| 1442 | | Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples. |
| 1812 | | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia. |
| 1849 | | The gas mask is patented by L. P. Haslett. |
| 1862 | | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. |
| 1901 | | Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. |
| 1918 | | The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France. |
| 1920 | | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. |
| 1921 | | President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp. |
| 1926 | | Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. |
| 1931 | | Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws. |
| 1937 | | Eight of Stalin's generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union. |
| 1942 | | American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time. |
| 1963 | | Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| 1967 | | The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages. |
| 1972 | | At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam. |
| 1977 | | David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York. |
| 1985 | | The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. |
| 1991 | | Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years. |
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