1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur, lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
