1993 Event 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze 1945 Death Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies 1945 Event U.S. destroyer William D. Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze 1945 Event 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1945 Event U.S. jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack 1944 Event Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 1944 Event 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima