1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain, celebrated today as Chile's National Day
1990 - A 500-pound, 6-foot Hershey's Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City
1993 - 18th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Snapper," directed by Stephen Frears, wins the People's Choice Award
2014 - Eight people (including two children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
2022 - Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Punta Tocón on Puerto Rico's southwest coast as a Category 1 storm with 85 km/h winds, causing catastrophic flooding

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1912 - Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1941, 45), born in Sharon, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
1932 - Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33), born in Tomsk, Russia (d. 2002)
1949 - Kerry Livgren, American progressive rock guitarist and songwriter (Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"; "Dust in the Wind"), born in Topeka, Kansas
1953 - Betsy Boze, American academic (9th president of The College of The Bahamas), born in Shreveport, Louisiana