| 567 | BC | King Servius Tullius of Rome celebrated a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Bede the Venerable, Patron of Historians and Scholars |
| 451 | | Battle of Avarayr: Armenians are defeated by the Persians |
| 1085 | | King Alfonso VI of Castile liberated Toledo from the Moors |
| 1241 | | Rioters attack the Jews of Frankfort-on-the-Main |
| 1571 | | Stephen Bathory is elected Prince of Transylvania (1571-75) |
| 1626 | | Battle of Dessau: Imperialists defeat the Protestants |
| 1632 | | Albrecht von Wallenstein's Imperial troops recapture Prague from the Saxons |
| 1711 | | Duke Francesco Farnese of Parma defeated Duke Rinaldo d’Este of Modena, securing a temporary victory in the War of the Poplars -- Learn More |
| 1784 | | Marshal Mnizzek expels the Jews from Warsaw |
| 1787 | | The Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia |
| 1798 | | the United Irishmen uprising began against British rule -- Learn More |
| 1810 | | Argentina declares independence from Spain, which is largely under French occupation anyway |
| 1836 | | Attempted assassination of King Louis Philippe of France |
| 1859 | | Combat of Sesto Calende: Element's of Garibaldi's 'Cacciatori del Alpi' defeat an Austrian attempt to take the town |
| 1862 | | Battle of Winchester, VA |
| 1864 | | Battle of New Hope Church, GA |
| 1865 | | Magazine explosion in Mobile, c. 300 die |
| 1870 | | Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec, from the US |
| 1878 | | Gilbert & Sullivan’s "HMS Pinafore" premiered in London |
| 1919 | | U.S. Navy flying boat 'NC-4' completes a trans-Atlantic flight to Portugal (from 16th) |
| 1925 | | Scopes "Monkey Trial" begins, Dayton, Tennessee |
| 1940 | | German troops reach the Channel near Boulogne |
| 1949 | | The Chinese Red Army occupies Shanghai |
| 1953 | | First, and only, live test firing of the "Atomic Cannon," Nevada |
| 1961 | | JFK committed the US to put a man on the moon by 1970 |
| 1961 | | NASA pilot Joseph A Walker takes 'X-15' to 32,770 m |
| 1979 | | Israel pulls out of Sinai, implementing peace with Egypt |
| 1991 | | Israel completes rescue of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews |
| 1550 | | Camillus de Lellis, Soldier & Saint, d. 1607 |
| 1781 | | Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, inept Hapsburg general, d. 1850 |
| 1794 | | Giovanni Battista Ventura (Rubino ben Torah), Italian Jewish soldier-of-fortune, Napoleonic and Persian colonel, Sikh general, d. 1858, |
| 1818 | | Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt, Swiss historian ("The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy"). d. 1897 |
| 1852 | | Louis Franchet d'Espèrey -- "Desperate Frenchy", Marshal of France, d. 1942 |
| 1865 | | King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1904-18), deposed, d. 1932 |
| 1878 | | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, AEF entertainer, dancer, d. 1949 |
| 1889 | | Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, kia 1941 in the 'Bismarck' |
| 1889 | | Igor Sikorsky, aviation pioneer, d. 1982 |
| 1908 | | David Lean, British director ("In Which We Serve", "Lawrence of Arabia"), d. 1991 |
| 615 | | Pope Boniface IV (608-15), c. 65 |
| 992 | | Mieszko I, c. 52, first Christian Duke of Poland, father of Boleslaw I the Brave, first King of Poland |
| 1085 | | Pope Gregory VII - Hildebrand of Sovana (1073-85), 60-65 |
| 1261 | | Pope Alexander IV - Rinaldo dei Conti di Segni (1254-61), 65-75 |
| 1512 | | Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512), at 64 |
| 1555 | | King Henry II "Sangüesino" of Navarre (1517-1555), at 52 |
| 1913 | | Afred Redl, Austian staff officer and traitor, suicide at 49 -- Learn More |
| 1968 | | George von Küchler, German field marshal, at 86 |
| 1971 | | Jo Etha Collier, 17, murdered by white racists in Drew, Ms. |
| 1996 | | Renzo de Felice, historian ("Mussolini"), at 67 |
| 2014 | | Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski, 90, Polish soldier, Communist Party head (1981-1989), Premier (1985-1989), President (1989-1990) |
| 2017 | | Alistair Horne, 91, MI6 operative, historian ("The Fall of Paris", "A Savage War of Peace", etc) |