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Unidentified gunmen began a three-day attack on the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in the deaths of 67 people with at least another 175 wounded.
American rock band Green Day released their seventh studio album, American Idiot.
Several British Muslim youths in Peterborough, England, murdered 17-year-old Ross Parker, leading to debate over whether the British media failed to cover racially motivated crimes with white victims.
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A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens
Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.
Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.
St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down by a burglar.
The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-134 is shot down by a missile in the Black Sea near Sokhumi, Georgia.
Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
Brunei joins the United Nations.
Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.
Seychelles joins the United Nations.
Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.
Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801, a Boeing 727-100 passenger plane, crashes during a landing attempt in Mexico City, killing 27 of the 118 occupants.
The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
Romanian prime minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first time. (September 22 is celebrated by some fans as Hobbit Day, however.)
A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.
Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
Taiping Rebellion: The Ever Victorious Army defeats Taiping forces at the Battle of Cixi.
Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
The crew of schooner Ancud, led by John Williams Wilson, takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.
War of 1812: British forces abandon their unsuccessful siege of Fort Erie.
British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.
French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
A British government army led by Sir John Cope is defeated in less than 15 minutes by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Caupo of Turaida are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Anglo-Norman invaders.
Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.