| 1129 | | The warrior Yoritomo is made Shogun without equal in Japan. |
| 1525 | | Estavao Gomes returns to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia. |
| 1794 | | France surrenders the island of Corsica to the British. |
| 1808 | | Napoleon Bonaparte's General Junot is defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimiero, Portugal. |
| 1831 | | Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites. |
| 1858 | | The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time. |
| 1863 | | Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead. |
| 1864 | | Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties. |
| 1915 | | Italy declares war on Turkey. |
| 1942 | | U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru. |
| 1944 | | The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C. |
| 1945 | | President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act. |
| 1959 | | Hawaii is admitted into the Union. |
| 1963 | | The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon. |
| 1968 | | Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country's experiments with a more liberal government. |
| 1996 | | The new Globe theater opens in England. |
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