian civil war: Turkish forces began an offensive into north-eastern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was severely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in London's West End.
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Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.
Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.
North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.
The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.
World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia during Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign.
American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.
Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.