| 479 | BC | Battle of Plataea: Greeks crush the Persians in Boeotia [Trad - more probably the 25th] |
| 338 | BC | Battle of Chaeronea: Philip of Macedon defeats the principal Greek states [Est] |
| 216 | BC | Battle of Cannae: Hannibal crushes a Roman Army -- Learn More |
| 47 | BC | "Veni, Vidi, Vici"; Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus at Zela |
| 0 | | Paratroopers Day in Russia |
| 0 | | Feast of Pope Saint Stephan I |
| 0 | | VJ Day |
| 1057 | | Federick of Lorraine elected Pope as Stephen X [IX] (1057-1058) |
| 1247 | | HR Emperor Frederick II besieges Parma (lifted Feb 18, 1248) |
| 1492 | | King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of the Spains order the expulsion of the Jews |
| 1530 | | Battle of Gavinara: Spanish-Medician forces defeat the Florentines |
| 1554 | | Battle of Marciano: Spanish-Medician forces defeat the Franco-Sienese near Florence |
| 1740 | | First public performance of Thompson's & Arne's "Rule, Britannia!" -- Learn More |
| 1770 | | Battle of the Pruth: Russians defeat the Turks, who lose 20,000 |
| 1776 | | Royal Navy lands 32,000 British & Hessians on Staten I, near New York City |
| 1802 | | Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself "Consul for Life" of France |
| 1819 | | First parachute jump in the US, from a balloon |
| 1831 | | Dutch invade secessionist Belgium (withdraw Aug 12) |
| 1832 | | Battle of the Bad Axe River: final action of the Black Hawk War, many Indians slain |
| 1865 | | In the mid-Pacific, CSS 'Shenandoah' learns the Civil War ended four months earlier |
| 1867 | | Wagon Box Fight: c. 30 army woodcutters defeat c. 1000 Sioux |
| 1870 | | Battle of Saarbrucken: French troops capture Saarbucken - the only victory of Napoleon III's Imperial Army in the Franco-Prussian War |
| 1887 | | Rowell Hodge receives a patent for barbed wire |
| 1903 | | Macedonians began an unsuccessful uprising against the Turks |
| 1904 | | British capture Lhasa, Tibet |
| 1911 | | President/Dictator of Haiti François C. Antoine Simon (1908-1911) flees in a US warship |
| 1914 | | Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
| 1914 | | Germany occupies Luxembourg, without a declaration of war. |
| 1917 | | First deck landing on an underway warship: CDR E. H. Dunning, RNAS, in a Sopwith Pup aboard HMS 'Furious' at Scapa Flow |
| 1928 | | Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| 1931 | | Albert Einstein urges scientists to refuse military work |
| 1934 | | German Armed Forces swear a "Holy Oath" to the unholy Adolf Hitler |
| 1941 | | Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
| 1943 | | Blackett Str: JFK's 'PT-109' rammed & sunk by HIJMS 'Amagiri'. |
| 1943 | | New Georgia: 27th RCT arrives to reinforce U.S. troops. |
| 1943 | | Riot at Treblinka Concentration Camp |
| 1944 | | Burma: Chinese troops heavily engaged at Teng-chung. |
| 1944 | | Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany |
| 1945 | | B-29s drop 6,600 tons of bombs on five Japanese cities. |
| 1950 | | The 1st Marine Provisional Bde lands at Pusan |
| 1964 | | Gulf of Tonkin: North Vietnamese patrol boats attack USS Maddox, escorting CIA gun runners |
| 1990 | | Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, initiating the First Gulf War, "Desert Shield/Desert Storm" |
| 1424 | | John II of Anjou, Duke of Lorraine (1453-1470), titular King of Naples |
| 1674 | | Philippe d'Orleans, French nobleman, soldier, and Regent Regent for Louis XV (1715-1723), d. .1723 |
| 1696 | | Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I (1730-54) |
| 1785 | | Oliver Hazard Perry, USN, who "met the enemy" on Lake Erie, d. 1819 |
| 1810 | | Luigi Ghilardi, liberal soldier-of-fortune, Garibaldino, Juarista, executed by the French, 1864 |
| 1826 | | William Denison Whipple, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1902 |
| 1834 | | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French: sculptor ("The Statue of Liberty," "The Lion Monument" of Belfort, etc.), d. 1904 |
| 1868 | | King Constantine I of Greece (1913-1917 & 1920-1922), brilliant commander, d. 1923. |
| 1929 | | John Maxtone-Graham, sometime marine, maritime historian ("The Only Way to Cross," etc.), d. 2015 |
| 1932 | | Peter O'Toole, sometime Royal Navy signalman, actor ("Lawrence of Arabia," "The Lion in Winter," etc.). d. 2013 |
| 338 | BC | King Archidamus III of Sparta (360-338 BC), kia, Manuria, Sicily |
| 216 | BC | Lucius Aemilius Paullus, c. 45, Consul, plus two former consuls, 77 senators, 2 quaestors, 29 military tribunes, and at least 40,000 other Romans, kia, along with maybe 10,000 Carthaginian, African, Spanish, and Gallic troops, Cannae |
| 461 | | Roman Emperor in the West Majorian (457-461), c. 40, murdered |
| 640 | | Pope Severinus (28 May-2 Aug 640) |
| 686 | | Pope John V (685-686) |
| 1100 | | King William II "Rufus", c. 44, by a "stray" arrow while hunting in the New Forest |
| 1222 | | Raymond VI, 65, Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence (1194-1222) |
| 1589 | | King Henri III of France (1573-1589), 37, of wounds from an assassination attempt the previous day |
| 1799 | | Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, 49, co-inventor of ballooning with his brother Joseph-Michel |
| 1822 | | Alexander Graham Bell, 75, Scottish-American inventor of the practical telephone |
| 1849 | | Mehemet Ali Pasha of Egypt (1805-1848), c.80, empire builder, slave trader |
| 1876 | | James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, 39, shot by Jack McCall while holding black aces & eights & a jack of diamonds |
| 1903 | | "Calamity Jane" - Martha Jane Cannary, 51 |
| 1921 | | Enrico Caruso, 48, noted tenor -- https://youtu.be/uVRK6x1yi2k |
| 1934 | | Paul von Hindenburg, 86, field marshal, President of Germany (1928-1934), leaving the country in Hitler's hands |
| 1936 | | Louis Bleriot, 64, pioneer aviator |
| 1946 | | Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov (45), Soviet general, traitor, executed |
| 1955 | | Generalfeldmarschall Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine, WW I German general, anti-Nazi, at 86 |
| 1956 | | Albert Woolson, sometime drummer boy, Coy C, 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery, USV, last Civil War veteran, at 106 |
| 2012 | | Sir John Keegan, OBE, FRSL, 78, historian -- "The Face of Battle", etc. |