| 0 | | Feast of San Gennaro, Patron of Naples |
| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in Chile |
| 1319 | | Battle of Myton - "The White Battle": Sir James Douglas beats Archbishop Melton |
| 1356 | | England's Black Prince captured King Jean II of France at Poitiers -- Learn More |
| 1676 | | Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown, Va |
| 1734 | | War of the Polish Succession: Battle of Guastella - Franco-Piedmontese-Spanish forces defeat the Austrians, to capture Milan. |
| 1757 | | Prussian Lt. Gen. Frederick William von Seydlitz defeated a Franco-Austrian army at Gotha -- Learn More |
| 1777 | | Battle of Freeman's Farm (1st Battle of Saratoga) |
| 1796 | | Battle of Altenkirchen: Desperate French rearguard action against the Austrians |
| 1813 | | On its fourth day the Battle of Leipzip ended, with Napoleon's army routed by the Allies |
| 1860 | | Battle of Caiazzo: The Garibaldini defeat the Neapolitan Bourbons |
| 1862 | | Battle of Iuka, Miss |
| 1863 | | Battle of Chickamauga begins |
| 1864 | | 3rd Battle of Winchester (Opequon), Va |
| 1870 | | Prussian-German forces laid siege to Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War -- Learn More |
| 1890 | | Turkish frigate 'Ertogrul' burns off Japan, 540 die |
| 1931 | | Adolph Hitler got a speeding ticket -- -- Learn More |
| 1931 | | Adolph Hitler got a speeding ticket -- Learn More |
| 1939 | | British Expeditionary Force reaches France |
| 1939 | | German Army murders 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland |
| 1940 | | Nazi decree forbids gentile woman from working in Jewish homes |
| 1940 | | Free French coup ousts the Vichyite government of New Caledonia |
| 1943 | | U.S carrier aircraft and B-24s raid Tarawa. |
| 1944 | | German Lt. Gen. Hermann-Bernard Ramcke surrendered to U.S. Brig. Gen. Charles D. Canham -- Learn More |
| 1945 | | London: Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death |
| 1957 | | First underground nuclear explosion, Nevada |
| 1959 | | Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland |
| 1973 | | Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds to the throne of Sweden (1973-) |
| 1988 | | Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance |
| 86 | | Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138-161) |
| 866 | | Byzantine Emperor Leo VI "the Wise" (886-912) |
| 1551 | | Henry III, Duke of Anjou, King of Poland and France (1573-89) |
| 1737 | | Charles Carroll of Carrollton, d. 1832, the last surviving Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| 1800 | | William Wister McKean, naval officer, U.S. d. 1865 |
| 1802 | | Louis Kossuth, President of Hungary (1848-1849), d. 1887 |
| 1822 | | Joseph Rodman West, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1898 |
| 1911 | | William Golding, sometime Royal Navy officer ('Bismarck' chase, Normandy, Walcheren), author ("Lord of the Flies," etc.), d. 1993 |
| 1919 | | Marek Edelman, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto & Warsaw uprisings, cardiologist, Polish nationalist, d. 2009 |
| 1356 | | Walter VI/Gautier VI de Brienne, titular King of Athens (1311-1356), 52, Constable of France, kia at Poitiers |
| 1435 | | John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389-1435), 46, brother to Henry V |
| 1528 | | Malatesta VI dei Malatesti, Captain General of Venice, shot during the siege of Pavia, at c. 50 |
| 1881 | | President James A. Garfield, at 49 of wounds from an assassin's bullet and medical malpractice -- Learn More |