| 357 | | Constantius II visits Rome for the first time. |
| 1282 | | Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily. |
| 1635 | | Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office. |
| 1760 | | French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham. |
| 1788 | | Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution. |
| 1789 | | The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh. |
| 1818 | | President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. |
| 1856 | | Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California. |
| 1902 | | Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic. |
| 1910 | | The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England. |
| 1916 | | British declare martial law throughout Ireland. |
| 1919 | | Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute. |
| 1920 | | Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union. |
| 1930 | | The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas. |
| 1932 | | A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced. |
| 1945 | | Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. |
| 1946 | | The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes |
| 1947 | | Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. |
| 1953 | | French troops evacuate northern Laos. |
| 1965 | | The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic. |
| 1967 | | Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title. |
| 1969 | | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. |
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