Historical Events
Film Premier
"Marty" directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair premieres in New York (Best Picture 1956)
Ernest Borgnine
Assassination Attempt
Chartered Air India plane the "Kashmir Princess" is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent
Zhou Enlai
- Gary Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted
Famous Birthdays
- Kevin Brady, American politician (Rep Texas (R) 1997-), born in Vermillion, South Dakota
- Michele Scarabelli, Canadian actress (Jo Santini-Airwolf, Alienation, Dallas), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Piers J Sellers, English astronaut and climate scientist, born in Sussex (d. 2016)