1 / 101846 | American inventor Elias Howe was granted the US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2 / 101945 | A chicken named “Mike the Headless Chicken” was decapitated in Colorado, US and it went on to survive another 18 months without a head. (Image: miketheheadlesschicken.org)
3 / 101948 | Australian cricketing legend Don Bradman played his last first-class cricket innings in England. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
4 / 101999 | Iconic film "Fight Club", based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt premiered at the Venice Film Festival. (Image: Youtube)
5 / 102004 | "Crash" directed by Paul Haggis premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It won the Best Picture award at the 2006 Oscars. (Image: Amazon)
6 / 102007 | Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan for the first time after seven years in exile. (Image: Shutterstock)
7 / 102008 | Large Hadron Collider (the world’s largest particle collider) conducted its first test operation. (Image: Shutterstock)
8 / 102011 | Samantha Stosur became the first Australian to win a Grand Slam title since 1980 after beating Serena Williams at the US Open. (Image: Shutterstock)
9 / 102018 | UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an urgent climate change conference saying that "climate change moving faster than we are.” (Image: Shutterstock)
10 / 102019 | Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma steps down as the Alibaba chairman and is succeeded by Daniel Zhang. (Image: Shutterstock)
