| 1279 | BC | Rameses II "the Great" became Pharaoh of Egypt(1279-1213 BC) |
| 198 | BC | Titus Quinctius Flaminus defeated Philip V of Macedon in the Battle of the Aous Narrows -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Massimo of Turin, Bishop and Theologian, Patron of Turin, and that of St. Prosper of Reggio, Patron of Reggio Emilia |
| 841 | | Battle of Fontenay: Embroglio among Charlemagne's heirs |
| 1080 | | Schismatic Council of Brixen declares Archbishop Guibert [Anti-]Pope "Clement III" (1080-1100) |
| 1139 | | Battle of Ourique: Porgual's Afonso I defeats the Moors |
| 1183 | | Peace of Constance: the Lombards secure autonomy from the Holy Roman Empire |
| 1243 | | Sinibaldo de' Fieschi elected Pope as Innocent IV (1243-1254) |
| 1298 | | Massacre of 250 Jews at Rothenburg, Germany |
| 1386 | | Battle of Brentelle: The Carrano defeat the Scaligers |
| 1483 | | Richard of Gloucester declares his nephew 12-year old King Edward V illegitimate, deposes him, and assumes the crown as Richard III (1483-1485) |
| 1569 | | Battle of La Roche l'Abeille: French Huguenots defeat the Catholics |
| 1570 | | Battle of Arnay-le-duc: French Catholics defeat the Huguenots |
| 1862 | | Battle of Oak Grove, Va |
| 1863 | | George Meade replaces Joe Hooker as CG, Army of the Potomac |
| 1864 | | Petersburg: Union troops begin a tunnel under Confederate lines |
| 1870 | | Isabella II of Spain (1833-1868) abdicates in favor of her son, the later Alfonso XII (r. 1874-1885), two years after having been deposed |
| 1876 | | Crazy Horse’s Sioux and Northern Cheyenne defeated George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn -- Learn More |
| 1898 | | Skirmish at Aguadores, Cuba |
| 1905 | | Polish uprising against Russian domination |
| 1920 | | Greeks capture 8,000 Turkish troops at Smyrna |
| 1925 | | Military coup by Gen. Theodorus Pangoulos in Greece |
| 1941 | | FDR bars racial discrimination in war industries |
| 1941 | | Finland declares war on the Soviet Union |
| 1942 | | Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe |
| 1942 | | Papua: Australians form the Maroubra Force for operations on the Kokoda Trail |
| 1942 | | RAF raids Bremen |
| 1942 | | USS 'Nautilus" (SS-168) sinks Japanese DD 'Yamakaze', off Tokyo Bay |
| 1943 | | Crematory III at Birkenau is finished |
| 1943 | | Race riots in Detroit |
| 1943 | | US submariners finally convince the Navy that its torpedoes suck |
| 1948 | | Truman signs Displaced Persons Act: 205,000 refugees enter the US |
| 1950 | | North Korea invaded South Korea, claiming "self defense" -- Learn More |
| 1981 | | Supreme Court holds male-only draft registration constitutional |
| 1991 | | Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia |
| 1991 | | The last Soviet troops leave Czechoslovakia |
| 1991 | | Ticker tape parade up Broadway to honor Korean War veterans |
| 1996 | | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: Islamists bomb Khobar Towers, 19 Americans die, c. 500 Saudis & Americans injured |
| 1328 | | Sir William II de Montague, King of Mann, Earl of Salisbury, English general, 100 Yrs War, d. 1397 |
| 1373 | | Queen Giovanna II of Naples (1414-35) |
| 1796 | | Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1825-1855) |
| 1813 | | William Hugh Keim, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1862 |
| 1823 | | James Dunwody Bulloch, naval officer, C.S.N., d. 1901 |
| 1870 | | Robert Erskine Childers, author, soldier, naval airman, Irish patriot, executed 1922 -- Learn More |
| 1875 | | Oliver Lyman Spaulding, American soldier-scholar, d. 1947 -- Learn More |
| 1886 | | General of the Air Force Henry "Hap" Arnold, d. 1950 |
| 1896 | | Alfred Anderson, WW I veteran of the Black Watch, the last survivor of the Christmas Truce of 1914, the last Scottish veteran of the war, and the oldest man in Scotland, d. 2005 |
| 1900 | | Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, murdered 1979 |
| 1903 | | Eric Blair [George Orwell], volunteer for the Spanish Republic, author ("Homage to Catalonia," "Amimal Farm," "1984"), d. 1950 |
| 1941 | | Luigi Capello, 82, Italian general, blamed for Caporetto, anti-Fascist |
| 1212 | | Simon de Montfort, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, at 67 |
| 1337 | | King Federico III of Sicily (1295-1337), 64 |
| 1669 | | François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort,, 53, French soldier, kia, the Siege of Candia |
| 1673 | | Charles de Batz-Castelmore, le comte d'Artagnan, shot in the throat during the siege of Maastricht, at c. 62 |
| 1715 | | Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral, colonial administrator, and slave trader, at 68 -- Learn More |
| 1876 | | Lame White Man and c. 50 other Indians, KIA |
| 1876 | | Lt Col George A Custer (36), his brothers Thomas W (31) & Boston (27), his nephew Harry A Reed (18), his brother-in-law James Calhoun (30), black Quartermaster employee Isaiah Dorman (c. 55), & c. 250 other members of the 7th Cavalry, KIA |
| 1894 | | Marie François Sadi Carnot, 56, President of France (1887-1894), assassinated by an anarchist |
| 1906 | | Stanford White (52), architect, shot in Madison Square Garden, which he had designed, by the husband of his former mistress Evelyn Nesbit, Harry K Thaw |
| 1912 | | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 76, Anglo-Dutch academic aritist ("The Tepidarium", "The Roses of Heliogabalus", etc.) |
| 1956 | | Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, at 77 -- Learn More |
| 1997 | | Jacques-Yves Cousteau, naval officer, explorer, Vichyite, at 87 |
| 2015 | | Patrick Macnee, 93, sometime Lt, Coastal Forces, actor ("The Avengers") |