| 200 | BC | Première of Plautus' comedy "Stichus", at the Plebeian Games |
| 36 | BC | Ovation for Octavian for the defeat of Sextus Pompeius in Sicily by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (who only got the corona rostrata) |
| 0 | | Feast of St. John Chrysostom, Patron of Orators, and that of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Patron of Immigrants, that of St. Brice of Tours, and that of the Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi |
| 1002 | | King Ethelred II initiated the slaughter of all Danes in England, the “St. Brice's Day Massacre” |
| 1093 | | Battle of Alnwick: Earl Robert of Northumbria defeats King Malcolm III of Scotland |
| 1239 | | Battle of Gaza: Ayyubids defeat the Crusaders |
| 1474 | | Battle of Hericourt (near Belfort): The Swiss defeat Charles the Bold of Burgundy |
| 1642 | | a Royalist attempt to capture London was blocked by the Parliamentarian army in the Battle of Turnham Green -- Learn More |
| 1775 | | Americans under Maj Gen Richard Montgomery capture Montreal |
| 1776 | | John Paul Jones captures British transport 'Mellish' |
| 1830 | | Publication of Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem "Old Ironsides," which helps save the famed frigate from the scrap heap |
| 1862 | | Battle of Holly Spring, Ms |
| 1885 | | Great Fire of Galveston: 40 square blocks were destroyed, over 2,000 people homeless |
| 1914 | | Battle of El Herri: Morrocan Berbers defeat the French, who lose badly; c. 620 French kia to 185 Berber |
| 1918 | | German veterans form the ultra-nationalist Stahlhelm |
| 1935 | | Anti-British riots in Egypt |
| 1941 | | The New York City public schools hold a practice air raid drill; 1.1 million children take part |
| 1942 | | the U.S. reduced the draft age from 21 to 18 -- Learn More |
| 1942 | | a USN/RAN task force suffered heavily in a predawn clash with a Japanese squadron during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal |
| 1943 | | B-24s from Funafuti and Canton bomb Tarawa and Makin, in the Gilberts. |
| 1944 | | TF 38 begins two days of air raids on Japanese on Luzon |
| 1970 | | Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria in a coup, 2000 die, he rules until 2000, when his son Bashar takes over (2000-) . |
| 1970 | | Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his residence, at the request of his wife. |
| 1982 | | Vietnam War Memorial dedicated |
| 1995 | | Islamist terrorists bomb the US Office of Program Management for Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization in Riyadh, 7 die |
| 354 | | Aurelius Augustinus -- St. Augustine of Hippo, theologian ("The Confessions," "The City of God," etc.), Patron of Theologians, Printers, and Brewers, d. 430 |
| 1143 | | Fulk the Younger, c. 50-52, Count Fulk V) of Anjou (1106-1129), King Fulk of Jerusalem (1131-1143) |
| 1312 | | King Edward III of England (1327-77) |
| 1493 | | Duke William IV of Bavaria (1508-1550) |
| 1504 | | Landgraf Philip I "the Magnanimous" of Hesse (1509-1567) |
| 1761 | | John Moore, British Lt. Gen., kia at Coruña, 1809 |
| 1780 | | Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (1801-1839) |
| 1809 | | John Adolph Bernard Dahlgren, Rear Adm, US, noted artilleryman, d. 1870 |
| 1813 | | John Wolcott Phelps, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1885 |
| 1813 | | Prince Peter II Petrovic of Montenegro (1830-51) |
| 1814 | | Joseph Hooker, Maj Gen, U.S., who choked at Chancellorsville, d. 1879 |
| 1837 | | Henry Clay Merriam, sometime Col. 1st La Native Guard/75th USCT, Maj. Gen., US, Medal of Honor, d. Nov 12, 1912 -- Learn More |
| 1848 | | Albert I Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco & Duke of Valentinois (1889-1922), noted oceanographer |
| 1850 | | Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author ("Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", etc., d. 1894. |
| 1879 | | Loftus William Jones, British destroyerman who earned a posthumous V.C. at Jutland -- Learn More |
| 867 | | Pope St. Nicholas I "the Great" (858-867), c. 47 |
| 1093 | | King Malcolm III "Canmore -- Great Chief" of Scots (1058-1093), c. 62 |
| 1319 | | King Eric VI Menved of Denmark (1286-1319), c. 45 |
| 1359 | | Grand Duke Ivan II "the Fair" of Moscow & Vladimir (1353-1359), 33 |
| 1460 | | Prince Henry "the Navigator" of Portugal, 66 |
| 1942 | | Rear Admirals Daniel Callaghan (52) and Norman Scott (53), plus George (27), Frank (26), and Joe (24) Sullivan, and several hundred other American sailors |
| 1954 | | Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 73, war criminal, died in Soviet captivity |
| 1985 | | c. 23,000 people in Armero, Columbia, buried in a mudslide following the eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz. |
| 1989 | | Franz Joseph II, 83, Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989) |
| 1991 | | Hanson W. Baldwin, sometime naval officer, New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning military correspondent, at 88 -- Learn More |