** Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.

** Syrian National Congress proclaim Syria independent with Faisal I of Iraq as king.

** King Faisal International Prize, given by the foundation

** Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany ; the 3 U. S. flyers parachute to safety.

** A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.

** The " Big Week " begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.

** 358th BS, 303rd BG B-17F Hell's Angels is the first AAF bomber to complete 25 missions.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** The RAF retires its last Lancaster bomber.

** A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea, in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash.

** In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated at a public meeting in Sriperumbudur, by suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam ; many others are killed in the explosion.

** WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5, 800 men.

** Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII ( died 1944 )

** BT-1 monoplane bomber ( 76D-1 )

** AEG G. V, a biplane bomber aircraft of World War I, a further refinement of the AEG G. IV

** Gotha G. V, a heavy bomber used by the Luftstreitkräfte ( Imperial German Air Service ) during World War I

** Tupolev Tu-95 ( NATO reporting name Bear ), a strategic bomber and missile carrier from the times of the Soviet Union

** Female suicide bomber

** The second completed Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber catches fire in the air and crashes into a building just north of Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, killing all ten aboard the plane – including famed Boeing test pilot Edmund " Eddie " Allen – and 19 or 20 people on the ground.

** An Avro Lancaster bomber converted for use as a transport aircraft inaugurates the Canadian Governments Trans Atlantic Air Service, operated by Trans-Canada Air Lines.

** A Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 bomber badly damages the U. S. Navy light cruiser with a Fritz X off Salerno, Italy, knocking her out of service for a year.

** The first Allied aircraft – a damaged U. S. Marine Corps SBD Dauntless dive bomber – lands on Bougainville.

** The U. S. Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom and the Royal Air Force agree to place most available P-51 Mustang fighters in the USAAF Eighth Air Force for long-range bomber escort duty ; American P-51s in the United Kingdom previously had operated in the Ninth Air Force.

** A U. S. Army Air Forces B-17G Flying Fortress of the 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group ( Heavy ), crashes at Yielden, England, on takeoff from RAF Chelveston, killing all 10 men aboard the bomber and 11 people on the ground.

** A single Japanese bomber destroys 11 U. S. Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft parked at Tacloban Airfield on Leyte.

** Hansa-Brandenburg G. I, a 1916 bomber aircraft

** AN / APQ-181 ( AESA upgrade currently in development ), for the B-2 Spirit bomber

The bomb had been planted by Faisal Shahzad.

And Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad smiled and said " Allahu Akbar " after receiving a life sentence in 2010 for his attempted bombing.

* Faisal Shahzad, convicted perpetrator of 2010 Times Square car bomb attempt

* Faisal Shahzad, alleged terrorist responsible for 2010 Times Square car bomb attempt

Faisal Shahzad, an Islamic Pakistani American who received U. S. citizenship in December 2009, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square working with the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

Faisal Shahzad, who was convicted of planting a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, was arrested after he had boarded Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai.

* Faisal Shahzad, prime suspect, arrested in connection with the 2010 Times Square car bomb attempt.