| 217 BC | | Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminicy in a battle at Lake Trasimenus in central Italy. |
| 1314 | | The Scots, under Robert the Bruce, defeat Edward II's army at Bannockburn. |
| 1377 | | Richard II, who is still a child, succeeds his grandfather, Edward III. |
| 1667 | | The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English. |
| 1675 | | Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral in London after the Great Fire. |
| 1791 | | The French royal family is arrested in Varennes. |
| 1834 | | C. H. McCormick patents the first practical reaper. |
| 1862 | | Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek. |
| 1863 | | In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing. |
| 1887 | | Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. |
| 1900 | | General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule. |
| 1908 | | Mulai Hafid again proclaims himself the true sultan of Morocco. |
| 1911 | | Porforio Diaz, the ex-president of Mexico, exiles himself to Paris. |
| 1915 | | Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest. |
| 1919 | | Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland. |
| 1939 | | Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--a disease which wastes muscles. |
| 1942 | | German General Erwin Rommel captures the port city of Tobruk in North Africa. |
| 1945 | | Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops. |
| 1948 | | Dr. Peter Goldmark demonstrates his "long-playing" record. |
| 1958 | | A federal judge allows Little Rock, Arkansas to delay school integration. |
| 1963 | | France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic. |
| 1964 | | Three civil rights workers disappear in Meridian, Mississippi. |
| 1982 | | John Hinkley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. |
| 1995 | | The U.S. Senate votes against the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster for Surgeon General. |
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