| 101 | BC | Battle of Campi Raudii: The combined armies of G. Marius and Q. Lutatius Catulus annihilate the Cimbri, near Vercellae, in the Po Valley |
| 634 | | Arabs defeat Byzantines at Agnadain, Palestine |
| 657 | | Consecration of Pope Vitalian (657-672) |
| 1291 | | Egyptian Mamlukes take Haifa |
| 1371 | | Massacre of the mercenary Compagnia del Bruco at Florence |
| 1419 | | The First Defenestration of Prague: Initiates the Hussite Wars |
| 1588 | | Battle of Gravelines: Indecisive clash that decides the fate of the Spanish Armada |
| 1609 | | Samuel de Champlain uses a musket to help the Huron defeat the Iroquois, initiating a 150-year Franco-Iroquois war |
| 1638 | | Battle of Wittenweir: French defeat the Imperialists |
| 1760 | | Three of London's four remaining medieval gates are sold for £416 10s, perhaps $1.0 million today |
| 1839 | | "Mutiny" in the slave ship 'Amistad': Enslaved Africans liberate themselves |
| 1863 | | Lincoln orders retaliation if Confederates kill black P/Ws |
| 1864 | | Petersburg Campaign: Battle of the Crater |
| 1866 | | White racists attack blacks in New Orleans |
| 1898 | | Skirmish at Manila: US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire |
| 1909 | | US Army accepts delivery of its first military airplane |
| 1913 | | Conclusion of Second Balkan War |
| 1916 | | German saboteurs blow up munitions stored at Black Tom Island, NJ, 7 die, $20 million in damages (perhaps $1.5 billion today) |
| 1918 | | 1st Marine Aviation Force lands at Brest, France |
| 1941 | | Japanese "accidentally" bomb USS 'Tutuila' (PR-4), Chungking, China |
| 1942 | | German occupiers set curfew on Jews in the Netherlands |
| 1942 | | The Nazis murder 25,000 Jews at Minsk, Belorussia |
| 1942 | | USS 'Grunion" (SS-216) is declared "over due," probably lost to hazards of the sea. |
| 1942 | | VAdm Mikawa arrives at Rabaul to assume command of the Eighth Fleet. |
| 1942 | | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) created |
| 1943 | | New Georgia: Heavy fighting continues. |
| 1943 | | U.S. DDs shell suspected Japanese positions on Kiska. |
| 1944 | | US 6th Inf Div lands on the Vogelkop, NW New Guinea, and offshore islands |
| 1945 | | British midget subs sink Japanese cruiser with mines in Singapore. |
| 1945 | | Near Samarinda, Borneo, Japanese troops slaughter several hundred Dutch civilian men, women, and children interned since 1942. |
| 1945 | | USS 'Indianapolis' (CA-35) torpedoed & sunk; nearly 900 die over the next four days, many in shark attacks |
| 1966 | | US airplanes bomb demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
| 1971 | | Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter, 162 die |
| 1971 | | US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
| 1997 | | Islamist suicide bombings in Jerusalem, 14 Israelis killed |
| 579 | | Pope Benedict I (575-579) |
| 1388 | | James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358-1388), 30, kia, Battle of Otterburn |
| 1616 | | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish nationalist, at about 76 |
| 1741 | | Field Marshal Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, 71, Austrian conqueror of Naples, 1707-1708 |
| 1811 | | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, father of Mexican independence, executed at 58 |
| 1875 | | George Edward Pickett, 50, US Army officer, Confederate Maj. Gen. |
| 1898 | | Otto Eduard Leopold, Furst von Bismarck, 83, the "Iron Chancellor," who unified Germany |
| 1912 | | Mutsuhito - the "Meiji" - 122nd Emperor of Japan (1867-1912), at 59 |
| 1918 | | Joyce Kilmer, 31, soldier-poet of the "Fighting 69th", kia, Battle of the Ourcq - Learn More |
| 1967 | | Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 66, the last sole propreitor of Krupp Industries; war criminal who got over |
