| 0 | | U.S. Coast Guard Day -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint Aristarchus of Thessalonica, Companion of St. Paul, Martyr |
| 70 | | Destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans [Alt] |
| 1135 | | The Pisans sack Amalfi |
| 1265 | | Battle of Evesham: Prince Edward [later King Edward I] defeats Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, to end the 2nd Baron's War |
| 1347 | | English troops capture Calais |
| 1578 | | "Battle of the Three Kings" - Wadi Al-makhazin: the Moroccans defeat Portuguese invaders & a local usurper |
| 1645 | | Battle of Nordlingen: French defeat the Imperialists |
| 1693 | | Dom Perignon allegedly invents champagne |
| 1735 | | Journalist John Peter Zenger cleared of slander charges in New York |
| 1753 | | George Washington becomes a Master Mason |
| 1846 | | USS 'Congress' captures Santa Barbara, Ca |
| 1870 | | Battle of Weissenburg: Prussians defeat the French |
| 1892 | | Lizzie Borden " . . . took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41 . . . ." |
| 1900 | | Battle of Elands River: 400 Australians defeat 2,500 Boers |
| 1903 | | Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope as Pius X (1903-1914), later canonized |
| 1914 | | Denmark declares neutrality in the First World War |
| 1914 | | Siegfried Sassoon enlists in the Sussex Yeomanry -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | Great Britain comes to the defense of Belgium in conformity with treaty obligations, without a formal declaration of war against Germany |
| 1914 | | Germany invades Belgium without a declration of war, investing Liege |
| 1916 | | US agrees to buy the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million |
| 1917 | | Pravda calls for killing of capitalists, priests, & officers |
| 1917 | | US takes title to the Virgin Islands from Denmark |
| 1918 | | Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, for delivering messages under fire, on the recommendation of Lt. Hugo Gutmann, a Jewish officer |
| 1918 | | During a German raid on 82nd Div lines, YMCA worker Bernetta Miller walks the trenches handing out hot chocolate, cake, and cigarettes, earning a mention in dispatches. |
| 1927 | | Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened |
| 1929 | | 60,000 Nazi Storm Troopers march in Munich |
| 1936 | | Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece (1936-1941) |
| 1939 | | HM Australian cruiser 'Perth' arrives at New York to help celebrate the World's Fair -- Learn More |
| 1942 | | G. C. Kenney takes command of Allied AF SW Pacific, under MacArthur. |
| 1942 | | USS 'Tucker' (DD 374) is mined and sunk at Espiritu Santo. |
| 1943 | | Kiska: USAAF bombers drop 152 tons of bombs |
| 1943 | | Munda, New Georgia: U.S. troops close in on Japanese airfield. |
| 1944 | | Anne Frank and her family are betrayed to the Nazis |
| 1944 | | Burma: Chinese troops finally break into Teng-chung on the Salween. |
| 1944 | | Guam: Army and Marine forces cut Japanese defenders into two groups. |
| 1944 | | T. D. Dean, RAF, scores the first V-1, by "tipping" its wing |
| 1964 | | Gulf of Tonkin: US DDs report second attack by North Vietnamese PT boats |
| 2005 | | The USS 'New York' (LPD-21) receives her bow section, with 24 tons of steel from the World Trade Center, during construction in Louisiana |
| 1136 | | Count Umberto III "the Blessed" of Savoy (1148-1188), 52 |
| 1521 | | Giambattista Castagna - Pope Urban VII (15-27 Sep 1590) |
| 1610 | | Johan Evertsen the Elder, Admiral of Zeeland, d. 1666 |
| 1727 | | Vicomte Victor-Maurice de Broglie, 80, Marshal of France |
| 1790 | | The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, later the USCG |
| 1816 | | Israel Vogdes, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1889 |
| 1818 | | Lovell Harrison Rousseau, Maj Gen, U.S.. d. 1869 |
| 1859 | | Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920, prominent Nazi sympathizer, d. 1952. |
| 1873 | | Dámaso Berenguer y Fusté, Count of Xauen, Spanish general and historian, d. 1953 |
| 1912 | | Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat, one of the Righteous, honorary American, d. 1947 |
| 1918 | | Brian Crozier, historian and biographer ("Franco", etc.), d. 2012 |
| 1961 | | Barak Obama, President (2009-) |
| 946 | | Pope Martin III (942-946) |
| 966 | | Berengar of Ivrea, c. 66, King Berengar II of Italy (950-961), a prisoner of HRE Otto the Great |
| 1060 | | King Henry I of France (1027-1060), at 52 |
| 1265 | | Simon de Montfort (57), 6th Earl of Leicester, founder of Parliament, his son Henry (27), and his kinsmen Guy Balliol, Humphrey Bohun, & William Arundel, all kia, Eversham |
| 1306 | | Wenceslaus III Premyslid, 16, King of Hungary (1301-1305), of Bohemia (1305-1306), and of Poland (1305-1306). stabbed at Olmutz |
| 1430 | | Philip of Saint-Pol, 26, Duke of Brabant (1327-1430) |
| 1477 | | Jacques d'Armagnac, c. 44 Duke de Nemours (1462-1477), beheaded by Louis XI |
| 1526 | | Juan Sebastián Elcano, c. 40, first man to circumnavigate the globe |
| 1571 | | Astorre Baglioni, c. 45, condottiero, kia, Famagusta, Cyprus |
| 1578 | | Sultan Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I of Fez (1576-1578), his enemy the deposed Sultan Abu Abdallah Mohammed II (1574-1576), and the latter's ally King Sebastian of Portugal (1557-178), all kia |
| 1804 | | Adam Duncan, 73, 1st Viscount Duncan, admiral, victor of Camperdown -- Learn More |
| 1870 | | French General de Division Charles Abel Douay, 61, killed in action at Wissembourg at -- Learn More |
| 1922 | | Enver Pasha, "Young Turk," kia, Turkestan, at 41 |
| 1976 | | Enrique Ángel Angelelli, 53, Catholic clergyman, Bishop of of La Rioja (1968-1976), murdered by the Argentine military junta |
| 1999 | | Victor Mature, Coastguardsman, actor ("Demetrius and the Gladiators"), at 84 Learn More |
| 2012 | | Brian Crozier, on his 94th birthday, historian and biographer ("Franco", etc.) |
| 2013 | | Adm. John Woodward, RN, 81, who led the liberation of the Falklands in 1982 |
| 2015 | | John Leslie Munro, 96, last surviving "Dam Buster" pilot |