| 0 | | International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, Army Day in Argentina, and Veterans' Day in Sweden |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Bona of Pisa, Patron of Couriers, Guides, Flight Attendants, and more |
| 363 | | Battle of Ctesiphon: Roman Emperor Julian defeats Shah Shapur II, but fails to take the city |
| 757 | | Accession of Pope Paul I (757-67), later canonized |
| 1108 | | Battle of Ucles: The Almoravids defeat the Castilians |
| 1167 | | Battle of Monte Porzio/Tusculum: Holy Roman Empire defeats the Commune of Rome |
| 1176 | | Battle of Legnano: Lombards defeat Frederick Barbarossa |
| 1217 | | the first contingent of the Fifth Crusade set out from Vlaardingen, the Netherlands |
| 1405 | | Battle of Skipton Moor: Henry IV defeats Archbishop Richard Scrope of York |
| 1416 | | Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian fleet annihilates the Turkish fleet |
| 1453 | | Ottoman Sultan Mehemet II captured Constantinople amid great slaughter, ending the Byzantine Empire -- Learn More |
| 1652 | | Battle of Godwin Sands: Blake's English fleet defeats Tromp's Dutch off Dover |
| 1660 | | The Restoration: Charles II ascends the English throne |
| 1724 | | Pietro Francesco Orsini elected Pope as Benedict XIII (1724-1730) |
| 1781 | | US frigate 'Alliance' captures HMSs 'Atalanta' & 'Trepassy' off Nova Scotia |
| 1813 | | Brig. Gen. Jacob Brown defeated a British attempt to capture Sackett's Harbor, N.Y. -- Learn More |
| 1848 | | Battles of Curtatone & Montanara: Tuscans & Neapolitans defeat the Austrians |
| 1859 | | Garibaldi liberates Como from the Austrians |
| 1864 | | Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrives in Mexico to become Emperor |
| 1877 | | HMS 'Shah' captures the mutinous Peruvian ironclad 'Huascar'; first use of mobile torpedo in combat, a miss |
| 1899 | | Iosip Dzhugashvili was expelled from the Orthodox Seminary at Tiblisi, later going into politics under the name name Stalin. |
| 1905 | | Pogrom against the Jews of Brisk, Lithuania |
| 1914 | | The British liner SS 'Empress of Ireland' is rammed and sunk in the St Lawrence, 1024 die |
| 1937 | | Spanish Republican aircraft accidentally bombed a German warship at Ibiza -- Learn More |
| 1940 | | Arthur Seyss-Inquart made Reichscommissar of The Hague, Netherlands |
| 1943 | | Attu: Japanese make a major "Banzai" attack |
| 1943 | | US initiates meat and cheese rationing |
| 1944 | | Biak: Unsuccessful Japanese tank assault on American troops. |
| 1945 | | Okinawa: the 5th Marines storm Shuri Castle |
| 1957 | | Algerian Rebels kill 336 "collaborators" |
| 1989 | | Student protesters in China erect a replica of the Statue of Liberty |
| 1993 | | Neo-Nazis kill five Turkish women in Solingen, Germany |
| 1359 | | Francesco II Novello da Carrara, conodttiero and Lord of Padova (1388-1406), deposed and executed by the Venetians along with his son Francesco & Giacomo |
| 1439 | | Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini - Pope Pius III (22 Sep-18 Oct 1503) |
| 1594 | | Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Imperial general, kia 1632 |
| 1630 | | King Charles II of England (1660-85) |
| 1736 | | Patrick Henry, patriot, d. 1799 |
| 1810 | | Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1895 |
| 1810 | | Solomon Meredith, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1875 |
| 1824 | | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1890 |
| 1825 | | David Bell Birney, Maj Gen, U.S., d .1864 |
| 1827 | | Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1890 |
| 1880 | | Oswald Spengler, philosopher ("The Decline of the West"), d. 1936 |
| 1903 | | Bob Hope, USO entertainer, d. 2003 |
| 1917 | | John F. Kennedy, naval officer, president, k. 1963 |
| 1265 | | Dante Alighieri, sometime cavalryman, traveler, and poet, who loved Beatrice, at 56 |
| 1453 | | Constantine XI, 49, last Byzantine Emperor (1449-1453), kia defending the Romanus Gate |
| 1500 | | Bartholomeu Diaz, c. 50, explorer, drowned |
| 1546 | | Cardinal Beaton, c. 50, Archbishop of St Andrews (1537-1546), murdered |
| 1606 | | Ranuccio Tomassoni, murdered by his rival Caravaggio in street brawl |
| 1660 | | Prince Gyorgy II Rakoczi II of Transsylvania (1648-1660, with some interruptions), 39, d/w |
| 1790 | | Israel Putnam, Massachusetts militman, ranger, Continental major general, at 72 -- Learn More |
| 1814 | | Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French (1804-14), at 50 |
| 1847 | | Emmanuel de Grouchy, 80, French marshal, who blew the big one in 1815 |
| 1866 | | Bvt Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, "Old Fuss and Feathers", greatest American general of the nineteenth century, 79 |
| 1877 | | Benny Havens, c. 90, tavern keeper to wayward West Pointers |
| 1892 | | Mírza Husayn-Alí Nurí, known as "Baha'u'llah -- Glory of God", at 74, founder of the Bahá'í movement, d. 1894 |
| 1944 | | 2nd Lt. Allen Brown, step-son of Gen. George C. Marshall, at 27 by a German sniper in Italy |
| 1946 | | Martin Gottfried Weiss, by hanging at 40, former SS-concentration camp commandant (Neuengamme, Majdanek, Dachus) |
| 2017 | | Manuel Antonio Noriega, 83, Panamanian strongman and dictator (1983-1989), jailbird in the US, France, Panama (1989-2017) |