| 63 | BC | Cicero denounced Catiline in the Senate -- "O Tempora, O Mores!" -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Willehad of Bremen, Patron of Saxony, and that of the Blessed John Duns Scotus, Patron of Academics, theologians, and philosophers, and of Cologne |
| 392 | | Roman Emperor Theodosius bans pagan worship and ends the Olympic Games |
| 641 | | The Arabs capture Alexandria from the East Romans, marking the final destruction of the Great Library |
| 960 | | Battle of Andrassos: The Byzantines defeat the Emir of Aleppo |
| 1443 | | Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeated the League of the Porta Giovia in the Battle of Monteluro -- Learn More |
| 1519 | | Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan and is welcomes by Motecuhzoma |
| 1620 | | Battle of White Mountain: Bohemians defeated by the Imperialists |
| 1745 | | Bonnie Prince Charlie invaded England from Scotland -- Learn More |
| 1805 | | Battle of Maria Zell: French defeat the Austrians |
| 1805 | | The Lewis & Clark Expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean |
| 1861 | | Battle of Mount Ivy, Ky |
| 1861 | | Capt. Charles Wilkes removes Confederate agents from the Royal Mail steamer 'Trent', initiating a diplomatic crisis with Britain |
| 1912 | | First Balkan War : The Greeks capture Salonika from the Turks |
| 1923 | | the U.S. conducted an aerial survey of Kaula in the Hawaiian Is. -- Learn More |
| 1923 | | Hitler's "Munich Beer Hall Putsch" |
| 1924 | | Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after an assassination attempt |
| 1939 | | Hitler escapes assassination at the Burgerbraukeller, Munich |
| 1940 | | The RAF bombs Munich |
| 1942 | | Hitler proclaims the fall of Stalingrad, somewhat prematurely |
| 1942 | | Operation Torch: U.S. and British forces land in northwestern Africa, aided by French Resistants |
| 1944 | | Hungary "lends" 25,000 Jews to the Germans for forced labor |
| 1950 | | The first jet fighter air duel: Lt. Russell J. Brown, in an F-86, tangles unsuccessfully with a North Korean MiG-15 |
| 1956 | | The UN demands that the USSR leave Hungary, and is ignored |
| 1957 | | Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, Kirimati Atoll, in the Pacific |
| 1990 | | President GHW Bush orders 100,000 additional US troops to the Persian Gulf |
| 35 | | Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (Sep. 18, 96-Jan. 27, 98) |
| 1572 | | Johan Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1608-1619), Duke of Prussia (1618-1619) |
| 1622 | | King Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1654-1660) |
| 1723 | | John "Foul Weather Jack" Byron, British Vice Adm., grandfather of the poet Lord Byron, d. 1786 |
| 1777 | | Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, sometime fiancee to Napoleon, wife to Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte/King Charles XIV of Sweden & Norway, Queen of Sweden and Norway (1818-1844), d. 1860 |
| 1789 | | Bourbon, allegedly distilled for the first time by Elijah Craig in Bourbon County, Ky |
| 1810 | | Pierre François Joseph Bosquet, Marshal of France, d. 1861 -- Learn More |
| 1817 | | Claudius Wistar Sears, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1891 |
| 1829 | | Samuel Wylie Crawford, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 |
| 1830 | | Oliver Otis Howard, Maj Gen, U.S., historian, d. 1909 |
| 1841 | | Filomena Pennacchio, Italian brigand leader, 1860-1864, d. 1915, in prison |
| 1847 | | Abraham "Bram" Stoker, Anglo-Irish author ("Dracula") and theatrical personality, d. 1912 |
| 1885 | | Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general, the "Tiger of Malaya", executed 1946 -- Learn More |
| 1900 | | Margaret Mitchell, novelist ("GWTW"), who had a grandfather at Gettysburg, d. 1949 |
| 618 | | Pope Adeodatus/Deodatus/Deusdedit I (615-618), c. 60-65 |
| 955 | | Pope Agapetus II (946-955) |
| 1226 | | King Louis VIII "the Lion" of France (1223-26), 39 |
| 1555 | | Gian Giacomo Medici "Il Medeghino" -- condottiero, poisoned at c. 60 |
| 1653 | | Tideo Marescotti, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated |
| 1674 | | John Milton, 65, 9 December 1608, English civil servant, author, and poet ("Paradise Lost") |
| 1698 | | Louis de Buade, le Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau, 76, French soldier and explorer, Governor General of New France (1672-1682 & 1689-1698) |
| 1773 | | Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz, 52, Frederick the Great's best cavalryman -- Learn More |
| 1830 | | King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (1826-1830), 53 |
| 1933 | | Shah Mohammed Nadir of Afghanistan (1929-1933), 50, assassinated |
| 1945 | | FM August von Mackensen, Conqueror of Romania in 1916, Nazi stooge, 95 |
| 1986 | | Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Stalin's henchman and the Oldest Old Bolshevik, at 96 |