** Royal Commonwealth Society

** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.

** Commodore ( Royal Navy ), in the Royal Navy

** Spanish Royal Governor of the Philippines

** Perth class destroyer, a class of warship used by the Royal Australian Navy

** Royal Thai Marine Corps ( นาว ิ กโยธ ิ นไทย )

** Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood

** Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal ( born 1887 )

** King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as a patron.

** Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.

** Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, British royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII ( b. 1867 )

** Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry.

** British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

** Captain Mark Phillips, first husband of Anne, Princess Royal

** The Royal Air Force drops 2, 300 tons of bombs on Berlin.

** The " Great Escape " – 76 Royal Air Force prisoners escape by tunnel " Harry " from Stalag Luft III this night.

** The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.

** Royal Air Force bombing of Dresden, Germany.

** Princess Michael of Kent, member of the British Royal Family

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

** Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of the Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army

** New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy becomes the Royal New Zealand Navy

** Agents and Governors of Liberia

** List of French Governors of Saint-Domingue

** Governors of Bangkok

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

** Governors of Greenland

** Provincial Governors of Finland

** County Governors of Sweden

** Governors and Governors-General of Malta, 1813 – 1974

** Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands

** Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands

** Colonial Governors of Fiji

** List of Governors of Indian states

** Viceroyalty of the Caucasus – Transcaucasia ( Armenia, Azerbaidjan and Georgia ; first under Governors in Tbilisi 1802 – 1844 ) had Viceroys of Transcaucasia.

** November 1958 – July 1959 Louis Marius Pascal Sanmarco ( b. 1912 ), also the last of the Governors since 1941 ( after various otherwise styled chief executives before ; it had since 15 January 1910 been part of French Equatorial Africa, AEF )

** 15 December 1963 – 1964 Francisco Núñez Rodríguez ( b. 1902 – d. 1972 ), also the last of many Governors since 7 June 1494

** 1 April 1885-4 July 1885 Eduard von Knorr ( acting ) ( b. 1840-d. 1920 ); next came a list of Governors until 4 March 1916 when *

** 4 June 1892-November 1893 Jesko von Puttkamer ( 2nd time ); the same stayed on as the first of two Landeshauptleute (' Land captains '), till 13 August 1895 ; the second ( 18 November 1895-18 April 1898 August Köhler, b. 1858-d. 1902 ) was also the first of the Governors ( since 1 January 1905 as German colony of Togoland, till the British conquered it August 1914 )

** List of awards named after Governors General of Canada

** List of Canadian Governors General

** List of Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

** List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

** List of Lieutenant Governors of Quebec

** List of Governors of Texas