- Werner Mölders returned to duty without receiving medical clearance. ww2dbase [Werner Mölders | CPC]
- American destroyer Grayson was launched. ww2dbase [Grayson | CPC]
- German submarine U-38 torpedoed and sank British troopship Mohamed Ali El Kebir 160 miles off Ireland at 2140 hours en route from England to Gibraltar, killing 86 of the 697 military passengers and 10 of the 165 crew aboard. Destroyer HMS Griffin depth charged U-38 for two hours and then returned to pick up all 766 survivors. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | U-38 | CPC]
- Jaguar, Kondor, Falke, T2, T7, and T8 began escorting minelayers in the southwestern North Sea. ww2dbase [T8 | T7 | First Happy Time | Kondor | Falke | Jaguar | T2 | North Sea | CPC]
- The 1st Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment arrived in British Somaliland to reinforce against the Italian invasion. ww2dbase [Invasion of British Somaliland | CPC]
- Commissariat général de l’éducation générale et aux sports (CGEGS) was formally established in Vichy France to organize athletic curricula for French schools. It was attached to the Ministry of National Education in the following month. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Maggiore Baracca departed La Spezia, Italy at 0805 hours for exercises, returning at 1310 hours. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | La Spezia, Liguria | CPC]
- Lord Halifax of the United Kingdom and US Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph Grew voiced concerns over Japanese demands for French Indochina. ww2dbase [Indochina Campaign | Tokyo | CPC]
- German aircraft bombed one convoy, but otherwise very little activity was seen during the day over and near Britain. Overnight, German aircraft bombed coastal cities and laid mines in the English Channel and between Land's End and Liverpool. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
- USS Phoenix arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States. ww2dbase [Phoenix | Los Angeles, California | CPC]
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