| 0 | | Feast of St. Marianne of Molokai, Patron of Hawaii, and of Lepers, those with HIV/AIDS, and Outcasts |
| 0 | | Bounty Day in the Pitcairn Islands |
| 393 | | the Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaimed his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor -- Learn More |
| 635 | | Arabs capture Pella (Tabaqat Fahl, Jordan) from the Byzantines |
| 971 | | the Southern Han, despite having war elephants, were defeated by Song crossbowmen in the Battle of Shao |
| 1565 | | Battle of Talkota: The Moslem Deccans defeat the Hindu Vijayanagar |
| 1640 | | Accession of King Garcia II of Kongo (1640-1661) |
| 1643 | | Sir Thomas Fairfax's Parliamentarians take Leeds from the Royalists |
| 1668 | | England, Netherlands, & Sweden sign the 'Triple Alliance' against France |
| 1781 | | The 74 gun ship-of-the-line HMS 'Culloden' grounds in a storm on Montauk Point, Long I., NY, and is a constructive total loss, but there are no casualties |
| 1790 | | the Mutineers burn HMS 'Bounty' at Pitcairn's Is |
| 1793 | | Prussia & Russia effect the Second Partition of Poland |
| 1865 | | Battle of Fort Brady/Trent's Reach, Va: Confederate ironclads begin a two day bombardment of Union lines on the James River, withdrawing on the 25th |
| 1870 | | The "Marias Massacre": 173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed by US Army in Montana |
| 1900 | | Battle of Spion Kop: Boers defeat the British; Winston Chruchill & Mohandas Gandhi are both present, but do not meet |
| 1904 | | Great Fire of Ålesund, Norway: 10,000 people left homeless, though only one death |
| 1913 | | Coup by Enver Pasha restores the Young Turks to power in Constantinople, pledged to renew the Balkan War |
| 1920 | | The Netherlands refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Allies |
| 1928 | | "Adventures of Good Soldier Schveik" premiers in Berlin |
| 1932 | | El Salvador's army kills 4,000 protesting farmers |
| 1937 | | Stalin's first "Purge Trial": Karl Radek & 16 others tried & shot. |
| 1940 | | Ignace Paderewski named premier of the Polish govt-in-exile |
| 1941 | | Charles Lindbergh called upon Congress to conclude a non-aggression pact with Hitler -- Learn More |
| 1942 | | Bataan: Japanese land in the rear at Quinauan and Longoskayan Points, as Fil-Am troops fall back from the main line |
| 1942 | | Burma: Japanese cross the Sittang River, as 17th Ind Div collapses |
| 1942 | | Malaya: another Indian brigade arrives at Singapore, as the Johore line crumbles |
| 1942 | | Battle of Balikpapan: Nocturnal U.S DD and Dutch sub attack on Japanese shipping, six transports sunk |
| 1943 | | British Eighth Army captures Tripoli |
| 1943 | | FDR & Churchill set "unconditional surrender" of the Axis as the Allied war aim, at Casablanca -- Learn More |
| 1943 | | Guadalcanal: the CAM Div overruns Kokumbona, as the USN bombards Japanese positions |
| 1944 | | Burma: Americans insist Chinese commit their strategic reserve |
| 1958 | | Venezuelan Dictator/President Marcos Perez Jiménez (1952-1958) flees |
| 1960 | | Bathyscaph 'Trieste' reaches the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest place in the ocean, at 10.91 km/6.78 mi |
| 1962 | | Kim Philby, long-term spy in Britain, defects to the USSR |
| 1968 | | North Koreans capture USS 'Pueblo' & 83 crew in the East Sea/Sea of Japan |