| 58 | BC | Caesar arrived at Geneva, from which he began the conquest of Gaul |
| 47 | BC | Battle of the Nile: Caesar & Pharnaces defeat an Egypto-Optimate Army |
| 19 | BC | Triumph of Lucius Cornelisu Balbus the Younger, for victories in Africa; the last triumph held for anyone not a member of the imperial family -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in Myanmar |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Rupert of Salzburg, Patron of Salzburg and of Salt Miners |
| 1555 | | Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi elected Pope as Marcellus II (Mar 27-May 6 1555) |
| 1599 | | Elizabeth names her favorite, the Earl of Essex, Lt-Gen of Ireland |
| 1625 | | Charles I ascends the English and Scottish thrones, deposed and executed 1649 |
| 1794 | | Congress approves construction of 6 frigates, including USS 'Constitution' |
| 1799 | | USS 'Constitution' recaptures the American sloop 'Neutrality' from the French |
| 1802 | | the Wars of the French Revolution ended with the Treaty of Amiens -- Learn More |
| 1814 | | Andrew Jackson defeated the Muscogee/Creek Indians in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend - Learn More |
| 1863 | | Confederate President Jefferson Davis declares a day of fasting & prayer |
| 1865 | | Lincoln, generals Grant and Sherman, and admiral Porter met on the steamer 'River Queen' to plan the end of the Civil War -- Learn More |
| 1865 | | Battle of Mobile/Spanish Fort/Fort Morgan/Fort Blakely |
| 1933 | | Japan leaves the League of Nations |
| 1937 | | Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" |
| 1940 | | Himmler orders building of the Auschwitz concentration camp |
| 1941 | | Britain leases bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years |
| 1941 | | Coup in Yugoslavia ousts Prince Paul's pro-Nazi regime, prompting Hitler to order an invasion |
| 1941 | | Takeo Yoshikawa begins spying on US installations on Oahu |
| 1942 | | Ceylon: Adm. James Somerville takes over the British Far Eastern Fleet |
| 1942 | | following heavy air attacks, the Royal Navy & the Commandos raided St. Nazaire, France -- Learn More |
| 1943 | | US troops attack Fonduk Pass, Tunisia |
| 1944 | | The Nazis murders 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, deport the Jewish children of Lovno, murder 2,000 Jews in Kauna, and transport 1,000 Jews from Drancy, France. to Auschwitz |
| 1945 | | B-29s begin mining Japanese waters |
| 1945 | | Wiesbaden falls to the US XX Corps |
| 1945 | | The last German V-2 rocket attack on Britain: 134 people, many of them Jewish, are killed Whitechapel, London |
| 1952 | | Attempted assassination of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer |
| 1958 | | First Secretary of the CP (since 1953) Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the USSR (1958-1964) |
| 1964 | | UN peacekeeping troops arrive on Cyprus |
| 972 | | King Robert II "the Pious" or "the Wise" of France (996-1031) |
| 1196 | | Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich of Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod (1200-1205, 1207-1210), Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (1246-1248), deposed, d. 1252) |
| 1746 | | Carlo Maria Buonaparte, Corsican lawyer who had a famous son, d. 1785 |
| 1785 | | Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, who didn't become King Louis XVII of France, d. 1795. |
| 1799 | | Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora, Italian soldier, founder of the Bersaglieri, d. 1855 |
| 1823 | | Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Brig Gen, U.S., d/w, Gettysburg, 1863 |
| 1893 | | Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Chetnik and Nazi collaborator, executed 1946 |
| 1894 | | René Paul Fonck, Allied WW I "Ace of Aces" (74 confirmed kills, >30 more possibles), d. 1953 |
| 1895 | | Roland Aubrey Leighton, British soldier-poet, friend to Vera Britten, d/w in the Worcesters 1915 |
| 2007 | | Charlotte Winters, last surviving WW I "Yeomanette", at 109 |
| 47 | BC | Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (c. 15), brother and husband to Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile fleeing Caesar's troops |
| 965 | | Count Arnulf I "Le Vieux" of Flanders, c. 75 |
| 1211 | | King Sancho I of Portugal (1185-1211), at 56 |
| 1350 | | King Alfonso XI of Castile, León, and Galicia (1311-1350), c. 48, of Plague at Gibraltar |
| 1378 | | Pope Gregory XI - Pierre Roger de Beaufort (1371-1378), c. 42, who ended the "Babylonian Captivity" of the Papacy in Avignon |
| 1701 | | Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, the Count of Tourville, French Admiral, at 58 |
| 1729 | | Duke Leopold of Lorraine and Bar (1690-1729), 49 |
| 1834 | | John Shipp, British soldier and military reformer, died at c. 50 -- Learn More |
| 1836 | | James Walker Fannin, Jr. (c. 32), inept commander, and c. 320 other Texians, executed at Goliad |
| 1854 | | Duke Carlo III Ferdinando of Parma & Piacenza (1848-1854), 31, assassinated |
| 1900 | | Pieter Joubert, Boer Commander, at 69 |
| 1942 | | John W. Wilcox, Jr., 60, Rear Adm, USN, washed overboard from the stern of the battleship 'Washington' (BB 56) in the North Atlantic |
| 1947 | | Brig. Gen. Oliver Lyman Spaulding, American soldier-scholar, at 71 -- Learn More |
| 1968 | | Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, at 31 in an airplane crash |
| 1991 | | Aldo Ray (Aldo Da Re), 64, veteran, actor ("What Did You Do in the War, Daddy") |