- 380 – Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire as a result of the Edict of Thessalonica.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the following days.
- 1900 – FC Bayern Munich (logo pictured), Germany's most successful football club, was founded.
- 1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1988 – The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target of a violent pogrom.
Robert of Melun (d. 1167) · Joaquín Sorolla (b. 1863) · Leah Poulton (b. 1984)
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