The US Navy’s second designated aircraft carrier-USS Saratoga (CV-3)-is commissioned. The ship will later be deliberately destroyed during a 1946 atomic bomb test.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3