6 September 1962

Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.

Hurricane Irma reached peak intensity near the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Virgin Gorda.

The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.

The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).

An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television.

Cal Ripken Jr. (pictured) played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.

Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.

Black September: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four airliners, landing two at Dawson's Field in Jordan and one in Cairo, while the last hijacking attempt was foiled near London.

The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.

A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.

World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.

Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.

The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.

U.S. president William McKinley was fatally shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.

General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.

American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.

Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeated Swedish and German Protestant forces.

Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.

Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.

Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.

Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.

Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.

Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.