| 0 | | Battle of Britain Day -- https://youtu.be/Y0t-RqjMH-A |
| 1054 | | Battle of Atapuerca: Leon-Castile defeats Navarre |
| 1448 | | Battle of Caravaggio: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the Venetians |
| 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 capture Chios from the Turks |
| 1776 | | British troops make an amphibious assault at Kip's Bay, New York (East River & 34th St) |
| 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, finds some German shepherd pups in a bombed out military kennel near Toul in France, one of whom becomes 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 | | Battle of Britain: The Luftwaffe loses 185 aircraft |
| 1940 | | Hitler cancels Operation Sea Lion, about a week before the expected D-Day |
| 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 bomb the 16th St. Baptist Church, in Birmingham, 4 children die |
| 1990 | | France announces it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
| 601 | | Ali ibn Abi Talib, 60, son-in-law of Mohammed, the Fourth Caliph of Islam (656-661), d. 661 of wounds from an assassination attempt |
| 1231 | | Ludwig I "Kelheimer", 57. Duke of Bavaria (1183-1231), Count Palatine of the Rhine (1214) |
| 1789 | | James Fenimore Cooper, naval officer, author ("History of the Navy of the United States of America"), d. 1851 |
| 1830 | | Porfirio Diaz, general-president of Mexico (1877-1911), d. 1915 |
| 1857 | | William Howard Taft, SecWar, President (1909-1913), Chief Justice (1921-30), d. 1930 |
| 1859 | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 53, master engineer, designer of the 'Great Eastern', the Thames Tunnnel, etc |
| 1904 | | King Umberto II of Italy (May 9, 1946-June 12, 1946), d. 1983 |
| 1907 | | Fay Wray, King Kong's girl, d. 2004 |
| 1914 | | Creighton Abrams, American soldier, d. 1974 -- Learn More |
| 1922 | | Mary Spencer-Churchill, sometime anti-aircraft officer, aide-de-camp to her father, Baroness Soames, d. 2014 |
| 1941 | | Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Pole in space (Soyuz 30) |
| 1946 | | Oliver Stone, Vietnam veteran, director ("Platoon") |
| 668 | | Byzantine Emperor Constans II Pogonatus (641-668), assassinated at c. 37 |
| 1054 | | King García Sánchez III of Navarre (1035-1054), c. 40, kia fighting his brother, Ferdinand I of Leon Castile |
| 1231 | | Duke Louis I Wittelsbach of Bavaria (1183-1231), Count Palatine of the Rhine (1214-1231), 57 |
| 1482 | | Condottiero Giacomo da Roccabianca, kia at San Secondo, the Romagna |
| 1813 | | Antoine Étienne de Tousard, 60, French military engineer, Knight of St. John, Baron of the Emprie |
| 1859 | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, naval architect, engineer (SSs 'Great Britain', 'Great Eastern'), at 53 |
| 1914 | | Koos de la Rey, 66, ablest Boer general, shot by police, possibly not accidentally |
| 1963 | | Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Denise McNair (11), in Birmingham |
| 1973 | | King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (1950-1973), at 90 |
| 1982 | | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, c.46, former Iranian foreign minister (1978-1980), executed by the Islamists he served |