| Pedro Pires | 4/29/1934 | Birth | 3rd President of Cape Verde |
| Ruth Dreifuss | 1/9/1940 | Birth | Swiss politician |
| Jim Flaherty | 12/30/1949 | Birth | Canadian politician |
| Marc Bureau | 5/19/1966 | Birth | Canadian ice hockey player |
| Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 3/10/1776 | Birth | Queen consort of Prussia |
| Clinton L. Merriam | 2/18/1900 | Death | US politician |
| Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan | 8/17/1304 | Death | |
| Hale Boggs | 10/16/1972 | Death | U.S. Congressman from Louisiana |
| John Ross Key | 10/11/1821 | Death | US judge and lawyer |
| Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster | 3/25/1345 | Death | English politician |
| Reginald West, 6th Baron De La... | 8/27/1450 | Death | English politician |
| Ramón Emeterio Betances | 9/16/1898 | Death | Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat |
| Hans Jæger | 2/8/1910 | Death | Norwegian writer and political activist |
| Sani Abacha | 6/8/1998 | Death | President of Nigeria |
| Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | 8/7/1106 | Death | |
| Frederick I, Duke of Württembe... | 1/29/1608 | Death | |
| Henry Benedict Stuart | 7/13/1807 | Death | Jacobite claimant to the throne of England |
| Joseph Bonaparte | 7/28/1844 | Death | older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spai... |
| John Graves Simcoe | 10/26/1806 | Death | first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada |
| Sir Mackenzie Bowell | 12/10/1917 | Death | fifth Prime Minister of Canada |
| King Léopold I of Belgium | 12/10/1865 | Death | |
| Clifford Dupont | 6/28/1978 | Death | First President of Rhodesia |
| * 5/14/1607 — Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. |
| * 5/24/1961 — US civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace"... |
| * 6/28/1978 — The United States Supreme Court in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems i... |
| * 8/2/1943 — World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy future U.S.... |
| * 10/21/1967 — Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln M... |
| * 11/20/1989 — Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the d... |
| * 3/30/1912 — Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez making Morocco a French protectorate. |
| * 8/27/410 — The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. |
| * 3/20/1974 — Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phi... |
| * 2/28/1838 — Robert Nelson leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec), |
| * 4/29/1986 — Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine i... |
| * 5/29/1176 — Battle of Legnano in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I. |