4th » Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
9th » The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by New York State Police named state troopers retaking the Attica Correctional Facility known as prison.
11th » The History of the Egyptian Constitution e.g Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
19th » Montagnard (Vietnam) Montagnard ARVN troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 Vietnamese people ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
20th » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene–Olivia named Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific
21st » Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.