| 0 | | Feast of Pope St. Damasus I, Patron of Archaeologists |
| 308 | | Licinius became Roman co-Emperor (308-324), executed 325 -- Learn More |
| 1282 | | Battle of Orewyn Bridge: King Edward I defeats Pr. Llewellyn of Gwynedd |
| 1572 | | Spanish besiege Haarlem, Netherlands (falls July 12, 1573) |
| 1602 | | Genevans surprise & defeat Savoyard-Spanish invaders |
| 1710 | | Battle of Villa Viciosa: Borbonist Franco-Spanish forces defeat pro-Habsburg forces, insuring the Borbonist succession to the Spanish throne |
| 1792 | | Trial of "Citizen Capet", formerly King Louis XVI, for treason |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Bertrand, Mo |
| 1898 | | Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand's French column abandons Fashoda, Sudan (held since July) |
| 1899 | | Magersfontein, Second Battle of "Black Week": the Boers defeat a British attempt to capture Kimberly, inflicting heavy casualties |
| 1903 | | British invade Tibet |
| 1917 | | German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
| 1917 | | General Sir Edmund Allenby formally entered Jerusalem, on foot -- Learn More |
| 1936 | | King Edward VIII of the UK (Jan. 20 - Dec. 11, 1936) abdicates in favor of his brother, who becomes George VI (1936-1952) |
| 1937 | | Italy withdraws from League of Nations |
| 1941 | | Germany and Italy declare war on the United States |
| 1941 | | Marines beat off a Japanese landing on Wake, inflicting heavy losses, sinking destroyers 'Hayate' and 'Kisaragi' [Due to the Int'l Date Line, this is the 10th, Pearl Harbor time]. |
| 1941 | | the America First Committee disbanded -- Learn More |
| 1941 | | US submarines commence war patrols against Japanese shipping |
| 1942 | | Burma: 14th Indian Div advances slowly in the Arakan |
| 1942 | | Japanese reinforce Guadalcanal, losing one destroyer to PT-boat attacks |
| 1942 | | U.S. aircraft bomb Munda |
| 1943 | | British & US air forces in SE Asia form Far Eastern Air Command |
| 1944 | | U.S. forces capture Ormoc, Japanese main supply dump on Leyte |
| 1945 | | Adm. William F. Halsey was promoted to five star rank as a Fleet Admiral -- Learn More |
| 1946 | | UNICEF formed |
| 1954 | | USS 'Forrestal' (CV-59) christened in Newport News, Va |
| 1960 | | Black Sunday: Anti-French Riot in Algiers, 114 die |
| 1961 | | JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam |
| 1964 | | While Che Guerara is speaking at the UN, a mortar round strikes the building, in an unresolved terrorist attack |
| 1972 | | Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed on the moon, as Ronald Evans remained in orbit; lift off was on the 14th. |
| 1974 | | Puerto Rican nationalists detonate a bomb in New York, one injured. |
| 1988 | | Fireworks cache explodes in Mexico City, 62 die |
| 2007 | | Terrorist attack in Algiers: Car bombs at the Constitution Court and UN office, c. 45 dead |
| 1465 | | Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Ashikaga Shogun of Japan (1473-1489), d. on campaign |
| 1475 | | Giovanni de'Medici - Pope Leo X (1513-1521), son of Il Magnifico |
| 1797 | | Hiram Paulding, Rear Adm., U.S., d. 1878 |
| 1830 | | King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (1863-1872), dies this date in 1872 |
| 1882 | | Fiorello La Guardia, bomber pilot, aviation entrepreneur, Mayor of NYC (1934-1945), d. 1947 |
| 1918 | | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, sometime Red Army major, Soviet dissident, author ("The GULAG Archipelago"), d. 2008 |
| 385 | | Pope St. Damasus I (366-384) |
| 711 | | Byzantine Emperor Justinian II "Rhinotmetos -- cut-nose," c. 42 (r. 685-695, deposed and his nose slit, and 705-711). |
| 1241 | | Mongol Emperor Ogedei Khan (1229-1241), c. 55 |
| 1282 | | Michael VIII Palaeologus, c. 68, Byzantine Emperor (1259-1282), |
| 1416 | | Giovanni Cenci, Governor of Rome, assassinated. |
| 1582 | | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alva, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1567-1573), 75, Spanish general who never lost a battle, at Lisbon |
| 1658 | | Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, 28, bastard of Christian IV of Denmark, Danish general and commander-in-chief, kia defending Cohenhagen from the Swedes |
| 1673 | | Esprit de Raymond de Mormoiron, 65, Baron de Modène, French soldier and statesman |
| 1694 | | Duke Ranuccio II Farnese of Parma (1646-1694), who lost the Castro War, at 64 -- Learn More |
| 1718 | | King Charles XII of Sweden (1697-1718), 36, of wounds during a siege |
| 1756 | | Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff, 63, sometime King of Corsica (1736-1738), in London, |
| 1941 | | Yank RCAF Pilot John Magee, Jr, author ("High Flight"), flight accident at 19 |
| 2016 | | John "Jock" Moffat, 97, sometime Royal Navy aviator, pilot of the Swordfish that put a torpedo into the 'Bismarck' |