Historical Events
- 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electricity announced
Famous Birthdays
- Fermin Goytisolo, American musician (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
- Michael Allen Bantom, American basketball player (Olympic silver 1972), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Tom Hamilton, American rock bassist (Aerosmith-Dream On), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Famous Deaths
- Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at 75
- Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher and physicist, dies at 76