| 30 BC | | Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, commits suicide. |
| 1617 | | Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized. |
| 1721 | | The Peace of Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region. |
| 1781 | | The French fleet arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution. |
| 1813 | | Creek Indians massacre over 500 whites at Fort Mims Alabama. |
| 1860 | | The first British tramway is inaugurated at Birkenhead by an American, George Francis Train. |
| 1861 | | Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln overrules the general. |
| 1892 | | The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brings cholera to the United States. |
| 1932 | | Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag. |
| 1944 | | Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops. |
| 1957 | | In an effort to stall the Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing, Senator Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) filibusters for over 24 hours. The bill passed, but Thurmond's filibuster becomes the longest in Senate history. |
| 1961 | | President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin. |
| 1983 | | Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space. |
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