| 63 | BC | Cicero's Third Oration against Catiline, delivered to the People in the Forum, as Catiline's co-conspirators in Rome are arrested. |
| 62 | BC | Publius Claudius Pulcher was discovered in drag during the women’s only nocturnal rites of the Good Goddess, held at the home of the Pontifex Maximus, C. Julius Caesar |
| 0 | BC | Roman observances in honor of Neptune and Minerva & the Festival of the Good Goddess |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Francis Xavier, S.J., and that of St. Birinus, “The Apostle of Wessex.” |
| 915 | | Coronation of King Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (915-924). |
| 1315 | | Albertino Mussato (1261-1329), soldier, statesman, poet, historian, is crowned "Poet Laureate" at Padua |
| 1685 | | King Charles XI bars Jews from settling in Stockholm |
| 1799 | | Battle of Wiesloch: The Austrians defeat the French. |
| 1800 | | Jean Victor Marie Moreau's French crushed the Austrians in the Battle of Hohenlinden -- Learn More |
| 1854 | | Battle of Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Victoria): State forces kill over 20 miners in a legal dispute |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Salem, Mo |
| 1863 | | James Longstreet abandons the siege of Knoxville, TN |
| 1912 | | First Balkan War - Battle of Elli: A Greek naval squadron defeats a Turkish squadron |
| 1913 | | First Balkan War -- Armistice of Çatalca: The Serbs, Bulgarians, and Montegnegrans conclude a truce with the Turks |
| 1915 | | British 6th Indian Division falls back on Kut-el-Amara, Iraq |
| 1941 | | Japanese First Air Fleet refuels at 45 N, 170 E, 2,100 nautical miles northwest of Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Japanese destroyers land reinforcements |
| 1942 | | Munda: U.S. aerial recon finds Japanese building an air strip |
| 1944 | | China: Japanese Eleventh Army runs out of supplies, offensive slows down |
| 1956 | | England & France pull troops out of Egypt |
| 1997 | | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. |
| 1368 | | King Charles VI "the Well-Beloved" of France (1380-1422) |
| 1447 | | Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512) |
| 1753 | | Samuel B. Webb, Patriot, commander of the 9th Connecticut (the "Decoy Regiment") during the American Revolutionary War, d. .1807 -- Learn More |
| 1755 | | Gilbert Stuart, soldier, artist ("George Washington"), d. 1828 |
| 1806 | | Henry Alexander Wise, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1876 |
| 1809 | | Thomas Alfred Davies, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1899 |
| 1822 | | Charles Adam Heckman, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1896 |
| 1826 | | George Brinton McClellan, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1885 -- Learn More |
| 1826 | | Count Levin August Gottlieb Theophil von Bennigsen, 81, German-born Russian general |
| 1829 | | Green Berry Raum, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1909 |
| 1880 | | Fedor von Bock, German field marshal, d. 1945 |
| 1902 | | Mitsuo Fuchida, who would someday say "Tora! Tora! Tora!", d. 1976 |
| 313 | | Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305), c. 67, while raising cabbages in retirement at Spoletum -- Learn More |
| 1137 | | Lothar III of Supplinburg, c. 62, Duke of Saxony (1106-1137), King of Germany (1125-1137), Holy Roman Emperor (1133-37) |
| 1154 | | Pope Anastasius IV (July 1153-Dec 3, 1154), c. 80 -- Corrado Demetri della Suburra |
| 1431 | | Giovanni I Count of Carpegna, killed in a popular uprising. |
| 1533 | | Grand Prince Vasili III of Moscow (1505-1533), c. 45 |
| 1807 | | Brig. Gen. Samuel B. Webb, Patriot, commander of the 9th Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War, at 54 -- Learn More |
| 1839 | | King Frederik VI of Denmark (1808-39) & Norway (1803-14), 71 |
| 1892 | | William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse,66, Irish soldier & poet, grandson of Lucien, grand-nephew of Napoleon |
| 1894 | | Robert Louis Stevenson, cottish author ("Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," etc., at 44 -- Learn More |
| 2009 | | Richard Todd, sometime officer, the 7th Para on D-Day, and actor, who played Maj John Howard in "The Longest Day," wearing the same beret he’d worn in 1944, at 90 |