| 1397 | | John of Gaunt marries Katherine Rouet. |
| 1846 | |
President James Polk dispatches General Zachary
Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms. |
| 1862 | | President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War. |
| 1900 | | To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary decrees German the official language of the Imperial Army. |
| 1919 | | California votes to ratify the prohibition amendment. |
| 1923 | | Hitler denounces the Weimar Republic as 5,000 storm troopers demonstrate in Germany. |
| 1927 | | A woman takes a seat on the NY Stock Exchange breaking the all-male tradition. |
| 1931 | | The bridge connecting New York and New Jersey is named the George Washington Memorial Bridge. |
| 1937 | | The United States bars Americans from serving in the Civil War in Spain. |
| 1943 | |
General Leclerc's Free French forces merge with
the British under Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery in Libya. |
| 1944 | | Plants are destroyed and 64 U.S. aircraft are lost in an air attack in Germany. |
| 1945 | | The Red Army opens an offensive in South Poland, crashing 25 miles through the German lines. |
| 1947 | | British troops replace striking truck drivers. |
| 1955 | | Chase National and the Bank of Manhattan agree to merge resulting in the second largest U.S. bank. |
| 1965 | | Two U.S. planes are shot down in Laos while on a combat mission. |
| 1968 | | U.S. reports shifting most air targets from North Vietnam to Laos. |
| 1976 | | Argentina ousts a British envoy in dispute over the Falkland Islands. |
| 1980 | | The United States offers Pakistan a two-year aid plan to counter the Soviet threat in Afghanistan. |
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