| | 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. |
| | 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir. |
| | 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| | 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession. |
| | 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza. |
| | 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians. |
| | 1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. |
| | 1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. |
| | 1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo. |
| | 1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement. |
| | 1846 - The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter). |
| | 1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. |
| | 1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny. |
| | 1871 - University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. |
| | 1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York. |
| | 1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. |
| | 1903 - Ford Motor Company incorporates. |
| | 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway. |
| | 1904 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. |
| | 1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. |
| | 1915 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute |
| | 1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin. |
| | 1924 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded. |
| | 1925 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established. |
| | 1930 - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
| | 1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France. |
| | 1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. |
| | 1948 - The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane. |
| | 1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón. |
| | 1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York. |
| | 1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris. |
| | 1963 - Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. |
| | 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR. |
| | 1967 - Monterey Pop Festival begins; Monterey, California. |
| | 1972 - Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen. |
| | 1972 - Largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador. |
| | 1976 - Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children. |
| | 1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR. |
| | 1989 - Historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister in Budapest. |
| | 1994 - A Chinese operated Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160. |
| | 1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election. |
| | 1997 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed. |
| | 1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa. |
| | 2000 - Israel completely fulfills UN Security Council Resolution 425 (calling on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon) |