927 – King Æthelstan of England secures a pledge from King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of Strathclyde, that they will not ally with Viking kings, leading to seven years of peace in the north, accepting the overlordship of King Æthelstan, and beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
1191 – Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
1470 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
1527 – Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê Dynasty and starting the Mạc Dynasty.
1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
1561 – Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is consecrated.
1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
1690 – Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar): The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1780 – The Battle of Williamson’s Plantation (also known as Huck’s defeat) was fought in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War’s Southern Campaign.
1789 – French revolutionary and radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gave a speech in response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker the day before. The speech calls the citizens to arms and leads to the Storming of the Bastille two days later.
1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
1799 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).
1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.
1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1806 – Liechtenstein is given full sovereignty after its accession to the Confederation of the Rhine.
1812 – War of 1812: The American Army of the Northwest led by General Hull briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration for valor against an enemy.
1879 – The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
1896 – Revere Beach, the first public beach in the United States, opens.
1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
1917 – The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
1932 – Hedley Verity takes a cricket world record ten wickets for ten runs in a county match for Yorkshire.
1933 – A U.S. industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka: German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
1954 – President Eisenhower presents a plan for an interstate highway system.
1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1961 – Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death toll exceeds 2,000.
1962 – The Rolling Stones gave their first public performance, a concert at the Marquee Club in London.
1963 – Pauline Reade, who was 16-years-old, disappears on her way to a dance at the British Railways Club in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1967 – The Newark riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
1970 – A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output.
1971 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1973 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom.
1984 – Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., as his running mate. She was the first woman to share a major U.S. political party's presidential ticket. Mondale lost in November to incumbent Ronald Reagan.
1989 – Lotte World Adventure opens in Seoul, South Korea.
1990, Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party, saying he wants to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic.
2006 – Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
2006 – Lebanon-Israel war stats.
2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1998 is adopted.
2011 – Ahmed Wali Karzai, 48, a half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a powerful figure in Kandahar, was killed at his home by a bodyguard.
2012 – The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.
2012 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
2013 – Six people are killed and 200 injured in a passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France.
2013 – Six people are killed and 200 injured in a passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Jason of Tarsus (Catholic Church)
Blessed Louis Martin and Zélie Martin
(parents of St. Thérèse de Lisieux)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Proclus and Hilarion of Ancyra (2nd century)
Venerable Michael of Maleinus, monk (962)
Martyr Golinduc of Persia, named Mary in holy baptism (591)
Martyrs Theodore of Kiev and his son John (983)
Saint Veronica, the woman with the issue of blood whom Jesus healed (1st century)
Blessed Serapion of Vladimir (1275)
Saint Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
Saint Simon of Volomsk, abbot (1641)
Saints John and Gabriel of Svyatogorsk
Saint Anthony of Leokhnov in Novgorod, abbot
Martyrs Andrew the Soldier, Heraclius, Taustus, Menas, and others
Martyr Mamas near Sigmata
Venerable Michael of Maleinus, monk (962)
Martyr Golinduc of Persia, named Mary in holy baptism (591)
Martyrs Theodore of Kiev and his son John (983)
Saint Veronica, the woman with the issue of blood whom Jesus healed (1st century)
Blessed Serapion of Vladimir (1275)
Saint Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
Saint Simon of Volomsk, abbot (1641)
Saints John and Gabriel of Svyatogorsk
Saint Anthony of Leokhnov in Novgorod, abbot
Martyrs Andrew the Soldier, Heraclius, Taustus, Menas, and others
Martyr Mamas near Sigmata
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"
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