Historical Events
- Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
Famous Birthdays
- Jack Case, American artist
- Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans), born in Huskvarna, Sweden
- Robert Pipkins, American luge racer (Olympics 1994), born in Buffalo, New York
Famous Deaths
- Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)