| 0 | | Roman observances honoring the goddesses Venus Victrix and Fausta Felicitas, and the Genius Publicus Populi Romani -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Victrix_(Canova)#/media/File:Paolina_Borghese_(Canova).jpg |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Denis, Martyr and Patron of France |
| 1000 | | Leif Eriksson "Discovers" America [three days "before" Columbus!] |
| 1502 | | Cesare Borgia captures Pergola, while, in secret, his principle lieutenants conclude the "Pact of La Magione," to betray him |
| 1683 | | Second Battle of Barkam: Poles & Imperialists defeat the Turks |
| 1708 | | Peter the Great of Russia defeated the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya -- Learn More |
| 1779 | | Luddite Riots begin in Manchester |
| 1806 | | Prussia initiated the War of the Fourth Coalition against France -- Learn More |
| 1835 | | Texians occupy Goliad |
| 1861 | | Combat at Santa Rosa, Fl |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Hillsborough, Ky |
| 1864 | | Cavalry Action at Tom's Brook, Va: Yanks edge Rebs |
| 1864 | | Battle of Woodstock, VA |
| 1867 | | the "Empress" Carlotta of Mexico was declared insane -- Learn More |
| 1895 | | Battle of Debra Aial: Italians defeat the Abyssinians |
| 1908 | | Serbia & Montenegro conclude an alliance: Austria-Hungary, despite having ten times the population, army, money, etc.), decides they constitute a deadly threat |
| 1914 | | Germans capture Antwerp, as Belgians & British withdraw |
| 1915 | | Belgrade surrenders to Austro-German forces |
| 1930 | | Laura Ingalls completes the first trans-US flight by a woman |
| 1934 | | Attack on King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles, 3 die |
| 1940 | | The Blitz: St. Paul's Cathedral is damaged |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Japanese destroyers land elms 2nd Div. |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Marines encircle Japanese 4th Inf Regt |
| 1944 | | Elms Third Fleet shell Marcus Island. |
| 1944 | | German occupiers turn off the electricity in Amsterdam |
| 1945 | | Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Marine ace Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, and a dozen Pacific War veterans who held the Medal of Honor |
| 1962 | | Algerian-Moroccan border fighting, 130 die |
| 1962 | | NASA pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m |
| 1963 | | French air force gets nuclear weapons |
| 1975 | | Andrei Sakharov, Soviet bomb-maker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1983 | | Four ROK cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon, by North Koreans |
| 1990 | | Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile |
| 1261 | | King Diniz of Portugal (1279-1325) |
| 1276 | | Hisaaki, Imperial Prince and eighth Kamakura Shogun of Japan (1289–1308), deposed |
| 1547 | | Miguel de Cervantes, marine, novelist ("Don Quixote"), d. 1616 -- Learn More |
| 1759 | | Daniel F. Bakeman, who became the last known surviving Revolutionary War veteran c. 1869-- Learn More |
| 1767 | | King Charles X of France (1824-1830), brother of Louis XVI & XVIII; deposed, d. 1836 |
| 1771 | | Duke Frederick William of Brunswick (1813-15), kia, Quatre Bras, 1815 |
| 1782 | | Lewis Cass, soldier, politician, SecWar, d. 1866 -- Learn More |
| 1819 | | Samuel McGowan, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1897 |
| 1822 | | George Sykes, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1880 |
| 1859 | | Alfred Dreyfus, French officer, cause celebre, d. 1935 |
| 1860 | | Leonard Wood, who went from Army surgeon to Chief of Staff, d. 1927 -- Learn More |
| 1888 | | Nicholai I. Bukharin, Bolshevik, executed by Stalin, 1938 |
| 1899 | | Bruce Catton, historian ("A Stillness at Appomattox"), d. 1978 |
| 1903 | | Walter O'Malley, the most hated man in the history of baseball, d.1979 |
| 1911 | | Joe Rosenthal, who took a picture on Iwo Jima; d. 2006 |
| 1047 | | Pope Clement II (1046-1047), c. 42 |
| 1390 | | King Juan I of Castile (1379-90), 32 |
| 1502 | | Lord Giulio Cesare da Varano of Camerino (68), and his sons Annibale (34), Venanzio (25), & Pirro (16), strangled at Pergola, by order of Cesare Borgia |
| 1837 | | Oliver Hillhouse Prince, Georgian journalist, humorist, and politician, drowned at 55 when the SS 'Home' was wrecked in a storm -- Learn More |
| 1848 | | Elzéar Jean Louis Joseph Blaze, French army officer and author, at 59 -- Learn More |
| 1917 | | Sarah Aaronsohn, British master spy, suicide at 27 -- Learn More |
| 1934 | | King Alexander Karageorgevich of Yugoslavia (1921-1934), 45, assassinated in Marseilles by Bulgarian radical Vlado Chernozemski, 36, who is then killed by police, who also mortally wound French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, 72, who dies shortly afterwards |
| 1943 | | Jan Dieters and Lou Jansen, Dutch resistance fighters, executed by the Nazis |
| 1958 | | Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), 82 |
| 1967 | | Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 39, professional revolutionary and international thug, executed |
| 1974 | | Oskar Schindler, one of the Righteous, at 66 |