Dust storm at Manzanar
- 1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina exploded in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
- 1811 – Peninsular War: An outnumbered French force under Édouard Mortier routed and nearly destroyed the Spanish at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
- 1942 – Second World War: In the largest attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia, more than 240 Japanese aircraft bombed Darwin, Northern Territory.
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over 112,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps (Manzanar War Relocation Center pictured).
- 2011 – Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the biggest single collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first put on display in Singapore.
Nicolaus Copernicus (b. 1473) · Joseph Szigeti (d. 1973)
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