| 1739 | | Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries. |
| 1776 | | Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies. |
| 1862 | |
At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union
army defeats the Confederates. |
| 1873 | |
Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are hanged
in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby. |
| 1876 | | John L. Routt, the Colorado Territory governor, is elected the first state governor of Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S. |
| 1906 | | The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as warning signal. |
| 1929 | | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia. |
| 1931 | | The comic strip Dick Tracy first appears in the New York News. |
| 1940 | | U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory. |
| 1941 | | The Maltese Falson, starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, opens. |
| 1942 | |
Germany conducts the first successful test flight
of a V-2 missile, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course. |
| 1944 | | German troops evacuate Athens, Greece. |
| 1951 | | A "shot is heard around the world" when New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hits a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant. |
| 1955 | | The children's television program Captain Kangaroo debuts. |
| 1989 | | Art Shell becomes the first African American to coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders. |
| 1990 | | After 40 years of division, East and West Germany are reunited as one nation. |
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