Great Britain, France, Italy, and Nazi Germany sign agreement in Munich permitting German annexation of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov, identifying reports of an incoming missile as a false alarm, averts nuclear war.
The siege of Przemysl, the longest of World War I, begins as Russian forces move against Austria-Hungary.
U.S. president George W. Bush addresses a joint session of Congress and the American public, declaring a "war on terror."
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt, earning Begin and Sadat the Nobel Peace Prize.
Defying the state of emergency, over twenty thousand South Africans protest apartheid in the "last illegal march."
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, a scientific collaboration of twenty countries, is powered up in Geneva.
South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group, attacks and takes hostage eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
Harry Truman addresses the peace treaty conference with Japan, marking the first live transcontinental television broadcast.
