| 1214 | At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England. | |
| 1245 | Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege. | |
| 1586 | Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia. | |
| 1663 | The British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports. | |
| 1689 | The Scottish Jacobites experience a victory over government-supporting clans at the Battle of Killiecrankie. | |
| 1777 | The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British. | |
| 1778 | British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant. | |
| 1793 | Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety. | |
| 1861 | Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1905 | The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago. | |
| 1909 | Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. | |
| 1914 | British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels. | |
| 1921 | Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto. | |
| 1944 | U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam. | |
| 1953 | Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjom, Korea. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam. | |
| 1980 | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt. | |
| 1981 | William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies. | |
| 1993 | Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas. | |
| 2002 | The largest air show disaster in history occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others. |
