| 0 | | Feast of St. George, Martyr, Patron of Soldiers and Mounted Warriors, as well as of Aragon, Brazil, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Portugal, Serbia, Beirut, Genoa, Moscow, the Boy Scouts, and syphilitics |
| 0 | | Navy Day in the Peoples' Republic of China |
| 1014 | | Battle of Clontarf: The Irish defeat the Danes |
| 1154 | | Damascus surrenders to Sultan Nur ad-Din of Aleppo |
| 1296 | | Battle of Spottismuir: Edward I & the Earl of Surrey defeat & depose John Balliol, King of Scotland |
| 1374 | | King Edward III grants Geoffrey Chaucer a pitcher of wine a day |
| 1449 | | Battle of Borgomanero: Bartolomeo Colleoni defeats the French & Savoyards |
| 1521 | | Battle of Villalar: Spanish Crown defeats the Communero Rebels |
| 1780 | | Congress issued regulations for the award of prize in the Continental Navy -- Learn More |
| 1795 | | William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason |
| 1856 | | Queen Victoria reviews the Royal Navy off SpitheadSouthsea Castle to celebrate the end of the Crimean War; 240 ships participate |
| 1861 | | Robert E Lee named major general and commander of Virginia state forces |
| 1861 | | Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith |
| 1861 | | Texas forces capture U.S. Army post at San Antonio |
| 1864 | | Red River Expedition: Battle of Cane River/Monett's Ferry |
| 1891 | | Jews are expelled from Moscow |
| 1918 | | The Dover Patrol sinks a German U-boat in the North Sea |
| 1918 | | The Zeebrugge Raid: At heavy cost the Royal Navy & Royal Marines earn eight Victoria Crosses blocking the harbor exit -- Learn More |
| 1938 | | Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self-government |
| 1941 | | King George II of Greece flees abroad before the Nazi invaders |
| 1943 | | New Guinea: Australian Kanga Force is relieved by their 3rd Div on the Mubo front. |
| 1943 | | USS "Seawolf" (SS-197) sinks a Japanese patrol vessel, Yellow Sea |
| 1945 | | Allies in Italy reach the Po River |
| 1945 | | Balikpapan, Borneo: USN uses guided missiles for the first time, 2 BATS, 2 hits on Japanese shipping |
| 1949 | | Red Chinese occupy Nanking |
| 1950 | | Nationalist Chinese evacuate Hainan Island |
| 1967 | | Soyuz 1 launched |
| 1980 | | Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die |
| 1990 | | Namibia joins the United Nations and becomes the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 1348 | | The Order of the Garter, founded by Edward III |
| 1564 | | William Shakespeare, "The Bard", who knew that armor "scalds with safety" [Est., OS] (see Deaths) |
| 1598 | | Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral, kia, 1653 -- -- Learn More |
| 1697 | | Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, British admiral, victor at Finisterre, circumnavigator, d. 1762 |
| 1775 | | Joseph Mallord William Turner, English artist ("The Fighting Temeraire"), d. 1861 |
| 1791 | | James Buchanan, volunteer, War of 1812, President (1857-1861) who choked in the secession crisis, d. 1868 -- Learn More |
| 1828 | | King Albert of Saxony (1873-1902) |
| 1861 | | Field Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, d. 1936 |
| 1889 | | Karel Willem Doorman, Dutch admiral, Commander ABDA Force (1941-1942), kia Battle of the Java Sea, 1942 |
| 1891 | | Sergey Prokofiev, composer ("Leningrad Suite"), d. 1953 |
| 1897 | | Lucius D. Clay, military governor of West Germany, d. 1978 |
| 1918 | | Maurice Druon, cavalryman, resistance fighter, who wrote "Chant des Partisans", member of the French Academy, d. 2009 -- https://youtu.be/cbehEj_LcCk |
| 1926 | | Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born, sometime auto-mechanic and Queen of the UK (1952-2022) |
| 303 | | St. George of Lydia, c. 25, Roman guardsman, beheaded in Cappadocia, beheaded by Diocletian for refusing to renounce Christianity |
| 871 | | King AethelredI of Wessex (866-871), c. 30, elder brother of Alfred the Great |
| 1014 | | Brian Boru, High King of the Irish (1002-1014), kia at 87 |
| 1016 | | King Aethelred II "the Ill-Counseled" of England (978-1013 & 1014-1016), c. 48 |
| 1521 | | Don Juan López de Padilla (c. 30), Leader of the Comunero Revolt against Charles V, beheaded after the Battle of Villalar |
| 1616 | | William Shakespeare, c. 52, by tradition, on his birthday [OS]. |
| 1625 | | Maurice of Nassau, Stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Sovereign Prince of Orange, innovative soldier, at 57 -- Learn More |
| 1631 | | Francesco Maria II della Rovere, 82, Condottiero, last Duke of Urbino (1574-1621, 1623-1631) |
| 1866 | | Raffaele Carrascosa, 86, Sicilian-Neapolitan soldier, unlike his brother an anti-liberal, PM of the Two Sicilies (1859-1860) |
| 1915 | | Rupert Brooke, 27, soldier-poet, of an infection en route to Gallipoli -- Learn More |
| 1977 | | Lt. Gen. Charles D. Herron, who Commanded in Hawaii, 1938-1941, at 100, -- Learn More |
| 1986 | | Otto Preminger, 80, director ("In Harm's Way") |
| 2007 | | Boris Yeltsin, first President of post-Soviet Russian Federation (1991-1999), at 76 |