Events:
1831: Russia takes Warsaw after two-day battle, and Polish revolt collapses.
1907: Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
1920: Indian National Congress adopts Gandhi's to resist British occupation by non-violent means including civil disobedience.
1926: League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
1937: Syria hosts Arab conference to discuss the Palestine issue in the light of the increasing Jewish immigration
1941: Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins
1941: German occupation authorities start a wide-ranging campaign against Jews in Paris.
1941: Ho Chi Minh establishes the Viet Minh or League for the Independence of Vietnam
1943: Italy announces unconditional surrender in WW II
1944: World War II: Bulgaria declares war on Germany.
1944: World War II: the liberation of Brussels and Liege in Belgium from the German forces.
1945: Americans occupy the South Korean peninsula in response to the Soviet invasion of the north.
1951: Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco depriving it of all Colonies, but regaining full political and economic sovereignty
1954: the signing of the Southeast Asia Treaty in Manila, between the United States, Britain, France, Thailand and the Philippines. 1961: French Organization of the Secret Army opposing the independence of Algeria attempts to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.
1967: Declaration of republican regime in the Netherlands.
1974:President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes
1974: The independence of Mozambique.
1975: Corsican nationalists blow up a French "Boeing 707"
1994: American, French and British forces withdraw from Berlin.
Special occasions:
1946: International Literacy Day, set by UNESCO
Births:
1944: Ali Bin Flis, Algerian prime minister
September 8, 1779: Mustafa IV, Ottoman Sultan.
Deaths:
1933: Death of King Faisal I Bin Al-Hussein in Switzerland (born in 1883 and ruled Iraq in 1921).
1954: Death of French painter Andre Durran (born in 1880).
1979: Jean Seberg, actress, commits suicide at 40.
1982: Death of Kashmiri Muslim leader Mohammad Abdullah nicknamed the lion of Kashmir.