Historical Events
- 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
Event of Interest
Joe Carter 1st baseball player with 3 consecutive 100 RBI seasons with 3 different teams (Indians, Padres, Blue Jays)
Joe Carter
- Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
Famous Deaths
- Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies
- Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
- Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)