| 0 | | Feast of St. John of Nepomuk, Patron of Bohemia, and that of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Patron of Northumbria |
| 235 | | Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus - Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the legions at Mainz (235-238) |
| 1631 | | German Imperial troops sack Magdeburg, 25,000 said to have died |
| 1760 | | Great Fire at Boston, leaves much of the city in ruins |
| 1800 | | Battle of Heliopolis, Egypt: the French defeat the Turks |
| 1814 | | Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Day 1: Austro-Russians v. Napoleon |
| 1815 | | Napoleon reaches Paris from Elba; The Hundred Days begin -- Learn More |
| 1833 | | Cdr Geisinger of USS 'Peacock' & the King of Siam negotiate a commercial treaty |
| 1836 | | Battle of Coleto Creek: Texian garrison of Goliad surrenders to the Mexican Army |
| 1849 | | Battle of Cava: Austrians defeat the Piedmontese |
| 1852 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published |
| 1853 | | The Tai-ping rebels capture Nanking |
| 1890 | | Kaiser Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Otto von Bismarck |
| 1896 | | Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens |
| 1922 | | First US carrier commissioned: 'Langley' (CV-1) -- Learn More |
| 1927 | | Joseph Goebbels leads the first Nazi pogrom, attacking Jewish shops in Berlin. |
| 1931 | | Christian Schreiber, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Berlin (1930-1933), warns against National Socialism |
| 1933 | | The Nazis open their first concentration camp, at Dachau, near Munich |
| 1937 | | Battle of Guadaljara: Italo-Nationalist offensive begins |
| 1939 | | 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel, Lithuania |
| 1939 | | Naval Research Lab proposes development of nuclear power |
| 1942 | | Gen MacArthur vows "I shall return" |
| 1942 | | Major Italo-German air raid on Malta |
| 1943 | | Tunisia: British attack the Mareth Line |
| 1951 | | Indonesian Army offensive against the Darul Islam movement on Java |
| 1952 | | Final ratification of peace treaty restoring full sovereignty to Japan |
| 1995 | | The Japanese "Aum Shinrikyo" cult disperses sarin gas on the Tokyo subway, 12 die, over 1,300 injured |
| 2003 | | Widespread coalition air strikes in Iraq |
| 43 | BC | Pubius Ovidius Naso -- Ovid, naughty poet, d. in exile AD 17 |
| 41 | | Marcus Didius Falco, soldier, detective, fictionally, d. c. 100 |
| 1497 | | Atahualpa, the last Inca Emperor (1532-July 26, 1533) |
| 1583 | | Alvise "Leonardo" Mocenigo, Venetian admiral, War of Candia (1648-1654) d. 1654 |
| 1725 | | Ottoman Sultan Abdül-Hamid I (1774-89) |
| 1804 | | Neal Dow, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1897 |
| 1811 | | Napoléon II François Charles Joseph Bonaparte, "L'Aiglon", King of Rome, Duke of Reichstadt, d. 1832 |
| 1812 | | George Bibb Crittenden, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1880 |
| 1820 | | Prince Alexander Ian Cuza of Moldavia-Wallachia (Romania) (1859-1866), d. 1873 |
| 1823 | | John Echols, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1896 |
| 1825 | | William Nelson Rector Beall, Brig Gen, C.S.A. |
| 1830 | | Eugene Asa Carr, Brig Gen., U.S., d. 1910 |
| 1856 | | James Webb Cook Hayes, presidential son, businessman, soldier with a Medal of Honor, d. 1934 -- Learn More |
| 1870 | | Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, brilliant German commander in East Africa, 1914-1918, d. 1964 |
| 1882 | | Rene Coty, President of France (1953-58), d. 1962 |
| 1894 | | Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff, German naval officer, sometime commander of the 'Graf Spee,' suicide 1939 |
| 1917 | | Dame Vera Lynn, singer ("The White Cliffs of Dover") -- https://youtu.be/Hqtaoz4QFX8 |
| 1918 | | Donald F. Featherstone, British author, military historian, and pioneer wargamer, d. 2013 |
| 268 | | Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268), c. 50, assassinated at Milan [Alt] |
| 842 | | King Alfonso II "the Chaste" of the Asturias (791-842), c. 83 |
| 1191 | | Pope Clement III - Paolo Scolari (1187-91), c. 60 |
| 1351 | | Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq of Delhi (1325-1351), c. 50 |
| 1390 | | Emperor Alexios III Megas Komnenos of Trebizond (1349-20 March 1390), 51 |
| 1415 | | King Henry IV Bolingbroke of England (1399-1413), at 45 |
| 1568 | | Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 37th and last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1511-1525), first Duke of Prussia (1525-1568), 77 |
| 1597 | | Voivode Alexandru III "the Bad" of Wallachia (1592-1593), ousted, eviled, executed by strangulation by the Ottomans |
| 1619 | | Matthias, 61, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia (1611-19), King Matthias II of Hungary (1608-1619) |
| 1703 | | Forty-six of the "Forty-seven" ronin, ritual suicide |
| 1894 | | Lajos Kossuth, 91, Hungarian patriot |
| 1920 | | Pres Venustiano Carranza of Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 |
| 1929 | | Ferdinand Foch, 78, Marshal of France |
| 1939 | | Lt. Cdr Percy Thompson Dean, who had won a VC at Zeebrugge in WW I, Member of Parliament, at 62 |
| 2004 | | Juliana Luise Emma Marie Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau, 95, sometime Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980) |
| 2005 | | Andrew Toti, inventor of the "Mae West" life jacket, at 89 |