| 0 | | Feast of St. Benedict of Nursia, Founder of Monte Cassino, Patron of Europe, and that of St. Nicholas of Flüe, Patron of Switzerland and of the Pontifical Swiss Guards |
| 630 | | Roman Emperor Heraclius returns the "True Cross", recaptured from the Persians, to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher |
| 867 | | Battle of York: Danes defeat King Aelle of Northumbria |
| 1084 | | Emperor Henry IV captures Rome, and Pope Gregory VII |
| 1146 | | St. Bernard of Clairveaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy |
| 1152 | | Marriage of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| 1421 | | Battle of Beauge: The English are defeated by the French |
| 1625 | | Franco-Piedmontese capture Novi from the Spanish-Genoese |
| 1788 | | Second Great Fire of New Orleans: c. 800-850 buildings houses burn after a votive candle ignites some curtains |
| 1814 | | Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Day 2: Austro-Russians defeat Napoleon |
| 1824 | | Explosion and fire at the Citadel at Cairo, over 4,000 die |
| 1836 | | Mexicans capture Copano, Texas |
| 1848 | | Combat at Sforzesca: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians |
| 1849 | | Combat at Borgo San Siro: Austrians defeat the Piedmontese |
| 1849 | | Combat at Gambolo: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians |
| 1849 | | Combat at Mortara: Austrians defeat the Piedmontese |
| 1866 | | Congress authorizes a national soldiers' homes |
| 1918 | | "Operation Michel" - Germans begin the first offensive of "Die Kaiserschlacht" -- Learn More |
| 1927 | | Kuomintang forces occupy Shanghai |
| 1937 | | Police fire on nationalist parade, Ponce, PR, 19 die |
| 1939 | | Hitler demands annexation of the Free City of Danzig |
| 1940 | | Paul Reynaud becomes French premier (March 21 - June 16, 1940) |
| 1942 | | Jimmy Stewart enlists in the USAAF |
| 1942 | | Major Italo-German air attacks on Malta |
| 1943 | | Assassination attempt on Hitler fails |
| 1945 | | Okinawa: Japanese use Okha suicide planes for the first time |
| 1945 | | Navy Chaplain Rabbi Roland Gittelson dedicates a cemetery on Iwo Jima -- https://youtu.be/GJYSEkB06V0 |
| 1951 | | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage |
| 1960 | | Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on black demonstrators protesting apartheid, killing 69 |
| 1967 | | Battle of Suoi Tre: Major US victory over the VC/NVA |
| 1984 | | Soviet sub collides with USS 'Kitty Hawk' (CV-63) off Japan |
| 927 | | Zhao Kuangyin, the Emperor Taizu, the first Song Emperor of China (960-976) |
| 1227 | | Charles of Anjou, King Charles I of Naples (1266-1285) |
| 1274 | | King Robert I the Bruce of Scotland (1306-1329). |
| 1521 | | Maurice, wily Duke (1541–1547) and later Elector (1547–1553) of Saxony. |
| 1609 | | Cardinal Jan II Kazimierz, King of Poland (1648-68) |
| 1713 | | Francis Lewis, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1803 |
| 1806 | | Benito Juarez, President of Mexico (1858-72) |
| 1839 | | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, sometime Preobrazhensky Guardsman and composer, 1881 |
| 1889 | | Bernard Cyril Freyberg, soldier, Mexican Revolution, Gallipoli, Western Front (VC), North Africa, Greece, Italy, d. 1963 |
| 1917 | | Yigael Sukenik, later Yadin, Israeli archaeologist and general, d. 1984 |
| 1946 | | The Strategic Air Command |
| 867 | | King Osberht of Northumbria (c. 484-867) and his brother Ælla, kia by the Vikings |
| 1076 | | Duke Robert I Burgundy (1072-1076) |
| 1306 | | Duke Robert II of Burgundy (1272-1306) |
| 1330 | | Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, beheaded at 28 |
| 1556 | | Thomas Cranmer, 66, Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-1555), burned at Oxford |
| 1604 | | Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, 86, General and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1592-1594) |
| 1617 | | Pocahontas -- Mrs. John Rolfe, about 22, in England |
| 1656 | | James Ussher, 74, Protestant Primate of All Ireland (1625-1656), who "calculated" the age of the universe |
| 1663 | | Charlotte de la Tremoüille Stanley, Countess of Derby, c. 65, who defended Latham House against the Parliamentarians (1644) |
| 1804 | | Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien, 31, murdered by Napoleon |
| 1880 | | Hussein bin Muhammed, Sherif of Mecca (1877-1880), murdered by a religious fanatic |
| 1958 | | Cyril M. Kornbluth, 34, Battle of Bulge Bronze Star, American sciencefictioneer |
| 2013 | | Herschel Schacter, 95, sometime US Army Chaplain who directed relief efforts at Buchenwald and later headed the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations |