| 0 | | Feast of St. Laurent, Patron of Armories, and that of Our Lady of Kazan, Patron of Kazan and of all Russia |
| 644 | | Uthman ibn Affan became the third Caliph of Islam (644-656) |
| 1354 | | Naval Battle of Soplegno: Geonese defeat the Venetians |
| 1429 | | Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier from the English, for King Charles VII of France |
| 1576 | | Spanish capture Antwerp from the Dutch |
| 1619 | | Frederik V s crowned king of Bohemia (1619-1620), the "Winter King", having initiated the Thirty Years' War |
| 1677 | | William of Orange marries Mary Stuart (William & Mary of England), on his birthday |
| 1760 | | Frederick the Great of Prussia defeated the Austrians in the Battle of Torgau -- Learn More |
| 1780 | | Túpac Amaru II (Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui) initiates a rebellion against Spainish rule in Peru (1780-1782) |
| 1791 | | Little Turtle and the Ohio Indians virtually annihilated a U.S. Army for the second time, in the Battle of the Wabash – “St. Clair's Defeat” Learn More |
| 1794 | | Battle of Warsaw: Suvarov's Russians defeat the Poles amid great slaughter, and capture the city |
| 1840 | | After a two-day bombardment, a British-Turkish-Austrian fleet captures Acre, Palestine, from the Egyptians |
| 1860 | | Skirmish at Mola: Piedmontese-Italians drive Neapolitan Royalists back on Gaeta |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Port Royal, SC |
| 1862 | | Richard J. Gatling receives a patent for a clever device |
| 1864 | | Battle of Johnsonville/Reynoldsburg Island: Confederate gunboats, batteries, and raiders attack a Union supply base on the Tennessee River, inflicting extensive damage, and causing three gunboats to be destroyed |
| 1866 | | Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia |
| 1903 | | US Naval Academy defeats New York Naval Militia in football, 28-0 |
| 1915 | | Third Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Oct 18) |
| 1916 | | Ninth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Nov 1) |
| 1918 | | Austria-Hungary concludes an armistice with Italy. |
| 1918 | | Kiel, Germany, falls into the in hands of revolutionary sailors |
| 1921 | | Interment of the "Soldato Ignoto" in the Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome |
| 1923 | | Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings |
| 1939 | | Neutrality Act of 1939 is passed, to allow "cash-and-carry" arms sales to belligerents |
| 1940 | | The Netherlands: Nazis begin rationing eggs & cake |
| 1942 | | Australian 16th Brigade begins an attack on Oivi, on the Kokoda Trail. |
| 1944 | | Japanese air attacks on Saipan and Tinian. |
| 1950 | | US troops retreat from Pyongyang, North Korea |
| 1956 | | Israeli troops capture the Straits of Tiran and reach the Suez Canal |
| 1956 | | Russian troops attack Budapest, to suppress the Hungarian Revolution |
| 1966 | | The Arno floods Florence, 113 die, countless treasures destroyed |
| 2008 | | Barack Obama elected president |
| 1265 | | King Alfonso III of Aragon and Valencia (r. 1286-1291) -- Learn More |
| 1448 | | King Alfonso II of Naples (Jan 25, 1494-Feb 22, 1495), abdicated, d. 1495 |
| 1615 | | Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I (1640-48) |
| 1650 | | William, Prince of Orange (1650-1702), Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic (1672-1702), King William III of England and Ireland, (1689-1702) and King William II of Scotland (1689-1702) -- the "William" of "William and Mary" |
| 1816 | | William Polk Hardeman, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898 |
| 1818 | | Alexander Robert Lawton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1896 |
| 1820 | | Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1870 |
| 1835 | | Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1913 |
| 1842 | | William Barker Cushing, naval hero, U.S., d. 1874 |
| 1879 | | William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers, Cherokee-American humorist, journalist, actor, d. 1935 |
| 1916 | | Walter Cronkite, war correspondent, Cold Warrior, d. 2009 |
| 1978 | | Brig. Gen. Louis M. Nuttman, the longest-lived West Point graduate, at 104 years, nine months, and five days |
| 604 | | Queen Yohl Iknal "the Lady Kan Ik" of Palenque (583-604) |
| 1203 | | Count Dirk VII of Holland (1190-1203), c. 40-45 |
| 1702 | | Vice-Adm of the White. John Benbow, of wounds in Jamaica at c. 52, -- Learn More |
| 1782 | | Capt. William Wilmont and four other men, 2nd Maryland Continentals, killed in a skirmish with a British foraging party at James I., SC: The last Americans to fall in the Revolutionary War |
| 1830 | | Count Frédéric de Merode, 38, Belgian patriot, kia at Malines -- Learn More |
| 1918 | | Wilfred Owen, war poet ("Anthem for Doomed Youth"), kia at 25, a week before the Armistice -- https://zm2.strategypage.com/bookreviews/1425#gsc.tab=0 |
| 1921 | | Hara Takashi, 65, Premier of Japan (1918-1921), assassinated |
| 1940 | | Manuel Azaña y Diez, litterateur, war minister, premier, & finally president of the Spanish Republic (1936-39), at 60 |
| 1958 | | General of Infantry Hermann von Kuhl, b. 1856 |
| 1995 | | Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli soldier, statesman, Prime Minister (1974-1977, 1992-1995), Peace Nobelist, assassinated at 73 |
| 1999 | | Alvin Coox, 75, historian of the Soviet-Japanese "Border Wars" |