** Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of Indian States and Union Territories

** Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland ( d. 1958 )

** 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 ).

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

** John Shelton Wilder, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee ( died 2010 )

** Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

** U. S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in the My Lai massacre and sentenced to life in prison ( later pardoned ).

** Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.

** Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire ( d. 1563 )

** John I Stanley of the Isle of Man, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, King of the Isle of Man ( b. 1350 )

** Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales

** Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

** Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

** Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

** Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick

** Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

** Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

** Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

** Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island

** Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

** Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan

** Graduated As No. 5378 and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant

** Lieutenant R. Alcaraz

** Lieutenant S. Nuval

** Arthur II ( 1305 – 1316 )

** Arthur III ( 1457 – 1458 )

** Prince Arthur by Richard Blackmore ( 1695 )

** King Arthur by Richard Blackmore ( 1697 )

** Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

** Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens on Broadway.

** Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1921 )

** Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2007 )

** Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator ( d. 2007 )

** Arthur Rowley, English footballer ( d. 2002 )

** Arthur Lee, American musician

** Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, second youngest son of Queen Victoria ( b. 1850 )

** Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader ( b. 1892 )

** Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U. S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.

** Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Port Arthur, Tasmania tourist site, Australia.

** The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on the private possession of both automatic and semi-automatic rifles, in response to the Port Arthur massacre.

** Arthur Axmann, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader ( b. 1913 )

** Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host ( d. 1983 )

** A Tampa, Florida court acquits 4 white police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, provoking 3 days of race riots in Miami.

** Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1935 )

** Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur.

** Arthur Jonath, German Olympic athlete ( b. 1909 )

** Arthur Hewlett, British actor ( d. 1997 )

** Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the " bending of light " during a total solar eclipse in Principe, and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil ( confirmed November 19 ).