Historical Events
Film Premier
"Escape from New York" directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence, premieres in the US
Kurt Russell
John Carpenter
- CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound" released
Famous Deaths
- Ken Rex McElroy, American resident of Skidmore, Missouri known as "the town bully", murdered at 47 in an unsolved killing in front of a crowd of 30-46 in Skidmore's main street