Benito Mussolini's son Bruno Mussolini is killed in a plane crash.

In the dark, the United Kingdom launches several major attacks on Germany: 84 aircraft attack Essen; 31 attack Hamm; 32 attack Dortmund; 88 attack Kiel and a number also attack Hamburg (with poor visibility). These attacks damaged the Krupp coke oven batteries (Essen), rail marshalling yard (Hamm) and Deutsche Werke Shipyards (Kiel).

All Jews in Germany are now by law required to wear the Judenstern (Jews' star); this is the Yellow Star of David and sometimes called the Yellow badge.

The induction of the Philippine Army Air Corps is overseen by Douglas MacArthur.

German parachutist Josef Jakobs, who was captured on 1 February, becomes the last person to be executed by firing squad at the Tower of London in England at 0715 hours.

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop asks Japan to assist in the attack of the Soviet Union by attacking Vladivostok in Eastern Russia. Japan's response was it would take much deliberation and planning.

With the permission of the Luftwaffe a British bomber drops a replacement prosthetic leg for prisoner of war Douglas Bader over Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Hermann Göring himself gave the go-ahead for this operation but in an act of betrayal of the Luftwaffe's sympathy and compassion for Douglas Bader (who the Germans treated with respect), the bombers proceeded to attack Gosnay Power Station (near Bethune), and, fortunately for the Germans, bad weather lessened the impact.