France signs pact at Hanoi ceding airfields and agreeing to admission of Japanese troops into northern Indochina. Germany, Italy, and Japan sign Tripartite Pact at Berlin. Midway Detachment, Fleet Marine Force, arrives on Midway Island to install defenses. Secretary of the Navy places Organized Naval Reserves on short notice for call to active duty. Unites States advises citizens to leave the Far East.
Japan protests United States embargo on aviation gasoline and scrap metal.
Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., is established. Sixteen million men register for the draft under Selective Training and Service Act. Japan gives one year notice of abrogation of North Pacific Sealing Convention of 1911. Italy invades Greece. British forces occupy Crete.