| 1 | 1798 | Richard Delafield, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1873 |
| | 1824 | Isaac Hardin Duval, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1902 |
| | 1829 | James Conner, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1883 |
| | 1875 | Edgar Rice Burroughs, war correspondent, author (“Tarzan”) |
| | 1900 | Andrei Vlasov, Soviet general, traitor |
| | 1910 | Jack Hawkins, actor ("The Cruel Sea") |
| | 1922 | Melvin R Laird, Secretary of Defense (1969-73) |
| 2 | 1837 | James H. Wilson, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1925 |
| | 1838 | Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last Queen of Hawaii (1891-93) |
| | 1878 | Werner von Blomberg, German general and defense minister |
| | 1948 | Christa McAuliffe, teacher-astronaut, d. 1986, Challenger |
| 3 | 1781 | Eugène de Beauharnais, Josephine’s 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 designer |
| | 1913 | Alan Ladd, actor (“All the Young Men”) |
| | 1923 | Mort Walker, veteran, cartoonist (“Beetle Bailey”) |
| 4 | 518 | BC Pindar, Greek odist, d. 422 BC |
| | 1241 | Alexander III, King of Scotland (1249-1286). |
| | 1249 | Count Amadeo V of Savoy (1285-1323), d. 1323 |
| | 1383 | Count Amadeo VIII of Savoy (1416-1434)- antipope Felix V (1439-1449), d 1451 |
| | 1402 | Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan |
| | 1809 | Count Federico Luigi Menabrea, soldier, engineer, inventor, premier of Italy (1867–1869), d 1896 |
| | 1810 | Donald McKay, clipper ship designer |
| | 1902 | Mary Renault, novelist ("The King Must Die") |
| 5 | 1187 | King Louis VIII of France (1223-26) |
| | 1319 | King Pedro IV of Aragon |
| | 1638 | Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), who "loved war too much" |
| | 1771 | Archduke Charles of Austria, Napoleon's greatest enemy |
| | 1815 | Tyree Harris Bell, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1902 |
| | 1827 | Geoffredo Mameli, Italian nationalist, soldier-composer (“Fratelli d'Italia”), d/w 1849 |
| | 1847 | Jesse James, Confederate raider, outlaw, killed 1882 |
| | 1902 | Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate ("The Longest Day") |
| | 1905 | Arthur Koestler, novelist ("Darkness at Noon"), suicide 1983 |
| | 1929 | Andrian G Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut |
| 6 | 1757 | The Marquis de La Fayette, American & French revolutionary hero |
| | 1797 | William "Extra Billy" Smith, Maj Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1811 | James Melville Gilliss, founded the Naval Observatory |
| | 1815 | John Richardson Liddell, Brig Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1819 | William Starke Rosecrans, Maj Gen, U.S., who attained "the edge of glory" |
| | 1827 | John Morrison Oliver, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1860 | Jane Addams, Peace Nobelist |
| | 1923 | King Peter II Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia (1934-45) |
| | 1944 | Swoosie Kurtz, actress named after her father's B-17 |
| | 1946 | Bryan D O'Connor, USMC, astronaut |
| 7 | 15 | Aulus Vitellius, gourmand, Roman Emperor, 1 Jan-Dec 20, 69 |
| | 1388 | Giovanni Maria Visconti I, Duke of Milan, assassinated 1412 |
| | 1471 | King Frederik I of Denmark and Norway (1523-33) |
| | 1533 | "Gloriana" - Queen Elizabeth of England (1558-1603) |
| | 1811 | William Hamsley Emory, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1887 |
| | 1815 | Howell Cobb II, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1868 |
| | 1913 | Anthony Quayle, actor (“Lawrence of Arabia”), d. 1989 |
| | 1914 | James Van Allen, co-inventor of the proximity fuze |
| | 1923 | Peter Lawford, veteran, actor (“The Longest Day”), d. 1984 |
| | 1930 | King Baudouin I of Belgium (1951-1991) |
| 8 | 15 | BC Mary, the mother of Jesus [Trad] |
| | 1157 | King Richard I “Lionheart" of England (1189-99) |
| | 1207 | King Sancho II of Portugal |
| | 1474 | Ludovico Ariosto, epic poet ("Orlando Furioso") |
| | 1499 | Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II, d. 1566 |
| | 1592 | Peter Styvesant, Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam |
| | 1621 | Louis II “the Great” Conde, Victor of Rocroi |
| | 1765 | Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari - Pope Gregory XVI (1730-1746) |
| | 1779 | Sultan Mustafa IV of Turkey (1807-08) |
| | 1821 | Henry Baxter, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1873 |
| | 1828 | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Maj Gen, U.S. |
| | 1829 | George Crook, Maj Gen, U.S., noted Indian fighter, d. 1890 |
| | 1829 | Seth Maxwell Barton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1900 |
| | 1886 | Siegfried Sassoon, war poet |
| 9 | 214 | Aurelian, Roman Emperor (270-275) |
| | 384 | Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (395-423) |
| | 1585 | Cardinal Jean de Richelieu |
| | 1754 | William Bligh, of the Bounty |
| | 1809 | William Radford, naval officer, U.S., d. 1890 |
| | 1817 | Speed Smith Fry, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 |
| | 1819 | Martin Luther Smith, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1866 |
| | 1826 | Thomas John Lucas, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1908 |
| | 1828 | Leo Tolstoy, veteran, novelist ("War and Peace") |
| | 1834 | William MacRae, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1882 |
| | 1925 | Cliff Robertson, actor ("PT-109"); |
| | 1956 | Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12) |
| 10 | 1487 | Gianmaria Ciocchi del Monte - Pope Julius III (1550-1555) |
| | 1731 | Carter Braxton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1797 |
| | 1771 | Mungo Park, celebrated Scottish explorer (“Travels to the Interior Parts of West Africa”) |
| | 1810 | Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brig Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1815 | Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1832 | Randall Lee Gibson, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1892 |
| | 1836 | Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen, C.S.A., and U.S. |
| | 1933 | Yevgeny V Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut |
| | 1945 | Richard M Mullane, USAF, astronaut |
| 11 | 1525 | Duke Johan Georg of Brandenburg (1571-1591) |
| | 1806 | Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brig Gen, U.S. d. 1864 |
| | 1813 | Conrad Feger Jackson, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1862 |
| | 1835 | William Wirt Allen, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1894 |
| | 1877 | Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Chekist, mass murderer |
| | 1935 | Gherman Titov, 1st man to spend a day in space, Vostok 2 |
| | 1937 | Robert L Crippen, USN, astronaut |
| 12 | 1494 | François I of Valois, King of France (1515-1547), esthete, blockhead, and liar |
| | 1659 | Prince Ferdinand of Wurttemberg-Neustadt, Dutch general |
| | 1806 | Andrew Hull Foote, naval officer, U.S., d. 1863 |
| | 1818 | Richard Jordan Gatling, weapons designer |
| | 1852 | Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (1908-16) |
| | 1888 | Maurice Chevalier, entertaining Nazi collaborator |
| | 1891 | Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican nationalist, d. 1965 |
| | 1913 | Jesse Owens, who spoiled Hitler's Olympics |
| 13 | 1739 | Grigory Potemkin, soldier, statesman, Catherine the Great's lover |
| | 1806 | Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1862 |
| | 1813 | John Sedgwick, Major Gen, U.S., KIA 1864 |
| | 1817 | John McAuley Palmer, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1900 |
| | 1836 | John McCausland, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1927 |
| | 1851 | Walter Reed, U.S.A., confirmed mosquitoes caused yellow fever |
| | 1860 | General of the Armies John J. Pershing, d 1948 |
| | 1863 | Arthur Henderson, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize, 1934 |
| | 1887 | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., war hero, d. 1944 |
| | 1941 | Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize (1987) |
| 14 | 1819 | Henry Jackson Hunt, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1889 |
| | 1835 | Joseph Hayes, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1912 |
| | 1838 | John Pelham, Major, C.S.A., "The Gallant Pelham," KIA 1863 |
| | 1864 | Lord Cecil of Chelwood, Peace Nobelist 1937 |
| | 1913 | Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (1951-54) overthrown by the CIA |
| 15 | 1789 | James Fenimore Cooper, naval officer, author (“History of the Navy of the United States of America”) |
| | 1830 | Porfirio Diaz, general-president of Mexico (1877-1911), d. 1915 |
| | 1857 | William Howard Taft, SecWar, President (1909-1913), Chief Justice (1921-30) |
| | 1904 | King Umberto II of Italy (1946) |
| | 1914 | Creighton Abrams, soldier, d. 1974 |
| | 1941 | Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Pole in space (Soyuz 30) |
| | 1946 | Oliver Stone, Vietnam veteran, director (“Platoon”) |
| 16 | 1387 | King Henry V of England (1413-22) |
| | 1745 | Mikhail I. Kutusov, Russian marshal who defeated Napoleon, d. 1813 |
| | 1823 | Francis Parkman, historian (“France and England in North America”), d. 1893 |
| | 1832 | George Washington Custis Lee, Maj Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1837 | King Pedro V of Portugal (1853-61) |
| 17 | 64 | Julia Flavia, daughter of Titus, later emperor, d. AD 91 |
| | 879 | King Charles III “the Simple” of France (893-923) |
| | 1271 | King Wenceslas II of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305) |
| | 1550 | Camillo Borghese - Pope Paul V (1506-1621) |
| | 1730 | Friederich Wilhelm Ludorf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben |
| | 1800 | Franklin Buchanan, naval officer, C.S.A, d. 1874 |
| | 1820 | Earle Van Dorn, Maj Gen, C.S.A., shot by a jealous husband, 1863 |
| | 1857 | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer rocketeer & space scientist, d. 1935 |
| 18 | 52 | Marcus Ulpius Traianus - Roman Emperor Trajan (98-117) |
| | 1733 | George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1798 |
| | 1805 | Robert Cowdin, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1874 |
| | 1815 | Henry Constantine Wayne, Brig Gen, C.S.A., |
| | 1818 | Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brig Gen, C.S.A., |
| | 1932 | Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut |
| 19 | 86 | Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138-161) |
| | 208 | Diadumenianus, co-Roman Emperor with Macrinus, his father (May-June 218) |
| | 866 | Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor (886-912) |
| | 1551 | Henry III, Duke of Anjou, King of Poland and France (1573-89) |
| | 1737 | Charles Carroll of Carrollton, d. 1832, the last surviving Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| | 1800 | William Wister McKean, naval officer, U.S. d. 1865 |
| | 1802 | Louis Kossuth, President of Hungary (1848-1849), d. 1887 |
| | 1822 | Joseph Rodman West, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| 20 | 357 | BC Alexander III "the Great" of Macedonia, ambitious drunkard |
| | 1809 | Sterling "Old Pap" Price, Maj Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1810 | Alpheus Starkey Williams, Brig Gen, U.S., |
| | 1820 | George Washington Morgan, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1820 | John Fulton Reynolds, Maj Gen, U.S., kia Gettysburg, 1863 |
| | 1833 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Nobel Peace Prize, 1907 |
| | 1853 | Rama V Chulalongkorn, King of Siam (1868-1910) |
| | 1859 | Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general, president, and the real "Last Emperor" |
| | 1872 | Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo who lost the big one in 1940 |
| 21 | 1372 | Frederik I von Hohenzollern of Brandenburg (1417-40) [see Deaths] |
| | 1415 | Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1440-1493) |
| | 1452 | Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine monk, preacher, radical |
| | 1817 | Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Maj Gen, C.S.A |
| | 1820 | Williams Carter Wickham, Brig Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1824 | Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1827 | Michael Corcoran, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1863 |
| | 1832 | Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893 |
| | 1840 | Sultan Murad V of Turkey (1876) |
| | 1866 | H. G. Wells, wargamer, foresighted author ("The Land Ironclads", "Litte Wars") |
| | 1867 | Henry Stimson, SecWar (1911-1913, 1940-1945), SecState (1929-1933), Member Sqn A, NYNG, WW I veteran, d. 1950 |
| | 1909 | Kwame Nkrumah, inept President/Dictator of Ghana (1958-1966) |
| 22 | 1796 | Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, naval officer, U.S., d. 1880 |
| | 1822 | Eppa Hunton, Brig Gen, C.S.A. |
| | 1827 | John Grubb Parke, Maj Gen, U.S. d. 1900 |
| | 1829 | William Worth Belknap, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1833 | Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1908 |
| | 1882 | Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, war criminal |
| | 1895 | Paul Muni, actor ("Juarez") |
| 23 | 63 | BC Gaius Octavius – Augustus: first & greatest Roman Emperor (27 BC-14 AD) |
| | 480 | BC Euripides, dramatist (“Iphigenia at Aulis”), d. c. 405 BC |
| | 1713 | King Ferdinand VI of Spain (1746-1759) |
| | 1791 | Karl Theodor Körner, Prussian war poet, kia 1813 |
| | 1816 | Julius White, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890 |
| | 1820 | Thomas Kilby Smith, Brig Gen, U.S., |
| | 1890 | Friedrich Paulus, German FM, who had his Waterloo at Stalingrad |
| | 1897 | Walter Pidgeon, actor ("Mrs. Miniver") |
| | 1910 | Elliot Roosevelt, Brig Gen, USAAF |
| 24 | 1583 | Albrecht von Wallenstein, military entrepreneur |
| | 1755 | John Marshall, soldier, Chief Justice (1801-1835) |
| | 1824 | Truman Seymour, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891 |
| | 1827 | Henry Warner Slocum, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1894 |
| | 1829 | James St Clair Morton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1864 |
| | 1833 | Henry Alanson Barnum, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1884 | Mustafa Ismet Inonu, Turkish general, president |
| 25 | 1657 | Tökeli Imre (1657 - 1705), Hungarian patriot |
| | 1744 | King Frederik Willem II of Prussia (1786-97) |
| | 1822 | Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1823 | Thomas John Wood, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1906 |
| | 1877 | Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary and president (1924-28) |
| | 1906 | Dmitri Shostakovich, composer ("The Leningrad Suite") |
| 26 | 1750 | Cuthbert, Admiral Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s friend, d. 1810 |
| | 1759 | Count Hans Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian field marshal and reformer |
| | 1821 | Alvin Peterson Hovey, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1870 | King Christian X of Denmark (1912-47) |
| | 1897 | Giovanni Battista Montini - Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) |
| 27 | 1601 | King Louis XIII of France (1610-43) |
| | 1657 | Sophia, Regent of Russia (1682-89) |
| | 1722 | Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| | 1783 | Agustin I Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico (1822-23) |
| | 1803 | Samuel Francis DuPont, naval officer, U.S., d. 1865 |
| | 1809 | Raphael Semmes, naval officer, C.S.N., d. 1877 |
| | 1824 | William Nelson, Maj Gen, U.S., murdered 1862 |
| | 1830 | William Babcock Hazen, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1887 |
| | 1835 | John Murray Corse, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893 |
| | 1840 | Alfred Thayer Mahan, who influenced history |
| | 1840 | Thomas Nast, militiaman, cartoonist, bigot, d. 1902 |
| 28 | 106 | BC Pompey the Great (see Events) |
| | 1573 | Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Renaissance master, murderer |
| | 1748 | Admiral Lord Collingwood, d. 1810 |
| | 1833 | James Deering Fessenden, Brig Gen, U.S. |
| | 1840 | Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Confederate staff officer |
| | 1841 | Georges Clemenceau, French premier (1906-09, 17-20) |
| | 1852 | Field Marshal Sir John French |
| | 1889 | King Carlos I of Portugal |
| | 1905 | Max Schmeling, Hitler’s heavyweight, Fallschirmjaeger |
| | 1940 | Alexander Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov, cosmonaut |
| 29 | 1276 | King Christopher II of Denmark |
| | 1547 | Miguel de Cervantes, marine, author ("Don Quixote") |
| | 1583 | Count Johan VIII de Jongere of Nassau-Siegen |
| | 1755 | Robert Clive, office clerk, empire builder |
| | 1758 | Horatio Nelson, kia, 1805 |
| | 1829 | Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1903 |
| | 1829 | Giles Alexander Smith, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1876 |
| | 1830 | John Parker Hawkins, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1914 |
| | 1831 | John McAlister Schofield, Maj Gen, U.S. |
| | 1852 | Field Marshal Sir John French |
| | 1901 | Enrico Fermi, who discovered a new world |
| | 1907 | Gene Autry, airman, cowboy |
| | 1916 | Trevor Howard, actor ("Mutiny on Bounty") |
| | 1943 | Lech Walesa, President of Poland |
| 30 | 1627 | Robinson Crusoe |
| | 1805 | Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Maj Gen, U.S. |
| | 1827 | Kenner Garrard, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1879 |
| | 1917 | Chung Hee Park, general, Pres of Korea (1961-79), assassinated |
| | 1934 | Elie Wiesel, Survivor, Peace Nobelist (1986) |
| 1 | 1054 | King García V of Navarre, kia |
| | 1067 | Count Baldwin V of Flanders |
| | 1159 | Pope Adrian IV - Nicholas Breakspear (1152-1159), the only English pope |
| | 1557 | Jacques Cartier, French explorer |
| | 1680 | Elector Johan Georg II of Saxon (1656-80), at 67 |
| | 1715 | Louis XIV "The Sun King" of France (1643-1715), at 76 |
| | 1838 | William Clark, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, at 68 |
| | 1862 | Maj Gen Phil Kearny, "the bravest man in the Union Army," KIA, Chantilly |
| | 1862 | Maj. Gen. Isaac I. Stevens, U.S.A., kia, Chantilly |
| | 1864 | Emmeran Bliemel, CSA, only Catholic chaplain kia in the Civil War |
| | 1961 | William Z Foster, Stalinist puppet, chairman CPUSA, 1945-57, at 80 |
| | 1981 | Albert Speer, Nazi, architect, con artist |
| 2 | 1022 | High-King Maelsechlainn II "the Great" of Ireland. |
| | 1328 | Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli, condottiero, Lord of Lucca (1316-1327), c. 74 |
| | 1384 | Louis I, Duke of Anjou & King of Naples |
| | 1482 | Pietro Maria II “il Magnifico” of San Secondo, at 79 |
| | 1547 | Hernan Cortes, conquistador, lawyer |
| | 1813 | Jean Victor Moreau, former French General, d/w Dresden, while in Russian service |
| | 1953 | Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, b. 1883 |
| 3 | 175 | BC King Seleucus IV Philopator of Syria (187-175 BC) |
| | 1189 | Rabbi Jacob of Orleans, killed in anti-Jewish riot in London |
| | 1625 | King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and I of England (1603-25) |
| | 1658 | Oliver Cromwell, dictator of England (1653-58), mass murderer, at 59 |
| | 1929 | Owen Thomas Edgar, last known Mexican War veteran, at 98 |
| | 1948 | Edvard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia (1940-1948) |
| | 1969 | Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary |
| | 1991 | Frank Capra, veteran, film maker ("Why We Fight") |
| 4 | 422 | Pope St Boniface I (418-422) |
| | 786 | Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi of Baghdad (785-786), possbly murdered, possibly by his mother |
| | 1012 | John III Docibilus, Duke of Gaeta (1008-1012), c. 25 |
| | 1456 | John Corvinus Hunyadi, Hungarian general |
| | 1804 | Richared Somers, naval officer, kia at Tripoli, c. 24 |
| | 1864 | Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan, Confederate raider, kia |
| | 1974 | Creighton W Abrams, soldier, at 59 |
| | 1986 | Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Greenberg, ball player, OSS agent, at 75 |
| | 1989 | Sir Ronald Syme, historian (“The Roman Revolution”) |
| 5 | 1235 | Duke Henri I of Brabant and Lorraine (1190-1235), at c. 70 |
| | 1566 | Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent” of Turkey (1520-66) |
| | 1571 | Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, Regent of Scotland, shot at Stirling |
| | 1599 | Marchesa Costanza de Santa Croce, stabbed to death at 60 by her son, Paolo, for refusing to make him heir to her estates |
| | 1683 | Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Marine |
| | 1803 | Pierre Ambrose Choderlos de Laclos, general, author (“Les Liaisons Dangereus”), at 61 |
| | 1877 | Crazy Horse, killed "trying to escape" |
| | 1912 | Lt Gen Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier, b. 1845 |
| | 1997 | Mother Teresa, Peace Nobelist, at 87 |
| 6 | 972 | Pope John XIII (965-972) |
| | 1433 | Pier Gentile I da Varano, Co-Lord of Camerino (1424-1433), beheaded at Recanati at c. 33 |
| | 1634 | Capt Silvio Pallavicino, Patrician of Siena & Firenze, kia at Nordlingen |
| | 1634 | Carlo Orsini, Count of Muro Lucano, kia Nordlingen |
| | 1701 | James II, sometime King of England (1685-1688), in exile at 68 |
| | 1945 | Vice-Adm. John S. McCain, Sr., four days after attending the Japanese surrender |
| | 1966 | South African PM Hendrik Verwoerd, stabbed by a deranged man |
| | 2005 | 1st Sgt Mark Matthews, at 111, the last “Buffalo Soldier” |
| 7 | 355 | Roman emperor-wannabe Silvanus (Aug 11-Sep 7, 355), murdered in the Rhineland |
| | 1134 | King Alfonso I of Aragon (1104-34) |
| | 1151 | Count Geoffrey V of Anjou (1129-1151), the first Plantagenet, at 38 |
| | 1298 | Andrea Dandolo, Venetian Admiral, kia at Curzola |
| | 1548 | Catherine Parr, Mrs. Henry VIII No. 6, of natural causes. |
| | 1603 | Marco Caltizzone, Pretender to the throne of Portugal, executed by the Spanish |
| | 1741 | Adm Blas de Lezo, defender of Cartagena de las Indias |
| | 1997 | Mobutu Sese Seku, Dictator of Zaire (1965-1997), at 66 |
| | 2002 | Uzi Gal, Israeli weapons designer, at 79 |
| 8 | 780 | Byzantine Emperor Leo IV (775-80) |
| | 1397 | Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, smothered at Calais by agents of his nephew, Richard II |
| | 1613 | Prince Carlo Gesualdo of Venosa, musician, murderer, at 45 |
| | 1881 | Prince Frederik of the Netherlands, general and admiral, at 84 |
| | 1888 | Annie Chapman, Jack the Ripper’s second victim |
| | 1933 | King Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali of Iraq, at 50 |
| | 1935 | Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, shot by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. |
| | 1935 | Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr, shot by Long's bodyguards. |
| | 1951 | Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of the Warsaw Ghetto, executed |
| | 2003 | Bertha Helene Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl, Nazi film maker, at 101 |
| 9 | 490 | BC Kalimachos, polemarch of the Athenians and 191 other Athenian & Plataean heroes, plus c. 6,400 Persians, kia at Marathon |
| | 490 | BC Phidippides, having run c. 350 miles in 3-4 days; Athens to Sparta & back, then to Marathon, to fight, & back to Athens with the good news |
| | 1087 | William I “the Conqueror”, King of England, Duke of Normandy |
| | 1488 | Francis II, last Duke of Brittany (1458-1488) |
| | 1976 | Mao Tse-Tung, poet, scholar, mass murderer, at 82 |
| | 2001 | Ahmad Shah Massood, Afghan resistance leader, assassinated by al Qaeda |
| | 2003 | Dr. Edward Teller, "Father of the H-Bomb," at 95 |
| 10 | 954 | King Louis IV d'Outremer of France (936-954), kia, c. 34 |
| | 1067 | Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia, c. 85. |
| | 1382 | King Louis I "the Great" of Hungary and Poland (1342-1382), b. 1326 |
| | 1419 | John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1404-1419), assassinated by the Dauphin, at 48 |
| | 1482 | Federico II de Montefeltro, Condottiero and Patron of the Arts |
| | 1598 | Francesco Cenci, Roman nobleman, c. 50, bludgeoned to death with a hammer by his children & second wife for raping his daughter (See Sep 11th) |
| | 1827 | Ugo Foscolo, Italian nationalist poet |
| | 1862 | Paraguayan Dictator Carlos Antonio Lopez |
| | 1971 | Nikita Khruschev, War Commissar, Stalingrad, 1942-1943, First Secretary, CPUSSR (1954-1964) & Premier of the USSR (1958-1964) |
| | 1977 | Hamida Djandoubi, having the honor of being the last person guillotined in France |
| | 1990 | Pres Samuel Kanyon Doe of Liberia (1980-90), butchered |
| 11 | 1362 | Pope Innocent VI |
| | 1482 | Roberto “Il Magnifico” Malatesta, Lord of Rimini (1469-1482), Condottiero, natural causes - unusual in his family |
| | 1599 | Giacomo Cenci, nobleman, delimbed and beheaded, and his sister Beatrice Cenci, 22, and Lucrezia Petroni, their step mother, both beheaded, all for murdering Francesco Cenci a year and a day earlier |
| | 1973 | Chilean President Salvador Allende, in a coup, possibly suicide |
| | 2001 | Nearly 3000 Americans and others, murdered by Islamist terrorists in the U.S. |
| | 2003 | Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, having been stabbed by an unknown assailant on the 10th |
| | 2004 | Patriarch Petros VIII of Alexandria and 16 others, helicopter accident at Mt. Athos |
| 12 | 1015 | Count Lamert I de Baard of Leuven, in battle at about 65 |
| | 1185 | Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (1183-85), lynched |
| | 1213 | King Pedro II of Aragon (1196-1213), kia at Muret, at c. 39 |
| | 1362 | Pope Innocent VI - Etienne Aubert (1352-1362) |
| | 1500 | Duke Albrecht III of Saxony, at 57 |
| | 1642 | Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (22), favourite of Louis XIII, and François De Thou, decapitated by Richelieu at Lyon for conspiracy |
| | 1683 | King Afonso VI of Portugal (1656-67), at 40 |
| | 1691 | Elector Johan Georg III of Saxony (1680-91), at 44 |
| | 1812 | Piotr I Bagration, Russian general, KIA |
| | 1977 | Stephen Biko, murdered at 30 by the South African apartheid regime |
| | 2006 | Joachim Fest, historian ("Hitler"), b. 1926 |
| 13 | 81 | Roman Emperor Titus (79-81), at 41 |
| | 1321 | Dante Alighieri, cavalryman, poet ("The Divine Comedy") |
| | 1438 | Dom Duarte, King of Portugal (1433-1438), at 46 |
| | 1598 | King Philip II of Spain (1556-98), at 71 |
| | 1759 | James Wolfe, British general, KIA on the Plains of Abraham at 32 |
| | 1803 | John Barry, first commodore of the U.S. Navy |
| | 1899 | Henry H. Bliss, by a car - America's first auto-fatality |
| | 1918 | Fanya Kaplan, shot for trying to kill Lenin on August 30th |
| | 1921 | Ludwig-Alexander Battenberg/Mountbatten, British admiral, at 67 |
| 14 | 786 | Caliph Al-Hadi of Baghdad (785-786) |
| | 1146 | Imad ad-Din Zengi, Atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, murdered |
| | 1523 | Pope Adrian VI - Adrian Dedel (1522-1523); last non-Italian pope until 1978 |
| | 1759 | French Gen. Louis Montcalm, 47, m/w, the Plains of Abraham, Sept 13th |
| | 1852 | The Duke of Wellington, at 83 |
| | 1901 | Pres Wm. McKinley, of gunshot wounds suffered on the 6th |
| | 1911 | Piotr Stolypin, Russian premier, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov |
| | 1982 | Bashir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, a bomb |
| 15 | 668 | Byzantine Emperor Constans II Pogonatus (641-668), assassinated at c. 37 |
| | 1231 | Duke Louis I of Wittelsbach |
| | 1482 | Condottiero Giacomo da Roccabianca, kia at San Secondo, the Romagna |
| | 1859 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, naval architect, engineer (SS Great Eastern), at 53 |
| | 1973 | King Gustav VI Adolfus of Sweden (1950-1973), at 90 |
| | 1982 | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Iranian foreign minister, executed by the Islamists he served |
| 16 | 655 | Pope St. Martin I (649-653), in exile |
| | 1087 | Pope Victor III |
| | 1380 | King Charles V “the Wise” of France (1364-80) |
| | 1394 | Robert of Geneva - Anti-Pope Clement VII (1378 - 1394) |
| | 1498 | Tomas de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain |
| | 1824 | King Louis XVIII of France (1814-24) |
| | 1862 | Col. Dixon Miles Standsbury, US |
| | 1948 | Former Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1887-1918) |
| | 2006 | Helene Deschamps Adams, Heroine of the Resistance, at 85 |
| 17 | 1312 | King Ferdinand V of Castille and Leon, at 26 |
| | 1322 | Count Robert III of Flanders |
| | 1515 | Chiappino Orsini, Lord of Monte Vitozzo, kia, Marignano |
| | 1665 | King Philip IV of Spain (1621-55) |
| | 1771 | Tobias George Smollett, soldier, sailor, novelist ("Roderick Random") |
| | 1868 | Wiquini “Roman Nose”, Cheyenne leader |
| | 1879 | Eugene Emmanuel Violletle-le Duc, architect ("Annals of a Fortress") |
| | 1908 | Lt. Thomas Selfridge, first person to die in an airplane crash, Arlington, Va. |
| | 1948 | Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator, assassinated by the Irgun |
| | 1980 | Anastasio Somoza, USMA alumnus, ex-president of Nicaragua, assassinated |
| | 2006 | Dorothy Stratton, Director, the SPARS - Coast Guard Women's Reserve, 1942-1946, at 107 |
| 18 | 96 | Roman Emperor Domitian (81-96), murdered at 44 |
| | 1100 | Geoffrey of Bouillon, crusader, “Defender of the Holy Sepulcher”, at c. 40 |
| | 1137 | King Erik II of Denmark (1134-37), murdered |
| | 1180 | King Louis VII of France |
| | 1345 | Prince Andreas of Hugnary, husband to Queen Giovanna I of Naples, murdered, perhaps by her order |
| | 1872 | King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (1859-72) |
| | 1961 | UN SecGen Dag Hammarskjold, plane crash, Rhodesia |
| 19 | 1180 | King Louis VII of France (1137-80) |
| | 1356 | Duke Gautier de Brienne of Athens, Constable of France, kia at Poitiers |
| | 1435 | John, Duke of Bedford (1389-1435), brother to Henry V |
| | 1528 | Malatesta dei Malatesti, Captain General of Venice, shot during the siege of Pavia, at c. 50 |
| | 1864 | Col. George S. Patton, kia leading the 22nd Virginia, Winchester |
| | 1881 | James A. Garfield, Maj Gen, U.S., and President (1881), of wounds from an assassin, at 49 |
| 20 | 451 | King Theodoric of the Visigoths, kia, Chalons-sur-Marne |
| | 1384 | Louis, Duke of Anjou, titular King of Naples (1383-1384), while campaigning to make it real, at c. 45 |
| | 1803 | Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed |
| | 1944 | John Grayburn, KIA at Arnhem, earning the Victoria Cross |
| | 1947 | Fiorello La Guardia, bomber pilot (1917-18), Mayor of NY (1933-45) |
| | 2005 | Simon Wiesenthal, Survivor, Nazi Hunter, at 96 |
| 21 | 687 | Pope Conon (21 Oct 686-21 Sep 687) |
| | 1327 | King Edward II of England (1307-1327), murdered at 43 |
| | 1397 | Richard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, beheaded for treason |
| | 1440 | Frederik I von Hohenzollern of Brandenburg (1417-40), on his 68th birthday |
| | 1520 | Sultan Selim I of Turkey (1512-1520) |
| | 1558 | Charles V, HR Emperor & King Carlos I of Spain, in retirement |
| | 1796 | Gen. François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, of wounds from Altenkirchen (19th), at 27 |
| | 1904 | Chief Joseph, who once said "I will fight no more forever." |
| | 1939 | Premier Armand Calinescu of Romania, murdered |
| | 1957 | Haakon VII, first modern king of Norway (1905-57), war hero |
| | 1966 | Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940) who wasn't tough enough |
| | 1971 | Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier (1954-1964), heart attack at 77 |
| | 1976 | Orlando Letelier, leftist former Chilean politician, car bomb in Washington |
| 22 | 19 | BC Publius Vergilius Maro, who sang of arms, at 51 |
| | 1241 | Snorri Sturlusson, Icelandic poet & historian, at c. 60 |
| | 1325 | Andreuzzo Ferrucci, condottiero, kia, Altopascio at c. 35 |
| | 1408 | John VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 1390, 1404-8), |
| | 1520 | Sultan Selim I of Turkey (1512-20), conqueror of Baghdad, at 53 |
| | 1774 | Pope Clement XIV - Lorenzo Ganganelli (1769-1774) |
| | 1914 | Alain-Fournier, French novelist, kia |
| | 1943 | Wilhelm Kube, Nazi Commissar of Belorus, blown up in his bed by his mistress |
| | 1951 | Jacob Horner, last 7th Cavalry veteran of the Little Big Horn |
| | 1989 | Irving Berlin, Doughboy, composer ("God Bless America"), at 101 |
| | 1999 | George C. Scott, actor ("Patton"), at 71 |
| 23 | 775 | Constantine V Copronymus, Byzantine Emperor (720-75), |
| | 1847 | Count Henri de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, at 65) |
| | 1888 | François Bazaine, inept French Marshal |
| | 1939 | Sigmund Freud, sometime soldier |
| | 1947 | Nikola Petkov, Bulgarian peasant leader, hanged by the communists |
| | 1973 | Pablo Neruda, poetical Soviet apologist |
| | 2004 | Nigel Nicholson, Guardsman, litterateur, b. 1917 |
| 24 | 768 | King Pepin III "the Short” of France, at 53 |
| | 867 | Byzantine Emperor Michael III, assassinated |
| | 911 | Ludwig III, last Carolingian King of the Germans (899-911) |
| | 1143 | Pope Innocent II - Gregorio Papereschi (1130-1143) |
| | 1180 | Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180), at c. 62 |
| | 1228 | King Stefan I of Serbia (1217-28) |
| | 1230 | King Alfonso IX of Leon and Castille |
| | 1776 | Nathan Hale, hanged by the British |
| | 1834 | Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (1822-31) |
| 25 | 1066 | King Harold II Haardrada of Norway, & Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold of England, traitor, kia, Stamford Bridge |
| | 1396 | Jean de Vienne, French admiral and crusader, kia against the Turks |
| | 1396 | Odard the Chasseron, French knight and crusader, kia against the Turks |
| | 1396 | Philip of Bar, French knight and crusader, kia against the Turks |
| | 1506 | King Philip I "the Handsome" of Spain (1504-06) |
| | 1534 | Pope Clement VII - Giulio de’Medici (1523-1534) |
| | 1639 | Ambrosio Spinola, condottiero |
| | 1642 | Federico I Colonna, Prince of Butera, Viceroy & Captain General of Catalonia, kia at 41, the siege of Tarragona |
| | 1840 | Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Marshal of France |
| | 1849 | Johann Baptist Strauss the Elder, composer ("The Radetzky March"), at 45 |
| | 1900 | Elizabeth Van Lew, Union master spy, at 81. |
| | 1970 | Erich Maria Remarque, Frontsoldat, novelist ("All Quiet on the Western Front") |
| | 1983 | King Leopold III of Belgium (1934-51), collaborator |
| | 1991 | Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, of cancer at 77 |
| | 2005 | Don Adams (Donald James Yarmy), Guadalcanal veteran, actor (“Get Smart”), at 82 |
| 26 | 1371 | Serb Prince Ugljesa of Serres, kia at the Maritsa |
| | 1820 | Daniel Boone, militiaman, frontiersman, at 85 |
| | 1959 | Ceylon PM Sirimavo Bandaranaike, of wounds from an assassination attempt |
| | 1989 | Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliamentary leader, murdered in Rome |
| | 2007 | Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, the “Soldier of Orange,” at 90 |
| 27 | 48 | BC Pompey the Great, murdered one day short of his 58th birthday |
| | 1590 | Pope Urban VII - Giambattista Castagna (15 Sep-27 Sep 1590) |
| | 1617 | Count Johan Ernest of Nassau-Siegen |
| | 1651 | Duke Maximilian I Bavaria, at 78 |
| | 1700 | Pope Innocent XII - Antonio Pignatelli (1691-1700) |
| | 1868 | Alexander Walewski, Napoleon I's bastard, III's diplomat and minister |
| | 1942 | Douglas Munro, USCG, kia at Guadalcanal, earning the Medal of Honor |
| | 1956 | Milburn Apt, crash after reaching 3370 kph in the X-2 |
| | 1981 | Robert Montgomery, PT-boat skipper, actor, at 77 |
| | 1996 | Pres Najibullah of Afghanistan, hanged by the Taliban |
| 28 | 1104 | King Pedro I of Navarra & Aragon |
| | 1197 | Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor (1169-97) |
| | 1891 | Herman Melville, sailor, war poet (“Cavalry Crossing a Ford”), author ("Typee”) – lover of Fayaway |
| | 1902 | Emile Zola, author and Dreyfusard |
| | 1907 | Grand Duke Frederich I of Baden (1856-1907), at 81 |
| | 1953 | Edwin P Hubble, Doughboy, astronomer, at 63 |
| | 1970 | Pres. Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt, heart attack at 52 |
| | 1978 | Pope John Paul I - Albino Luciani (26 Aug-28 Sep 1978), at 65 |
| | 1989 | Pres Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, in exile at 72 |
| | 2006 | Iva Torguri d’Aquino – “Tokyo Rose”, at 90. |
| 29 | 855 | Holy Roman Emperor Lothar I |
| | 1560 | King Gustavus I Eriksson of Sweden |
| | 1833 | King Ferdinand VII of Spain, touching off the Carlist Wars |
| | 1936 | Prince Carlo Borbone delle Due Sicilie, kia at 28, Elgoibar, Spain |
| | 1956 | Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated |
| 30 | 1877 | Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of the Nez Perce, kia |
| | 1888 | Elizabeth Stride, Jack the Ripper’s third victim |
| | 1888 | Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper’s fourth victim |
| 1 | 0 | Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patron of Aviators |
| | 891 | Battle of Louvain: East Franks defeat the Danish Vikings |
| | 1054 | Battle of Atapuerca: King Ferdinand I “the Great” of Castile & León defeats his brother King García V of Navarre |
| | 1181 | Ubaldo Allucingoli elected Pope as Lucius III (1181-1185) |
| | 1271 | Teobaldo Visconti elected Pope as Gregory X (1271-1276), later beatified |
| | 1285 | Naval Battle of Las Rosas: Catalans defeat the French |
| | 1597 | Battle of Longpre: French defeat the Spanish |
| | 1614 | Jews expelled from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany |
| | 1644 | Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose’s Roundheads defeat the Scots Covenanters. |
| | 1651 | Battle of Dundee: Gen Monck defeats the Scots |
| | 1661 | First formal yacht race: King Charles II vs. his brother James. |
| | 1701 | Battle of Chiari: Imperialists defeat the French |
| | 1739 | 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison, Lisbon |
| | 1774 | Boston: British seize Massachusett colony's store of powder & cannon |
| | 1807 | Former VP Aaron Burr found innocent of treason |
| | 1814 | USS Wasp sinks HMS Avon |
| | 1848 | Royal troops begin bombardment of Messina, Sicily (surrenders the 7th) |
