| 753 | BC | The Rape of the Sabine Women |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint Hyacinth of Poland, Patron of Lithuania |
| 682 | | Consecration of Pope Leo II (681-683), later canonized |
| 1424 | | Battle of Vereuil: Greatly outnumbered English defeat the French |
| 1505 | | Florence's mercenaries under Antonio Giacomini defeat the Venetian condottiere Bartolomeo d'Alviano, who was attempting to relieve the siege of Pisa |
| 1549 | | Battle of Sampford Courtney: Lord Russell defeats the Earl of Arundel |
| 1648 | | the three-day Battle of Preston began between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists -- Learn More |
| 1787 | | Hungary grants Jews permission to pray in groups |
| 1795 | | Tula initiates the Great Curaçao Slave Rebellion, in which scores died before it is supressed on Sept. 19th |
| 1807 | | Robert Fulton's steamboat begins its first voyage from Albany to New York |
| 1808 | | Napoleon seeks troops for Spain from brother King Louis of Holland |
| 1812 | | First Battle of Pulotsk, Day 1: French v. Russians |
| 1812 | | US frigate 'President' captures British schooner 'L'Adeline' |
| 1843 | | Herman Melville enlists in the USS 'United States' |
| 1846 | | CDR Robert F Stockton declares California annexed to the US |
| 1862 | | The "Great Sioux Uprising" begins in Minnesota |
| 1891 | | Battle of Lugalo/Zelewski's Defeat: Wehehe tribesmen virtually wipe out a column of c. 400 German troops and askaris in German East Africa |
| 1893 | | The Aigues-Mortes Massacre: French rioters kill 7 and injure more than 50 Italian migrant workers. |
| 1914 | | Battle of Stalluponen: Germans defeat the Russians in East Prussia |
| 1915 | | German troops overrun Kovno, Lithuania |
| 1916 | | Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia |
| 1917 | | Soldier poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen meet in a military hospital |
| 1918 | | British troops capture Baku, Azerbaijan |
| 1940 | | FDR & Canadian PM William McKenzie King agree to create a joint defense commission |
| 1940 | | Greece mobilizes, fearing an Italian threat |
| 1942 | | First independent US bomber raid in Europe, against Rouen |
| 1942 | | Ichiki Detachment lands on Guadalcanal, at Taivu and Kokumbona. |
| 1942 | | Marine 2nd Raider Bn lands on Makin Island, Gilbert I. [withdraws 18th] |
| 1943 | | Japanese reinforcements land on Vella Lavella, DDs beat off U.S. DDs |
| 1943 | | US troops under Maj Gen George S. Patton capture Messina |
| 1943 | | Wewak, New Guinea: U.S./Aussie air raid, 100 Japanese a/c destroyed |
| 1943 | | the Quadrant Conference convened in Quebec: Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill -- Learn More |
| 1944 | | Surviving Japanese complete withdrawal from India |
| 1945 | | B-32 bombers attacked by Japanese a/c over Tokyo, without casualties. |
| 1945 | | Imperial kinsman Prince Higashikuni forms a new Japanese cabinet |
| 1959 | | Arleigh Burke is appointed to an unprecedented 3rd term as CNO |
| 1960 | | Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow, on his birthday |
| 1629 | | King John I of Poland (1674-1696) |
| 1786 | | David Crockett, frontiersman, k. 1836 |
| 1819 | | James Henry Van Alen, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1886 |
| 1844 | | Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia (1896-1913) |
| 1870 | | Richmond P. Hobson, Spanish-American War naval hero, d. 1937 -- Learn More |
| 1876 | | Henri G. Winkelman, Dutch Supreme Commander, 1940, d. 1952 |
| 1887 | | Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie of Hapsburg-Lorraine, Emperor Charles of Austria, King Charles IV of Hungary (1916-18), the last in each case, d. 1922 |
| 1887 | | Marcus Garvey, African nationalist, d. 1940 |
| 1914 | | Franklin D Roosevelt, Jr., sometime naval officer, was born, AND on this date in 1998 died at 84 -- Learn More |
| 1929 | | Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot, d. 1977 |
| 310 | | Pope St Eusebius (Apr 18-Aug 17, 310 - or possibly 309) |
| 1373 | | Ambrogio Visconti, condottiero, Captain of the [second] Company of San Giorgio, Lord of Pavia, assassinated at 30 |
| 1553 | | Duke Charles III "the Good", of Savoy (1504-1553) |
| 1657 | | Robert Blake, English "general at sea" at c. 58 |
| 1720 | | Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake, at 64 -- Learn More |
| 1786 | | King Frederick II "The Great" of Prussia (1740-86), 74 -- Learn More |
| 1838 | | Lorenzo Da Ponte, 90, Venetian, librettist ("Cosi fan tutti", etc.), first Professor of Italian at Columbia University, friend to Daniel Sickles, Simon Cameron |
| 1877 | | F.P. Cahill, Billy the Kid's first victim |
| 1915 | | Leo Max Frank, 31, American Jewish businessman, lynched in Georgia |
| 1962 | | Peter Fechter, 18, shot by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall |
| 1987 | | Rudolph Hess, Nazi, suicide at 93, after 46 years in Allied custody |
| 1988 | | FDR Jr, sometime naval officer, on his 74th birthday |
| 1988 | | Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, 64, and US Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Raphel, 45, plane crash |
| 1996 | | RAF Air Vice Marshal Witold Urbanowicz, Polish WW II fighter ace, at 88 -- Learn More |