Historical Events
- Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
- Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
- Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in NYC
Famous Birthdays
- David Levine, American artist (New York Review of Books caricatures), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2009)
- Geoffrey Howe, British politician (Chancellor and Foreign Secretary under Thatcher), born in Aberavon, Glamorganshire (d. 2015)
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician