| 0 | | Feast of King Saint Canute IV, Patron of Denmark |
| 1460 | | Battle of Northampton: Lord Grey defeats King Henry VI |
| 1609 | | German Catholic League established under Maximillian of Bavaria |
| 1690 | | Battle of Beachy Head: French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet |
| 1721 | | Peace of Nystad: Ends the Great Northern War (1700-1721) |
| 1775 | | Horatio Gates orders blacks excluded from the Continental Army |
| 1790 | | 2d Battle of Ruotsinaslami/Svenksund: Swedish fleet beats Russians (from 9th) |
| 1821 | | U.S. takes possession of Florida from Spain |
| 1861 | | Combat at Monroe Sta., Va. |
| 1863 | | Siege of Morris Island, SC, begins (ends Sep 6) |
| 1898 | | A French column under Maj. Jean-Baptiste Marchand occupies Fashoda, on the Nile in the Sudan, setting up a six-month confrontation with Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian forces, which leads to the Entente Cordial |
| 1898 | | Skirmish at Santiago de Cuba |
| 1913 | | Second Balkan War: Romania declares war on Bulgaria |
| 1917 | | Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft |
| 1923 | | All non-fascist parties in Italy are dissolved |
| 1926 | | Explosion at the Picatinny Arsenal, Lake Denmark, NJ: 21 die, scores injured |
| 1938 | | Howard Hughes completes 91-hour 'round-the-world flight, NY-NY |
| 1941 | | Polish residents of Jedwabne massacre 1,600 Jews, and blame the Nazis |
| 1942 | | Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp |
| 1942 | | USAAF agrees to increase a/c strength in the Pacific, slowing buildup in Britain |
| 1943 | | First B-25 raid on Paramushiro (Kuriles) from Attu |
| 1943 | | Operation Husky: US & Commonwealth forces invade Sicily |
| 1944 | | Burma: Chinese engage in heavy fighting on the Salween front |
| 1944 | | Isolated Japanese troops launch a counter attack at Aitape, New Guinea |
| 1944 | | Marian Anderson sings "La Marseillaise" for de Gaulle, La Guardia, & NYC |
| 1945 | | Massive U.S./Br naval air strikes on airfields and industrial sites around Tokyo |
| 1953 | | American troops abandon Pork Chop Hill, Korea |
| 1960 | | Belgium sends troops to Congo |
| 2015 | | The so-called Confederate Battle Flag is removed from the grounds of the South Carolina state house |
| 1509 | | John Calvin, Protestant reformer with a high body count, d. 1564 |
| 1621 | | Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, 50, Hapsburg general, the Army of Flanders, later Imperial C-in-C |
| 1818 | | John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898 |
| 1820 | | Andrew Porter, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1872 |
| 1821 | | Christopher Columbus Augur, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1898 |
| 1833 | | Lucius Eugene Polk, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1892 |
| 1834 | | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, USMA drop-out, artist ("Whistler's Mother"), d. 1903 |
| 1856 | | Nikola Tesla, brilliant inventor, inept businessman, d. 1943 |
| 1867 | | Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm, Margrave and later head of the House of Baden, general staff officer, last Chancellor of Imperial Germany (Oct 3 - Nov 9, 1918), d. 1929 |
| 1883 | | Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz, German general, d. 1948 |
| 1886 | | John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort, British field marshal & VC, who commanded the 1940 BEF & Malta, d. 1946 |
| 1898 | | Charles B. McVay III, American naval officer, Rear Adm., sometime commander USS 'Indianapolis' (CA-35), suicide 1968 |
| 1922 | | Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier, anti-Hitler conspirator, last surviving veteran of the "July Plot", d. 2013 |
| 1927 | | David N. Dinkins, marine, Mayor of New York (1990-1994) |
| 138 | | Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138) at 62 -- Learn More |
| 1024 | | Pope Benedict VIII Theophylactus (1012-1024) |
| 1086 | | King Canute IV "the Holy" of Denmark (1080-1086), c. 44, slain by rebels, later canonized |
| 1099 | | Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar - El Cid Campeador, in bed at c. 55 |
| 1103 | | King Erik I "the Good Hearted" of Denmark (1095-1103), c. 43 |
| 1290 | | King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1272-1290), 37, murdered |
| 1480 | | Rene I d'Anjou, 71, King of Naples, Sicily, & Jerusalem (1435-1442), ousted but kept trying (1442-1480) |
| 1559 | | King Henry II of France (1547-59), 40 |
| 1584 | | Prince William I "the Silent" of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, & Friesland (1559-1584), 54, leader of the Dutch Revolution, shot by Balthasar Gérard at Delft, in history's first assassination by firearm |
| 1653 | | John Gerrard, English gentleman, hanged at Tyburn for brawling in the streets of London with Portuguese nobleman Pantaleon Sa, also hanged, along with four of his servants. |
| 1747 | | Nader Shah Afshar "the Great" of Persia (1736-1747), 49 or 59, assassinated |
| 1794 | | Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny, 37, French naval officer, Vendeen general, executed as a counter-revolutionary |
| 1920 | | Eugenie de Montijo y de Guzman, Mrs. Napoleon III, at 94 |
| 1937 | | Rafael de Nogales Mendez Bey, Venezuelan soldier-of-fortune, in bed at 60 |
| 1944 | | Count Giovanni Pallavicini, kia, Warsaw. |
| 1945 | | Robert Goddard, American scientist, inventor of the liquid fueled rocket, 62 |