| 101 | BC | the armies of G. Marius and Q. Lutatius Catulus annihilated the Cimbri at Campi Raudii, in the Po Valley |
| 0 | | Feast of Sts. Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda, the Three Virgins of Tuburga, Martyrs |
| 634 | | Battle of Agnadain, Palestine: The Arabs defeat the Byzantines |
| 657 | | Consecration of Pope Vitalian (657-672) |
| 1291 | | Egyptian Mamlukes take Haifa |
| 1371 | | Massacre of the mercenary Compagnia del Bruco at Florence |
| 1419 | | the First Defenestration of Prague initiated the Hussite Wars |
| 1588 | | Battle of Gravelines: Indecisive clash that decides the fate of the Spanish Armada |
| 1609 | | Samuel de Champlain used a musket to help the Huron defeat the Iroquois -- Learn More |
| 1638 | | Battle of Wittenweir: French defeat the Imperialists |
| 1760 | | Three of London's four remaining medieval gates are sold for £416 10s, perhaps $1.0 million today |
| 1839 | | "Mutiny" in the slave ship 'Amistad': Enslaved Africans liberate themselves |
| 1863 | | Lincoln orders retaliation if Confederates kill black P/Ws |
| 1864 | | Petersburg Campaign: Battle of the Crater |
| 1866 | | White racists attack blacks in New Orleans |
| 1898 | | Skirmish at Manila: US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire |
| 1909 | | US Army accepts delivery of its first military airplane |
| 1913 | | Conclusion of Second Balkan War |
| 1916 | | German saboteurs blow up munitions stored at Black Tom Island, NJ, 7 die, $20 million in damages (perhaps $10 billion today) |
| 1918 | | 1st Marine Aviation Force lands at Brest, France |
| 1941 | | Japanese "accidentally" bomb USS 'Tutuila' (PR-4), Chungking, China |
| 1942 | | German occupiers set curfew on Jews in the Netherlands |
| 1942 | | The Nazis murder 25,000 Jews at Minsk, Belorussia |
| 1942 | | USS 'Grunion" (SS-216) is declared "over due," probably lost to hazards of the sea. |
| 1942 | | VAdm Mikawa arrives at Rabaul to assume command of the Eighth Fleet. |
| 1943 | | New Georgia: Heavy fighting continues. |
| 1943 | | U.S. DDs shell suspected Japanese positions on Kiska. |
| 1943 | | the liner RMS 'Queen Mary' arrived on the Clyde with 16,683 troops and other personnel aboard, the greatest number of people ever embarked on one ship, after a crossing from New York at an average of 28 knots |
| 1944 | | US 6th Inf Div lands on the Vogelkop, NW New Guinea, and offshore islands |
| 1945 | | British midget subs sink Japanese cruiser with mines in Singapore. |
| 1945 | | Near Samarinda, Borneo, Japanese troops slaughter several hundred Dutch civilian men, women, and children interned since 1942. |
| 1945 | | USS 'Indianapolis' (CA-35) torpedoed & sunk; nearly 900 die over the next four days, many in shark attacks |
| 1966 | | US airplanes bomb demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
| 1971 | | Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter, 162 die |
| 1971 | | US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
| 1997 | | Islamist suicide bombings in Jerusalem, 14 Israelis killed |
| 1470 | | Emperor Hongzhi of China (1487-1505) |
| 1549 | | Grand Duke Ferdinando I de'Medici of Tuscany (1587-1609) |
| 1863 | | Henry Ford, American innovator and bigot, d. 1947 |
| 1881 | | Smedley Darlington Butler, maverick Marine, with the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, d. 1940 |
| 1909 | | C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, literary critic ("The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower"), d 1993 |
| 1919 | | Josep Almudevar Mateu, in Marseilles, France, who would become the last surviving veteran of the International Brigades, d. 2021 |
| 1942 | | The U.S. Navy WAVES -- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service |
| 579 | | Pope Benedict I (575-579) |
| 1388 | | James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358-1388), 30, kia, Battle of Otterburn |
| 1393 | | Marquis Alberto V d'Este of Ferrara and Modena (1388-1393), 46 |
| 1616 | | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish nationalist, at about 76 |
| 1741 | | Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian Field Marshal who fought Naples and the Pope, at 71 -- Learn More |
| 1811 | | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, father of Mexican independence, executed at 58 |
| 1875 | | George Edward Pickett, 50, US Army officer, Confederate Maj. Gen. |
| 1898 | | Otto Eduard Leopold, Furst von Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor," who unified Germany, at 83 – Learn More |
| 1900 | | Oberst-Stabsarzt Franz Hermann Frölich, German military surgeon, at 61 -- Learn More |
| 1912 | | Mutsuhito - the "Meiji" - 122nd Emperor of Japan (1867-1912), at 59 |
| 1918 | | Joyce Kilmer, American soldier-poet of the "Fighting 69th", kia at 31, Battle of the Ourcq -- Learn More |
| 1963 | | Patrick Jay Hurley, 80, sometime Maj. Gen., & Sec War (1929-1933) |
| 1967 | | Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the last sole proprietor of Krupp Industries and war criminal who got over, at 66 |
| 1978 | | Admiral Ben Moreell, 85, "Father of the SeaBees" |
| 2009 | | Mohammed Yusuf, 39 Nigerian Islamist leader, founder of Boko Haram , shot fleeing police custody. |