| 46 | BC | Day 1 of Caesar's Triumph, for the conquest of Gaul, culminating in the dedication of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, honoring his divine ancestress -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Anne, Mother of Mary, Patron of Canada, Brittany, and much else beside |
| 657 | | Battle of Siffin: Muawiyah I, the first Umayyad, defeats Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, Mohammed's son-in-law |
| 811 | | Bulgar Khan Krouma acquired Byzantine Emperor’s Nicephorus I's skull as a drinking cup at the Battle of the Verbita Pass/Pliska |
| 1184 | | the weight of the assembled court of King Henry VI of the Germans collapsed the floor of Pertersberg Castle, precipitating hundreds into an underground sewer, 60 drowned |
| 1469 | | Battle of Edgecote Hill: Sir John Conyers' Lancastrians defeat the Earl of Pembroke's Yorkists |
| 1649 | | English fleet bombards Dunkirk |
| 1755 | | Giacomo Casanova was imprisoned in the Leads by the Venetian secret police -- Learn More |
| 1757 | | Battle of Hastenbek: The French defeat the Anglo-Hanoverians |
| 1758 | | British Gen James Wolfe captures Louisbourg |
| 1759 | | French troops vacate Ticonderoga, New York |
| 1812 | | US Frigate 'Essex' captures British brig 'Leander' |
| 1822 | | Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin |
| 1826 | | Pogrom against the Jews of Vilna |
| 1833 | | A Zulu impi raids the vicinity of the Portuguese fort at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Lane's Prairie, Mo |
| 1863 | | Salineville, OH: Confederate Brig Gen. John Hunt Morgan surrenders with 364 troopers |
| 1898 | | Skirmish near Yauco, Puerto Rico; Spanish withdraw |
| 1898 | | US Navy sweeps mines at Caimanera, Cuba |
| 1912 | | Lt. John Rodgers makes the 1st airborne radio commo to a ship, USS 'Stringham' (TB-19) |
| 1914 | | The Dublin Massacre: Scottish troops open fire at a football match, killing four and injuring scores |
| 1918 | | Race riot in Philadelphia, 3 whites & 1 black killed |
| 1941 | | Pres Roosevelt calls the Philippine Army into Federal Service |
| 1942 | | Capt Joy Bright Hancock is appointed Director, Women's Naval Reserve |
| 1942 | | Desperate fighting near Kokoda, Papua; Australians fall back to Deniki. |
| 1942 | | Japanese reinforcements land at Buna. |
| 1942 | | RAF bombs Hamburg |
| 1943 | | U.S. destroyers shell Munda. |
| 1944 | | Pacific strategy conference in Hawaii: FDR orders the liberation of the Philippines |
| 1944 | | Russian troops arrive on the Vistula |
| 1945 | | British ships and a/c raid Japanese bases on the west coast of Malaya. |
| 1945 | | Churchill resigns as Britain's PM |
| 1945 | | Japanese disregard US ultimatum |
| 1948 | | Truman initiates the integration of the Armed Forces |
| 1953 | | Fidel Castro makes an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks |
| 1954 | | Chinese aircraft shoot down a British airliner, whereupon fighters off USS 'Philippine Sea' (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese a/c that fired on them while covering rescue operations |
| 1956 | | the Italian liner 'Andrea Doria' sank, having been rammed by the off course Swedish liner 'Stockholm' off Nantucket, 51 died |
| 1957 | | USSR launches its first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile |