| 0 | | Feast of Saint Gerard of Csanád, Patron of Hungary |
| 1066 | | Harald Haardrada's Norwegians capture York |
| 1143 | | Guido del Castello elected Pope as Celestine II (1143-44) |
| 1180 | | Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor (1180-1183) |
| 1258 | | Triumphal entry of Ezzelino da Romano into Brescia |
| 1400 | | Battle of Welshpool: Henry Burnell defeats Owen Glendower |
| 1625 | | Spanish repulse Dutch attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1683 | | King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French America |
| 1794 | | Pres Washington ordered the militia out to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion -- . Learn More |
| 1846 | | Battle of Monterry: After a three day fight, Zachary Taylor's army captures the city |
| 1852 | | First Powered Flight: Henri Giffard flies 17 miles from Paris to Trappes in his coke-fired steam powered semi-rigid airship. |
| 1864 | | Battle of Pilot Knob/Fort Davidson: Union troops beat off the Confederates under Sterling Price, who are beginning a raid into Missouri |
| 1918 | | Ens David S. Ingalls becomes the first USN ace, in a Sopwith Camel, while seconded to the Royal Air Force |
| 1929 | | Lt James H Doolittle makes the first all-instrument flight, over Brooklyn |
| 1942 | | "Chesty" Puller's Marines engage Japanese on Mt. Austen, Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | | Valeriia Khomiakova, Soviet 586th Fighter Regiment, becomes the first woman to down an enemy aircraft in combat, flying a Yak 1 on her first mission |
| 1943 | | Soviet forces liberate Smolensk |
| 1943 | | USS 'Cabrilla' (SS 288) damages the escort carrier 'Taiyo' off Japan. |
| 1944 | | San Marino declares war on Germany |
| 1948 | | Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars pleads innocent in Washington |
| 1950 | | Operation Magic Carpet: the Jews of Yemen are taken to Israel |
| 1960 | | USS 'Enterprise' (CVN-65) is launched, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier |
| 1982 | | US, Italian, & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
| 2015 | | Mecca: A panic during the Hajj results in over 2,400 deaths |
| 15 | | Aulus Vitellius, Roman general, gourmand, Emperor-for-a-Little-While (April 16-Dec 20, AD 69), k. Dec 22, 69 |
| 1230 | | King Alfonso IX "the Slobberer" of León and Galicia (1188-1230), 59 |
| 1583 | | Albrecht von Wallenstein, military entrepreneur, assassinated, 1634 |
| 1739 | | Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheski, soldier, statesman, Catherine the Great's lover, d. 1791 |
| 1755 | | John Marshall, soldier, Chief Justice (1801-1835), d. 1835 |
| 1824 | | Truman Seymour, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891 |
| 1827 | | Henry Warner Slocum, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1894 |
| 1829 | | James St Clair Morton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1864 |
| 1833 | | Henry Alanson Barnum, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 |
| 1884 | | Mustafa Ismet Inonu, Turkish general, President (1938-1950), d. 1973 |
| 1896 | | F. Scott Key Fitzgerald, novelist and inept soldier, d. 1940 |
| 1920 | | Richard "Dick" Bong, highest scoring US ace of WW II, with at least 40 Japanese a/c, d. 1945 in a flying accident |
| 768 | | King Pepin III "the Short" of France (751-768), at 53 |
| 867 | | Byzantine Emperor Michael III (842-867), 27, assassinated |
| 911 | | Louis 'the Child' - King Louis III or IV of East Francia, (899-911), c. 18 - the last German Carolingian |
| 1143 | | Pope Innocent II - Gregorio Papereschi (1130-1143) |
| 1180 | | Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180), at c. 62 |
| 1228 | | Grand Prince Stephen II of Rascia (1196-1217), King Stephen I Nemanjich of Serbia (1217-1228) |
| 1230 | | King Alfonso IX of Leon and Galicia (1188-1230), 59 |
| 1812 | | Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration, c. 48, Russian general, d/w from Borodino |
| 1834 | | Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (1822-1831), King of Portugal (Mar 10-May 28, 1826), 35 |
| 1924 | | Manuel José Estrada Cabrera, 66, sometime President/Dictator of Guatemala (1898-1920) -- Learn More |
| 1978 | | Hasso-Eccard Freiherr von Manteuffel, 81, panzer leader |