Historical Events
- 38th NAACP Image Awards: "The Pursuit of Happyness" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
Famous Deaths
- Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
- Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
- Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)