| 0 | | Feast of Saints Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Nictopolion, and their Companions, Roman soldiers, Martyred by the Emperor Licinius |
| 1355 | | Edward III lands at Calais for a new campaign against the French |
| 1389 | | Piero Tomacelli elected Pope as Boniface IX (1389-1404) |
| 1519 | | Hernan Cortes met Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotzin for the first time, in Tenochtitlan |
| 1642 | | Battle of Breitenfeld: Swedes defeat the Imperialists |
| 1648 | | The massacre of 12,000 Jews by Marshal Chmielnicki's order, Narol, Podolia |
| 1783 | | Washington's "Farewell Address to the Army," at Rocky Hill, near Princeton |
| 1789 | | French National Assembly confiscates Church property |
| 1835 | | Sam Houston is chosen C-in-C of the Texas Army |
| 1841 | | Akbar Khan ousts Shah Shuja in Afghanistan |
| 1852 | | Franklin Pierce, Brig. Gen., U.S.V., was elected President -- Learn More |
| 1867 | | Battle of Tahi: Brazilians partially encircle the Paraguayan fortress at Humaita |
| 1880 | | James A Garfield, sometime Maj. Gen., U.S.V., was elected President -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | "Battle of the Bees": A British attempt to capture Tanga, German East Africa, from the sea is defeated by the 5th, partially due to counterattacks by African bees |
| 1914 | | Great Britain annexes Cyprus |
| 1914 | | Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire |
| 1916 | | Verdun: The French recapture Ft Vaux |
| 1917 | | Balfour Declaration: Britain supports a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
| 1917 | | First US troops kia in France |
| 1930 | | Ras Tafari crowned Emperor of Ethiopia as Haile Selassie (1930-1974, in exile 1936-1941) |
| 1942 | | Aussie 25th Bde captures Kokoda, and its airfield, from the Japanese |
| 1942 | | British breakthrough the Axis lines during the Battle of El Alamein |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" lands c. 1500 troops at Tetere |
| 1943 | | Casa Nofi, Itri, Italy, had an unfortunate encounter with US fighter-bombers |
| 1943 | | Empress Augusta Bay: Ineffective Japanese air raids on U.S. ships |
| 1943 | | USN raids Japanese installations at Buin and Buka. |
| 1943 | | LT John F. Kennedy’s ‘PT-59’ helped evacuate wounded Marines of Lt. Col. Victor H. Krulak’s 2nd Parachute Battalion from Choiseul Is. -- Learn More |
| 1944 | | US & Filipino troops clear Japanese from the central valley on Leyte. |
| 1947 | | Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" makes its only flight, c. 8 minutes |
| 1956 | | Israel captures Gaza & Sheham |
| 1962 | | JFK announces Soviets are dismantling their missile bases in Cuba |
| 1982 | | Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, over 1,000 Soviet troops die |
| 2000 | | Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station, initiating the continuous human presence in space. |
| 2009 | | USS 'New York' (LPD 21) docks in her namesake city for the first time |
| 682 | | Umayyad Caliph of Damascus Umar II ibn Abd al-Aziz (717-720) |
| 1470 | | King Edward V of England (Apr. 2-Jun 26, 1483), deposed by his Uncle Richard, one of the "Princes of the Tower" |
| 1734 | | Daniel Boone, militiaman, frontiersman, d. 1820 |
| 1754 | | Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny, French naval officer, Vendeen general, executed 1794 |
| 1755 | | Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-1792), shortened 1793 |
| 1766 | | Johann Josef Wenzel, Graf Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal, still winning at 82, d. 1858 |
| 1795 | | James K Polk, militiaman, president (1845-1849), d. less than three months after leaving office -- Learn More |
| 1810 | | Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1883 |
| 1826 | | Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1862 |
| 1826 | | William Haines Lytle, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1863 |
| 1828 | | Byran Grimes, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1880 |
| 1844 | | Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad (1909-1918) |
| 1865 | | Warren G. Harding, president (1921-1923), d. 1923 -- Learn More |
| 1938 | | Queen Sofia of Spain |
| 1944 | | Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Brooklyn astronaut |
| 2000 | | Expedition ! arrived at the International Space Station, marking the beginning of continuous human presence in space. |
| 472 | | Roman Emperor Anicius Olybrius (Jul 11-Nov 2, 472), c. 42, natural causes -- Learn More |
| 678 | | Pope Donus [Dominus] (676-678) |
| 1241 | | Pope Celestine IV - Gofredo Castiflioni (25 Oct-10 Nov 1241), c. 50 |
| 1327 | | James "The Just", 60, King James I of Sicily (1285-1296) , King James II of Aragon and Valencia and Count of Barcelona (1291-1327), King of Sardinia and Corsica (1297-1327). |
| 1475 | | Bartolomeo Colleoni, condottiero, at c. 75, Captain-General of Venice, but he had to pay for his own statue by Verrochio -- Learn More |
| 1483 | | Henry Stafford, Earl of Buckingham, Constable of England, beheaded at 49 |
| 1535 | | Duke Francesco II Sforza of Milano (1521-1535), 40, the last sovereign Duke of Milan |
| 1877 | | Prussian Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel -- "Papa Wrangel", 93, Hero of the Schleswig-Holstein War |
| 1916 | | Queen Elisabeth of Romania, at 72 |
| 1917 | | James Gressham, Merle Hay, & Thomas Enright, first U.S. soldiers kia in France during World War I |
| 1952 | | Mehmed Esat Bülkat - formerly Mehmed Esad Pasha, 90, Ottoman Lt. Gen., Commander of the Gallipoli defenses |
| 2004 | | Theo Van Gogh, 47, Dutch film maker, murdered by an Islamic fanatic |