All 73 people on board are killed as Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two…
4 October 1777
Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe during the Battle of Germantown.
3 October 1993
Trying to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US soldiers and 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
2 October 1967
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court
30 September 2005
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishes the controversial drawings of Muhammad.
29 September 1982
The first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago in what became known as the Tylenol murders.
28 September 1995
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.