Historical Events
- 8th Winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, California
- US wins 1st ever Winter Olympics gold medal in hockey by defeating Czechoslovakia
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