| 477 | BC | Battle of the Cremera: The gens Fabius is virtually wiped out by the Veientines |
| 387 | BC | Battle of the Allia: Brennus' Gauls defeat the Romans (or maybe 390) |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Camillo de Lellis, Patron of Military Surgeons |
| 64 | | Great Fire of Rome begins, at which Nero didn't fiddle |
| 1185 | | Battle of Alarcos: Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur defeats King Alfonso VIII of Castile |
| 1536 | | Henry VIII declares papal authority void in England, so he can divorce his wife |
| 1630 | | Spanish-Imperial troops storm Mantua amid great slaughter |
| 1716 | | Jews are expelled from Brussels, Belgium |
| 1775 | | Congress authorizes each colony to provide armed ships of war |
| 1779 | | US Commo Abraham Whipple's squadron takes 11 British prizes |
| 1806 | | Gaeta surrenders to the French, after a five month siege -- Learn More |
| 1812 | | Treaty of Orebro: Ends the Anglo-Swedish War of 1810-1812 (in which no hostilities actually took place) and allies the two countries and Russia against Napoleon |
| 1813 | | US Frigate 'President' captures 4 British ships. |
| 1814 | | British capture Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin |
| 1861 | | Bull Run Campaign: Combat at Blackburn's Ford, Va |
| 1863 | | Cavalry skirmish near Columbus, Ga |
| 1863 | | The 54th Massachusetts leads a gallant attempt to storm Fort Wagner, near Charleston |
| 1898 | | Naval Acton of Manzanillo, Cuba: US and Spanish light forces skirmish |
| 1907 | | French troops attack Casablanca |
| 1914 | | The British Royal Navy extends an invitation to the German Imperial Navy to take part in a fleet week in August [see June 24] |
| 1915 | | Second Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Aug 3) |
| 1918 | | US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive |
| 1920 | | US naval aircraft sink ex-German cruiser 'Frankfurt' during target practice. |
| 1925 | | "Mein Kampf" is published, and sells badly, until 1930, when it begins to top the charts |
| 1941 | | SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia |
| 1942 | | Maiden flight of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter |
| 1943 | | German U-boat downs 'K-47', the only US airship lost to enemy action in WW II |
| 1944 | | Kuniaki Koiso forms new Japanese government, with the same old policies. |
| 1944 | | US troops capture St. Lo, Normandy |
| 1945 | | Australian troops take the Sambodja oil fields in Borneo. |
| 1994 | | Arab terrorist car bomb detonates at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, 96 die |
| 1552 | | Rudolf von Hapsburg, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1576-1612), King Rudolf of Hungary (1572-1608), King Rudolf II of Bohemia (1575-1608/1611), Archduke Rudolf V (1576-1608) |
| 1787 | | Ichabod Crane, Col., U.S., d. 1857, still on active duty -- Learn More |
| 1823 | | Leonard Fulton Ross, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1901 |
| 1837 | | Vasil Levski (born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev), 35, Bulgarian national hero, executed by the Ottomans, 1872 |
| 1862 | | Napoleon V Bonaparte, pretender to the throne of France, d. 1926 |
| 1874 | | Charles William St. John Burgess, later Cathal Brugha , Irish nationalist and Easter Rebellion veteran, First President of the Irish Parliament, d. 1922) |
| 1887 | | Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian quisling, executed 1945 |
| 1914 | | US Army Air Service, in the the Signal Corps |
| 1918 | | Count Alfonso Casati, kia, 1944, earning a Medaglia d'Oro with the San Marco Regiment |
| 1921 | | John H Glenn Jr, Marine airman, astronaut, senator, d. 2016 |
| 715 | | ‘Imad ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qasim ath-Thaqafi, 49, general who extended the Ummayad Califate to the Indus |
| 912 | | Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (907-912), 52, born Zhu Wen, and later known as Zhu Quanzhong and Zhu Huang |
| 1100 | | Geoffrey, 50, Count of Bouillon (1076-1100), Duke of Lorraine (1087-1100), Protector of Jerusalem (1099-1100), leader of the First Crusade |
| 1608 | | Joachim III Frederick of Brandenburg, at 61 |
| 1610 | | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 38, artist, brawler, murderer |
| 1639 | | Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Imperial general, at 35 |
| 1642 | | Count Willem of Nassau-Siegen |
| 1730 | | François de Neufville, 2nd duc de Villeroi, Marshal of France, at 86 |
| 1792 | | John Paul Jones, 45, American naval hero who often went "In harm's way", in Paris |
| 1872 | | Benito Pablo Juarez, 66, President of Mexico (1858-1872) |
| 2005 | | Gen. William Westmoreland, 91, Commander, US forces in Vietnam, 1964-1968 |
| 2009 | | Henry Allingham, at 113+, the oldest man in the world, the last surviving Jutland veteran and the last original member of the RAF |
| 2009 | | Lionel Casson, sailor, historian ("Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World"), four days short of 95 |