** 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

** Royal Governors of Chile

** 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

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )