| 0 | | Feast of St. Bessus, Protector of Soldiers, and that of St. Laurence of Rome, Patron of Firefighters |
| 0 | | Air Force Day in Argentina |
| 70 | | Roman troops under Titus burn the Jewish Second Temple [Alt] |
| 654 | | Election of Pope St. Eugene I (654-657) |
| 991 | | On this date in AD 991 the Anglo-Saxons claimed victory in the Battle of Maldon, but the Danes, their opponents, claimed they'd won |
| 1290 | | King Alfonso III of Aragon and Valencia accepted Muhammad Abenadalill as his vassal -- Learn More |
| 1405 | | Battle of Haverfordwest: French defeat the English in Wales |
| 1461 | | Bishop Alfonso de Espina of Osma urges an Inquisition in Spain |
| 1487 | | Battle of Calliano: The Hapsburgs defeat the Venetians |
| 1557 | | Battle of Saint-Quentin: Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy's outnumbered Hispano-Dutch army crushes the French under the Duc de Montmorency |
| 1644 | | The Battle of Freiburg: The French capture the town from the HRE |
| 1680 | | The Pueblo Indians revolt against Spanish rule |
| 1792 | | Revolutionaries topple the statue of Louis XIV in the Place Vendome, as 600 Swiss Guardsmen, refusing a Royal order to surrender, die at the hands of the mob |
| 1861 | | Battle of Wilson's Creek/Springfield, Mo: Confederate Victory |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Potosi, Mo |
| 1862 | | Confederate Texas Rangers & militia slaughtered several dozen German settlers trying to flee to Mexico in the "Battle" of the Nueces River |
| 1869 | | Battle of Caraguatay: Brazilians defeat Francisco Lopez de Solano's Paraguayans |
| 1898 | | Battle of Hormigueras, PR: US troops ambush the Spanish; c. 145 Sp, 20 US casualties |
| 1904 | | Togo Heihachiro's Japanese fleet defeated a Russian squadron in the Battle of the Yellow Sea -- Learn More |
| 1910 | | the keel of the Italian battleship 'Conti di Cavour' was laid -- Learn More |
| 1913 | | Treaty of Bucharest: Serbia, Greece, and Romania impose a harsh peace on Bulgaria, which still remains at war with the Ottoman Empire |
| 1916 | | Turks annex the Persian city of Hamadan from Russia |
| 1918 | | SGT Alvin York captured "the whole damned German Army" -- Learn More |
| 1919 | | Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia |
| 1920 | | The Allies recognize the independence of Poland and Czechoslovakia |
| 1920 | | Treaty of San Sevres between the Allies and Turkey |
| 1921 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Marines go on 2/3rds rations. |
| 1942 | | North Africa: B. L. Montgomery assumes command of the British Eighth Army |
| 1942 | | Papua: Aussie Maroubra Force (c. 500) attacks along the Kokoda Trail |
| 1942 | | USS 'S-44' (SS-155) sinks Japanese heavy cruiser 'Kako' off Rabaul. |
| 1943 | | New Georgia: surviving Japanese troops flee into the interior. |
| 1943 | | Patton slaps Pvt Paul G. Bennett, 17th Field Artillery Battalion, at the 90th Evac Hospital, Santo Stefano, Sicily |
| 1944 | | Guam: Organized Japanese resistance ends |
| 1945 | | Japan says it will surrender if the status of the emperor is unchanged |
| 1945 | | Japan's War Minister urges officers to obey Imperial orders. |
| 1945 | | Third Fleet aircraft raid northern Honshu and Hokkaido |
| 1970 | | McSorley's Old Ale House admitted women for the first time in 116 years |
| 1988 | | Japanese-Americans interned during WW II are awarded $20,000 each |