| 1096 | Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary. | |
| 1691 | William III defeats the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland. | |
| 1794 | British Admiral Lord Nelson loses his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica. | |
| 1806 | The Confederation of the Rhine is established in Germany. | |
| 1941 | Moscow is bombed by the German Luftwaffe for the first time. | |
| 1954 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposes a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments. | |
| 1957 | The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reports that there is a direct link between smoking and lung cancer. | |
| 1974 | G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others are convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate scandal. | |
| 1984 | Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale chooses Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. |
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