Historical Events
- Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by Canadian well control team "SafetyBOSS"
- New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
- Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
Famous Birthdays
- Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast (Olympic teams gold 2008), born in Liuzhou, Guangxi
Famous Deaths
- Joseph Papp, US theater producer (A Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70