Historical Events
- BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
- Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6½ hr)
- Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve (39) weds actress and singer Dana Morosini (31) in Williamstown, Massachusetts
Christopher Reeve
- Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
Famous Deaths
- Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
- Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
- Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
- James Brown, American actor (Objective, Burma!, Rin Tin Tin), dies of lung cancer at 72
- Robert Houben, Belgian politician (Minister of Public health 1958), dies at 86