Historical Events
- Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
Event of Interest
Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23)
Florence Chadwick
Famous Birthdays
- Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Famous Deaths
- Ernest Douwes Dekker, Indo-Dutch nationalist and founder of National-India Party, dies at 70
- Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)
- Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky, composer, dies at 69
- Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer (Kirov is With Us), dies at 69