| 0 | | Sts. Leontius, Hypatius, and Theodolus, Patrons of Syria |
| 653 | | Byzantines depose Pope St. Martin I (649-653), exiling him to the Crimea |
| 1155 | | Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1291 | | King Jaime II of Sicily ascends the throne of Aragon |
| 1429 | | Battle of Patay: French defeat the English, retreating from Orleans |
| 1450 | | Battle of Sevenoaks: Jack Cade's Kentish rebels defeat Sir Humphrey Stafford |
| 1472 | | Volterra is sacked & razed by the Florentines under Lorenzo "il Magnifico" de'Medici |
| 1538 | | the Treaty of Nice between HRE Charles V & Francis I of France temporarily paused the Italian Wars -- Learn More |
| 1675 | | Battle of Fehrbellim: The Prussians defeat the Swedes |
| 1757 | | Battle of Kolin: Marshal Daun' Austrians defeat Frederick the Great's Prussians |
| 1778 | | British evacuate Philadelphia |
| 1812 | | US declares war against Britain |
| 1815 | | Battles of Waterloo and Wavre: Wellington and Blucher crush Napoleon -- Learn More |
| 1817 | | Waterloo Bridge, over the Thames in London, opens |
| 1823 | | The British Army adopts trousers for infantry, in lieu of breeches & gaiters |
| 1861 | | Combat at Camp Cole, Mo |
| 1900 | | Empress Tsu-tse orders the Boxers to expel foreigners from China |
| 1910 | | Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Theodore Roosevelt, on his return from Africa. |
| 1916 | | President Wilson calls up the National Guard to secure the Mexican Border against hostile incursions. |
| 1918 | | New York's 308th Infantry relieved New York's "Fighting 69th" at the front -- Learn More |
| 1940 | | From London, Brig. Gen. Charles de Gaulle appeals to the French to rally to him, ""Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished." |
| 1940 | | Hitler and Mussolini confer in Munich, discuss the imminent surrender of France and plans for an invasion of Switzerland |
| 1940 | | Winston Churchill says "this was their finest hour" -- https://youtu.be/6jjhxeHIjvU |
| 1942 | | Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with FDR |
| 1942 | | Dr. Bernard Whitfield Robinson becomes the first black officer in the U.S. Navy |
| 1944 | | US First Army isolates Cherbourg |
| 1944 | | Japanese take Changsha, on the 3rd try. |
| 1945 | | William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce is charged with treason |
| 1332 | | Byzantine Emperor John V Paleologos (1341-1376, deposed, 1379-1391) |
| 1667 | | Prince Ivan Yuriyevich Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal, d. 1750 |
| 1809 | | Sylvanus William Godon, naval officer, U.S., d. 1879 |
| 1815 | | Ludwig Samson Heinrich Arthur Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Bavarian field marshal, d. 1881 |
| 1836 | | Italy's Corpo dei bersaglieri |
| 1839 | | William Henry Seward Jr, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1920 |
| 1868 | | Adm Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Regent of Hungary (1920-44), d. 1957 |
| 1874 | | King George Tupou II of Tonga (1895-1918) |
| 1877 | | James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("Uncle Sam wants you!"), d. 1960 |
| 1878 | | The US Life Saving Service, now part of the Coast Guard |
| 1879 | | Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, Jr., pioneer naval aviator, d. 1956 -- Learn More |
| 1884 | | Edouard Daladier, premier of France, appeaser, d. 1970 |
| 1937 | | Vitali M Zholobov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21) |
| 1942 | | Redmond A. Simonsen, innovative graphic artist and game designer, d. 2005 |
| 741 | | Byzantine Emperor Leo III "the Isaurian" (717-741), c. 60, Savior of Constantinople, Iconoclast |
| 1291 | | King Alfonso III of Aragon (1285-91), at 24 |
| 1291 | | King Alfonso III of Aragon and Valencia (r. 1286-1291), at 25 -- Learn More |
| 1629 | | Piet Heyn, Dutch naval hero, kia at Dunkerque, 51. |
| 1815 | | LtGen Sir Thomas Picton, kia Waterloo, 56 -- Learn More |
| 1824 | | Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany, 55 |
| 1858 | | Lakshmibai (nee Manikarnika Tambe), 29, Rani of Jhansi (1842-1858), a leader of the "Sepoy Mutiny", kia |
| 1862 | | Sgt. Maj. Marion A. Ross (30), Pvt. Samuel Robertson (19), Sgt. John Morehead Scott (24), Pvt. Samuel Slavens (31), Pvt. George Davenport Wilson (32), Pvt. Charles Perry Shadrack (Phillip Gephart Shadrach) (22), and William Hunter Campbell (23), civilian, hanged at Atlanta by the Confederacy for their part in the hijacking of the locomotive "The General |
| 1869 | | Giovanni Battista Bugatti, 90, known as "Mastro Titta", executioner for the Papal States (1796-1861 - 516 executions) |
| 1916 | | Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke "the Younger", German chief of general staff, 67 |
| 1945 | | Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr, Commander, Tenth Army, KIA, Okinawa, 58 |
| 1964 | | Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, who had defended Cherbourg, at 69 -- Learn More |
| 1973 | | Fredrick Fraske, last veteran of the frontier army, at 101 |
| 1974 | | Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgi Zhukov, 78 |
| 2020 | | Dame Vera Lynn, at 103 -- https://youtu.be/Px6GKO95WU4?t=5 |