Historical Events
- Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
Famous Birthdays
- Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, born in Cuba
Famous Deaths
- Dominic "Don" Ameche, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), dies of prostate cancer at 85
- Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
- Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of heart attack at 65
- Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered