| 1580 | | Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumvent the globe. |
| 1777 | |
The British army launches a major offensive, capturing
Philadelphia. |
| 1786 | | France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London. |
| 1820 | | The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85. |
| 1826 | | The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus. |
| 1829 | | Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed. |
| 1864 | |
General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault
a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee. |
| 1901 | |
Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley,
is sentenced to death.. |
| 1913 | | The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal. |
| 1914 | | The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business. |
| 1918 | |
German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes,
bringing his total for the war up to 62. |
| 1937 | | Bessie Smith, known as the 'Empress of the Blues,' dies in a car crash in Mississippi. |
| 1940 | | During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps. |
| 1941 | | The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps. |
| 1950 | |
General Douglas MacArthur's American X Corps, fresh
from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout
from the Pusan Perimeter. |
| 1955 | | The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss. |
| 1960 | | Vice President Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates. |
| 1961 | | Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde's Folk City. |
| 1967 | |
Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal. |
| 1969 | | The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released. |
| 1972 | | Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch. |
| 1977 | | Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border. |
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