| 36 | BC | Naval Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompey |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Marinus, Founder and Patron of the Most Serene Republic of San Marino |
| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in the Republic of China and Merchant Navy Day in Britain and Canada |
| 590 | | Consecration of Pope St Gregory I "the Great" (590-604) |
| 1189 | | Richard I "Lionheart" is crowned King of England (1189-1199) |
| 1190 | | Richard I "Lionheart" and his Crusaders reach Messina, Sicily. |
| 1260 | | Battle of Ain Jaluit: Egyptian Mamluks defeat the Mongols in Palestine |
| 1390 | | Geoffrey Chaucer was robbed of £20 of the King's money while traveling in Kent -- today easily c. £500,000 in comparable wealth |
| 1459 | | Battle of Bloreheath: The Earl of Salisbury defeats the Lancastrians. |
| 1529 | | Ottoman Sultan Suleiman "The Magnificent" captures Buda, Hungary. |
| 1632 | | Battle of Nuremburg: Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus and the Empire's Wallentsein fight to a draw |
| 1650 | | Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated the Scots Covenanters under David Leslie in the Battle of Dunbar -- Learn More |
| 1651 | | the future King Charles II was defeated by Oliver Cromwell in the Battle of Worcester, and fled to France -- Learn More |
| 1700 | | Battle of the Narva: Swedes defeat Peter the Great |
| 1782 | | Battle of Trincomalee: British fleet defeats the French off India |
| 1782 | | The US gives its only ship-of-the-line, the 80 gun 'America', to France. |
| 1783 | | Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War, as Britain recognizes American independence |
| 1833 | | Frederick Douglass steals Frederick Douglass |
| 1848 | | Messina: Rebellious citizens defeat a Borbon attempt to retake the city |
| 1852 | | Anti-Semitic rioting in Stockholm |
| 1858 | | The first Atlantic cable ceases to function, after only 12 days in service |
| 1861 | | Confederates under Leonidas Polk invade Kentucky, insuring its adherence to the Union |
| 1864 | | Battle of Berryville, Va |
| 1885 | | First Naval War College class convenes |
| 1914 | | with the Germans approached Paris, the French government fled to Bordeaux, while Gen. Joseph Gallieni pledges to defend the city "to the last extremity." -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | The British Army enlists 33,304 men, the largest number of volunteers accepted for service in a single day ever |
| 1917 | | German troops capture Riga, Latvia |
| 1917 | | Imperial German Air Service conducts its first night bombing of London |
| 1918 | | Five black soldiers are hanged on charges of "mutiny" for a riot protesting racism in Houston in 1917 |
| 1925 | | USN airship 'Shenandoah' (ZR 1) crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, 13 die |
| 1939 | | Britain and France declare war on Germany |
| 1939 | | Morocco offers troops to French to fight in World War II |
| 1940 | | the Anglo-American "Destroyers for Bases" Deal was concluded, the US gave Britain 50 old destroyers in exchange for basing rights in the Empire |
| 1943 | | Italy and the Allies secretly agree to a cease-fire |
| 1943 | | Japanese sub 'I-20' sunk off Spiritu Santo by 'Patterson' (DD-392) & 'Ellet' (DD-398) |
| 1943 | | the Calcutta Light horse raided German shipping in Goa harbor -- Learn More [It Never Happened] |
| 1944 | | Britain's Guards Armored Division liberates Brussels |
| 1944 | | US Navy shells the Japanese on Wake Island. |
| 1945 | | Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the US |
| 1954 | | Red China begins artillery bombardment of the Natinoalist-held offshore island-fortress of Quemoy |
| 1967 | | Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of Vietnam (1967-75) |
| 301 | | San Marino, founded by Marinus of Arba |
| 1750 | | Arthur Dillon, Irish "Wild Geese" soldier in French service, executed by the Terror, 1794 |
| 1781 | | Eugène de Beauharnais, Josephine's son, Napoleon's step-son, Vice-Roy of Italy, d. 1824 |
| 1825 | | Armistead Lindsay Long, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1891 |
| 1825 | | William Wallace Burns, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 |
| 1831 | | States Rights Gist, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1864 |
| 1835 | | William Gaston Lewis, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1901 |
| 1875 | | Ferdinand Porsche, German tank & car designer, d. 1951 |
| 1913 | | Alan Ladd, IV-F actor ("All the Young Men"), d. 1964 |
| 1923 | | Mort Walker, veteran, cartoonist ("Beetle Bailey"), de. 2018 |
| 1949 | | Petros Papapetrou -- Patriarch Petros VIII of Alexandria (1997-2004), k. 2004, helicopter accident |
| 175 | BC | King Seleucus IV Philopator of Syria (187-175 BC), assassinated by a usurper at c. 42 – Learn More |
| 1189 | | Rabbi Jacob of Orleans, killed by an in anti-Jewish mob in London |
| 1625 | | King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and I of England (1603-25), 58 |
| 1658 | | Oliver Cromwell, Parliamentary general, dictator of England (1653-58), genocider of Ireland, at 59 -- Learn More |
| 1826 | | Lt. Gen. Sir Harry Calvert, Baronet GCB, GCH, at 63 -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | Ludwig Frank, Jewish socialist, lawyer, and Reichstag members, killed in action at 40 -- Learn More |
| 1917 | | 2nd Lt. Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romanian woman soldier, killed in action at 23 -- Learn More |
| 1929 | | Owen Thomas Edgar, 98, last known surviving veteran of the Mexican-American War -- Learn More |
| 1948 | | Edvard Benes, 64, President of Czechoslovakia (1935-1938, 1940-1948) |
| 1991 | | Frank Capra, 94, veteran, film maker ("Why We Fight") |
| 2013 | | Donald F. Featherstone, British military historian and pioneer wargamer, at 95 |