| 0 | | Battle of Britain Day |
| 0 | | Feast of San Mamiliano di Palermo, Patron of Isola del Giglio |
| 1054 | | Battle of Atapuerca: Leon-Castile defeats Navarre |
| 1448 | | Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeated the Venetians at Caravaggio -- Learn More |
| 1590 | | Giambattista Castagna elected Pope as Urban VII (15 Sep-27 Sep 1590) |
| 1596 | | The Earl of Essex sacks Cadiz |
| 1631 | | Imperial troops under Tilly take Leipzig |
| 1644 | | Giambattista Pamfili elected Pope as Innocent X (1644-1655) |
| 1694 | | Venetians captured Chios from the Turks |
| 1776 | | the British made an amphibious assault at Kip's Bay, Manhattan (East River & 34th St) -- Learn More |
| 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 |
| 1918 | | Cpl Lee Duncan, US 135th Aero Sqn, found some German shepherd pups in a German army kennel near Toul in France, one of whom became Rin Tin Tin |
| 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 | | the Luftwaffe lost 78 aircraft destroyed or severely damaged, and nearly 200 airmen killed, wounded, or missing over Britain, to the RAF’s 50 aircraft, c. 30 airmen -- https://strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic322b.asp#two |
| 1940 | | Hitler cancelled Operation Sea Lion, about a week before the expected D-Day -- Learn More |
| 1940 | | the National Guard began entering Federal service for the “limited national emergency’ caused by WW II -- Learn More |
| 1941 | | the U.S. Army began extensive maneuvers in Louisiana -- Learn More |
| 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' (CV-7) torpedoed and sunk off Guadalcanal |
| 1943 | | Germans open camps at Chew, Lithuania, & Vaivara, 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 bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church, in Birmingham, killing four children |
| 1990 | | France announces it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |