UNITED KINGDOM:
Battle of Britain:
RAF Fighter Command: Little activity due to cloudy, showery weather. 

Night attacks on Bristol, South Wales (Cardiff). 

Manston received 30 more bombs at 01:25 and three Ju88s attacked Thorney Island. 

Other incidents involved the Scillies, where 15 HEs fell on and around the radio station. At Colchester there were 40 casualties and Cromer, Harwich, Maidstone, Portsmouth and Tangmere were all bombed.

Losses: Luftwaffe, 2; RAF, 0.

U-37 sinks SS Keret and SS Severn Leigh.

GERMANY:
Berlin: The propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels, worried by recent British successes, orders that ridicule of the English way of life must stop and the enemy's fighting spirit be stressed instead.
NBBS reports that the shelling of Dover by long-range artillery from the French coast indicates a German intention to land in that area.

ROMANIA: A DC-3-227 of the Romanian airline LARES (Linile Aeriene Romane Exploatate cu Statul) crashes at Cluj; all 21 on the aircraft are killed. 

MEDITERRANEAN SEA:
Heavy mining in the Strait of Sicily by Italian surface ships leads to the loss of destroyer HMS Hostile (H 55) on passage from Malta to Gibraltar 18 miles SE of Cape Bon, Tunisia at 36 53N, 11 19E in what was previously thought to have been a safe area. This is minefield 5AN, laid a couple of days earlier by the Italian destroyers Maestrale, Grecale, Libeccio and Scirocco. She is eventually scuttled and sunk by torpedo from HMS Hero after her crew has been transferred. Extensive Italian fields in the 'Sicilian Narrows' sink and damage many RN ships over the next three years. (Alex Gordon)(108)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Edmunston laid down Esquimalt, British Columbia.

U.S.A.: From the "Christian Science Monitor", Pg. 7: "U.S. Builds Biggest Bomber And Fastest Combat Plane"

General Arnold displayed the world's fastest military airplane—the Lockheed interceptor— to William S. Knudsen, Chairman of the National defence Advisory Committee, and told for the first time its performance figures.
Its speed. General Arnold said. Is 460 miles an hour at two-thirds throttle, but it is stepped up past 500 miles per hour when "wide open."
Its range is 1,100 miles; rate of climb 4,000 feet a minute; armament, one rapid fire cannon, shooting a one-pound shell, and four machine guns.

(Will O'Neil)