Historical Events
- 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
Event of Interest
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
Joseph Stalin
Famous Birthdays
- Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist
- Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
Famous Deaths
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)