- 1990 – Iran agreed to resume full diplomatic ties with past enemy Iraq.
- 1990 – Iraq’s Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in an attempt to win their support during the Gulf War Crisis.
- 1992 – In Minneapolis, MN, a federal jury struck down professional football’s limited free agency system.
- 1998 – Mac Davis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1998 – U.S. President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask forgiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky.
- 1998 – Northwest Airlines announced an agreement with pilots, ending a nearly two-week walkout.
- 1999 – A bronze sculpture of a war horse just over 24 feet high was dedicated in Milan, Italy.
- 2002 – Florida tested its new elections system. The test resulted in polling stations opening late and problems occurred with the touch screen voting machines.
- 2002 – The “September 11: Bearing Witness to History” exhibit opened at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
- 2002 – Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
- 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
- 1981 – Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer
- 1981 – Bonnie Maxon, American wrestler
- 1982 – Misty Copeland, American ballerina and author
- 1982 – Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
- 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
- 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
- 1983 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
- 1984 – Sander Post, Estonian footballer
- 1984 – Harry Treadaway, English actor
- 1984 – Luke Treadaway, English actor
- 1984 – Drake Younger, American wrestler
- 1985 – Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer
- 1985 – James Graham, English rugby league player
- 1985 – Neil Walker, American baseball player
- 1986 – Ashley Monroe, American singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Eoin Morgan, English cricketer
- 1987 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
- 1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1987 – Alex Saxon, American actor
- 1988 – Bobby Sharp, Canadian wrestler
- 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
- 1989 – Matt Ritchie, English footballer
- 1989 – Lee Sawyer, English footballer
- 1991 – Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
- 1992 – Ricky Ledo, American basketball player
- 1992 – Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
- 1994 – Mohamed Sylla, French rapper
- 1997 – Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
- 1998 – Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player