| 0 | | Regimental Day of the Papal Swiss Guard -- Learn More (scroll down) |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint Dominic Savio, Patron of Juvenile Delinquents |
| 1249 | | Reginald/Ragnald V becomes King of the Isle of Man (1248-1250) |
| 1333 | | 20-year-old Stefano Colonna ) slaughtered the heads of the Orsini & Savelli clans in the ambush of San Cesario,which was celebrated by Petrarch |
| 1456 | | The Oddi & Corgna families attempt a coup against the Baglioni at Perugia |
| 1527 | | Charles V's Spanish and German troops began a brutal "Sack of Rome" -- Learn More |
| 1529 | | Battle of Ghagra: Babur defeats the Sultan of Bengal |
| 1622 | | Imperial troops under the Count of Tilly & Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba the Younger defeated Duke George Frederick of Baden-Durlachin the Battle of Wimpfen -- Learn More |
| 1757 | | Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians |
| 1794 | | Toussaint L'Ouverture began the Haitian Revolution against France -- Learn More (scroll down) |
| 1844 | | Radical Protestant Terrorists initiate three days of attacks on Catholics in Philadelphia and Kensington, |
| 1848 | | Battle of Santa Lucia: Austrians defeat the Piedmontese |
| 1861 | | Arkansas is the 9th state to secede from the Union |
| 1864 | | Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA |
| 1864 | | Cherokee Chief Stand Watie is made a Confederate brigadier general |
| 1864 | | The Wilderness: James Longstreet is wounded by friendly fire during a counterattack |
| 1889 | | Dedication of the Eiffel Tower |
| 1898 | | US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire at Havana & Santiago |
| 1910 | | George V acceded to the British throne -- Learn More |
| 1915 | | Gallipoli: Allies attack Cape Hellas |
| 1916 | | Belgians capture Kigali, German East-Africa |
| 1919 | | The 77th Division marches home up Fifth Avenue |
| 1919 | | Third Anglo-Afghan War begins (ends Aug. 8th, with Britain recognizing full Afghan independence) |
| 1933 | | Italo-Soviet trade agreement: Fascists and Communists united |
| 1937 | | The airship 'Hindenburg' burns at Lakehurst, NJ, 36 die |
| 1937 | | the Germam airship 'Hindenburg' burned at Lakehurst, N.J., 35 of 97 souls aboard died, and one member of the ground crew |
| 1941 | | Bob Hope staged the his first of his hundreds of USO shows, March Field, California |
| 1942 | | Corregidor and the Philippines surrender to the Japanese |
| 1945 | | Axis Sally makes her last broadcast |
| 1948 | | Greek government executes 43 communist rebels at Athens |
| 1955 | | West Germany joins NATO |
| 1962 | | USS 'Ethan Allen' (SSBN-608) fires the first nuclear warhead from a submerged submarine |
| 973 | | Holy Roman Emperor Henry II (1014-1024) |
| 1405 | | Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg, Albanian national hero, d. 1468 |
| 1501 | | Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi - Pope Marcellus II (Mar 17 - May 6, 1555) |
| 1574 | | Giambattista Pamfili - Pope Innocent X (1644-1655) |
| 1585 | | John Rolfe, husband to Pocahontas, d. 1622 |
| 1758 | | Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, French demagogue, guillotined in 1794, in a taste of his own medicine |
| 1769 | | Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, (1790-1801; 1814-1824), Prince-elector and Duke of Salzburg (1803-1806), Grand Duke of Würzburg (1806-1814), d. 1824 |
| 1812 | | Maj. Martin Robinson Delany, abolitionist, seniormost black Civil War officer, d. 1885 |
| 1813 | | Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893 |
| 1825 | | Joseph Bailey, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1867 |
| 1875 | | Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy, First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, d. 1959 |
| 1902 | | Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Lloyd Dawson, d. 1994 |
| 1910 | | James Earl Rudder, who would lead the Rangers at Pointe de Hoc, and rise to major general, d. 1970. |
| 1913 | | Stewart Granger, Gordon Highlander, actor ("Prisoner of Zenda," "Bohwani Junction"), d. 1993 |
| 1953 | | Tony Blair, British prime minister (1997-2007) |
| 523 | | King Thrasamund of the Vandals (496-523), c. 73 |
| 988 | | Count Dirk II of Holland (944-988), c. 58-68 |
| 1124 | | Emir Balak of Aleppo (1123-1124), murdered |
| 1333 | | Duke Bertoldo Orsini of Bracciano, Buccio Ballo, Cecco Ballo, Cola Orsini, Count Francesco dell'Anguillara, Francesco Savelli, Giovanni Annibaldi, Giovanni Orsini, Giovanni Savelli, Guglielmo Savelli, Martino da Porto Stefano, Matteo di Campo dei Fiori, Nuccio Savelli, Pietro d'Amico, & Rinaldo Orsini, in the Ambush of San Cesario |
| 1527 | | Charles de Bourbon (37), French rebel, Imperial constable, shot in the head by Benevenuto Cellini while storming Rome, during which thousands of others died, including 150 Swiss Guards |
| 1575 | | Ristoro Ludovico Machiavelli, Patrician of Florence, executed for conspiracy against the Duke of Tuscany. |
| 1757 | | Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (70), Prussian field marshal, cannonballed at Prague while rallying the troops |
| 1873 | | José Antonio Páez Herrera, hero of Venezuelan Independence & President, at 82 -- Learn More |
| 1882 | | Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (45) & Permanent Under Secretary for Ireland Thomas Henry Burke (53), shot by the Fenians |
| 1910 | | King Edward VII of Great Britain (1901-10), 68 |
| 1987 | | William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), at 73 |
| 1989 | | Guy Williams (Armand Joseph Catalano), actor ("Zorro"), at 65 |