Historical Events
- "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
- 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