| 0 | | Feast of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Patron of Indigenous Peoples, and that of St. Leocadia, Martyr, Patron of Toledo |
| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in Peru and Navy Day in Sri Lanka |
| 536 | | the Romano-Byzantine general Belisarius entered Rome, as the Ostrogoths retreated -- Learn More |
| 730 | | Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army in northwestern Iran |
| 1531 | | traditionally the Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, at Tepeyac, Mexico . |
| 1625 | | Treaty of the Hague: England & the Netherlands agree to subsidize Denmark in the Thirty Years' War |
| 1738 | | Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia |
| 1775 | | Patriots forces defeated the Loyalists in the Battle of Great Bridge, forcing the Royal Governor of Virginia to flee -- Learn More |
| 1824 | | Battle of Ayacucho, Peru: Antonio de Sucre's Peruvian & Chilean forces defeat the Spanish, securing Peru's independence |
| 1835 | | the Texian rebels captures San Antonio de Bexar from Santa Ana’s forces |
| 1854 | | Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was published -- https://strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic126b.asp#two |
| 1861 | | Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Territory |
| 1899 | | the Boers defeated the British in a two-day fight at Stormberg, the first battle of “Black Week" -- Learn More |
| 1910 | | French troops occupy Agadir, Morroco |
| 1917 | | British Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby captured Jerusalem -- Learn More |
| 1931 | | The Constituent Assembly approves a constitution for the Second Spanish Republic |
| 1931 | | Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
| 1933 | | Romania bans Fascistic Iron Guard |
| 1938 | | Prototype radar installed on USS 'New York' (BB-34) |
| 1939 | | Russian air raid on Helsinki |
| 1940 | | The British open an offensive in North Africa, against the Italian Tenth Army |
| 1940 | | The Greeks begin a counteroffensive against the Italians in Albania |
| 1941 | | China declares war on Japan, after nine years of "incidents", as do Cuba, Guatemala, the Philippine Commonwealth, and the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, |
| 1941 | | Japanese troops from Kwajelein occupy Tarawa in the Gilberts |
| 1941 | | Luzon: Japanese bomb Nichols Field |
| 1941 | | Malaya: Japanese capture Khota Baru airfield |
| 1941 | | Siam agrees to a cease fire with Japan |
| 1942 | | Aussie Lt. Col. Ralph Honner, signaled "Gona's Gone", to indicate Gona had been taken from the Japanese, in hand-to-hand fighting: |
| 1943 | | Bougainville: SeaBees complete Torokina airstrip |
| 1943 | | Chiang Kai-shek requests increased US financial and air assistance |
| 1946 | | The Nuremberg "Doctors' trial" begins, against physicians and officers who conduced Nazi human experimentation, euthanasia, and mass murder |
| 1948 | | UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide |
| 1961 | | SS Col Adolf Eichmann is convicted of war crimes in Israel |
| 1967 | | Nicolea Ceausescu becomes President of the Romanian Council of State, initiating over two decades of personal rule (1967-1989) |
| 1987 | | Palestinian uprising begins in the Israeli-occupied West Bank |
| 1992 | | Operation Restore Hope begins: US Marines land in Somalia |
| 1447 | | Zhu Jianshen, the Chenghua Emperor of Ming China (1464-1487) |
| 1579 | | Martin de Porres Velázquez, Dominican Lay Brother, later canonized, the first know mixed race saint, d. 1639 |
| 1594 | | King Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden (1611-32), kia 1632 |
| 1608 | | John Milton, English civil servant, author, and poet ("Paradise Lost"), d. 1674 |
| 1752 | | Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French military engineer, Knight of St. John, Baron of the Empire, d. 1813 |
| 1868 | | Fritz Haber, German scientist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, inventor of poison gas, d. 1934 |
| 1906 | | Grace Hopper, naval officer, computer pioneer, d. 1992 |
| 1909 | | Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Knickerbocker Gray, naval officer, WW II, actor, d. 2000 |
| 638 | | Sergius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (610-638), champion of the Emperor Heraclius, mainstay of the defense of the city from the Persians, Avars, and Slavs in 626 |
| 748 | | Nassar ibn Sayyar al-Laythi al-Kinani, c. 85, Umayyad general & governor of Khurasan, kia Marj Ardabil |
| 1165 | | King Malcolm IV of Scotland (1153-1165), 24 |
| 1437 | | Sigismund, King of Hungary (1387-1437), of the Germans (1411-1437), of Bohemia (1419-1437), of Lombardy (1431-1437), and Holy Roman Emperor (1433-1437), 70 |
| 1565 | | Pope Pius IV - Giovanni Angelo Medici (1559-1565), 66 |
| 1669 | | Pope Clement IX -- Giulio Rospigliosi (1667-1669), 69 |
| 1706 | | Dom Peter II "the Peaceful", 58, Regent (1668-1683), then King of Portugal and the Algarves (1683-1706) |
| 1970 | | Artem Mikoyan, 65, Soviet aircraft designer -- the "Mi" in MiG, 65, brother to the diplomat |
| 1971 | | Ralph Bunche, 68, American diplomat, Peace Nobelist 1950 |