| 0 | | Feast of St. Eleutherius of Tournai and that of St. Eucherius of Orléans |
| 1339 | | Battle of Parabiago: The Milanese defeat the rampaging mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti's Company of San Giorgio |
| 1547 | | Coronaton of 10-tear old Edward VI as King of England (1547-1553) |
| 1653 | | Naval Battle of Portsmouth: Tromp's Dutch defeated by Blake's English |
| 1798 | | French Gen. Louis Alexandre Berthier arrests Pope Pius VI, who is imprisoned in France |
| 1813 | | Battle of Salta: Argentine Patriot forces under Manuel Belgrano defeat the Royalists |
| 1815 | | USS 'Constitution' takes HMSs 'Cyane' and 'Levant' |
| 1831 | | Battle of Growchow: Polish insurgents defeat the Russians |
| 1833 | | Russian Black Sea fleet anchors off Constantinople, to defend it from the Egyptians |
| 1839 | | Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia |
| 1846 | | British capture the citadel of Lahore from the Sikhs |
| 1859 | | Battle of Montebello: the French & Sardinians defeat the Austrians |
| 1861 | | Confederate Department of the Navy established |
| 1864 | | Battle of Olustee, Fla: Confederates win |
| 1878 | | Giacchino Pecci elected Pope as Leo XIII (1878-1903) |
| 1917 | | Ammunition ship explosion at Archangelsk, c. 1,500 die |
| 1919 | | Anarchist bombing ofthe American Woolen Co. mill, near Franklin, Mass., went amiss, killing all four terrorists |
| 1942 | | Combined Japanese amphibious and airborne attack on Timor |
| 1942 | | E. H. "Butch" O'Hare downs 5 Japanese aircraft, helping USS 'Lexington' (CV-2) beat off an air attack c. 300 miles ENE of Rabaul |
| 1943 | | Admiralty Is: 'Albacore' (SS-218) sinks the Japanese DD 'Oshio' |
| 1944 | | NZ troops complete capture of Green Island, nearly isolating Rabaul. |
| 1944 | | Big Week: Allied bombers begin five days of intensive air attacks on German aircraft production facilities and air bases, while their fighter escorts devastate defending Luftwaffe squadrons |
| 1945 | | Iwo Jima: Heavy fighting continues |
| 1945 | | Philippines: U.S. troops land on Samar and Capul |
| 1947 | | Lord Mountbatten of Burma appointed Viceroy to oversee the independence of India (1947-1948) |
| 1962 | | John Glenn becomes the first American in orbit |
| 2016 | | Mass shooting in Kalamazoo: six die, 2 wounded |
| 1549 | | Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Condottiero, last Duke of Urbino (1574-1621, 1623-1631) |
| 1726 | | William Prescott, who would command the Patriots at Bunker Hill, d. 1795 |
| 1753 | | Louis Alexandre Berthier, Napoleon's great chief-of-staff, inept Marshal, murdered or suicide, 1815 -- Learn More |
| 1809 | | Henry Walton Wessells, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1889 |
| 1820 | | Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1895 |
| 1827 | | Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1912 |
| 1838 | | James Barbour Terrill, Brig Gen, C.S..A., d. 1864 |
| 1844 | | Joshua Slocum, first solo circumnavigator (1895-1898), lost at sea 1909 |
| 1875 | | Marie Marvingt, French athlete, mountaineer, journalist, combat pilot, rumored mistress of Marshal Foch, d. 1963 -- Learn More |
| 1886 | | Bela Kun, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (Mar 23-Aug 6, 1919), purged 1938 |
| 1901 | | Muhammad Naguib, first President of Egypt (Jun 18, 1953-Nov 14, 1954), d. 1984 |
| 702 | | King K'inich Kan B'alam II of Palenque (684-702), 67 |
| 1054 | | Grand Prince Yaroslav I "the Wise" of Novgorod (1010-1034) & of Kiev (1019-1054) , c. 75 |
| 1171 | | Conan IV of Penthièvre, c. 32, Duke of Brittany (1156-1171) |
| 1194 | | King Tancred of Sicily (1189-1194), c. 55 |
| 1258 | | Caliph al-Musta'sim Billah of Baghdad (1242-1258), c. 45, the last Abbasid, executed by Hulagu Khan |
| 1413 | | Pope Martin V - Oddone Colonna (1417-1431), c. 60 |
| 1493 | | Giovanni Malvezzi, Patrician of Bologna, condottiero, assassinated |
| 1524 | | King Tecún Umán of the K'iche' Maya, c 24, kia by the Spanish |
| 1618 | | Philip William, Prince of Orange (1584-1618), 63, son of the William the Silent |
| 1773 | | King Charles Emanuel III of Sardinia (1730-1773), at 72 |
| 1790 | | HRE Joseph II (1765-1790), 48, son of Maria Teresa, brother of Queens Marie Antoinette of France & Maria Carolina of Naples and Sicily |
| 1790 | | Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II (1765-1790), at 48 -- Learn More |
| 1810 | | Andreas Hofer, Tyrolese patriot, shot by Napoleon's order, at 42 |
| 1895 | | Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, at 78 |
| 1966 | | Fleet Adm Chester W Nimitz, at 80 -- Learn More |
| 1980 | | Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the last of TR's brood, at 94. |
| 2010 | | Alexander Haig, Jr, General, National Security Advisor, at 85 |