| 1302 | | An army of French knights, led by the Count of Artois, is routed by Flemish pikemen. |
| 1346 | | Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany. |
| 1533 | | Henry VIII is excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII. |
| 1708 | | The French are defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy. |
| 1786 | | Morocco agrees to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000. |
| 1799 | | An Anglo-Turkish armada bombards Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in Alexandria to no avail. |
| 1804 | | Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel. |
| 1862 | | President Abraham Lincoln appoints General Henry Halleck as general in chief of the Federal army. |
| 1942 | | In the longest bombing raid of World War II, 1,750 British Lancaster bombers attack the Polish port of Danzig. |
| 1972 | | American forces break the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam. |
| 1975 | | Archaeologists unearth an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi. |
| 1995 | | Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam. |
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