On this day:
1998 Commonwealth Games Open in Kuala Lumpur for the first time in Kaula Lumpur
2001 September 11 Attacks in the United States
2007 Russia tests the world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb was a thermobaric bomb
Born on this day:
1885 D. H. Lawrence, English novelist
Gone on this day:
1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan