Historical Events
- Britain establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
Famous Birthdays
- Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
- John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007)
- John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
Famous Deaths
- Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and telephone pioneer, dies at 76