| 37 | | On a trip to the Italian mainland from his home on Capreae, the emperor Tiberius dies on the Bay of Naples. |
| 1190 | | The Crusades begin the massacre of Jews in York, England. |
| 1527 | | The Emperor Babur defeats the Rajputs at the Battle of Kanvaha, removing the main Hindu rivals in Northern India. |
| 1621 | | The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
| 1833 | | Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college. |
| 1850 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published. |
| 1865 | | Union troops push past Confederate blockers at the Battle of Averasborough, N.C. |
| 1907 | | The British cruiser Invincible, the world's largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards. |
| 1913 | | The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport News, Va. |
| 1917 | | Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne. |
| 1926 | | Physicist Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket. |
| 1928 | | The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua. |
| 1935 | | Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty. |
| 1939 | | Germany occupies the rest Czechoslovakia. |
| 1945 | | Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist. |
| 1954 | | CBS introduces The Morning Show hosted by Walter Cornet to compete with NBC's Today Show. |
| 1964 | | President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress. |
| 1968 | | U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre. |
| 1984 | | Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support for one another's internal foes. |
| 1985 | | Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. |
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