2012 Event Amid tension with China, Keen Sword, the biennial naval training exercise between the United States and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, takes place off the shore of Okinawa 1996 Death Aled Eames, mAritime historian, dies at 74 1970 Death Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 1951 Event Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens 1944 Birthday R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum 1933 Event World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated 1924 Event International maritime treaty drawn 1922 Event Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam 1921 Birthday Aled Eames, maritime historian 1902 Event Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time 1713 Event Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty
