| 424 | BC | Battle of Delium: Thebans defeat the Athenians [Alt] |
| 424 | BC | Spartans capture Amphipolis [Alt] |
| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in India |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Patron of Police Officers |
| 0 | | Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States -- https://youtu.be/UNJVgmlkuWc?t=1 |
| 185 | | a supernova was observed by Chinese & Roman scholars |
| 1254 | | Rinaldo Conti is elected Pope as Alexander IV (1254-61) |
| 1499 | | Imola surrenders to Cesare Borgia |
| 1798 | | the Neapolitan Army retreated from Rome -- Learn More |
| 1862 | | Battle of Hartsville, TN |
| 1862 | | Battle of Prairie Grove, AR |
| 1914 | | Pope Benedict XIV calls on all powers to declare a Christmas truce |
| 1916 | | David Lloyd George becomes Britain's Prime Minster (1916-1922) |
| 1917 | | US declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 1917 | | US Sixth Battle Squadron joins the Grand Fleet |
| 1941 | | the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"-- Learn More |
| 1941 | | Japanese destroyers shell Midway |
| 1941 | | The Erlass Brothers, Dutch resistance fighters, are sent to concentration camps |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" beaten off by a/c and PT-boats |
| 1943 | | Sextant Conference ends in Cairo |
| 1943 | | Staff Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, heavyweight champion of the world, put on a demonstration bout for the troops at Ft. Clark, Texas, against Pvt. Ezzard Charles, who would win the title after Louis retired |
| 1944 | | US 77th Inf Div lands at Ormoc, Leyte, in the Japanese rear |
| 1944 | | Anti-Fascist government formed in Romania by General Radescu |
| 1944 | | U.S. a/c sink 13 Japanese transports resupplying Leyte |
| 1949 | | Chang Kai-shek flees from Mainland China to Taiwan |
| 1953 | | Israeli PM Ben-Gurion retires |
| 1965 | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications in place since 1054 |
| 1970 | | Abortive Neo-Fascist coup in Italy |
| 1971 | | Indian Air Force pilot K.K. Bakshi downed a Pakistani F-86 while flying a Marut fighter -- Learn More |
| 1981 | | Spain becomes a member of NATO |
| 1986 | | Dictator/President Jean-Claude Duvalier - "Baby Doc" - flees Haiti |
| 983 | | Otto II, King of the Germans (981-983), Holy Roman Emperor (967-983), c. 27 |
| 1302 | | Azzone Visconti (1329-1339), first Visconti Lord of Milan (1329-1339) |
| 1598 | | Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, fortification engineer, architect, d. 1680 |
| 1764 | | Claude Victor-Perrin, French marshal, d. 1841 |
| 1786 | | Marie Leszczinska, later Countess Walewska, lover of Napoleon I, d. 1817 |
| 1839 | | Redvers Henry Buller, British war hero and inept general, d. 1908 -- Learn More |
| 1847 | | Learn More |
| 1888 | | Hamilton Fish III, captain, 369th Infantry, WW I, isolationist, d. 1991 |
| 1890 | | Vito Andelino, in Corleone, Sicily, fictionally |
| 1931 | | Allan Calhammer, designer of 'Diplomacy', d. 2013 |
| 43 | BC | Cicero, slain at 63, near his villa at Formiae, by agents of Marc Antony -- Learn More |
| 283 | | Pope St. Eutychianus (275-283) |
| 1254 | | Pope Innocent IV - Sinibaldo de' Fieschi (1243-1254), c. 68 |
| 1279 | | Duke Boleslaus V of Poland (1232-1279), b. 1226 |
| 1383 | | Duke Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg(1354-1383), 46 -- the first duke of Luxembourg |
| 1528 | | Count Federigo Caetani of Fondi, beheaded at Naples with other rebels |
| 1815 | | Marshal of France Michel Ney, "The Bravest of the Brave", executed at 46 -- Learn More |
| 1817 | | Vice-Admiral William Bligh of the 'Bounty', 63, in London, much maligned in literature & film |
| 1894 | | Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, 89, French diplomat and entrepreneur, who built the Suez Canal |
| 1896 | | Antonio Maceo, "The Bronze Titan" (51), and Francisco Gomez, son of Maximo Gomez (c. 22), Cuban revoluitonary heroes, kia, Loma del Gato, Cuba |
| 1962 | | Kirsten Flagstad, 67, Norwegian soprano, Nazi collaborator who got over |
| 1979 | | Prince Shahryar Shafiq, 34, the Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris |
| 1985 | | Robert Graves, soldier, poet, novelist ("Goodbye to All That", “I, Claudius”, etc.), at 90 |
| 2011 | | Harry Morgan, actor (Col. Potter on "M*A*S*H"), at 86 |