| 0 | | Feast of St. Dominic, Patron of the Dominican Republic, and that of St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop, Patron of Australia |
| 0 | | International Cat Day |
| 0 | | Signal Troops Day in Ukraine |
| 70 | | Jewish Revolt: Romans destroy the Tower of Antonia [Alt] |
| 870 | | Treaty of Mersen: Charles II & Louis the German, uncles of Louis II of Middle Francia (Lorraine) |
| 1529 | | the Treaty of Cambrai ended the Fifth Italian War -- Learn More |
| 1588 | | Queen Elizabeth supposedly addressed the English fleet about the Spanish Armada -- Learn More |
| 1588 | | Battle of Gravelines: the English Fleet defeats the Spanish Armada, |
| 1589 | | Battle of Las Palmas: Spanish beat off an English assault |
| 1647 | | Battle of Dunganhill: English rout Irish rebels |
| 1676 | | Great Fire of Boston: 160 buildings destroyed |
| 1692 | | Battle of Steenkerke: William III defeated by the French under the Duke of Luxembourg |
| 1709 | | Tsar Peter the Great of Russia defeated King Chalres XII of Sweden in the Battle of the Poltava [Gregorian] |
| 1806 | | Battle of Lauria: French Marshal Massena crushes the Neapolitans |
| 1812 | | Battle of Inkovo: Russians defeat the French |
| 1813 | | US Schooners 'Hamilton' & 'Scourge' founder in a storm on Lake Ontario |
| 1814 | | Anglo-American Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium |
| 1815 | | Napoleon was put aboardt HMS ‘Northumberland” for his voyage to St. Helena |
| 1831 | | the Dutch defeated the Belgians in the Battle of Hasselt -- Learn More |
| 1853 | | Refusing an offer of surrender, the Russians massacre hundreds at the White Mosque of Ac Machet, on the Aral Sea |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Lovettsville, Va |
| 1865 | | Brig. Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S.V., mustered out of federal service -- Learn More |
| 1896 | | Three Italian-Americans lynched in St. Charles Parish, La. |
| 1914 | | Montenegro declares war on Germany |
| 1919 | | Third Anglo-Afghan War (begun May 6) ends as Britain recognizes full Afghan independence |
| 1925 | | 40,000 Klansmen march in Washington |
| 1929 | | German airship 'Graf Zeppelin' begins a round-the-world flight |
| 1940 | | The Battle of Britain begins |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Marines capture the unfinished airstrip. |
| 1942 | | Japanese air raids on Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | | Russian counter-offensive at Voronezh under Marshal Timoshenko |
| 1943 | | Fighting continues around Munda, New Georgia |
| 1943 | | Nazis initiate vegetable & fruit rationing in the Netherlands |
| 1944 | | China: Japanese troops finally take Hengyang, against stiff resistance. |
| 1944 | | Near Caen, US B-17s accidentally bomb elements of the 3rd Canadian Inf Div & Polish Arm Div, 65 die, c. 250 wounded |
| 1945 | | Harry S Truman signs UN Charter |
| 1945 | | USSR declares war on Japan. |
| 1953 | | Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb |
| 1983 | | Brig. Gen. Efrain Rios Montt deposed as President/Strongman of Guatemala |
| 1988 | | Cease fire ends the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) |
| 1988 | | Russian troops begin pulling out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
| 1988 | | SecState Wm Shultz escapes assassination in Bolivia |
| 1988 | | South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
| 1990 | | Iraq annexes Kuwait |
| 2000 | | Confederate submarine 'Hunley' raised after 136 years on the bottom |
| 1078 | | Horikawa, 73rd Emperor of Japan (1087-1107) |
| 1812 | | John Rodgers II, Rear Adm, U.S., d. 1882 |
| 1819 | | Charles Anderson Dana, Asst SecWar, d. 1897 |
| 1820 | | Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d 1891 |
| 1822 | | George Stoneman Jr., American soldier, Commander, Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, d. 1894 -- Learn More |
| 1835 | | James William Forsyth, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1906 |
| 1839 | | Nelson Appleton Miles, later Commanding General of the United States Army., d. 1925 -- Learn More |
| 1879 | | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, murdered 1919 |
| 1881 | | Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German Generalfeldmarschall, war criminal, died in Soviet captivity, 1954 |
| 1890 | | Daughters of the American Revolution |
| 1909 | | Natalie Latham, later Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, who founded "Bundles for Britain," d. 2013 |
| 1948 | | Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7) |
| 1958 | | John Gresham, American defense analyst and author, d. 2016 |
| 869 | | King Lothar II of Middle France/Lothringia/Lorraine (855-869), c. 34 |
| 1048 | | Pope Damasus II (17 July-8 Aug 1048) |
| 1306 | | Wenceslas III, 16, King of Hungary (1301-1305), of Bohemia (1305-1306), of Poland (1305-1306), murdered. |
| 1788 | | Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, le duc de Richelieu & Marshal of France, at 92 -- Learn More |
| 1855 | | Guglielmo Pepe, 72, Italian patriot and general, Napoleonic Wars, Revolutions of 1820 & 1848 |
| 1897 | | Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, 69, five times Premier of Spain, assassinated by an anarchist |
| 1897 | | Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt, 79, Swiss historian ("The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy") |
| 1942 | | Six Nazi saboteurs, executed in Washington |
| 1944 | | Generalfeldmarschall Job-Wilhelm "Erwin" Georg von Witzleben, 62, anti-Nazi conspirator, hanged |
| 1947 | | Anton Ivanovich Denikin, 74, Tsarist general, White Guard leader |
| 2004 | | Fay Wray, Canadian-American actor, King Kong's girl, at 96 |