Year 372 » Sixteen Kingdoms: Emperor Xiaowu of Jin Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Emperor Jianwen of Jin Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Jin dynasty (265–420) Eastern Jin dynasty.
Year 490 Calendar » Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
Year 1185 Calendar » Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos brutally put to death in Constantinople.
Year 1213 Calendar » Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon e.g Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
Year 1229 Calendar » The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
Year 1309 Calendar » The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
Year 1609 Calendar » Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the 'Halve Maen'.
Year 1683 Calendar » Great Turkish War called Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
Year 1814 Calendar » Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
Year 1846 Calendar » Elizabeth Barrett Browning called Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
Year 1847 Calendar » Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
Year 1857 Calendar » The SS known as Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
Year 1885 Calendar » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
Year 1940 » An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey called Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: RMS Laconia (1921) RMS 'Laconia', carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian Prisoner of war POWs is Laconia incident torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
Year 1943 Calendar » World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is Gran Sasso raid known as rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
Year 1952 Calendar » Strange occurrences, including a Flatwoods monster or monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
Year 1958 Calendar » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
Year 1959 Calendar » Premiere of 'Bonanza', the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
Year 1959 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
Year 1964 Calendar » Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
Year 1974 Calendar » 'African Youth Amílcar Cabral e.g Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral' is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
Year 1977 Calendar » South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
Year 1979 Calendar » Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter magnitude scale e.g Richter scale.
Year 1983 Calendar » The Soviet Union or USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
Year 1983 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
Year 1990 Calendar » The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
Year 1992 Calendar » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour or Space Shuttle 'Endeavour' on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Jemison or Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly i
Year 1999 Calendar » Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
Year 2003 Calendar » Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
Year 2003 » The United Nations lifts International sanctions known as sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Year 2007 Calendar » Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
Year 2008 Calendar » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink (Southern California) known as Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
Year 2011 Calendar » The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.
Year 2014 Calendar » Oscar Pistorius is Trial of Oscar Pistorius named found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.