| 46 | BC | Day 2 of Caesar's Triumph, for the Alexandrian War |
| 0 | | Feast of the Martyrs of Cordoba, 48 priests and monks decapitated for refusing to convert to Islam |
| 1057 | | Battle of Dunsinane Hill ("The Seven Sleepers"): Earl Siward defeats King MacBeth of Scotland |
| 1214 | | First Battle of Bouvines: King Philip II of France defeats Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV |
| 1230 | | Treaty of San Germano: Pope Gregory IX & Emperor Frederick II agree to a [temporary] end to hostilities between Church and Emperor |
| 1276 | | Pedro III "the Great" ascends the throne of Aragon (1276-1285) |
| 1298 | | Albert I, son of Rudolf of Hapsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor (1298-1308) |
| 1361 | | Battle of Visby: Waldemar IV of Denmark defeats the Gotlanders |
| 1365 | | Princess Isabella of England marries Enguerrand de Coucy at Windsor |
| 1597 | | Battle of Amiens: Spanish defeat the French |
| 1643 | | Battle of Gainsborough: Cromwell defeats Royalists at |
| 1689 | | Viscount Dundee's Scots Jacobites defeated the English General Mackay in the Battle of Killiecrankie -- Learn More |
| 1778 | | First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a draw |
| 1794 | | Coup of Thermidor - the fall of Robespierre |
| 1809 | | Battle of Talavera de la Reina: Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish defeat the French |
| 1813 | | Battle of Burnt Corn Creek: Red Stick Creek Indians carrying supplies from Spanish Florida defeat an ambush by American militiamen. |
| 1830 | | Revolution against Charles X breaks out in Paris |
| 1839 | | Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England |
| 1848 | | Combat at Cerlungo: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians |
| 1861 | | Combat at Ft Fillmore, NM: Confederate victory |
| 1861 | | McClellan replaces McDowell in command of Union forces around Washington |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at St. Augustine Springs, NM |
| 1864 | | Battle of Darbytown/Deep Bottom/ Newmarket Road/Strawberry Plains, Va |
| 1870 | | Lt. Gen Philip Sheridan sailed from New York to observe the Franco-Prussian War -- Learn More |
| 1880 | | Battle of Maiwand; Dr Watson is wounded |
| 1897 | | Grand Review of the Royal Navy off Spithead marking Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee |
| 1900 | | Kaiser Wilhelm II told German troops departing to fight the Boxers in China to behave like "Huns" -- Learn More |
| 1909 | | Orville Wright demonstrates a plane for the Army, flying 72 minutes |
| 1919 | | Chicago race riot: 38 killed (23 blacks & 15 whites) and 537 injured (c. 65% blacks), several blacks, no whites are convicted of riot-related charges |
| 1929 | | the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners-of-war was signed -- Learn More |
| 1941 | | Japanese forces land in Indo-China |
| 1942 | | Australian forces cling to Deniki, south of Kokoda in Papua, against fierce Japanese pressure. |
| 1943 | | Battle of the Pips: USN fires 100s of rounds at false radar blips, off Kiska. |
| 1943 | | China Seas: USS 'Sawfish' (SS-276) sinks two Japanese ships |
| 1943 | | Japanese DDs 'Ariake' & 'Mikazuki' sunk off New Britain by U.S. Army a/c. |
| 1943 | | Stalin issues Order No. 227: "Panic makers and cowards must be liquidated on the spot. Not one step backward . . . !" |
| 1944 | | First British jet fighter enters combat, the Gloster Meteor |
| 1944 | | Marines clear northern Tinian and begin rebuilding the airfield |
| 1944 | | Soviets liberate Majanek Concentration Camp |
| 1945 | | Japan's cities are "bombed" with leaflets demanding surrender |
| 1953 | | North Korea & UN sign armistice |
| 1954 | | Armistice divides Vietnam in two |
| 1955 | | Bulgaria shoots down an Israeli passenger plane, 58 die |
| 1987 | | the restored broadside ironclad frigate 'Warrior' was open to the public as a museum at Portsmouth -- Learn More |
| 1990 | | Belarus declares independence from the USSR |
| 1995 | | Korean War Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington |
| 1452 | | Ludovico "il Moro" Sforza, illegitimate son of Francesco Sfroza, Duke of Milan (1494-1499, desposed, restored 1500, again desposed), d. 1508 |
| 1612 | | Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (1623-1640), conqueror of Baghdad |
| 1768 | | Charlotte Corday, who met Jean Paul Marat in his bathtub, guillotined 1793 |
| 1812 | | Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1897 |
| 1824 | | Alexandre Dumas fils, bon viveur, novelist ("The Lady of the Camillias")d. 1895 |
| 1840 | | Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, US cavalryman, d. 1889 |
| 1924 | | Vincent Canby, US Navy, WW II, drama critic, d. 2000 |
| 959 | | Chai Rong/Guo Rong, 37, the Shizong Emperor of the Later Zhou (954-959) |
| 1233 | | Infante Fernando/Ferrand of Portugal, at 45, Count of Flanders (1212-1233), prisoner of the future Louis VIII of France from 1214, |
| 1638 | | Count Johan VIII de Jongere of Nassau-Siegen, kia at 54 |
| 1675 | | Marshal-General of France Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, was cannon balled at 64, besieging Salzbach -- Learn More |
| 1689 | | John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee, 41, Jacobite general, kia at Killiecrankie |
| 1777 | | Jane McRae, slain by Indians, inflaming frontier New Yorkers against the British |
| 1916 | | Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt, 44, British merchant mariner, executed by the Germans for ramming a submarine |
| 1970 | | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68) |
| 1980 | | Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran (1941-1979), 60, in exile in Egypt |
| 1984 | | James Mason, conscientious objector, actor ("Rommel"), at 75 |
| 2003 | | Bob Hope, veteran of 60 years of USO shows, at 100 |