Historical Events
- Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
- Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
- United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
Famous Deaths
- Dalton Cathey, American actor dies of AIDS at 44
- George Allen, US football coach (LA Rams, Wash Redskins), dies
- Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at 62