Historical Events
- British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Liselotte Neumann wins by 3 strokes from fellow Swede Annika Sörenstam; first LPGA sanctioned Open
- Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
PGA Championship
PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins his 2nd PGA C'ship by 6 strokes from American Corey Pavin
Nick Price
- Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
- Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
Famous Deaths
- Alice Childress, American playwright, actress and writer, dies at 77
- Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981), dies at 89
- Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), dies at 83
- Patrick Meehan, Scottish petty criminal, wrongly convicted of murder, dies at 67
- Tom Greenshields, English sculptor, dies at 79