Historical Events
Music Recording
Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records
Frank Sinatra
- Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
Famous Birthdays
- Henry Rollins [Henry Lawrence Garfield], US musician and actor (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box), born in Washington, D.C.
- Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer, born in Yangon, Burma
- Les Warner, British musician and producer (The Cult-Fire Woman), born in Fulham, United Kingdom