- 1228 Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, is compiled in China
- 1889 Louisa Woosley is the first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination in the US (Cumberland Presbyterian Church)
- 1895 First US automobile patent is granted to George B. Selden for a gasoline-driven car
- 1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, completing the first transcontinental airplane flight in 49 days after leaving Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17
- 1935 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
- 1953 Paul Searls saws a 32-inch (0.81 m) log in 86.4 seconds
- 1957 Mrs. Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½-cent soccer pool ticket
- 1988 Cornell confirms a graduate student is the source of a major computer sabotage known as the Morris Worm, initially created as an experiment but spreading rapidly due to a programming error
Revenge Match of the 20th Century
1992 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky in an unofficial match in Belgrade dubbed the "Revenge Match of the 20th Century"
- 1994 Space probe Ulyssus completes the first passage behind the Sun
- 1994 Tony Rominger bicycles a world record for distance covered in one hour for the second time (55.291 km)
- 2015 Collins Dictionary name "binge-watch" the word of the year, followed by "transgender"
- 2019 Actress Emma Watson, interviewed in Vogue magazine, says she is happy to be single, stating, "I call it being self-partnered," launching a worldwide discussion on the term
- 2021 Rashid Khan becomes youngest bowler to take 400 T20 wickets during a match against New Zealand in Dubai
- 2024 World's first wooden satellite, named LignoSat, which will burn up on re-entry, is developed by Kyoto University to address space junk and launched from Kennedy Space Center [1]
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