Events
- 1862 - Shōgun Iemochi marries the emperor's sister Kazunomiya in an effort to unite the court and the Shōgunate. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Second Month, 1862)
- 1922 - Pilot Gotō Yūkichi and three passengers participate in Japan's first passenger flight.
- 1946 - The six major Tokyo universities (University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Keiō University, Hōsei University, Meiji University and Rikkyō University) form the six universities baseball league.
- 1970 - A Pan American Boeing 747 becomes the first jumbo jet to land in Japan. The plane carried 172 passengers, and after a 3 hour stop over it returned to Honolulu. Over 10,000 people went to Haneda Airport to see it.
- 1984 - Animator Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind opens in Tōkyō.
- 1992 - The price of can drinks in vending machines is increased from 100 to 110 yen.
- 2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Births
- 1878 - Umegatani Tōtarō II (d. 1927), sumo wrestler
- 1958 - Tetsurō Oda, singer-songwriter and producer
- 1960 - Junichi Sato, animator and director
- 1968 - Takao Osawa, actor
- 1972 - Ua, singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1973 - Wataru Sakata, wrestler and mixed martial artist
- 1984 - Anna Tsuchiya, model, actress, and singer
- 1986 - Mariko Shinoda, singer and actress
- 1986 - Ayumi Tanaka, pianist
- 1988 - Katsuhiko Nakajima, wrestler
- 1990 - Ayumi Morita, tennis player
- 1991 - Linlin, Chinese-Japanese singer
- 1991 - Nao Tōyama, voice actress and singer