| 480 | BC | the Persians sacked & burned Athens |
| 0 | | Haifa Day in the Indian Army -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of Pope St. Linus, second Bishop of Rome, and that of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Patron of Civil Defense Volunteers |
| 1122 | | Concordat of Worms: Pope Callistus II and HRE Henry V end the Investiture Controversy |
| 1325 | | Battle of Altopascio: The Lucchese defeat the Florentines |
| 1459 | | Battle of Blore Heath: the Earl of Salisbury's Yorkists beat Lord Audley's Lancastrians |
| 1642 | | Battle of Powick Bridge: Prince Rupert of the Rhine defeats Col John Brown & the Earl of Essex -- Learn More |
| 1700 | | Spanish crush the Prince of Macchia's coup in Naples (began Sep 20) |
| 1751 | | Siege of Arcot: Rajah Chandra Sahib's Franco-Indian Army invests the city, held by Clive's Anglo-Indians; abandond the siege on Nov. 14th |
| 1779 | | Celebrated frigate duel between John Paul Jones' 'Bonhomme Richard' & HMS 'Serapis' |
| 1780 | | Maj. John Andre is captured, revealing Benedict Arnold's treason |
| 1803 | | Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Indian army defeated the Marathas at Assaye -- Learn More |
| 1806 | | Frederick Marryat joins the Royal Navy, rises to captain, produces numerous novels, stories, and books, about the sea |
| 1806 | | Lewis & Clark Expedition ends at St Louis |
| 1846 | | Mexican uprising against American occupation at Los Angeles |
| 1857 | | the Russian ship-of-the-line warship 'Lefort' (94) capsized in the a storm off Finland, 826 died |
| 1861 | | Combat at Romney, WVa |
| 1862 | | Otto von Bismarck became Minister President of Prussia (1862-1890) -- Learn More |
| 1863 | | Confederates begin investment of Chattanooga |
| 1864 | | Battle of Athens VA |
| 1865 | | Harney Lake Valley, Ore: Skirmish between US troops & Indians |
| 1868 | | Grito de Lares: abortive Puerto Rican uprising against Spain |
| 1915 | | Serbian troops begin retreating into Albania pursued by Austro-German-Bulgarian forces |
| 1931 | | Navy tests its first rotary wing aircraft, an XOP-1 autogiro, on 'Langley' (CV-1) |
| 1940 | | Dutch fascist leader Musserts meets Hitler for the first time |
| 1941 | | Charles de Gaulle forms a French government-in-exile in London |
| 1941 | | Kronstadt: German air raid sinks the Russian BB Marat |
| 1942 | | Auschwitz begins experimental executions using poison gas |
| 1942 | | Madagascar: British & Free French occupy Tananarive |
| 1962 | | "Ensign O'Toole" premiers on NBC, runs for one season |
| 1976 | | "Baa Baa Black Sheep" premieres on TV |
| 1979 | | Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, NYC |
| 1996 | | "JAG" premiers on NBC, later moves to CBS, runs for ten seasons |
| 480 | BC | Euripides, dramatist ("Iphigenia at Aulis"), d. c. 405 BC |
| 63 | BC | Gaius Octavius, Augustus, first & greatest Roman Emperor (27 BC-14 AD) -- Learn More |
| 1713 | | King Ferdinand VI of Spain (1746-1759) |
| 1791 | | Karl Theodor Körner, Prussian war poet, kia 1813 |
| 1816 | | Julius White, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890 |
| 1820 | | Thomas Kilby Smith, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1887 |
| 1890 | | Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, German FM, who had his Waterloo at Stalingrad, d. 1957 |
| 1897 | | Walter Pidgeon, sometime Canadian artilleryman, actor ("Mrs. Miniver"), d. 1984 |
| 1910 | | Elliot Roosevelt, Brig Gen, USAAF, d. 1990 -- Learn More |
| 775 | | Constantine V Copronymus, c. 57, Byzantine Emperor (720-75), |
| 867 | | Byzantine Emperor Michael III (842-867), 27, assassinated [Alt Sep 24] |
| 1888 | | Marshal of France François Achille Bazaine, Foreign Legionnaire, who lost the big one in 1870, at 77 -- Learn More |
| 1939 | | Sigmund Freud, 83, sometime soldier |
| 1947 | | Nikola Dimitrov Petkov, 54, Balkan Wars veteran, Bulgarian anti-fascist & peasant leader, hanged by the communists |
| 1973 | | Pablo Neruda, 69, poetical Soviet apologist |
| 2004 | | Nigel Nicholson, Guardsman, litterateur, b. 1917 |