William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom.
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London serial killer Jack the Ripper claimed his second victim, Annie Chapman.
Margaret Gorman from Washington, D.C., became the very first Miss America.
Space probe Osiris-Rex by NASA was launched to collect rock samples from the Bennu asteroid.
'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway was published in book form after first being published in Life Magazine on September 1.
Yellowstone National Park closed for the first time in US history due to ongoing fires.
