| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in Guatemala and Navy Day in Israel |
| 0 | | International Asteroid Day |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Martial, Bishop of Limoges, Apostle of the Gauls and Apostle of Aquitaine |
| 296 | | Consecration of Pope St. Marcellinus (296-304) |
| 1294 | | Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland |
| 1409 | | Battle of San Luri: The Aragonese defeat Arborea (Sardinia) |
| 1422 | | Battle of Arbedo: The Milanese defeat the Swiss |
| 1520 | | La Noche Triste: Cortez evacuates Tenochtitlan amid heavy losses |
| 1596 | | The Earl of Essex sacks Cadiz |
| 1651 | | Battle of Berestechko, Day 3: Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's c. 200,000 Ukrainian Cossacks & Crimean Tatars are routed by Casimir II's c. 150,00 Polish-Lithuanian force |
| 1689 | | Convention of Altoona: Peace between Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp |
| 1690 | | Battle of Beachy Head: Torrington's Anglo-Dutch fleet defeats Tourville's French squadron |
| 1794 | | Little Turtle's Ohio Indian Confederacy was defeated at Fort Recovery -- Learn More |
| 1807 | | Battle of Lemnos: Russian squadron defeats the Turks |
| 1815 | | USS 'Peacock' takes HMS 'Nautilus', 6 months after the War of 1812 has ended |
| 1846 | | Maj. Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny set out from Ft. Leavenworth to capture New Mexico, Arizona, and California from Mexico -- Learn More |
| 1848 | | Battle of Rotonda: Calabrese insurgents defeat Borbon troops |
| 1849 | | The Republic of Rome surrenders to the French |
| 1859 | | Franco-Piedmontese fleet begins operating in the Gulf of Venice |
| 1861 | | CSS 'Sumter' slips past USS 'Brooklyn', on blockade at the Head of Passes, Mississippi R. |
| 1862 | | Day 6 of the Seven Days: White Oak Swamp/Frayser's Farm |
| 1863 | | Confederate troops destroyed whiskey stocks at Chambersburg, Penna (Above and Beyond) -- Learn More |
| 1865 | | Eight are convicted in the assassination of Lincoln |
| 1871 | | Peasant revolt in Guatemala over land reform |
| 1894 | | Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid |
| 1898 | | Manzanillo, Cuba: USN raids harbor, sinks several vessels |
| 1898 | | Tayabacoa, Cuba: US landing party driven off |
| 1908 | | the Tunguska Event -- a comet or asteroid exploded above Siberia, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest |
| 1917 | | Greece declares war on the Central Powers |
| 1934 | | Hitler staged "The Night of Long Knives", killing hundreds of his real or suspected opponents. |
| 1936 | | Haile Selassie asks League of Nations sanctions on Italy |
| 1936 | | Publication of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" |
| 1941 | | Leading German Protestant clergymen congratulate Hitler on the invasion of the Soviet Union |
| 1941 | | Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independent of the USSR |
| 1942 | | Congress votes $42 billion (c. $650 billion today) for defense. |
| 1944 | | General strike in Copenhagen to protest continued Nazi occupation |
| 1962 | | The French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria for the last time |
| 1967 | | Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut |
| 1997 | | Hong Kong reverts to China, ending 150 years of British rule |
| 156 | BC | Liu Che, the Emperor Wu of Han (141-87 BC), notable conqueror |
| 1470 | | King Charles VIII of France (1483-98) -- Learn More |
| 1503 | | Johan Frederik of Saxony (1532-47) |
| 1641 | | Meinhardt Schomberg, the Duke of Schomberg and of Leinster, German born Dutch and English general, d. 1719 |
| 1837 | | Stephen D Ramseur, Maj Gen, C.S.A., kia 1864 |
| 1852 | | Karl Petrovich Jessen, Russian naval officer, Battle off Ulsan, d. 1918 |
| 1852 | | Reginald Baliol Brett, later Viscount Esher, British historian, reformer, intelligence maven, d. 1930 -- Learn More |
| 1877 | | Julio Mangada Rosenörn, Spanish Army officer, esperantist, prominent Spanish Republican commander, d. April 14, 1946 |
| 1886 | | Wolde Selassie, later Domenico Mondelli, Tigrino-born Italian Army officer, bersagliero, rose to Lt. Gen., d. 1974 |
| 1894 | | Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914), which sparks WW I, d. 1918 |
| 350 | | Roman Emperor-aspirant Flavius Iulius Popilius Nepotianus Constantinus -- Nepotian (r, June 3-30, 350), murdered -- Learn More |
| 1109 | | King Alfonso VI of Leon (1065-1109) and Castile (1072-1109), "Emperor of the Spains," at c. 69 |
| 1685 | | Archibald Campbell, ninth Earl of Argyle (1663-1685), c. 55, beheaded at Edinburgh |
| 1797 | | Richard Parker, 30, who led the Nore mutiny, hanged from the yardarm of HMS 'Neptune' |
| 1868 | | Manuel Dominguez, Mexican bandit and U.S. Army scout, at c. 51 -- Learn More |
| 1882 | | Charles Guiteau, 40, assassin of President Garfield, hanged |
| 1934 | | Ernst Rohm, Gregor Strasser, & Karl Ernst, Nazi stalwarts, Kurt von Schleicher, former chancellor of Germany, and many others, in Hitler's purge. |
| 1938 | | Caroline Poulder King, b. 1850, last War of 1812 veteran's pensioner, having wed veteran Darius King, 70, in 1870. |
| 1942 | | Mary C. Kimbro, at 64 when the SS “City of Birmingham” was torpedoed in the North Atlantic, the first American woman merchant mariner to die in W.W. II. |