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• The last of 11,461 Vickers Wellington aircraft to be built rolled off the production line. ww2dbase [Wellington | AC]

• HMS Formidable arrived in Sydney, Australia, disembarking 1,300 Australian troops and liberated prisoners of war. ww2dbase [Formidable | Sydney, New South Wales | CPC]

• US Marines stepped in to break up the violence that had broken out between Japanese nationals and an angry Chinese mob in the city of Tianjin, China. ww2dbase [Tianjin | CPC]

• USS Honolulu arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for five days of scheduled training. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Guantanamo | DS]

• Anti-Dutch tensions broke into violence in Medan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. Louis Mountbatten would consider (and soon approve) additional reinforcements for Sumatra. ww2dbase [Medan, Sumatra | CPC]
• Renegade Communist youth leader Sutomo ("Bung Tomo") established a radio station in Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, urging people to kill Europeans. ww2dbase [Surabaya, Java | CPC]

• Japanese Prime Minister Kijuro Shidehara called for an extraordinary cabinet meeting to discuss constitutional revision. The meeting resulted in the decision to form a Constitutional Problems Investigation Committee headed by Joji Matsumoto. This committee would work independent of the constitution revision efforts headed by Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Fumimaro Konoe. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]

• The Soviet Union encouraged the formation of a separate Communist Party in northern Korea, independent from the current Communist movement that was largely based in the south. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Nicholas crossed the 180th meridian bound for the United States. ww2dbase [Line Crossing Ceremony | Nicholas | DS]

• The Soviet Directorate of the NKVD Troops for Guarding the Rear of the Red Army was disbanded. ww2dbase [CPC]

• A show open to the public was held at Wright Field, Ohio, United States, featuring M3 262, P-80, He 162, Me 163, Ju 290, Ba 349, Ju 388L, A6M, and Ohka aircraft. Among the guests was German test pilot Karl Bauer. ww2dbase [Dayton, Ohio | CPC]

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