| 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. | |
| 1861 | Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. Lincoln overrules the general. | |
| 1932 | Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag. | |
| 1944 | Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops. | |
| 1963 | A Hot Line communications link is installed between Moscow and Washington, DC. | |
| 1967 | The US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. | |
| 1982 | Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. | |
| 1983 | Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space. | |
| 1986 | The KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days. |
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