Events
- 1641 - オランダ商館が、平戸から出島に移る。
- 1863 - 長州藩が下関海峡で英仏蘭の軍艦を砲撃。（下関事件）
- 1866 - 日本初の洋式灯台が観音崎に建設
- 1882 - A horse drawn railway between Shinbashi and Nihonbashi begins operation.
- 1959 - Emperor Shōwa attends the first ever baseball game attended by an emperor, the Tokyo Giants against the Hanshin Tigers. With the game tied four to four at the bottom of the ninth, Nagashima Shigeo of the Giants (later a Giants coach) hits a sayonara homerun to win the game.
- 1966 - The law regarding national holidays is revised and Respect for the Aged Day and Health and Sports Day are created.
- 1976 - Kōno Yōhei, Tagawa Seiichi, Yamaguchi Toshio and three other members of the Liberal Democratic Party leave the party and form the New Liberal Club.
Births
- 1892 - Shirō Ishii (d. 1959), microbiologist and general
- 1902 - Prince Chichibu (d. 1953)
- 1979 - Hirooki Goto, wrestler
- 1980 - Nozomi Takeuchi, actress and singer
- 1986 - Aya Matsuura, singer and actress
- 1987 - Takahiro Itō (d. 2009), actor
- 1991 - Kyousuke Hamao, actor and singer
- 1991 - Shōta Iizuka, sprinter