Historical Events
- California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages
- Radio Denmark begins transmitting
Famous Birthdays
- Cub Koda, rocker (Brownsville Station)
- Ellen McIlwaine, American blues singer-songwriter (Honky Tonky Angel), born in Nashville, Tennessee
- Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman and winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup sailing contests, born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2001)
