Historical Events
- Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR
Famous Birthdays
- David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
- Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), born in Szeged, Hungary (d. 2016)
Famous Deaths
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), dies at 69
- Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)