| | 1861 | Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau, Mo |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Bennett's Mills, Mo |
| | 1862 | Battle of Chantilly, Virginia |
| | 1863 | Atlanta Campaign: Sherman win the Battle of Jonesborough, causing the Confederates to evacuate & burn Atlanta |
| | 1863 | Union fleet bombards Fort Sumter |
| | 1863 | Union troops capture Fort Smith, Arkansas |
| | 1866 | Manuelito surrenders at Fort Wingate, last resisting Navaho chief |
| | 1870 | Napoleon III surrenders to the Prussians at Sedan |
| | 1916 | Bulgaria declares war on Romania |
| | 1918 | US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 |
| | 1923 | Great Kanto Plain Earthquake devastates Tokyo, over 100,000 die |
| | 1928 | Zog I proclaims himself king of Albania |
| | 1938 | Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews |
| | 1939 | George C. Marshall becomes Chief-of-Staff of the Army |
| | 1939 | Hitler orders "Close your hearts to pity," invades Poland and initiates the extermination of the mentally ill |
| | 1942 | "Tokyo Express" mission to Guadalcanal evades B-17s. |
| | 1942 | Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans |
| | 1942 | German troops land on the Taman Peninsula, USSR |
| | 1943 | Espiritu Santo: Japanese sub I-182 is sunk by DD Wadsworth |
| | 1943 | USN raids Marcus I, with air and gunnery attacks. |
| | 1944 | King George VI promotes Bernard Law Montgomery to field marshal |
| | 1948 | Communists form the North China People's Republic |
| | 1950 | 13 North Korean divisions assault UN lines |
| | 1951 | Israel's secret service, the Mossad, begins operations |
| | 1951 | US, Australia, & New Zealand sign the ANZUS treaty |
| | 1969 | Coup by Col Murramar Gadhafi deposes King Idris of Libya |
| | 1983 | Soviets shoot down Korean Boeing 747 that strayed over Siberia |
| | 5509 | BC The Creation, in the Byzantine Chronology |
| 2 | 31 | BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony & Cleopatra |
| | 44 | BC Cicero delivers the first of his 14 “Phillipics” against Marc Antony |
| | 1057 | Coronation of Issac Comnenus as Emperor of Byzantium. |
| | 1414 | Republic of Gaeta and Count Giacomo II of Fondi conclude an armistice |
| | 1628 | Battle of Wolgast: Wallenstein’s Imperialists defeat Christian of Denmark |
| | 1649 | Pope Innocent X orders the city of Castro razed |
| | 1666 | Great Fire of London, ends the Great Plague of London |
| | 1732 | Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws in Rome |
| | 1752 | Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, having delayed for 170 years late, to screw up chronology |
| | 1777 | Battle of Cooch's Bridge, NJ: First use of the "Stars and Stripes" in combat |
| | 1792 | Paris mob butchers nobles and clergymen held in jails |
| | 1798 | Karl Mack von Leiberich appointed commander of the Neapolitan Army |
| | 1843 | Neapolitan naval squadron visits Rio de Janeiro |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Bethel's Mills, Va |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Dallas, Mo |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Dry Wood/Ft Scott, Mo |
| | 1863 | Burnside's troops capture Knoxville |
| | 1863 | The Alabama legislature suggests recruiting slaves for the Confederate Army |
| | 1864 | Lee suggests recruiting blacks for Confederate service "every place in the Army” |
| | 1864 | Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta |
| | 1898 | Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes the Sudan for Egypt & Britain |
| | 1901 | VP Theodore Roosevelt cites the African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" |
| | 1914 | As the Germans drive on Paris, the French government flees to Bordeaux |
| | 1943 | Skorzeny and a Waffen-SS team free Mussolini at the Gran Sasso |
| | 1943 | Truk: Japanese patrol vessel is torpedoed by U.S. sub Snapper. |
| | 1943 | US a/c bomb Lae, in northeastern New Guinea, sinking a patrol vessel |
| | 1944 | 3rd Fleet raids the Bonins |
| | 1944 | Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz |
| | 1944 | Lt jg George H.W. Bush bails out near Chichi Jima; soon rescued by Finback |
| | 1944 | USSR & Finland conclude an armistice |
| | 1945 | Douglas MacArthur says "These proceedings are closed," USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay. |
| | 1945 | Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent of France |
| 3 | 36 | BC Naval Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompey |
| | 590 | Consecration of Pope St Gregory I “the Great” (590-604) |
| | 1189 | Coronation of Richard I "Lionheart" as King of England |
| | 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 is robbed of £20 of the King’s money while traveling in Kent. |
| | 1459 | Battle of Bloreheath: The Earl of Salisbury defeats the Lancastrians. |
| | 1529 | Suliman "The Magnificent” and his Turks capture Buda, Hungary. |
| | 1632 | Battle of Nuremburg: Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus and the Empire's Wallentsein fight to a draw |
| | 1650 | Battle of Dunbar: Cromwell defeats the Scots Royalists |
| | 1651 | Battle of Worcester: Cromwell defeats Prince Charles (II) & the Royalists; final battle of the English Civil Wars |
| | 1700 | Battle of the Narva: Swedes defeat Peter the Great |
| | 1782 | Battle of Trincomalee: British fleet defeats the French off India |
| | 1782 | US gives its only ship-of-the-line, America, to France. |
| | 1833 | Frederick Douglass steals Frederick Douglass |
| | 1848 | Messina: Citizens defeat a Borbon attempt to retake the city |
| | 1852 | Anti-Jewish riots break out 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 |
| | 1917 | German troops capture Riga, Latvia |
| | 1917 | Imperial German Air Service conducts its first night bombing of London |
| | 1918 | 5 black soldiers hanged for the Houston “mutiny” of 1917 |
| | 1925 | USN airship Shenandoah 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 | US gives Britain 50 old destroyers in exchange for basing rights in the Empire |
| | 1943 | Italy and the Allies agree to a cease-fire |
| | 1943 | Japanese sub I-20 sunk off Spiritu Santo by DD Patterson & Ellet |
| | 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 Quemoy & Amoy |
| | 1967 | Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of Vietnam under a new constitution |
| 4 | 476 | Odoacer deposes Emperor Romulus Augustulus (475-476): End of the Western Empire |
| | 569 | The Lombards capture Mediolanum [Milan] from the East Romans |
| | 786 | Haruh al-Rashid becomes Caliph of Baghdad |
| | 883 | Arab raiders sack the Monastery of Monte Cassino |
| | 1187 | Saladin captures Ascalon from the Crusaders. |
| | 1260 | Battle at Montaperti: Sienese Ghibellines rout the Florentine Guelfs |
| | 1285 | Battle of Les Formigues: Ruggiero di Lauria’s Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the French |
| | 1479 | Peace of Alcacovas: Portugal cedes the Canaries to Castille in return for lands in Africa. |
| | 1632 | Battle of Burgstall: Imperialists defeat the Swedes |
| | 1650 | Battle of Dunbar: Oliver Cromwell defeats David Leslie |
| | 1796 | Battle of Roveredo: The French defeat the Austrians |
| | 1804 | USS Intrepid blows up during an unsuccessful attack on Tripoli |
| | 1864 | Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama |
| | 1870 | Uprising at Paris deposes Napoleon the Little & proclaim the Third Republic |
| | 1886 | Geronimo surrenders to Gen Nelson A Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz |
| | 1916 | Seventh Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Sep 17) |
| | 1918 | US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months |
| | 1936 | Largo Caballero becomes Premier of the Spanish Republic |
| | 1936 | Nationalist troops capture Irun and Talavera de la Reina, Spain |
| | 1939 | Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality in World War II |
| | 1941 | U-652 unsuccessfully attacks USS Greer, which drops depth charges |
| | 1942 | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal: Japanese DDs sink two U.S. destroyer transports |
| | 1944 | 1st Marine Div sails from the Solomons for Palau. |
| | 1944 | Brit 11th Armoured Div liberates Antwerp |
| | 1944 | Finland breaks diplomatic relations with erstwhile ally Nazi Germany |
| | 1945 | US reoccupies Wake Is. |
| | 1948 | Dutch Queen Wilhemina (1890-1948) abdicates in favor of daughter Juliana (1948-1980) |
| | 1957 | Arkansas Gov Fabus orders the National Guard to keep blacks out of Central High School |
| 5 | 641 | Battle of Maserfelth: King Penda of Mercia defeats King Oswald of Northumbria |
| | 1689 | Pietro Ottoboni elected Pope as Alexander VIII (1689-1691) |
| | 1750 | Paderborn, Germany, orders annual search of Jewish homes for stolen goods |
| | 1757 | Battle of Rossbach: Frederick the Great defeats the French |
| | 1774 | First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia |
| | 1775 | Continental Navy issues uniform regulations for officers |
| | 1781 | Battle of the Virginia Capes: de Grasse’s French fleet defeats the British, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown |
| | 1795 | US pays Algiers $1 million to ransom 100 sailors |
| | 1806 | Fra Diavolo crushes a French column near Itri, Naples |
| | 1813 | USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off Portland, Me |
| | 1836 | Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas |
| | 1862 | Antietam Campaign: Lee crosses the Potomac into Maryland |
| | 1876 | Powder River Campaign: Gen Crook defeats the Cheyenne & Sioux at Slim Buttes |
| | 1905 | Teddy Roosevelt engineers the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War and winning a Nobel Peace Prize |
| | 1914 | Britain, France, Belgium, and Russia formally ally against Germany |
| | 1914 | First Battle of the Marne begins, as French taxis rush troops to the front |
| | 1915 | Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland |
| | 1918 | Due to WW I, the World Series begins a month early |
| | 1918 | USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by a German submarine off France |
| | 1923 | US Asiatic Fleet arrives at Tokyo to assist after the Great Kanto Plain earthquake. |
| | 1933 | SGT Fulgencio Batista ousts Cuban dictator Carlos de Cespedes in a coup |
| | 1939 | FDR creates Neutrality Patrol, to defend hemispheric waters |
| | 1942 | British and American aircraft bomb Le Havre and Bremen |
| | 1943 | US airborne troops land at Nadzab, New Guinea |
| | 1944 | Chinese establish land link to India at the Kaolingkung Pass in Burma. |
| | 1961 | US resumes nuclear testing after a temporary ban |
| | 1968 | Hijackers slay 21 on a Pan Am jet in Karachi, Pakistan |
| | 1972 | Palestinian terrorists murder 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics |
| | 1975 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tries to assassinate Pres Ford in Sacramento |
| | 1978 | Sadat, Begin, & Carter begin a peace conference at Camp David |
| | 1984 | Discovery completes 12th Space Shuttle mission |
| | 2002 | Attempt to assassinate Pres. Karzai of Afghanistan, c. 30 die |
| 6 | 1634 | Battle of Nordlingen: Spanish & Imperialists defeat the Swedes |
| | 1643 | Castro War: Battle of Mongiovino – Tuscans force Papal troops to retreat. |
| | 1715 | "The Fifteen" – Widespread Jacobite Rebellion begins in Scotland |
| | 1808 | Gioacchino Murat lands at Gaeta to assume the throne of Naples |
| | 1813 | Battle of Dennewitz: Prussians defeat the French |
| | 1860 | Triumphal entry of Giuseppe Garibaldi into Naples |
| | 1861 | Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant captures Paducah, Kentucky, without opposition |
| | 1862 | Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland |
| | 1863 | Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC, ending 59 day Union siege |
| | 1886 | Queen Victoria establishes the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) |
| | 1901 | Pres William McKinley, mortally wounded by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo (d. 14th) |
| | 1918 | US Navy 14-inch railroad guns open fire on the Western Front |
| | 1924 | Assassination attempt on Mussolini |
| | 1928 | USSR signs Briand-Kellogg Pact, agrees war is naughty |
| | 1939 | First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
| | 1939 | South Africa declares war on Germany |
| | 1940 | Charles F. Hughes (DD-428) commissioned (Lt Cdr. G. L. Menocal) |
| | 1940 | Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania |
| | 1941 | Germany orders all Jews over 6 anywhere to wear a star |
| | 1941 | Nazis restrict Jews of Vilna, Poland, to a ghetto |
| | 1942 | Japanese occupy Efogi on the Kokoda Trail, 50 miles from Port Moresby |
| | 1943 | CA Nachi survives torpedo from Halibut off Japan. |
