Historical Events
Olympic Gold
Home team United States wins its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley; with 9-4 win over Czechoslovakia
Bob Cleary
- VIII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley, California
Famous Birthdays
- Dorothy Stratten [Hoogstraten], Canadian playmate (August, 1979), model and actress (Galixina), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1980)
Famous Deaths
- F S Flint [Frank Stuart Flint], British translator and imagist movement poet (In the Net of the Stars), dies at 74
- Jonathan Hale [Hatley], Canadian-born American actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68