Thomas Edison gets a patent for the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

North Korea reportedly launches its first satellite (Kwangmy?ngs?ng-1).

The Princess of Wales, Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in a Paris tunnel.

Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris.

The first of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols is murdered.