| 536 | | Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome. |
| 1861 | | The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War. |
| 1863 | | Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio. |
| 1867 | | The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver. |
| 1872 | | P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana. |
| 1900 | | The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger's pleas for aid in South Africa against the British. |
| 1908 | | A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13. |
| 1917 | | The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops. |
| 1940 | | The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt. |
| 1941 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war. |
| 1948 | | The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan. |
| 1949 | | The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem. |
| 1950 | | President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China. |
| 1950 | | Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. |
| 1955 | | Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title. |
| 1960 | | The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war. |
| 1990 | |
Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland. |
| 1992 | | U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country. |
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