Battle of Grand Port
- 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated (pictured) the Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de la Passe.
- 1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane made landfall near Savannah, Georgia, U.S., causing at least 1,000 deaths.
- 1927 – Five Canadian women filed a petition to ask the Supreme Court of Canada, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons," to which the court eventually replied that it does not.
- 1942 – Nazi troops and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police began systematically executing more than 14,000 people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarny in occupied Poland.
- 2013 – Religious violence between Hindus and Muslims erupted in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, leaving 62 people dead.
Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611) · Man Ray (b. 1890) · Brian Epstein (d. 1967)
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