Historical Events
- British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
- Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
Famous Birthdays
- Amada Galvez Santos Ocampo, composer
- Art Modell [Arthur Bertram], American businessman (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
- Miriam Karlin, British actress (The Rag Trade), born in Hampstead, London (d. 2011)
- Oliver Smithies, British biochemist (2007 Noble Prize for gene targeting), born in Halifax (d. 2017)
- Richard Barber, cricketer (scored 12 & 5 in only Test NZ v WI 1956)