Historical Events
- "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 performances
- D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
Nobel Prize
Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Mother Teresa
- Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
Event of Interest
US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
Jimmy Carter
Famous Birthdays
Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish auto racer (F1 World Champion 2007), born in Espoo, Finland
Kimi Räikkönen
- Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
- Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion)
Famous Deaths
- John Stuart, Scottish actor (Kittie, Superman, Number Seventeen), dies at 81
- Karel Reiner, Czech composer, dies at 69
- S J Perelman, American author, humorist and screenwriter (The New Yorker, Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75