Dates:
- 1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
- 1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras
- 1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
- 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order".
- RC Saints - Virgin of the Holy cave; Saint Deiniol, Our Lady of Coromoto, Protus and Hyacinth.
- Also see September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
- Beheading of John The Baptist (or The Forerunner) in Eastern Orthodox tradition.
- Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day in the Coptic calendar.
- New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash).
- Catalonia - National Day.
- Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento.
- Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
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