| 55 | BC | Wedding of the Optimate demagogue Titus Annius Milo to Fausta, daughter of Sulla the Dictator |
| 0 | | Army Day in Haiti |
| 326 | | Consecration of St. Peter's [Old] Basilica in Rome - see 64, 1626 |
| 1105 | | King Henry V of the Germans appoints Maginulfo of Peschiera [Anti-] Pope as Sylvester IV (1105-1111) |
| 1180 | | Accession of Philip II Augustus as King of France (1180-1223) |
| 1210 | | Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV |
| 1282 | | Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. |
| 1421 | | St. Elizabeth's Flood: A seawall on the Zuiderzee in the Netherlands collapses, c. 10,000 die |
| 1495 | | French-held Gaeta (besieged on Sep 8) falls to Ferrantino II of Naples |
| 1523 | | Giulio de'Medici elected Pope as Clement VII (1523-1534) |
| 1601 | | Siege of Nagykanizsa: Outnumbered and under siege for 70 days, the Turks under Tiryaki Hasan Pasha stage a breakout and rout the Habsburgs under Archduke Ferdinand, inflicting great loss |
| 1626 | | Consecration of St. Peter's [New] Basilica in Rome - see 64, 326 |
| 1755 | | The Great Cape Ann Earthquake, New England |
| 1803 | | Battle of Vertieres: Haitians defeat the French, the decisive action of the Haitian War for Independence |
| 1812 | | Battle of Krasnoi: After three days an heroic rear guard action by the French under Marhsal Ney ends as the retreat before Russia's Marshal Kutusov |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Palmyra, Mo |
| 1870 | | Amadeo de Savoia, the Duke of Aosta, is elected King of Spain as Amadeo I (Nov. 16, 1870-Feb 11, 1873), abdicates |
| 1890 | | Second Class Battleship/Armored Cruiser 'Maine' is launched in Brooklyn; blown up, 1898 |
| 1903 | | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama |
| 1905 | | Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway (1905-1957) |
| 1906 | | Anarchists detonate a bomb in St. Peter's Square, though no one is injured in the large Sunday crowd [See 1626] |
| 1912 | | Albania declares independence from Turkey |
| 1914 | | Naval Battle of Cape Sarych: the Russian Black Sea Fleet defeats a Turko-German squadron |
| 1936 | | Germany & Italy recognized Franco government in Spain |
| 1941 | | Operation Barbarossa: A Soviet counterattack near Tula causes the German 112th Infantry Division to break. |
| 1941 | | Last Italian forces in Ethiopia surrender to the British, ending 15 months of resistance |
| 1943 | | Philippines: Japanese destroyer escort 'Sanae' is sunk by USS 'Bluefish' (SS-222) |
| 1944 | | British aircraft carriers raid oil facilities, bases, and ports in Sumatra |
| 1961 | | JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam |
| 1978 | | The Jonestown Event: In Guyana, cult leader Jim Jones and his followers commit mass murder & suicide, 918 die, including U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan, murdered |
| 2012 | | Accession of Tawadros II as Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. |
| 1772 | | Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, soldier, kia 1806 |
| 1774 | | Vittorio Amedeo Ferdinando Sallier della Torre, Piedmontese field marshal and statesman, d. 1858 |
| 1804 | | Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, soldier and politician, PM of Italy (1864-1866), who lost the big one at Custoza, d. 1878 |
| 1810 | | Andrés Pico, Mexican Brig. Gen., victor of the Battle of S. Pascual (near S. Diego), against the US, later Brig. Gen. California militia in the Civil War, d. 1876 |
| 1810 | | Benjamin Stone Roberts, Brig Gen, U.S., of "Roberts' Rules", d. 1875 |
| 1812 | | Jesse Johnson Finley, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1904 |
| 1824 | | Franz Sigel, "Red '48-er," Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1902 |
| 1824 | | Isham Nicholas Haynie, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1868 |
| 1835 | | Americus Vespucius Rice, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1904 |
| 1836 | | Maximo Gomez, Cuban revolutionary, d. 1905 |
| 1860 | | Ignacy Paderewski, internationally famous pianist, Polish nationalist, Prime Minister of Poland (1919), d. 1941, in exile in the United States. |
| 1883 | | Carl Vinson, American politician, "Father of the Two Ocean Navy," d. 1981 |
| 1886 | | Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian communist, veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army, the Hungarian Socialist Republic, the International Brigades, PM of Hungary (1958-1961), d. 1967, 29 November 1967, |
| 1916 | | Shelby Foote, author ("The Civil War: A Narrative") |
| 1923 | | Alan B Shepard, Jr., USN, astronaut, d. 1998 |
| 1941 | | David Hemmings, actor ("The Charge of the Light Brigade"), d. 2003 |
| 64 | | St. Peter, Apostle and Pope (32-67), martyred at Rome |
| 303 | | St. Hesychius of Antioch, Roman soldier, martyred after proclaiming his faith by being drowned in the Orontes |
| 1170 | | Albrecht I "the Bear", first Margraf of Brandenburg (1157-1170) and Duke of Saxony (1138-1142), c. 70 |
| 1247 | | Robin Hood, traditionally, poisoned by a nun |
| 1305 | | Duke John II of Brittany (1268-1305), 65, English ally, crusader |
| 1329 | | Alberghetto I Manfredi, Lord of Faenza (1327-1328), beheaded at Bologna |
| 1664 | | Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general and military thinker, at 44 |
| 1851 | | Ernst August, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover (1837-51), at 80 |
| 1886 | | Chester A Arthur, 56, militiaman, president (1881-85) -- Learn More |
| 1942 | | Madison Sullivan (23), last of the "Sullivan Brothers,"drowned off Guadalcanal [possibly the 19th] |