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- Hurricane Ivan, now a tropical depression, brings flooding rains to the Southern U.S.. Ivan has already pummeled Alabama and Florida with high winds and flooding rains, causing extensive structural damage, and leaving 1.5 million persons without electricity and at least 23 dead.
- Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev issues a statement claiming that he and his group Riyadus-Salikhin were responsible for the Beslan school massacre.
- In a BBC interview, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan describes the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as "illegal," in that it contravened the UN Charter.
- A Countryside Alliance rally outside Britain's Parliament buildings, in opposition to a bill that would ban fox-hunting, experiences pockets of violence as protestors and police clash. Other protestors successfully breach security and dash across the floor of the House of Commons while it is session, prompting some comparisons in the media to the incursion of Charles I over three centuries ago. The bill later passes the Commons 339–155.
In North American ice hockey, the National Hockey League locks out its players, after failed negotiations with the NHL Players' Association. Part or all of their 2004–05 season may be cancelled.
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