Meh.

• 1572 – Marriage in Paris, France of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestantsand Catholics.
• 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
• 1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
• 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
• 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
• 1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
• 1989 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
• 2005 – A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the largest and most widespread power outage in history.
• 2008 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns due to the threat of impeachment.