| | 1944 | Netherlands: German Fifteenth Army evacuates Zealand |
| | 1944 | Western Carolines: 16 U.S. carriers strike Japanese held islands |
| | 1976 | Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to Japan with a MiG-25 |
| | 1983 | USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
| | 1986 | Islamist terrorists kill 22 at the Neve Shalom synagogue, Istanbul |
| | 1988 | Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard |
| | 1991 | Leningrad becomes St. Petersburg again |
| 7 | 831 | Arabs capture Palermo from the Byzantines |
| | 871 | Black Zanj Kharijite rebels capture and sack Basrah |
| | 1101 | First Battle of Ramalah: Crusaders defeat the Fatimids |
| | 1158 | Milan surrenders to Frederick Barbarossa |
| | 1159 | Orlando Bandinelli elected Pope as Alexander III (1159-81) |
| | 1191 | Battle of Arshouf: Richard Lionheart defeats Saladin |
| | 1191 | Battle of the Strymon: the Byzantines defeat William II of Sicily |
| | 1298 | Naval Battle of Curzola: Genoese defeat the Venetians, capture Marco Polo |
| | 1303 | The Colonna capture Pope Boniface VIII, a Caetani, at Anagni |
| | 1664 | Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Nieuw Amsterdam to the English fleet |
| | 1706 | Battle of Turin: Prince Eugene defeats the French |
| | 1714 | Treaty of Baden: French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine |
| | 1776 | David Bushnell's sub Turtle tries to sink HMS Eagle in New York harbor |
| | 1812 | Battle at Borodino: Napoleon gains a Phyrric victory over Kutusov |
| | 1814 | USS Wasp captures HMS Avon |
| | 1822 | Pedro, son of King João VI of Portugal, declares himself emperor of an independent Brazil |
| | 1848 | Messina: The Borbons retake the city after two days’ fighting |
| | 1860 | Triumphal entry of Garibaldi and the Army of the South into Naples |
| | 1862 | Stonewall Jackson writes a pass so he can attend divine services |
| | 1870 | HMS Captain capsizes off Cape Finisterre, c. 500 die, 18 survive |
| | 1927 | Mao Tse-dung writes, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” |
| | 1940 | Luftwaffe begins 57 consecutive nights of raids on London |
| | 1942 | Battle of Alam Halfa: Defeat of Rommel's attempt to reach the Nile |
| | 1943 | Heavy fighting around Lae |
| | 1943 | Heavy fighting on Vella Lavella |
| | 1947 | Hindus & Muslims battle in New Delhi |
| | 1950 | Communists close all monasteries in Hungary |
| | 1956 | Bell X-2 sets unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000' |
| | 1986 | Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Pres Augusto Pinochet of Chile |
| 8 | 0 | Memorial of St Adrian of Nicomedia, Patron of Arms Dealers |
| | 1141 | Battle of Samarkand |
| | 1276 | Election of Pope John XXI (Sep 8, 1276-May 20, 1277) |
| | 1380 | Battle of Kulikovo Pole: Dmitri Donskoi’s Russians defeat the Tatars |
| | 1495 | Ferrantino II lays siege to French-held Gaeta (falls Nov 18) |
| | 1565 | Italo-Spanish fleet begins landing troops on Malta to break the Turkish siege |
| | 1625 | Treaty of Southhampton: England and the Netherlands ally against Spain |
| | 1628 | Dutch sea dog Piet Heyn captures a Spanish treasure fleet, Matanzas, Cuba. |
| | 1755 | Sir William Johnson defeats the French at |
| | 1760 | French surrender Montreal to Lord Jeffrey Amherst |
| | 1796 | Battle of Bassano del Grappa: Massena defeats the Austrians under Wurmser |
| | 1848 | Uprising at Bologna: The citizens oust the Austrians |
| | 1855 | Crimean War: Allied assault on the Malakof Bastion |
| | 1863 | Battle of Telford's Depot, TN |
| | 1863 | Texans repel Union invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX |
| | 1919 | Ticker tape parade on Broadway for General of the Armies John J. Pershing & 25,000 Doughboys |
| | 1923 | Seven USN destroyers ground at Point Honda, Ca., by a navigational error, 23 die |
| | 1939 | FDR declares a "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe |
| | 1939 | German panzers reach the outskirts of Warsaw |
| | 1941 | Nazis massacre the Jews of Meretsch, Lithuania |
| | 1942 | 700 Marine Raiders hit Tasimboko, Guadalcanal, in the Japanese rear |
| | 1942 | Japanese destroyer squadron shells Tulagi |
| | 1942 | Japanese open 5 battalion attack on Aussies at Egofi, the Kokoda Trail |
| | 1943 | Italy concludes an armistice with the Allies |
| | 1943 | U.S DD bombard Lae to support Australian 9th Div |
| | 1943 | US aircraft bomb targets near Rome, supported by Italian fighters |
| | 1944 | First V-2 attacks on London; 3 die in Cheswick |
| | 1944 | Russian troops enter Bulgaria, which promptly declares war on Germany |
| | 1945 | US troops land in Korea to assume occupation duties |
| | 1948 | British De Havilland 08 fighter flies faster than sound |
| | 1951 | Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries at San Francisco |
| | 1954 | Manila: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed |
| | 1962 | Chinese troops invade India |
| | 1966 | “Star Trek” debuts on NBC |
| | 1991 | Macedonia declares independence from Yugoslavia |
| 9 | 9 | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: “Quintilius Varus, Quintilius Varus, give me my three legions back.” |
| | 337 | Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I become co-Emperors in succession to their father Constatnine the Great (d. May), after having eliminated several potential rivals. |
| | 490 | BC Battle of Marathon: Athenians & Plataeans defeat the Persians |
| | 1303 | Caetani troops liberate Pope Boniface VIII from the Colonna at Anagni |
| | 1502 | The Pact of Mugione: Cesare Borgia’s enemies conclude an alliance |
| | 1505 | A Florentine attempt to storm besieged Pisa fails, possibly due to bribes to the republic’s mercenary captains, Antonio Giacomini & Ercole Bentivogli |
| | 1513 | Battle of Flodden Field: English defeat James IV of Scotland |
| | 1567 | The Duke of Alba invites Dutch rebels the Counts of Egmont and of Hoorn to a banquet in Brussels, and arrests them [See June 5] |
| | 1739 | Slave revolt in Stono, SC; c. 25 whites, 50 blacks die |
| | 1776 | "The United Colonies" are renamed "The United States" |
| | 1825 | Lafayette sails for France after a year-long visit to America |
| | 1863 | Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN |
| | 1867 | Luxembourg declared independent of the North German Confederation |
| | 1870 | French franc-tireurs blow up the arsenal at Laon, killing 40 Prussian soldiers, and wounding many others. |
| | 1903 | N.Y. Nat'l Guard wins the first National Rifle Matches; Sea Girt, N.J. |
| | 1922 | Turkish troops capture Smyrna from the Greeks |
| | 1939 | German 15th Mtzd Inf massacres 300 Polish P/Ws near Ciepielow |
| | 1940 | Congress passes the "Two Ocean Navy" Bill: 12 CVs, 7 BBs, c. 190 other ships authorized. |
| | 1942 | Aussie 25th Bde rushes up the Kokoda Trail to support Egofi |
| | 1942 | Sub-based pilot Nobuo Fujita firebombs Mt. Emily, Ore. |
| | 1943 | Operation Avalanche: Anglo-American forces land at Salerno, Italy |
| | 1943 | The Japanese seize the Italian subs Capellini, Giuliani, & Torelli at Sebang, Sumatra, but the sloop Eritrea escapes, to make for Ceylon |
| | 1944 | Allied troops liberate Luxembourg from the Germans |
| | 1944 | TF 38 carriers begin a 2-day raid on Japanese bases on Mindanao. |
| | 1948 | People's Democratic Republic of [North] Korea proclaimed |
| | 1990 | Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
| | 1999 | Chechen terrorists bomb an apartment house in Moscow, c. 93 die |
| | 2003 | 24 tons of steel from the World Trade Center are melted & poured at a steel mill in Louisiana to form the bow section of the new USS New York (LPD-21) |
| 10 | 422 | Election of Pope St. Celestine I (422-432) |
| | 1349 | Jews who survived a massacre in Constance, Germany, are burned to death |
| | 1435 | Battle of Piper Dene: The Earl of Angus beats the Earl of Northumberland & Sir Robert Ogle |
| | 1776 | Nathan Hale volunteers for secret service duty against the British |
| | 1813 | Battle of Lake Erie: Commo Oliver Hazard Perry mets the enemy and they are his |
| | 1823 | Simon Bolivar is named President of Peru |
| | 1861 | Combat at Carnifex Ferry, Va |
| | 1862 | The men of the 1st Penna Cav appoint the US Army’s first Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel |
| | 1914 | Battle of the Marne: The Germans begin falling back, ending the six-day fight. |
| | 1939 | Canada declares war on Germany |
| | 1940 | Buckingham Palace hit by a German bomb |
| | 1942 | British conduct landings on Vichy-French controlled Madagascar |
| | 1943 | British Eighth Army occupies Taranto, Italy |
| | 1943 | Germans occupy Rome & other Italian cities, against sometimes fierce resistance |
| | 1944 | Elms TF 38 raid the Palau Islands. |
| | 1944 | Sir Frederick Browning says "I think we might be going a bridge too far" |
| | 1945 | Norwegians sentence Nazi-collaborator Vidkun Quisling to death |
| | 1976 | Five Croatian terrorists capture TWA plane at La Guardia Airport, NY |
| | 1992 | Nathan E. Cook, last veteran of the Spanish-American War, at 106 |
| | 2004 | Keel laid for USS New York (APD-21) at Avondale, La |
| 11 | 1297 | Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scots defeat the English |
| | 1565 | The Turks abandon the siege of Malta |
| | 1649 | Massacre of Drogheda: Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists |
| | 1697 | Battle of Zenta: Eugene of Savory crushes the Turks |
| | 1709 | Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet |
| | 1773 | Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or a bad peace" |
| | 1777 | Battle of Brandywine: Americans lose to British |
| | 1812 | USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Lady Warren |
| | 1814 | Battle of Plattsburgh/Lake Champlain: Americans defeat the British by land & lake – the decisive battle of the War of 1812 |
| | 1851 | Armed black citizens help defend fugitive slaves from their owner, who is killed, near Christiana, Penna |
| | 1857 | Mountain Meadows Massacre: 120 colonists killed by Mormon extremists |
| | 1860 | Sardinian Army invades the Papal States |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Lewisville, Va |
| | 1918 | Col. George S. Patton leads the first US tank attack, St. Mihiel, France |
| | 1919 | Gabriele d'Annunzio's "Legion" captures Fiume |
| | 1921 | First test of carrier arresting gear, at Hampton Roads. |
| | 1926 | Gino Lucetti attempts to assassinate Mussolini in Rome |
| | 1940 | Hitler orders Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain |
| | 1941 | Charles A. Lindbergh charges that "the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to force the US into World War II |
| | 1941 | FDR orders the Navy to "shoot on sight" Axis warships in American waters |
| | 1942 | Australian forces fall back from Egofi, on the Kokoda Trail |
| | 1943 | Allied forces secure Salerno |
| | 1943 | Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida, Belorussia, liquidated |
| | 1943 | Makassar: Japanese minesweeper W-16 sinks trying to clear mines. |
| | 1944 | FDR & Churchill convene the Second Quebec Conference |
| | 1944 | Sub sinks two Japanese prison ships in China Sea, hundreds die. |
| | 1944 | US 5th Armored Division enters Nazi Germany |
| | 2001 | Islamist terrorists crash two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, but heroic passengers die retaking a fourth aircraft |
| 12 | 1213 | Battle of Muret: Crusaders defeat the Albigensians |
| | 1396 | Crusaders under the Count of Nevers reach Nicopolis |
| | 1609 | Henry Hudson reaches a hilly island “as pleasant with grasse and flowers, and goodly trees, as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them” -- Manhattan |
| | 1683 | Poland's John Sobieski lifts the Turkish siege of Vienna |
| | 1740 | Voltaire and Frederick the Great meet |
| | 1776 | Nathan Hale leaves Wasington’s Harlem Heights camp (at 127th St) on a spy mission |
| | 1814 | Battle of North Point: Regulars & Militiamen prevent the British from capturing Baltimore |
| | 1861 | Confederates invest Lexington, Mo (Falls 20th) |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Black River, Mo |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Cheat Mtn, WVa |
| | 1862 | Battle of Harpers Ferry VA |
| | 1901 | Arabs attack Jewish settlement of Gedara, Palestine |
| | 1917 | Battle of the Bainsizza (11th Isonzo) ends (from Aug 19) |
| | 1938 | Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia |
| | 1940 | Italian troops under Rudolfo Graziani invade Egypt |
| | 1941 | Coast Guardsmen capture the German trawler Busko in Greenland |
| | 1942 | Guadalcanal, Battle of Bloody Ridge: Marines repulse the Kawaguchi Detachment |
| | 1943 | New Guinea: Australian and U.S. troops capture Salamaua |
| | 1943 | Otto Skorzeny’s commandos liberate Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso |
