| 387 | BC | "Vae Victis!": Brennus' Gauls occupy Rome, following their victory on the Allia (18th) (or maybe 390) |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint Victor of Marseilles, Patron of Victims of Torture |
| 70 | | The Romans under Titus secure Jerusalem after four months, with great slaughter |
| 365 | | A tsunami devastates Alexandria and much of the eastern Mediterranean littoral |
| 649 | | Consecration of Pope St. Martin I (649-653) |
| 1200 | | Battle of Monreale: Papal-Norman army defeats Marcovaldo di Anweiler |
| 1320 | | Count Louis of Nevers marries the 8-year old daughter of Philip V |
| 1403 | | Battle of Shrewsbury: Henry IV defeats Henry Percy, the Earl of Northumberland |
| 1527 | | The miraculous end of the Plague at Itri |
| 1667 | | Treaty of Breda: ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) |
| 1691 | | Antonio Pignatelli elected Pope as Innocent XII (1691-1700) |
| 1711 | | Treaty of the Pruth: ends Russo-Turkish War of 1710-1711 |
| 1718 | | Treaty of Passarowitz: Austria and Venice make peace with the Turks |
| 1784 | | Algiers agrees to cease piratical raids after bombardment by a combined Italian naval squadron that began July 12th |
| 1789 | | Jose de San Martin, 11, joins the Spanish Regiment of Murcia as an officer-cadet |
| 1798 | | Battle of the Pyramids: Bonaparte defeats the Mamlukes |
| 1823 | | Lt David G. Farragut leads a raid to destroy a pirate base in Cuba |
| 1861 | | First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas: Confederate Victory |
| 1866 | | Battle of Bezzecca: the Garibaldini defeat the Austrians |
| 1905 | | Ottoman Sultan Adbul Hamid narrowly escapes assassination |
| 1905 | | USS 'Bennington' (PG-4): Boiler explosion, 62 dead, 40 injured |
| 1919 | | The hydrogen-filled blimp 'Wingfoot Air Express' explodes over downtown Chicago, 13 die (10 on the ground), 27 on the ground injured |
| 1933 | | Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Italo Balbo & his airmen |
| 1941 | | 200 Torahs are burned in Ukraine |
| 1941 | | Himmler orders building of Majanek Concentration Camp |
| 1942 | | Japanese land at Gona, northeastern Papua, despite Allied air attacks |
| 1942 | | Japanese warships shell Buna and nearby villages |
| 1943 | | US Navy cancels the 'Montana' Class battleships |
| 1944 | | Pre-invasion bombardment of Tinian commences. |
| 1945 | | U.S. radio broadcasts demand that Japan surrender or be destroyed. |
| 1946 | | USN begins carrier trials of jets, an XFD-1 Phantom off the USS 'FDR' |
| 1962 | | Indian and Chinese troops skirmish in the Himalayas |
| 1969 | | Neil Armstrong's "small step" on the moon - 2:56:15 AM GMT |
| 1970 | | Libya orders confiscation of Jewish property |
| 1972 | | Bloody Friday: 22 IRA bombs explode in Belfast |
| 1997 | | The ashes of Little Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson's horse, are interred at his statue at VMI |
| 1997 | | Restored USS 'Constitution' sails for the first time in 116 years |
| 2013 | | Abdication of King Albert II of the Belgians (1993-2013) and the accession of his son King Philippe (2013-) |
| 628 | | Li Zhi, the Emperor Gaozong/Kao-tsung of Tang China (649-683) |
| 1414 | | Francesco della Rovere - Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484) |
| 1802 | | David Hunter, Maj Gen, U.S., abolitionist, d. 1886 |
| 1815 | | Stewart Van Vliet, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1901 |
| 1816 | | Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter, founder of Reuter's press service, d. 1899 |
| 1817 | | Joseph K Barnes, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1883 |
| 1826 | | James Gillpatrick Blunt, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1881 |
| 1828 | | John Rutter Brooke, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1926 |
| 1899 | | Ernest Hemmingway, adventurer, author, d. 1961 |
| 1930 | | The Veterans' Administration |
| 330 | BC | King Darius III of Persia (336-330 BC), c. 50, murdered by Bessos, to curry favor with Alexander |
| 1425 | | Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425), 75 |
| 1544 | | René of Châlon, Prince of Orange, Baron of Breda, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, & Utrecht, and Stadtholder of Guelders, killed during the siege of Saint-Dizier |
| 1683 | | William Russell, Lord Russell, beheaded at 43 in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields |
| 1796 | | Robert Burns, Scots poet, 37 -- Learn More |
| 1899 | | Robert Ingersoll, politician, orator, Col, USV, 65 |
| 1934 | | Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, 79, French soldier and colonial adminstrator, Marshal of France |
| 1944 | | Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (37), executed by firing squad, & Gen. Ludwig Beck (64), assisted suicide, for their part in the plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 1967 | | Basil Rathbone, 75, sometime captain, Liverpool Scottish (MC), Anglo-American actor ("Sherlock Holmes," "Captain Blood", "Robin Hood" etc.) |
| 1998 | | Alan Shepard, first American in space, at 74 |