| João Café Filho | 2/3/1899 | Birth | Brazilian president |
| Frank Forde | 7/18/1890 | Birth | 15th Prime Minister of Australia |
| Marcel Léger | 6/8/1930 | Birth | Quebec politician |
| Eugene McCarthy | 12/10/2005 | Death | U.S. Senator |
| Louise Day Hicks | 10/21/2003 | Death | US politician |
| Luis A. Ferré | 10/21/2003 | Death | Governor of Puerto Rico |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 7/23/1885 | Death | 18th President of the United States |
| Upton Sinclair | 11/25/1968 | Death | US journalist, politician, and writer |
| Enoch Powell | 2/8/1998 | Death | British Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member |
| John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Brid... | 10/26/1686 | Death | English politician |
| Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of A... | 5/24/1425 | Death | Scottish politician |
| Sir Francis Bacon | 4/9/1626 | Death | English philosopher, statesman, and essayist |
| William Ewart Gladstone | 5/19/1898 | Death | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Ivan V | 1/29/1696 | Death | Russian tsar |
| Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Wü... | 10/31/1733 | Death | |
| Lazare Carnot | 8/2/1823 | Death | French general, politician, and mathematician |
| Louis XIII of France | 5/14/1643 | Death | |
| Ülo Jõgi | 5/14/2007 | Death | Estonian freedom fighter |
| Gaspar Fagel | 12/15/1688 | Death | Dutch statesman |
| Anselmo de la Cruz | 7/23/1833 | Death | Chilean political figure |
| John Joachim Zubly | 7/23/1781 | Death | Swiss-born Continental Congressman |
| João Maurício Wanderley | 2/13/1889 | Death | Brazilian magistrate and politician |
| John Gorton | 5/19/2002 | Death | nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia |
| Albrecht Graf von Roon | 2/23/1879 | Death | Prime Minister of Prussia |
| Jules Rimet | 10/16/1956 | Death | president of FIFA |
| King Ferdinand I of the Two Si... | 1/4/1825 | Death | |
| * 2/23/1983 — The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin... |
| * 6/3/1935 — One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia beginning a p... |
| * 6/23/1967 — Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Je... |
| * 7/28/1932 — U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World W... |
| * 9/21/1981 — Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice. |
| * 9/21/1981 — Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom. |
| * 5/14/1955 — Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union sign a mutual defense treaty called... |
| * 3/15/351 — Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Ro... |
| * 12/25/274 — Roman Emperor Aurelian dedicates a temple to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and... |
| * 1/19/1966 — Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India. |
| * 8/12/1969 — Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry Northern Ireland, resulting in a thre... |
| * 3/30/1844 — One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the ci... |
| * 12/20/1995 — The Democratic Social Movement is founded in Greece. |
| * 12/5/1958 — Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lor... |
| * 5/14/1643 — Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. |
| * 2/23/1983 — The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa a holding compa... |
| * 4/24/1975 — The Baader-Meinhof Gang takes 13 hostages at the West German embassy in Stockholm. |
| * 3/5/1973 — Donald DeFreeze the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison. |
| * 5/9/1960 — The FDA announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making E... |
| * 6/13/1977 — Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three d... |