Events
- 357 – Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum).
- 450 – Pulcheria becomes empress of the Byzantine Empire after her brother Theodosius II is killed during an hunting accident. She marries the Illyrian (or Thracian) senator Marcian who is crowned as emperor.
- 1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1580 – Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
Births
1898 – Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Saint Faustina, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
- 1906 – Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
- 1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
- 1910 – George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1910 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1911 – Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
- 1912 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1915 – Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American ped
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