1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1937 – Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 21⁄2-ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2005 – German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.