The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war c...
