| 0 | | Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church and Patron of Native Americans, Brazil, the shipwrecked, and a flock of other things |
| 313 | | The Roman Emperors Licinius & Constantine I issued the "Edict of Milan" declaring toleration of Christianity -- Learn More |
| 1003 | | Consecration of Pope John XVII [XVIII] (13 June-6 Nov 1003) |
| 1275 | | Battle of San Procolo: The Montefeltri defeat the Bolognese |
| 1373 | | Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the world's oldest, signed |
| 1665 | | Naval Battle of Lowescroft: The Duke of York (later James II) inflicts a decisive defeat on the Dutch |
| 1667 | | The Dutch fleet burns three more English ships-of-the-line in the Medway |
| 1777 | | Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de La Fayette (19) and other French volunteers for the American Revolution land at Charleston |
| 1863 | | Gettysburg Campaign: Battle of Winchester, Va |
| 1871 | | US marines and bluejackets land on Formosa to punish the Botansha tribe for depredations against shipwreck sailors. |
| 1881 | | USS 'Jeannette' crushed in Arctic ice |
| 1898 | | Action at Havana: US ships and Spanish batteries exchange fire |
| 1900 | | The "Boxer Rebellion" begins in China |
| 1912 | | First successful parachute jump from an airplane, Capt Albert Berry, Jefferson, Ms |
| 1917 | | Major German bomber raid on London's East End, 162 die, including 18 children at the Upper North Street School |
| 1927 | | Ticker tape parade up Broadway for Charles Lindbergh. |
| 1940 | | Uruguay arrests local Nazis for plotting a coup |
| 1941 | | DCNO report on the Nov 11, 1940, British air raid on the Italian Fleet at Taranto is distributed to senior naval personnel, including CINCUS Husband Kimmel |
| 1942 | | Peenemunde: 1st V-2 rocket reaches 1.3 km |
| 1944 | | First V-1 raid: one of ten missiles fired strikes London, 6 die |
| 1946 | | King Umberto II of Italy abdicates, after a reign of about six weeks |
| 1951 | | UN forces reach Pyongyang, Korea |
| 1952 | | Soviet fighters down Swedish DC-3 over the Baltic, 8 die |
| 0 | BC | Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom and war |
| 40 | | Caius Julius Agricola, Roman general, conqueror of the Iceni, father-in-law of Tacitus, d. 93 |
| 823 | | King Charles II of France (843-77), Holy Roman Emperor (875-77) |
| 839 | | Charles III "the Fat," King of East Francia (882-888), of West Francia (884-888), etc., deposed 888, dies a few weeks later |
| 1786 | | Winfield "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott, Bvt. Lt. Gen., US, d. 1866 -- greatest American soldier of the nineteenth century |
| 1790 | | José Antonio Páez Herrera, hero of Venezuelan Independence, Pres. (1830-1835, 1839-1843, 1861-1863), d. 1873 -- Learn More |
| 1809 | | Philip St George Cooke, Brig. Gen., U.S., d. 1895 |
| 1821 | | Gustavus Vasa Fox, greatest Asst SecNavy, d. 1883 |
| 1823 | | Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brig. Gen., U.S., d. 1900 |
| 1825 | | Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brig. Gen., C.S.A., d. 1880 |
| 1892 | | Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, sometime captain, Liverpool Scottish (MC), Anglo-American actor (Sherlock Holmes, etc.), d. 1967 |
| 323 | BC | King Alexander III "the Great" of Macedon (336-323), noted conqueror & drunkard, at 32 [or 21st], and his critic Diogenes the Cynic, noted Cynic, at about 90 |
| 1142 | | Duke Godfried/Godfrey II (1139-1142) of Leuven, Brabant, and Lorraine, c. 32 |
| 1231 | | St. Anthony of Padua, c. 35 |
| 1645 | | Miyamoto Musashi, c. 60-61, Japanese samurai, author (" The Book of Five Rings", "The Mirror of the Way of Strategy") |
| 1665 | | Jacob, Banner Lord of Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam, Hensbroek, Spanbroek, Opmeer, Zuidwijk, and Kernhem, Dutch Admiral, c. 55, with many others when his flagship blows up in the Battle of Lowestoft |
| 1886 | | King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1864-1886), called "Mad," patron of Wagner, drowned under curious circumstances at 40 |
| 1905 | | Theodoros Deligiannis, five times premier of Greece, murdered at 85 |
| 1993 | | Donald "Deke" K Slayton, astronaut (Apollo 13 & Apollo-Soyuz missions), at 69 |