| | 1974 | Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie |
| | 1983 | USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its downing of KAL Flight 007 |
| | 1990 | US, Britain, France, & the USSR agree to reunification of Germany |
| | 1995 | Belarussian armed forces shoot down a balloon in an international race, 2 Americans die |
| 13 | 0 | Feast of St. Venerius, Patron of Lighthouse Keepers |
| | 45 | BC Caesar writes his will, adopting Octavius |
| | 81 | Domitian succeeds his brother Titus as Roman Emperor (81-96) |
| | 122 | Construction begins on Hadrian's Wall |
| | 509 | BC Dedication of the Temple of Jupiter, Juno, & Minerva, on the Capitoline |
| | 533 | Belisarius crushes the Vandals at Ad Decimum, North Africa |
| | 604 | Consecration of Pope Sabinianus (604-606) |
| | 1276 | Pedro Julião (Petrus Juliani) elected Pope as John XXI [XX] (Sept 13, 1276-May 20, 1277) |
| | 1515 | Battle of Marignano: Franco-Venetian victory over the Swiss |
| | 1625 | Jerusalem: Moslem authorities arrest Isiah Horowitz & 15 other rabbis |
| | 1759 | Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes British |
| | 1814 | British commence an overnight bombardment of Fort McHenry, inspiring "The Star Spangled Banner" |
| | 1847 | US soldiers & marines storm Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Booneville, Mo |
| | 1880 | War of the Pacific: Chilean ships begin a two-day bombardment of Peruvian ports, during which, the Chilean Covadonga is sunk by a Peruvian explosive boat; 20 die, 43 captured |
| | 1882 | Britain invades Egypt during Arabi Pasha "Revolution" |
| | 1940 | The Mitsubishi "Zero" debuts over Chungking; Japan 26, China 0. |
| | 1942 | German forces attack Stalingrad |
| | 1942 | Guadalcanal: Bloody Ridge - Marines probe the Japanese positions. |
| | 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China |
| | 1943 | German counter attack at Salerno |
| | 1944 | Palau Is: USN pounds Peleliu |
| | 1961 | Battles between UN & Katangan troops in Congo |
| | 1971 | New York National Guardsmen storm Attica Correctional Facility, to end 4-day uprising; 32 prisoners, 9 guards die |
| | 1978 | Maiden flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet |
| | 1990 | Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
| | 1999 | Islamist terror bombing in Moscow, c. 120 killed |
| 14 | 786 | Harun al-Rashid becomes Calif of Baghdad (786-809) |
| | 1115 | Battle of Tel-Danith: Principlaity of Antioch defeats the Seljuks |
| | 1141 | Battle of Winchester: The Empress Matilda defeats Queen Matilda |
| | 1146 | Nur-ed-Din succeeds his father Zangi as Atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul |
| | 1307 | Battle of Paisley Forest: The English defeat the Scots |
| | 1346 | Battle of Itri: Count Nicola Caetani of Fondi ambushes the Neapolitans |
| | 1402 | Battle of Homildon Hill: Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, defeats Archibald Douglas |
| | 1423 | Venetians capture Thessaloniki |
| | 1437 | Magyars, the Székely, & Saxons form a united Transylvania (ignoring the Romanians) |
| | 1522 | Treaty of Moscow: ends Polish/Lithuanian war with Russia |
| | 1655 | Indian amphibious assault on Nieuw Amsterdam, scores die |
| | 1812 | Napoleon occupies Moscow |
| | 1824 | Following a referendum, Chiapas requests incorproation into Mexico |
| | 1829 | Peace of Adrianople: Russo-Turkish War ends |
| | 1847 | American troops under Winfield Scott capture Mexico City |
| | 1856 | Battle of San Jacinto: Nicaragua defeats American filibusters |
| | 1861 | Naval skirmish off Pensacola, Fl |
| | 1862 | Antietam Campaign: Battle of South Mountain |
| | 1862 | Antietam Campaign: Skirmish at Boonesboro/Crampton's Gap/Fox's Gap, Md. |
| | 1862 | Battle of Munfordsville, Ky |
| | 1869 | Explosion at the Aresenale of Venice, scores die |
| | 1901 | Theo. Roosevelt is sworn in as President, the youngest ever at 42 |
| | 1917 | Provisional republican government established in Russia |
| | 1923 | Miguel Primo de River becomes dictator of Spain (1923-1930) |
| | 1930 | Nazis gain 107 seats in German elections |
| | 1932 | Arturo Alessandri stages a coup in Chile |
| | 1938 | Maiden flight of Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship |
| | 1938 | Navy N2C-2 radio drone makes a simulated dive-bombing attack on target ship Utah |
| | 1940 | FDR signs the first U.S. peacetime draft bill. |
| | 1940 | German bomb hits a shelter in Chelsea; 100s die |
| | 1942 | First US air raid on Kiska, from Adak |
| | 1942 | Guadalcanal, Bloody Ridge: Japanese retire |
| | 1942 | New Guinea: Aussies fall back on the Kokoda Trail, to the Imita Ridge. |
| | 1943 | New Guinea: Heavy fighting around Lae. |
| | 1945 | Ticker tape parade on Broadway for General Jonathan Wainwright. |
| | 1957 | UN resolution deplores and condemns Soviet invasion of Hungary |
| | 1960 | Coup by Col Joseph Desire Mobutu in the Congo, puts him in control until 1997 |
| | 1960 | OPEC is formed: Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia, & Venezuela unite to control oil prices |
| | 1966 | Vietnam: Operation Attleboro begins against VC sanctuaries on the Cambodian Border |
| | 1973 | Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
| 15 | 1448 | Battle of Caravaggio: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the Venetians |
| | 1590 | Giambattista Castagna elected Pope as Urban VII (15 Sep-27 Sep 1590) |
| | 1596 | The Earl of Essex sacks Cadiz |
| | 1631 | Tilly takes Leipzig |
| | 1644 | Giambattista Pamfili elected Pope as Innocent X (1644-1655) |
| | 1694 | Venetians capture Chios from the Turks |
| | 1776 | British troops land at Kip's Bay, New York (East River & 34th St) |
| | 1784 | Vincente Lunardi, a young Neapolitan, makes the first manned balloon ascent in England, from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields |
| | 1821 | Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, & El Salvador are declared independent of Mexico |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Pritchard's Mills, Va |
| | 1862 | Antietam Campaign: Stonewall Jackson captures Harpers Ferry |
| | 1862 | Antietam Campaign: US troops find Lee's GO No. 191, wrapping some cigars |
| | 1873 | German occupation troops leave France, following the Franco-Prussian War |
| | 1894 | Battle of Ping Yang: Japan defeats China |
| | 1914 | Battle of the Aisne begins between Germans & French |
| | 1914 | US forces evacuate Vera Cruz, Mexico |
| | 1916 | Battle of the Somme: British send tanks into action for the first time |
| | 1923 | Gov. John Walton places Oklahoma under martial law to cope with KKK terrorism |
| | 1926 | Mussolini survives an assassination attempt, but is wounded in the nose |
| | 1931 | British naval mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts |
| | 1935 | Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship |
| | 1938 | Br PM Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden |
| | 1940 | Battle of Britain: The Luftwaffe loses 185 aircraft |
| | 1940 | Hitler’s second “D-Day” for Operation Sea Lion |
| | 1941 | Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania |
| | 1942 | Unarmed windjammer Edlu II forces a u-boat to submerge off Montauk Point |
| | 1942 | US carrier Wasp torpedoed and sunk off Guadalcanal |
| | 1943 | Concentration Camp Chew opens in Lithuania |
| | 1943 | Concentration Camp Vaivara opens in Estonia |
| | 1943 | Japanese sub Ro-101 is sunk by US DD Saufley & two aircraft. |
| | 1944 | Marines land on Peleliu, 450 miles east of Mindanao in the Philippines |
| | 1944 | RAF hits the German BB Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs |
| | 1944 | Sofia liberated by Bulgarian and Soviet troops |
| | 1948 | F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph |
| | 1950 | Inchon Landing: Marines lead the attack behind North Korean lines. |
| | 1959 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins 13 day tour of the US |
| | 1963 | White supremacists bomb a Birmingham Baptist church, 4 children die |
| | 1990 | France announces it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
| 16 | 1189 | Siege of Acre: Crusaders defeat an Ayyubid assault |
| | 1503 | League of Perugia: Lords of the Romagna ally against Cesare Borgia |
| | 1512 | The Medici return to power in Florence after 18 years in exile |
| | 1714 | Elisabeth Farnese marries Philip V of Spain, and becomes the mother of three dynasties (Spain, Parma, Naples) |
| | 1776 | Battle of Harlem Heights: Washington ambushes the Brits north of 125th St. |
| | 1795 | British capture Capetown from the Dutch |
| | 1810 | Grito de Delores: Fr. Hidalgo proclaims Mexican independence |
| | 1812 | Great Fire of Moscow frustrates Napoleon's attempt to hold the city |
| | 1831 | Auber's "Fra Diavolo" has its American premiere, Philadelphia |
| | 1854 | Cdr David G. Farragut opens 1st Navy Yard on the Pacific, at Mare I. |
| | 1861 | Battle of Princeton, WVa |
| | 1864 | Battle of Coggin's Point, Va |
| | 1864 | Nathan Bedford Forrest begins a raid from Verona, Ms, into Alabama & Tennessee |
| | 1917 | Navy Department authorizes 16 naval air stations to be built abroad |
| | 1919 | American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress |
| | 1922 | A “wagon bomb” detonates in front of the New York Stock Exchange, c. 40 die, c. 300 injured – case never solved |
| | 1922 | Last Greek troops evacuate Asia Minor as Turks advance |
| | 1940 | Dutch SS is formed |
| | 1941 | Nazis confine the Jews of Vilna to Ghetto |
| | 1941 | Shah Riza of Iran abdicates in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza (1941-1979) |
| | 1942 | 3rd Marine Div is activated at San Diego. |
| | 1942 | New Guinea: High Tide of the Japanese advance – the Aussies hold Imita Ridge, safeguarding Port Moresby |
| | 1943 | Australian troops capture Lae, in northeastern New Guinea. |
| | 1943 | US Fifth and British Eighth Armies unite in Italy |
| | 1944 | 548th Night Fighter Squadron arrives in the Marianas |
| | 1950 | Eighth Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter, in support of the Inchon Landing. |
| | 1950 | Viet Minh begin offensive against French bases in Vietnam |
| | 1955 | Coup ousts Juan Peron as President of Argentina |
| | 1957 | Premier Songgram deposed by a coup in Thailand |
| | 1958 | Sub Grayback fires first Regulus II cruise missile, carrying mail |
| | 1974 | Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters |
| | 1999 | Chechen terrorists bomb an apartment house in Volgodnosk, Russia, 17 die |
| 17 | 70 | Titus captures Jerusalem amid great slaughter [See births] |
| | 530 | Election of Pope Boniface II (530-532) |
| | 1176 | Battle of Miriocefalo: The Seljuks defeat the Byzantines |
| | 1394 | Jews are expelled from France by King Charles VI |
| | 1462 | Battle of Puck/Swiecin/Zarnowiec: Casimir IV of Poland defeats the Teutonic Knights |
| | 1631 | Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustavus Adolphus defeats General Tilly |
| | 1745 | Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under the Young Pretender |
| | 1776 | The Spanish begin building the Presidio of San Francisco |
| | 1787 | The Constitutional Convention completes its work |
| | 1833 | A Zulu impi sacks and burns the Portuguese fort at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique |
| | 1859 | San Francisco: Norton I proclaims himself Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico |
| | 1861 | Combat at Blue Mills, Mo |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Morristown, Mo |
| | 1862 | Battle of Antietam: Bloodiest day of Civil War, over 3,000 die |
| | 1862 | Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tn |
| | 1862 | Battle of Mumfordville, Ky: US Col John Wilder surrenders |
| | 1895 | Second Class Battleship Maine commissioned, blows up, 1898 |
| | 1900 | Battle of Mabitac: Filipinos defeat the Americans |
| | 1916 | Seventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Sep 4) |
| | 1939 | German U-boat sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous |
| | 1939 | Soviet Union invades Poland |
| | 1943 | Ammunition explosion at the Norfolk Naval Air Station |
| | 1943 | B-24s bomb Tarawa, Gilbert I, from Canton and Funafuti. |
| | 1944 | Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers |
| | 1944 | Elms 81st Div land on Anguar, near Peleliu. |
| | 1944 | Operation Market Garden begins: Allied Airborne invasion of the Netherlands |
| | 1944 | USAAF abandons airbase at Kweilin, China, as the Japanese close in. |
| | 1947 | James Forrestal sworn in as first Secretary of Defense |
| | 1949 | North Atlantic Council meets for the first time |
| | 1965 | Premiere of "Hogan's Heroes", on CBS-TV |
| | 1972 | Premiere of "M*A*S*H", on CBS-TV |
| | 1978 | Begin, Sadat, & Carter sign Camp David Accords |
