| 47 | BC | Caesar lands at Hadrumentum (Sousse, Tunisia) to begin his African War |
| 0 | | Feast of the Holy Innocents and that of St. Simon the Myroblyte |
| 0 | | Ohi Day in Greece, Commemorating the rejection of Mussolini's ultimatum |
| 418 | | Election of Pope Boniface I (418-422), later canonized |
| 457 | | Flavius Julius Valerius Majorianus -- Majorian was acclaimed Roman Emperor in the West -- Learn More |
| 484 | | Accession of Alaric as King of the Visigoths (484-507) |
| 1065 | | Consecraton of Westminster Abbey |
| 1503 | | Bayard and the Bastard de Sandricourt defended the Garigliano Bridge against Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba -- Learn More |
| 1768 | | Coronation of King Taksin of Thailand (1768-1782) |
| 1861 | | Combat at Mt Zion, Mo |
| 1861 | | Combat at Sacramento, Ky |
| 1864 | | Battle of Egypt Station, Ms |
| 1886 | | President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty -- Learn More |
| 1908 | | The Great Messina Earthquake, c. 80,000 die |
| 1941 | | Japanese capture Ipoh, Malaya |
| 1941 | | Luzon: Fil-Am troops fall back to the Tarbac-Cabanatuan line |
| 1942 | | Despite U.S. bombing, Japanese begin using new airstrip on Munda |
| 1942 | | German armed forces begin retreating from the Caucasus |
| 1942 | | Papua: Japanese forces at Buna begin withdrawing to Giruwa |
| 1943 | | Bougainville: Americal Div completes relief of the 3rd Marine Div |
| 1943 | | New Britain: Japanese attack at Arawe is repulsed |
| 1943 | | Canadian troops secure Ortona, Italy, from the Germans, after an eight-day fight |
| 1950 | | Korea: Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel |
| 1962 | | UN troops occupy Elizabethstad, Katanga |
| 1985 | | Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign a peace agreement, temporarily halting the 1975-1990 civil War |
| 2009 | | A Sunni suidice bomber kills 43 Shiites observing Day of Ashura in Karachi |
| 1367 | | Ashikaga Yoshiakira, 37, 2nd Shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate of Japan (1358-1367), |
| 1522 | | Margherita di Parma, illegitimate daughter of HRE Charles V, Duchess of Florence, Parma, & Piacenza, Governor of the Netherlands (1559-1567, 1578-1582), half-sister to Don Juan of Austria, d. 1586 |
| 1669 | | Maurice de Saxe, Count of Saxony, Marshal General of France, d. 1750 -- Learn More |
| 1801 | | James Barnes, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1869 |
| 1822 | | William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898 |
| 1827 | | Robert Latimer McCook, Brig Gen, U.S., KIA in 1862 |
| 1833 | | Charles Miller Shelley, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1907 |
| 1856 | | Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President (1913-1921), 1919 Peace Nobelist, segregationist, d. 1924 -- Learn More |
| 1859 | | John W Fortescue, British military historian (the 20 volume "A History of the British Army"), d. 1938 |
| 1898 | | Jean Faircloth, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, d. 2000 |
| 1908 | | Lew Ayres, actor ("All Quiet on Western Front"), d. 1996 |
| 1941 | | The USN Seabees |
| 484 | | King Euric II of the Visigoths (466-484), c. 40 |
| 1446 | | Anti-Pope Clement VIII - Gil Sanchez Muñoz y Carbón (1423-1429), c. 75 |
| 1503 | | Piero "the Unfortunate" de'Medici, 31, eldest son of Il Magnifico, sometime lord of Florence (1492-1494), condottiero, drowned in the Garigliano fighting for the French against the Spanish |
| 1694 | | Queen Mary II of England (1688-1694), 32, wife to William III [OS] |
| 1734 | | Rob Roy MacGregor, legendary Scottish hero, 63 |
| 1859 | | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, historian & poet, ("Horatius at the Bridge"), at 59 -- http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_horatiuspoem.htm |
| 1947 | | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1900-46), at 78 |
| 1948 | | Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, 60, premier of Egypt (1945-1946, 1946-1948) assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood |
| 1959 | | Ante Pavelic 70, sometime Führer of the Nazi puppet-state of Croatia (1941-1945), of wounds from an assassination attempt, in Madrid |
| 1993 | | William Lawrence Shirer, 89, American journalist, war correspondent, and historian ("The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) |
| 2002 | | Regine Orfinger Karlin, Belgian Jewish anti-Nazi resistance fighter, at 92 |