- Hurricane Helene (track pictured) makes landfall near Perry, Florida, United States, as a category 4 hurricane.
- The Chess Olympiad concludes with India winning both the open and women's events.
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected President of Sri Lanka.
- At least 77 people are killed and more than 255 others are injured in an Islamist militant attack on Mali's capital, Bamako.
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