| 18 | 0 | Feast of St Joseph of Cupertino, Patron of Aviators and Astronauts |
| | 0 | First Day of the Mysteries at Athens & Eleusis |
| | 96 | Marcus Cocceius Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor (96-98) |
| | 327 | Battle of Chrysopolis: Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, to become sole emperor |
| | 1454 | Battle of Konitz: The Teutonic Knights defeat the Poles |
| | 1494 | Prospero Colonna captures Ostia for the French from his former overlord, the Pope |
| | 1497 | Two day Battle of Exeter ends: the Earl of Devonshire defeats Perkin Warbeck |
| | 1544 | Peace of Crepy: yet another temporary halt in the Franco-Spanish Italian Wars (1494-1559) |
| | 1631 | Battle of Breitenfeld: Swedes & Saxons defeat the Imperialists |
| | 1649 | Battle of Bologna: Papal forces defeat the Parmeggiani |
| | 1738 | Peace of Vienna: Ends the War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738) |
| | 1739 | Treaty of Belgrade: Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks |
| | 1755 | French complete Ft Carillon (Ticonderoga), NY |
| | 1778 | First US treaty with an Indian nation, the Delaware |
| | 1806 | Fra Diavolo defeated by the French near Itri, Naples |
| | 1851 | The New York Times begins publication |
| | 1860 | Battle of Castelfidardo: Italo-Piedmontese defeat the Papal Army |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Barboursville, WVa |
| | 1864 | Battle of Martinsburg WVa |
| | 1864 | Confderate troops under Richard M. Gano and Stand Watie massacre black hay cutters near Wagoner, Oklahoma |
| | 1914 | Battle of the Aisne: the Germans hold the French, trench warfare begins |
| | 1914 | South African troops land in German South West Africa |
| | 1918 | Battle of Megiddo begins. |
| | 1931 | Japan occupies Manchuria |
| | 1934 | USSR admitted to League of Nations |
| | 1939 | Joint German-Soviet "Victory Parade" over Poland in Brest-Litovsk |
| | 1940 | Italian troops capture Sidi Barrani |
| | 1942 | British troops land at Tamatave, Madagascar. |
| | 1943 | B-24s bomb Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands. |
| | 1969 | Trimaran yacht Mianna goes down at 16° 48' N, 28° 21' W |
| | 1982 | Christian militia kills 600 Palestinians in Lebanon, the Jews are blamed |
| | 1988 | Coup in Haiti |
| 19 | 1319 | Battle of Myton - “The White Battle": Sir James Douglas beats Archbishop Melton |
| | 1356 | Battle of Poitiers: English defeat the French |
| | 1676 | Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown, Va |
| | 1734 | War of the Polish Succession: Battle of Guastella - Franco-Piedmontese-Spanish forces defeat the Austrians, to capture Milan. |
| | 1777 | Battle of Freeman's Farm (1st Battle of Saratoga) |
| | 1796 | Battle of Altenkirchen: Desperate French rearguard action against the Austrians |
| | 1860 | Battle of Caiazzo: The Garibaldini defeat the Borbons |
| | 1862 | Battle of Iuka, Miss |
| | 1863 | Battle of Chickamauga begins |
| | 1864 | 3rd Battle of Winchester (Opequon), Va |
| | 1870 | Franco-Prussian War: Germans invest Paris |
| | 1890 | Turkish frigate Ertogrul burns off Japan, 540 die |
| | 1939 | British Expeditionary Force reaches France |
| | 1939 | German Army murders 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland |
| | 1940 | Nazi decree forbids gentile woman from working in Jewish homes |
| | 1943 | U.S carrier aircraft and B-24s raid Tarawa. |
| | 1945 | London: Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death |
| | 1957 | First underground nuclear explosion, Nevada |
| | 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland |
| | 1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds to the throne of Sweden |
| | 1988 | Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance |
| 20 | 451 | Battle of Chalons-sur-Marne: Aetius’ Romans & Theoderic’s Visigoths defeat Attila’s Huns |
| | 480 | BC Battle of Salamis [Alt] |
| | 622 | Mohammad's Hegira [Alt] |
| | 1066 | Battle of Fulford: Harald Haardrada of Norway defeats Earls Morcar & Edwin |
| | 1152 | The Parmesans destroy Borgo San Donnino (Fidenza) |
| | 1183 | French massacre 7,000 Brabantois mercenaries at Chateaudun |
| | 1187 | Saladin besieges Jerusalem |
| | 1378 | Cardinal Robert of Geneva becomes Anti-Pope as Clement VII, d. 1394 |
| | 1565 | Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Fla, & massacre the French settlers |
| | 1643 | Battle of Newbury: Parliamentarians defeat Royalists |
| | 1697 | Peace of Ryswick/Saki: ends the War of the League of Augsburg/Nine Year's War/War of the English Succession/King William’s War (1688-1697) |
| | 1700 | Start of the Prince of Macchia’s anti-Spanish coup at Naples (fails Sep 23) |
| | 1703 | First Battle of Hochstadt: French & Bavarians defeat the Imperialists |
| | 1792 | The Battle of Valmy: French artillery throws back a Prussian invasion. |
| | 1797 | US frigate Constitution - "Old Ironsides" - launched in Boston |
| | 1850 | The slave trade is abolished in the District of Columbia |
| | 1854 | Battle of the Alma: British & French defeat the Russians |
| | 1857 | British retake Delhi from the Sepoy mutineers |
| | 1860 | The Prince of Wales visits New York, causing the Fighting 69th to "mutiny" |
| | 1861 | Confederates capture Lexington, Mo (invested on the 12th) |
| | 1862 | Otto von Bismarck says Germany needs "Blood and Iron” |
| | 1863 | Battle of Chickamauga ends in Confederate victory |
| | 1863 | Battle of Shepardstown, Va. |
| | 1870 | Italian troops capture Rome from Pope Pius IX |
| | 1881 | Former New York QM General Chester Arthur sworn in as president |
| | 1912 | Montenegro invades Turkey, igniting the First Balkan War |
| | 1941 | Italian UDT teams sink three ships in Gibraltar harbor |
| | 1950 | Omar Bradley is promoted to General of the Army |
| | 1955 | "You'll Never Get Rich" premieres on CBS (“Sgt Bilko”) |
| | 1979 | Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire overthrown |
| | 1984 | Hezbollah suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, 25 die |
| 21 | 1096 | Xerigordon [Nicaea] invested by the Seljuks (falls 29th) |
| | 1348 | Jews in Zurich are accused of poisoning wells |
| | 1435 | Peace of Arras: th Burgundians accept Charles VII as King of France |
| | 1451 | Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a distinctive badge |
| | 1499 | Peace of Basel: The Hapsburgs recognize the autonomy of Switzerland |
| | 1529 | Austrians drive the Turks from the gates of Vienna |
| | 1589 | Battle of Arques: French Huguenots defeat the Catholics |
| | 1676 | Benedetto Odescalchi elected Pope as Innocent XI (1676-1689), later beatified |
| | 1745 | Battle of Preston Pans: Jacobites defeat the Hanoverians in ten minutes. |
| | 1776 | Great Fire of New York: five days after the British occupy the city |
| | 1780 | Benedict Arnold gives British Major John Andre the plans to West Point |
| | 1792 | French National Convention abolishes the monarchy |
| | 1821 | Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador declare independence of Spain |
| | 1858 | Sloop Niagara carries Black freedmen from Charleston, bound for Liberia |
| | 1860 | Battle of Balikiao: Anglo-French troops defeat the Chinese |
| | 1861 | Combat at Pappinsville, Mo |
| | 1863 | Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga |
| | 1872 | James H. Conyers becomes the first black USNA cadet |
| | 1896 | Lord Kitchener captures Dongala from the Mahdists |
| | 1913 | Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople, ending the Second Balkan War |
| | 1940 | Initialy scheduled D-Day for “Operation Sealion” - Hitler’s invasion of Britain |
| | 1941 | Launch of the first Liberty, SS Patrick Henry |
| | 1942 | Burma: Commonwealth offensive in the Arakan. |
| | 1942 | Maiden flight of the B-29 |
| | 1942 | Nazis execute 116 hostages in Paris |
| | 1943 | Aussie raiders in 6 canoes sink two ships with mines in Singapore. |
| | 1944 | Last British paratroopers holding the bridge at Arnhem surrender |
| | 1944 | Luzon: air strikes from 12 TF 38 carriers against Japanese targets. |
| | 1949 | Federal Republic of Germany established |
| | 1949 | People's Republic of China proclaimed |
| | 1950 | George C. Marshall becomes Secretary of Defense |
| | 1957 | Olav V assumes the throne of Norway |
| | 1964 | Malta, G.C., gains its independence from Britain |
| | 1972 | Pres Ferdinand Marcos imposes martial law in Philippines |
| 22 | 0 | Feast of St. Maurice, veteran and Patron of Infantry |
| | 0 | Feast of St. Maurice, veteran and Patron of Infantry |
| | 66 | Nero forms the legio I Italica |
| | 1236 | Battle of Siauliai: Lithuanians & Semigallians defeat the Brothers of the Sword |
| | 1460 | Battle of San Fabiano: The Bracceschi defeat the Aragonese |
| | 1503 | Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini elected Pope as Pius III (22 Sep-18 Oct 1503) |
| | 1609 | Spain orders Moslems to convert or leave the country |
| | 1776 | John Paul Jones & USS Providence raid Br ships in Canso Bay, N.S. |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Elliott's Mills/Camp Crittenden, Mo |
| | 1862 | President Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation |
| | 1864 | Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va: Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap |
| | 1864 | Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Va |
| | 1868 | Race riots in New Orleans |
| | 1905 | Race riot in Atlanta, 10 blacks & 2 whites die |
| | 1906 | Race riot in Atlanta, 21 die |
| | 1908 | Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire |
| | 1914 | German sub sinks British cruisers Aboukir, Cressy, & Hogue, 1,397 die |
| | 1942 | Madagascar: Vichyite troops abandon Tananarive and withdraw south |
| | 1943 | Br midget subs attack German BB Tirpitz in Norwegian waters |
| | 1943 | Kate Smith's 13 hour radio appeal sells $39 million in war bonds |
| | 1944 | Boulogne liberated by the Allies |
| | 1949 | First Russian atomic bomb explosion |
| | 1950 | Omar Bradley is promoted to General of the Army |
| | 1958 | Elvis arrives at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, to board a transport for Germany |
| | 1961 | The Peace Corps is established |
| | 1964 | Premiere of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." on NBC-TV |
| | 1975 | Sarah Jane Moore attempts to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford |
| | 1980 | Iraq invades Iran, beginning an eight year war |
| | 1995 | AWACS crashes on takeoff, Elmendorf AFB, 24 die |
| 23 | 0 | Feast of St. Phocas, Patron of Sailors |
| | 480 | BC Battle of Salamis [Alt] |
| | 1122 | Concordat of Worms: Pope Callistus II and HRE Henry V end the Investiture Controversy |
| | 1325 | Battle of Altopascio: The Luccans defeat the Florentines |
| | 1459 | Battle of Blore Heath: the Earl of Salisbury’s Yorkists beat Lord Audley’s Lancastrians |
| | 1642 | Battle of Powick Bridge: Prince Rupert of the Rhine defeats Col John Brown & the Earl of Essex |
| | 1700 | Spanish crush the Prince of Macchia's coup in Naples (began Sep 20) |
| | 1779 | Celebrated duel bewtween John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard & HMS Serapis |
| | 1780 | Maj. John Andre is captured, revealing Benedict Arnold's treason |
| | 1803 | Battle of Assaye: Wellington's Anglo-Indian forces beat Maratha Army |
| | 1806 | Frederick Marryat joins the Royal Navy |
| | 1806 | Lewis & Clark Expedition ends at St Louis |
| | 1846 | Mexican uprising against American occupation at Los Angeles |
| | 1857 | Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm off Finland, 826 die |
| | 1861 | Combat at Romney, WVa |
| | 1862 | Otto von Bismarck becomes Minister President of Prussia |
| | 1863 | Confederates begin investment of Chattanooga |
| | 1864 | Battle of Athens VA |
| | 1865 | Harney Lake Valley, Ore: Skirmish between US troops & Indians |
| | 1868 | Grito de Lares: abortive Puerto Rican uprising against Spain |
| | 1915 | Serbian troops begin retreating into Albania pursued by Austro-German-Bulgarian forces |
| | 1931 | Navy tests its first rotary wing aircraft, an XOP-1 autogiro, on Langley |
| | 1940 | Dutch fascist leader Musserts meets Hitler for the first time |
| | 1941 | Charles de Gaulle forms a French government-in-exile in London |
| | 1941 | Kronstadt: German air raid sinks the Russian BB Marat |
| | 1942 | Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions |
| | 1942 | Madagascar: British & Free French occupy Tananarive |
| | 1973 | Juan Peron again becomes President of Argentina |
| | 1979 | Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, NYC |
| 24 | 1066 | Harald Haardrada’s Norwegians capture York |
| | 1143 | Guido del Castello elected Pope as Celestine II (1143-44) |
| | 1180 | Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor (1180-1183) |
| | 1258 | Triumphal entry of Ezzelino da Romano into Brescia |
