GERMANY: Nuremberg: The trials of leading Nazis consider the participation of the Leadership Corps in the destruction of Trade Unions and in the plundering of art treasures.
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Lavallee paid off.
U.S.A.: The USAAF redesignates the Eleventh Air Force as the Alaskan Air Command.
Submarine USS Sablefish commissioned.
Destroyer USS William C Lawe commissioned.
Uruguay becomes a member of the United Nations.
1946 (WEDNESDAY)
CANADA: Four German prisoners of war are hanged at the Lethbridge Provincial Jail, Alberta, for the murder of fellow prisoner Corporal Karl Lehmann at the Medicine Hat, Alberta, POW camp in September 1944. Lehmann was suspected of leading a Communist conspiracy to overthrow their camp's Nazi leadership.
1974 (WEDNESDAY)
MARIANA ISLANDS: Japanese Sergeant YOKOI Shoichi is found on Guam by two American hunters. He had been living in a cave for 28 years. Yokoi, who had been a tailor's apprentice before being drafted in 1941, made clothing from the fibers of wild hibiscus plants and survived on a diet of coconuts, breadfruit, papayas, snails, eels and rats. "We Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive," Yokoi said in 1972. He died on 22 September 1997 at the age of 82.