| 0 | | Feast of St. Heimerad, Pilgrim and Holy Fool |
| 81 | BC | Second Day of Sulla's Triumph, for the defeat of Mithridates |
| 1098 | | Battle of Antioch: Crusaders defeat the Syrians |
| 1119 | | Battle of Balat/Sarmada: Emir Ilghazi defeats the Principality of Antioch |
| 1147 | | Afonso I of Portugal lays siege to Lisbon (falls Oct 24) |
| 1389 | | the Turks defeated the Serbs in the Battle of Kosovo (see 1914) |
| 1461 | | Edward IV crowned king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483) |
| 1495 | | Gonzalo de Cordoba, "El Gran Capitan," a was defeated by the French in the Battle of Seminara -- Learn More |
| 1651 | | Battle of Berestechko, Day 1 of 3: Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's c. 200,000 Ukrainian Cossacks & Crimean Tatars skirmish with Casimir II's c. 150,00 Polish-Lithuanian forces |
| 1675 | | the Brandenurgers under Frederick William "the Great Elector" defeated the Swedes in the Battle of Fehrbellin -- Learn More |
| 1776 | | Charleston repulses a British naval attack |
| 1778 | | Washington tied the British in the Battle of Monmouth, biggest fight of the Revolutionary War, with temps hovering near 100 |
| 1788 | | Naval Battle of Liman (Black Sea): John Paul Jones, commanding the Russian fleet, defeats the Turks |
| 1794 | | Joshua Humphreys appointed master builder of the USN, at $2,000 a year |
| 1812 | | Napoleon's Grand Armee occupied Vilna -- Learn More |
| 1814 | | USS 'Wasp' captures HMS 'Reindeer' |
| 1838 | | Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey |
| 1863 | | Battle of Donaldsonville, LA |
| 1865 | | CSS 'Shenandoah' takes 11 American whalers, two months after Appomattox |
| 1898 | | U.S. troops preparing for the war with Spain engaged in the "Battle of the Potomac" -- Learn More |
| 1909 | | 1st French air show, Concours d'Aviation opens |
| 1914 | | Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo, touching off World War I (see 1389) |
| 1919 | | In Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors, where the German Empire was proclaimed in 1871, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles |
| 1929 | | Venezuelan nationalist Rafael Simon Urbina captures Fort Amsterdam, Curacao, killing three Dutch soldiers before taking hostages and fleeing back to Venezuela |
| 1940 | | Romania cedes Bessarabia to the Soviet Union |
| 1944 | | Cdr. Quentin R. Walsh, U.S.C.G., lied his way into capturing a German fort at Cherbourg -- Learn More (scroll down) |
| 1945 | | Soviets set up a puppet "Polish Provisional Government" |
| 1948 | | Berlin Airlift begins |
| 1956 | | Two day anti-communist riots begin in Poznan, Poland, 38 die |
| 1965 | | President Johnson orders US ground forces to Vietnam |
| 1968 | | Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking the Pentagon Papers |
| 1476 | | Giovanni Pietro Caraffa - Pope Paul IV (1555-1559) |
| 1491 | | King Henry VIII (1509-1547) |
| 1712 | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Enlightenment thinker, d. 1778 |
| 1742 | | William Hooper, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1790 |
| 1870 | | William Reginald Hall, "Blinker Hall", Royal Navy officer, Director of Naval Intelligence in W.W. I, d. 1943 -- Learn More |
| 1883 | | Pierre Laval, French politician, anti-Nazi, then Vichyite collaborator, shot as a traitor 1945 |
| 1902 | | Richard Charles Rodgers, 77, American composer ("South Pacific", "Victory at Sea") |
| 1926 | | Melvin Kaminsky, in Brooklyn, combat engineer, WW II -- Mel Brooks [i.e., "Mel from Brooklyn"] |
| 548 | | Theodora, c. 48, joy girl and Byzantine Empress (527-548), wife to Justinian I |
| 683 | | Pope St Leo II (681-683) |
| 767 | | Pope St. Paul I (757-867), c. 70 |
| 1194 | | Emperor Xiaozong of Song (1162-1189), in retirement at 66 |
| 1385 | | Former Byzantine Emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1376-1379), 37, deposed, rusticated |
| 1389 | | Ottoman Sultan Murad I (1359-1389), assassinated at 63 by a Serb on the morning of the Battle of Kosovo |
| 1389 | | Stefan Lazar Hrebeljanovich, Prince of Serbia (c. 1370-1389), kia at c. 50, the Battle of Kosovo |
| 1497 | | Sir James Tuchet, 7th Lord Audley (c. 34), Cornish rebel leader, beheaded on Tower Hill |
| 1776 | | Thomas Hickey, hanged for trying to betray General Washington to the British |
| 1799 | | Francesco Caracciolo (46), Neapolitan admiral and revolutionary, executed by Lord Nelson -- Learn More |
| 1836 | | James Madison, militiaman, President (1809-1817), at 75 -- Learn More |
| 1855 | | Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, Baron Raglan, at 66 -- Learn More |
| 1904 | | Daniel Decatur Emmett, lyricist ("Dixie"), 88 |
| 1914 | | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (50) and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (46), assassinated at Sarajevo |
| 1975 | | Rod Serling, 50, Pacific War veteran (511th Airborne Infantry), creator of 'The Twilight Zone' |
| 1984 | | Yigael Yadin, 67, Israeli archaeologist and general |