Historical Events
- "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
- American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins bantamweight gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics with world-record 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 342.5 kilograms
- Australian sprinter Betty Cuthbert wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 11.5 at the Melbourne Olympics; takes sprint double winning 200m final four days later
- Egil Danielsen of Norway sets a new world record throw of 85.71m to win the men's javelin gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
- USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
Famous Birthdays
- Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
- Don Lake, Canadian television writer
- Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag)
Famous Deaths
- Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51