| | 1400 | Battle of Welshpool: Henry Burnell defeats Owen Glendower |
| | 1625 | Spanish repulse Dutch attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| | 1664 | The English capture Nieuw Amsterdam from the Dutch |
| | 1683 | King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French America |
| | 1794 | Pres Washington orders the militia out to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. |
| | 1864 | Battle of Pilot Knob, Mo |
| | 1864 | Confederate general Sterling Price begins invasion of Missouri |
| | 1918 | Ens David S. Ingalls becomes the first USN ace, in a Sopwith Camel, while seconded to the Royal Air Force |
| | 1929 | Lt James H Doolittle makes the first all-instrument flight, Brooklyn |
| | 1942 | "Chesty" Puller's Marines engage Japanese on Mt. Austen, Guadalcanal |
| | 1942 | Valeriia Khomiakova, of the 586th Fighter Regiment, becomes the first women to down an enemy aircraft in combat, flying a Yak 1 on her first mission |
| | 1943 | Soviet forces liberate Smolensk |
| | 1943 | Sub Cabrilla damages Japanese escort carrier Taiyo near Japan. |
| | 1944 | San Marino declares war on Germany |
| | 1948 | Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars pleads innocent in Washington |
| | 1950 | Operation Magic Carpet: the Jews of Yemen are taken to Israel |
| | 1960 | USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is launched, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier |
| | 1982 | US, Italian, & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
| 25 | 233 | Triumph of the Emperor Severus Alexander for his victories over the Persians |
| | 1066 | Battle of Stamford Bridge: Harold of England defeats Harald of Norway |
| | 1143 | Election of Guido del Casetllo as Pope as Celestine II (1143-1144) |
| | 1396 | Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bayazid I defeats Crusaders |
| | 1493 | Columbus begins his second voyage to the New World |
| | 1526 | Battle of Governolo: Italians under Giovanni degli Bande Nere defeat the Imperialists |
| | 1555 | Peace of Augsburg: truce in Protestant-Catholic tensions in the HRE |
| | 1598 | Battle of Stangebro: Swedes defeat King Sigismund, ending union with Poland |
| | 1839 | France recognizes the Republic of Texas |
| | 1846 | Zachary Taylor's army occupies Monterrey, Mexico |
| | 1857 | Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram |
| | 1861 | Combat at Chapmansville, WVa |
| | 1861 | SecNav Welles authorizes the enlistment of former slaves |
| | 1911 | French battleship Liberte blows up at Toulon, 226 die |
| | 1937 | Mussolini visits Berlin |
| | 1939 | German Luftwaffe fire bombs Warsaw |
| | 1940 | Vidkun Quisling establishes a quisling-government in Norway |
| | 1942 | Australian troops open an offensive along the Kokoda Trail |
| | 1957 | Little Rock: 300 troops escort nine black students to Central High School |
| | 1983 | Mass escape of 38 IRA prisoners from a British prison near Belfast |
| | 1987 | Fiji: Maj Gen Sitiveni Rabuka's second coup |
| | 2002 | Islamist gunmen kill 7 Christians in Karachi, Pakistan |
| 26 | 266 | BC Triumph of D. Iunius Pera for defeat of the Umbrians |
| | 1371 | Battle of the Maritsa: Turks defeat the Serbs |
| | 1396 | Sultan Bajezid I beheads hundreds of Crusaders |
| | 1414 | King Henry V prohibits the export of gunpowder from England |
| | 1527 | Battle of Tokay: Archduke Ferdinand of Hapsburg defeats King John Zapolya of Hungary |
| | 1575 | Cervantes is captured by Algerine pirates & held for ransom |
| | 1580 | Sir Francis Drake's 34 month circumnavigation ends at Plymouth |
| | 1687 | The Parthenon is partially destroyed during the Venetian siege of Turkish-held Athens |
| | 1777 | British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution |
| | 1781 | First Royal visit to America: Pr. William Henry [later King William IV], a Royal Navy officer, arrives at New York with the British fleet during the Revolution |
| | 1799 | Second Battle of Zurich: French defeat the Austro-Russians |
| | 1815 | Prussia, Russia, & Austria form the "Holy Alliance" to suppress liberalism |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Lucas Bend, Ky |
| | 1918 | US begins Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germans |
| | 1918 | USCGC Tampa lost at sea with 118 men, probably to a German submarine |
| | 1925 | Italian submarine Sebastiano Veniero lost off Sicily, 54 die |
| | 1940 | Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China |
| | 1941 | Nazis initiate murder of about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, near Kiev |
| | 1943 | Japanese TB Kasasagi sunk off Flores, Netherlands East Indies |
| | 1950 | UN troops liberate Seoul |
| | 1953 | Polish communist government arrests Cardinal Wyszynski |
| | 1953 | US and Spain sign a mutual defense treaty |
| | 1989 | Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia |
| 27 | 1130 | Pope Innocent II grants Sicily to Count Ruggero II of Calabria, when he conquers it |
| | 1414 | Gaeta concludes an armistice with Count Giacomo of Fondi |
| | 1540 | Pope Paul III approves the formation of the Society of Jesus |
| | 1604 | Battle of Kircholm: Poles defeat Charles IX of Sweden |
| | 1777 | Battle of Germantown: Washington is defeated by the British in a close fight |
| | 1779 | John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain |
| | 1810 | Battle of Busaco: Wellesley's Anglo-Portuguese defeat the French |
| | 1821 | Mexico attains independence |
| | 1863 | Cavalry action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas |
| | 1864 | Centralia Massacre: “Bloody Bill” Anderson’s Rebel partisans massacre Union prisoners |
| | 1866 | “Empress” Carlotta of Mexico meets with Pope Pius IX, but fails to secure his support for her husband Maximilian, but does get to spend the night in the Vatican palace |
| | 1923 | Italian troops evacuate Corfu |
| | 1935 | Typhoon hits Japanese fleet during maneuvers, 52 die |
| | 1936 | Spanish Nationalists lift the siege of the Alcazar of Toledo |
| | 1938 | Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany |
| | 1938 | League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor in "China Incident" |
| | 1939 | Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance |
| | 1940 | Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces |
| | 1940 | Tripartite Pact: Nazi Germany, Italy, & Japan sign a formal alliance |
| | 1942 | Japanese aircraft bomb Marine positions on Guadalcanal. |
| | 1942 | Papua: Japanese fall back from Ioribaiwa on the Kokoda Trail. |
| | 1944 | US Nurse Reba Tobiason is captured by Germans near Aachen – is later exchanged |
| | 1957 | The end of the world |
| | 1962 | US sells Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel |
| | 1991 | Pres GHW Bush ends full-time airborne B-52 bomber alert |
| | 1996 | The Taliban capture Kabul, installing an Islamist theocracy in Afghanistan |
| 28 | 61 | BC First day of Pompey’s Third Triumph: For the defeat of Mithridates |
| | 1066 | William the Conqueror lands in England, with about 10,000 friends |
| | 1238 | Jaime I of Aragon liberates Valencia from the Moors |
| | 1238 | King James of Aragon liberates Valencia from the Moors |
| | 1322 | Battle of Muhldorf: Duke Frederick von Hapsburg of Austria is defeated by his rival for the German crown, Duke Louis IV of Bavaria |
| | 1484 | Condottiero Obbietto Fieschi captures Bosco di Corniglio |
| | 1687 | The Turks surrender Athens to the Venetians |
| | 1745 | Battle of Bassignana: The French & Spanish defeat the Piedmontese |
| | 1781 | Siege of Yorktown begins: last major battle of the Revolutionary War |
| | 1806 | French defeat Fra Diavolo near Itri |
| | 1822 | US Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels in the Caribbean |
| | 1823 | Annibale della Genga elected Pope as Leo XII (1723-1729) |
| | 1850 | Congress outlaws flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine |
| | 1864 | Battle of Fort Harrison/Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights (ends 30th) |
| | 1868 | Battle of Alcolea: Queen Isabella II of Spain flees to France |
| | 1868 | Opelousa Massacre, St Landry Parish, Louisiana: 200 blacks killed by white supremacists |
| | 1871 | Chochise and the Chiricahua Apache make peace |
| | 1889 | Carlos I crowned King of Portugal (1889-1908) |
| | 1901 | Balangiga, Samar: 48 of 78 men of Co. C., 9th Inf, killed by Filipino insurgents |
| | 1906 | US troops occupy Cuba, stay until 1909 |
| | 1914 | Germans occupy Antwerp, as Anglo-Belgian troops withdraw |
| | 1918 | Pte Henry Tandey fails to kill Adolf Hitler, while earning a VC near Marcoing |
| | 1919 | Pres Wilson has a stroke |
| | 1922 | Fascist "March on Rome" |
| | 1923 | US Navy aircraft take first and second places in the Schneider Cup Race |
| | 1924 | Two US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops |
| | 1943 | Japanese minelayer Hoko is sunk east of Buka by U.S. Army aircraft |
| | 1944 | Burma: British XV Corps resumes the offensive in the Arakan |
| | 1944 | SS-Maj Reder supervises mass murders at Marzabotto, Italy |
| 29 | 0 | Feast of St Michael the Archangel, Patron of Soldiers & of St Gabriel the Archangel, Patron of Diplomats and Signalmen |
| | 61 | BC Second Day of Pompey’s Third Triumph: for the defeat of the Pirates |
| | 440 | Consecration of Pope Leo I “The Great” (440-461), later canonized |
| | 855 | Consecration of Pope Benedict III (855-859) |
| | 1096 | Xerigordon [Nicaea], invested on the 21st, falls to the Seljuks, who slaughter all who refuse to convert to Islam |
| | 1106 | Battle of Tinchebrai: King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert. |
| | 1187 | Saladin captures Jerusalem |
| | 1259 | Battle of Cassano d’Adda: Ezzelino da Romano is captured by his numerous enemies |
| | 1349 | Jews of Krems, Austria, accused of poisoning wells |
| | 1364 | Battle of Auray: Anglo-Bretons defeat the Franco-Bretons |
| | 1399 | Richard II is coerced into abdicating in favor of his cousin Henry IV |
| | 1744 | Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo: The Spanish defeat the Piedmontese |
| | 1813 | William Henry Harrison recaptures Detroit from the British |
| | 1860 | Ancona surrenders to the Piedmontese |
| | 1861 | Skirmish at Munson's Hill, Va: 69th Pa accidentally fires on the 71st Pa, 9 die |
| | 1864 | Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights, Va |
| | 1872 | Kiowa chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree |
| | 1918 | NY’s 27th Div makes a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line at the San Quintin Tunnel |
| | 1961 | Syria secedes from the UAR |
| | 1962 | JFK authorizes use of federal troops to integrate Ole Miss |
| | 1988 | UN Peacekeepers win the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 30 | 489 | Battle of Verona: King Odoacer of Italy defeated by Theodoric the Ostrogoth |
| | 1158 | Battle of Galloway: Roland defeats Gilcolm |
| | 1399 | King Richard II of England abdicates, under pressure |
| | 1659 | Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked, fictionally |
| | 1691 | The French capture Strassbourg |
| | 1707 | Austrians take Gaeta from the Spanish by storm |
| | 1745 | Battle of Soor: Prussians defeat the Austrians |
| | 1777 | Congress flees to York as the British advance in Pennsylvania |
| | 1787 | Ship Columbia leaves Boston to begin America’s first round-the-world voyage (returns three years later) |
| | 1797 | The Neapolitan Army libertes Rome from the French |
| | 1835 | Battle of Gonzales: Texians rout Mexicans, touching off Texas Revolution |
| | 1857 | US annexes Sand, Baker, Howland, & Jarvis Is, south of Hawaii |
| | 1862 | Battle of Newtonia, Ms |
| | 1864 | Battle of Preble's Farm/Poplar Springs Church, Va, |
| | 1867 | Midway Island formally declared a US possession |
| | 1899 | Tumultuous reception in New York for Admiral of the Navy George Dewey |
| | 1914 | The Army disbands the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, after 44 years of service |
| | 1936 | USS Brooklyn (CL-40) commissioned, in Brooklyn (where else?) |
| | 1938 | Munich Agreement: Czechoslovakia surrenders Sudetenland to Germany |
| | 1942 | Japanese make their first airstrike against Adak, in the Aleutians. |
| | 1944 | Calais liberated by Allies |
| | 1946 | Judgement at Nuremberg: 22 Nazi leaders found guilty |
| | 1949 | Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights |
| | 1949 | US officially disbands the Philippine Scouts |
| | 1951 | USS Monitor, sunk Dec 31, 1862, formally declared "out of commission" |
| | 1954 | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) is commissioned |
| | 1966 | Nazi war criminals Albert Speer & Baldur von Schirach released from Spandau prison after 20-years |
| | 1993 | Chairman of the JCS Gen. Colin Powell retires |
