| 0 | | Feast of Saint Saint Chrysogonus, Roman Tribune and Martyr, and that of Saint Eanflæd, Abbess and Queen of Northumbria |
| 29 | | Partial solar eclipse visible the eastern Mediterranean, associated by some with the crucifixion [or 30] |
| 496 | | Election of Pope Anastasius II (496-498) |
| 642 | | Consecration of Pope Theodore I (642-649) |
| 1542 | | Battle of Solway Moss: Sir Oliver Sinclair & Lord Wharton defeat King James V of Scotland |
| 1615 | | King Louis XIII of France (14) marries Ann of Austria (14) |
| 1859 | | Publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Lancaster, Mo |
| 1863 | | Battles of Chattanooga, Columbia, & Lookout Mt Tennessee |
| 1870 | | Agustin Morales ousts Mariano Melgarejo as dictator of Bolivia |
| 1874 | | Joseph F Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire |
| 1914 | | Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's Socialist Party |
| 1917 | | Anarchists bombed a police station in Milwaukee; nine officers died, the greatest loss of life by police in a terrorist attack in prior to Sep. 11, 2001 |
| 1918 | | Bela Khun forms the Hungarian Communist Party |
| 1922 | | Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for one year" |
| 1936 | | Polliwog-in-Chief FDR became a Shellback, USS 'Indianapolis' (CA-35), at 00º 00' N, 37º 00' W |
| 1937 | | Chinese falsely announce the sinking of the Japanese battleship 'Nagato' by air attack |
| 1941 | | CNO warns fleet "surprise aggressive movement" by Japan imminent |
| 1943 | | Operation Galvanic: Escort carrier 'Liscome Bay' (CVE 56) is sunk by submarine off Makin |
| 1944 | | First B-29 raid from Saipan; 111 bombers hit Tokyo. |
| 1954 | | France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria |
| 1965 | | Coup installs Gen. Joseph Mobutu as President/Dictator of Congo/Zaire (1965-1996) |
| 1977 | | The tomb of Philip II of Macedon is discovered near Vergine, Macedonia |
| 1991 | | US 75th manned space mission, Atlantis 10 |
| 1072 | | King Bagrat IV of Georgia (1027-1072), c. 55 |
| 1265 | | King Magnús Óláfsson of Man (1254-1265), c. 55 |
| 1273 | | Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England, d. 1284 |
| 1655 | | King Charles XI of Sweden (1660-1697) |
| 1712 | | Ali II ibn Hussein, Bey of Tunis (1759-1782) |
| 1713 | | Fra Junipero Serra, missionary and explorer, d. 1784 |
| 1729 | | Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, Russian field marshal & generalissimo, d. 1800 [NS] |
| 1741 | | Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1718-1741), consort of King Frederick I (1721-1741) |
| 1784 | | Zachary Taylor, Maj Gen, U.S., and President (1849-1850) -- Learn More |
| 1829 | | William Passmore Carlin, Brig Gen, U.S., diarist, d. 1903 |
| 1835 | | The Texas Rangers, formed by the Provisional Government of Texas to enforce laws and collect stray cattle to help feed the Provisional Army |
| 1864 | | Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, French nobleman and artist, d. 1901 |
| 1871 | | National Rifle Association, in New York City |
| 1887 | | Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski, known as von Manstein, brilliant German soldier and field marshal, Nazi until they started losing, d. 1973 |
| 1921 | | John V. Lindsay, naval officer, Mayor of NY (1965-1973), d. 2000 |
| 62 | | A. Persius Flaccus, c. 28, Roman poet & satirist |
| 1227 | | Leszek "the White", c. 42-43, High Duke of Poland (1194-1198, 1199, 1206-1210, 1211-1227), assassinated |
| 1468 | | Jean de Dunois, 68 and one day, Bastard of Orleans, illegitimate son of Duke Louis d'Orléans, comrade to Joan of Arc |
| 1647 | | Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, inept general, noted art collector, b. 1603. |
| 1801 | | Franz Moritz von Lacy, 75, Austrian field marshal |
| 1807 | | Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant, 64, Mohawk political and military leader, noted orator |
| 1922 | | Erskine Childers, 52, author ("The Riddle of the Sands"), naval aviator, Irish patriot, and eight others executed as traitors by the Irish Republic -- Learn More |
| 1929 | | Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (1906-09, 1917-20), at 88 |
| 1943 | | RAdm Henry Maston Mullinnix (51), Pearl Harbor hero Doris "Dorie" Miller (24), & c. 600 shipmates, in 'Liscome Bay' (CVE-56) |
| 1963 | | Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, former marine, assassin of JFK, shot by Jack Ruby |
| 1965 | | Emir Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah of Kuwait (1950-1965) |