| 1132 | | Battle of Nocera: Count Ranulf II of Alife defeats Roger II of Sicily |
| 1148 | | Second Crusaders besiege Damascus (withdraw the 28th) |
| 1192 | | Saladin captures Jaffa |
| 1216 | | Cencio Savelli elected Pope as Honorius III (1216-1227) |
| 1505 | | Portuguese fleet sacks and burns Kilwa, East Africa |
| 1567 | | Deposition of Queen Mary of Scots (1542-1547) and installation of her son as King James VI (1567-1625) |
| 1603 | | James VI of Scots is crowned as King James I of England (1603-1625) |
| 1692 | | Battle of Steinkirk: The French defeat William III of England |
| 1704 | | British Admiral George Rooke takes Gibraltar from Spain |
| 1813 | | Elijah Mix, USN, tries to mine HMS 'Plantagenet', Cape Henry, Va |
| 1848 | | Skirmish at Salionze: Austrians defeat the Piedmontese |
| 1848 | | Skirmish at Staffalo: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Blue Mills, Mo |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, WVa, |
| 1864 | | Second Battle of Kernstown, Va: Jubal Early drives Union forces out of the Shenandoah into Maryland |
| 1883 | | Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt against Britain and France |
| 1900 | | Race riot in New Orleans |
| 1915 | | Steamer 'Eastland' capsizes dockside in Chicago, 800 die |
| 1919 | | Race Riot in Washington DC, 6 killed, 100 wounded |
| 1923 | | Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty at Lausanne |
| 1929 | | Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact, which declares war naughty |
| 1936 | | Spanish Nationalists form a junta to conduct the civil war with the Spanish Republic |
| 1942 | | Australian Maroubra Force is forced back from Alawa by the Japanese. |
| 1942 | | U.S. submarines begin operating in the Kurile Islands. |
| 1943 | | RAF bombs Hamburg, initiating a firestorm. |
| 1943 | | U.S. destroyers land supplies at Bairoko, on Kula Gulf. |
| 1943 | | U.S. subs ordered to deactivate defective magnetic torpedo exploders. |
| 1943 | | 'U-459 sinks' when it shoots down an RAF Wellington that then crashes on her deck |
| 1945 | | Over 1,500 Allied carrier aircraft raid Kure, sinking three battleships |
| 1948 | | Soviets initiate a blockade of Berlin |
| 1959 | | The Nick & Dick Show: VP Nixon's "Kitchen debate" with Soviet Premier Khrushchev at the US exhibition in Moscow |
| 1969 | | Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction in the US Army |
| 1999 | | Debut of StrategyPage -- Learn More |
| 1759 | | King Victor Emanuel I of Sardinia (1802-21) |
| 1783 | | Simon Bolivar, Liberator of Peru, Bolivia, Gran Columbia, d. 1830 -- Learn More |
| 1798 | | John Adams Dix, Maj Gen, U.S., who would say "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." d. 1879 |
| 1802 | | Alexandre Dumas père, author ("The Three Musketeers", etc.), bon vivant, d. 1870 |
| 1827 | | Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1912 |
| 1828 | | Cuvier Grover, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1885 |
| 1895 | | Robert Graves, soldier, poet, classicist, novelist ("Goodbye to All That," "I, Claudius"), d. 1985 |
| 478 | | St. Lupus of Troyes, holy enough to intimidate Attila |
| 725 | | The Venerable Bede, c. 63, Anglo-Saxon historian |
| 1424 | | Orso Orsini, c. 44, Lord of Monterotondo, drowned, Battle of Zagonara |
| 1568 | | Don Carlos, 23, Prince of Asturias of Spain, probably retarded, not mad or a frustrated reformer, and not killed by his father Philip II |
| 1794 | | Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais, Vicomte de Beauharnais, 33, Josephine's first husband, guillotined |
| 1862 | | Martin Van Buren, 79, militiaman, President (1837-1841) -- Learn More |
| 1944 | | Jan Postma, Dutch resistance worker, executed by the Nazis |
| 1992 | | Khaled Mahmoud Saeid, aide to Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, assassinated |
