Historical Events
- 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
- Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) granted CFL franchise, experiment only lasts one season
- DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
- NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
Famous Deaths
- John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
- Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
- Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
- Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76