| | 451 - According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun. |
| | 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter. |
| | 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. |
| | 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater. |
| | 1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. |
| | 1782 - The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. |
| | 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. |
| | 1791 - The Flight to Varennes began. |
| | 1819 - The U.S. vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. |
| | 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. |
| | 1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated. |
| | 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. |
| | 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| | 1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father. |
| | 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. |
| | 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series. |
| | 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts. |
| | 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people. |
| | 1959 - A train-bus collision near Lauffen, Germany kills 43 people |
| | 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal. |
| | 1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| | 1963 - Leave it to Beaver ends. |
| | 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 teragrams) of wheat to Soviet Union. |
| | 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France. |
| | 1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 injured. |
| | 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). |
| | 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship. |
| | 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA. |
| | 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered. |
| | 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. |
| | 2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub in their Houston, Texas home. |
| | 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan. |
| | 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA. |
| | 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced. |
| | 2006 - Hastings, Nebraska experiences a rare heat burst, raising temperatures from the mid-seventies to 94 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the night. |