The British win the Battle of the Nile.

Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to develop a nuclear weapon.

A bomb explodes and kills 85 people at the railway station in Bologna, Italy.

Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to develop a nuclear weapon.

A massacre is carried out in Valvettitura by an c in Sri Lanka that killed 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.