| 1513 | | Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian defeat the French at Guinegatte, France, in the Battle of the Spurs. |
| 1777 | | France declares a state of bankruptcy. |
| 1780 | | American troops are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina. |
| 1812 | | American General William Hull surrenders Detroit without resistance to a smaller British force under General Issac Brock. |
| 1858 | | U.S. President James Buchanan and Britain's Queen Victoria exchange messages inaugurating the first transatlantic telegraph line. |
| 1861 | | Union and Confederate forces clash near Fredericktown and Kirkville, Missouri. |
| 1863 | | Union General William S. Rosecrans moves his army south from Tullahoma, Tennessee to attack Confederate forces in Chattanooga. |
| 1896 | | Gold is discovered in the Klondike of Canada's Yukon Territory, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| 1914 | | Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army. |
| 1945 | | Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops. |
| 1965 | | The Watts riots end in south-central Los Angeles after six days. |
| 1977 | | Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack in the upstairs bedroom suite area of his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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