| 1184 | BC | the Greeks took Troy [Alt] |
| 90 | BC | Social War: Battle of the Tolenus - Gaius Marius rescues Publius Rutilius Rufus's army from a trap set by Mettius Scato's Italiot rebels |
| 88 | BC | Social War: T. Didius & M. Magius storm Herculaneum |
| 0 | | Navy Day in Brazil |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle, Patron of Cyprus, Protector of Peacemakers, and that of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, Martyr, Patron of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and much else |
| 173 | | "Miracle of the Thundering Legion": A sudden rainstorm turns a possible defeat of Marcus Aurelius' Romans by the Marcomanni [in Bohemia] into a victory |
| 1298 | | the Tuscan Guelfs (including Dante) defeated the Arretine Ghibellines in the Battle of Campaldino |
| 1346 | | Election of Charles IV of Luxembourg as Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1488 | | Battle of Sauchieburn: Duke James of Rothesay defeats King James III of Scotland |
| 1666 | | Three Day Anglo-Dutch Naval Battle of Vierdaagse begins |
| 1685 | | the Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II, landed in England to usurp the throne from his uncle, James II -- Learn More |
| 1690 | | Battle of Beachy Head/Bevezier: Tourville's French fleet defeats, but fails to destroy, Torrington's inferior Anglo-Dutch squadron, which prevents an invasion of England. |
| 1727 | | Accession of George II as King of England (1727-1760) |
| 1798 | | Bonaparte captures Malta, en route to Egypt |
| 1859 | | Liberal insurrection at Modena |
| 1861 | | Battle of Romney, WVa: Union victory |
| 1861 | | Maj. R. B. Hayes, Pvt. Wm. McKinley, and the 23rd Ohio mustered into federal service -- Learn More and Learn More |
| 1864 | | Battle of Trevillian Station/Central Railroad, VA |
| 1865 | | the Brazilian fleet destroyed the Paraguayan fleet in Battle of Riachuelo, on the Parana River |
| 1882 | | Moslems massacre 300 Christians at Alexandria, Egypt |
| 1898 | | US naval raid on Fisher's Point, Cuba |
| 1902 | | USMA 4th Class Cadet Calvin A. Titus is awarded the Medal of Honor by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, for heroism ruring the China Relief Expedition in 1900, while a corproal in the 14th Infantry |
| 1906 | | Police foil an anarchist terrorist bombing of the NYC subway |
| 1917 | | Austro-Hungarian sub 'U-27' sinks Japanese DD 'Sakaki' in the Mediterranean |
| 1927 | | Charles A. Lindbergh becomes the first man awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, at City Hall, NY, after his ticker tape parade up Broadway |
| 1934 | | Disarmament conference in Geneva fails |
| 1939 | | the Roosevelts served hot dogs & beer to George and Elizabeth Windsor in the garden of their home in Hyde Park |
| 1940 | | Italian air raid on Malta |
| 1940 | | RAF raids Genoa and Turin |
| 1942 | | Italo-German forces halted at El Alamein, North Africa |
| 1943 | | Allies land on Pantelleria, Italy |
| 1943 | | Kiska: Japanese submarine 'I-9' sunk by USS 'Frazier' (DD-607) |
| 1944 | | US carrier raids on the Marianas: 200 Japanese a/c destroyed |
| 1970 | | US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya in wake of Qadaffi coup |
| 1977 | | Dutch Marines rescue hostages on a train held by Moluccan terrorists |
| 1982 | | Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon |
| 1403 | | Duke Jan IV of Brabant and Limburg (1415-1427) |
| 1519 | | Grand Duke Cosimo I de'Medici of Florence (1537-1574), son of Giovanni degli Bande Neri |
| 1696 | | James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish Jacobite and Prussian field marshal, d. 1758 |
| 1807 | | James Findlay Schenck, naval officer, U.S., d. 1882 |
| 1808 | | Charles Henry Poor, naval officer, U.S., d. 1882 |
| 1816 | | Robert Huston Milroy, inept Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1890 |
| 1822 | | Samuel Davis Sturgis, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1889 |
| 1823 | | James Lawson Kemper, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1895 |
| 1895 | | Nikolai A Bulganin, premier of the USSR (1955-58) |
| 1910 | | Jacques Cousteau, naval officer, explorer, Vichyite, d. 1997 |
| 1919 | | Richard Todd, Pegasus Bridge veteran, actor ('John Howard', at Pegasus Bridge, in "The Longest Day," in which he himself was portrayed by another actor), d. 2012 |
| 1920 | | King Mahendra of Nepal (1955-1972) |
| 1930 | | Charles B Rangel, Bronze Star, US Army, Korea, Member of Congress |
| 90 | BC | Roman Consul P. Rutilius Rufus, kia |
| 1183 | | Henry, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, 28, junior king of England (1170-1183), |
| 1216 | | Henry of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), c. 42 |
| 1488 | | King James III of Scots (1460-1488), 36, killed fighting rebellious nobles in the Battle of Sauchieburn |
| 1512 | | Giulio Cesare Malvizzi, Patrician of Bologna, Captain of the Holy Church, murdered. |
| 1557 | | King Jao III "the Pious" of Portugal (1521-57), at 55 |
| 1610 | | Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Admiral of Zeeland, lynched at 55 -- Learn More |
| 1727 | | George I, Elector of Hanover (1708-1727), King of England (1714-1727), at 67 |
| 1825 | | Daniel D. Tompkins, sometime war governor of New York and vice-president, at 50 -- Learn More |
| 1903 | | King Alexander Obrenovic of Serbia (1889-1903), 26, and his wife Queen Draga, 38, assassinated by "Black Hand" ultra-nationalists |
| 1925 | | Karl Egli, German-born Swiss intelligence officer in W. W. I, at 59 -- Learn More |
| 1936 | | Robert E. Howard, author ("Conan"), suicide at 30 |
| 1948 | | Col. David "Mickey" Marcus, 47, Boys' High, USMA; first General of Israel in 2000 years, accidentally shot |
| 1960 | | Commo Dudley W. Knox, 82, naval officer, historian, & theoretician |
| 1963 | | Quang Duc, c. 66, Buddhist monk, self-immolation in Saigon |
| 1979 | | Marion Mitchell Morrison - John Wayne, 72, actor ("Sands of Iwo Jima", "Fighting SeaBees") |
| 2001 | | Timothy McVeigh, 33, executed for the Murrah Federal Building bombing |