JAPAN: Japanese officials in northern Japan surrender to the Allies at Ominato Naval Base on Honshu.
Japanese officers sign two additional surrender documents.
- In South Korea, surrender ceremonies are held in the Government Building in Seoul. The U.S. delegates are Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid and Lieutenant General John R. Hodge.
- In China, 20-minute surrender ceremonies are held in the auditorium of the Central Military Academy in Nanking at 0900 hours. General Ho Ying-chen, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army, and Lieutenant General Okamura Yasutsugu, Commander of the Japanese Forces in Central China, represent their respective governments.
EAST INDIES: The commander of Japanese Second Army, Lieutenant General TESHIMA Fusataro, surrenders to Australian Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief Allied Land Forces Southwest West Pacific Area and Commander in Chief Australian Military Force, on Morotai Island, Netherlands East Indies.
CANADA: Submarines HMS United and Upright departed Halifax for UK on completion of ASW training.
U.S.A.: A "computer bug" is first identified and named by USN Lieutenant Grace Murray Hopper. Although the term "bug" had been used to describe technical glitches since the late 1800s, the bug that plagued Hopper this day was an actual moth that had managed to get into the circuitry of the Mark II computer at Harvard University. The bug, which Hopper and her assistants removed with tweezers, was preserved at the Naval Museum in Dahlgren, Virginia.
In baseball, the legendary Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Phillies hits his 534th and last home run. In 20 years with the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and the Phillies, he batted .325 and played in 2,317 games. Foxx retires after this season.
In golf, Sam Snead wins the Dallas, Texas, Open golf tournament.
German PoW Reinhold Pabel escapes from Camp Washington, Iliinois. He is recaptured in Chicago in March 1953.