| 0 | | Feast of St. Maurice, Roman soldier, African Martyr, Patron of the Infantry, Alpine Troops, the Pontifical Swiss Guards, the Holy Roman Emperors, and much else beside, and that of St. Phocas the Gardener, Patron of Gardeners, Agricultural Workers, Sailors, and Watermen |
| 1236 | | Battle of Siauliai: Lithuanians & Semigallians defeat the Brothers of the Sword |
| 1460 | | Battle of San Fabiano: The Bracceschi defeat the Aragonese |
| 1503 | | Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini elected Pope as Pius III (22 Sep-18 Oct 1503) |
| 1609 | | Spain orders Moslems to convert or leave the country |
| 1742 | | a drunken marine starts a fight aboard the 60-gun HMS 'Tilbury', then off Navassa I., near Haiti, that overturned a lantern, starting a fire that destroed the ship with heavy loss of life. |
| 1776 | | John Paul Jones’s USS 'Providence' raided British shipping in Canso Bay, Nova Scotia -- Learn More |
| 1793 | | The French Committee of Public Safety orders the Ministers of Marine, War, and Interior to prepare to land l00,000 men on the shores of England |
| 1793 | | Battle of Trouillas: The Spanish (c. 16,000) defeat a French (c. 18,000), in Roussilon, inflicting c. 30% casualties |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Elliott's Mills/Camp Crittenden, Mo |
| 1862 | | President Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1864 | | Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va: Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap |
| 1864 | | Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Va |
| 1868 | | Race riots in New Orleans |
| 1905 | | Race riot in Atlanta, 10 blacks & 2 whites die |
| 1906 | | Race riot in Atlanta, 21 die |
| 1908 | | Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire |
| 1914 | | the German sub 'U-9' sank the British cruisers 'Aboukir', 'Cressy', & 'Hogue', 1,397 dieq -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | German light cruiser 'Emden' shells Madras in India |
| 1914 | | the Russian Army mobilized 1,100,000 Territorials -- Learn More |
| 1939 | | Having cooperated in destroying Poland, the Nazi Germans and Soviet Russians hold a joint victory parade in Brest-Litovsk |
| 1942 | | Madagascar: Pressed by British & Free French forces, Vichyite troops abandon Tananarive and withdraw south |
| 1943 | | Br midget subs attack German battleship 'Tirpitz' in Norwegian waters |
| 1943 | | a 13 hour radio appeal by Kate Smith's sold $39 million in war bonds -- https://youtu.be/SvUxPIoZf4g |
| 1944 | | Boulogne liberated by the Allies |
| 1949 | | First Russian atomic bomb explosion |
| 1958 | | Elvis arrives at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, to board a transport for Germany |
| 1964 | | Premiere of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." on NBC-TV, runs for four seasons |
| 1975 | | Sarah Jane Moore attempts to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford |
| 1979 | | instruments aboard the US "Vela-5b" satellite detected a curious 'double flash' of light in the Antarctic Ocean, about half way between South Africa and Antarctica, indicating a possible nuclear blast, a missile reentry, or a bolide |
| 1980 | | Iraq invades Iran, initiating an eight year war |
| 1995 | | AWACS crashes on takeoff, Elmendorf AFB, 24 die |
| 66 | | The legio I Italica, formed by Nero |
| 130 | | Claudius Galen, pioneer physician, d. c. 200-216 |
| 1606 | | Li Zicheng/Li Tzu-ch'eng, sometime bandit who toppled the Ming, to rule as Emperor (1643-1645) until he was murdered |
| 1790 | | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, American attorney, humorist, slaveocrat, secessionist, d. 1870 -- Learn More |
| 1796 | | Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Rear-Adm, U.S., d. 1880 |
| 1822 | | Eppa Hunton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1908 |
| 1827 | | John Grubb Parke, Maj Gen, U.S. d. 1900 |
| 1829 | | William Worth Belknap, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890 |
| 1833 | | Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1908 |
| 1882 | | Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, war criminal, executed 1946 -- "Hitler's Lackey" |
| 1895 | | Paul Muni, actor ("Juarez"), d. 1967 |
| 1961 | | The Peace Corps |
| 19 | BC | Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil - who sang of arms, at 51 |
| 1241 | | Snorri Sturlusson, Icelandic poet & historian, at c. 60 |
| 1325 | | Andreuzzo Ferrucci, condottiero, kia, Altopascio at c. 35 |
| 1408 | | John VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 1390, 1404-8) |
| 1774 | | Pope Clement XIV - Lorenzo Ganganelli (1769-1774), 68 |
| 1776 | | Nathan Hale, 21, hanged by the British at what is now 66th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan |
| 1828 | | Shaka kaSenzangakhona, c. 41, King of the Zulu (1816-1828), military reformer and conqueror, murdered by his brothers [Est] |
| 1862 | | Frederick Townsend Ward, 31, American adventurer, Chinese general (Tai-ping Rebellion), mortally wounded at the head of the "Ever Victorious Army" in the Battle of Cixi, 1862 |
| 1914 | | "Alain-Fournier" - Henri Alban-Fournier, 27, French novelist, kia in Lorraine |
| 1943 | | Wilhelm Kube, SS-Commissar of Belarus, blown up at 55 by a bomb in a hot water bottle placed in his bed by his mistress |
| 1951 | | Jacob Horner, last 7th Cavalry veteran of the Little Big Horn |
| 1989 | | Irving Berlin, Doughboy and tunesmith, died at 101 -- https://youtu.be/NViCPyVpLdo |
| 1999 | | George C. Scott, sometime US Marine and actor ("Patton"), at 71 |