Events in History
- "Cars" by Gary Numan hits #9
- Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
- Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
Deaths in History
- Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
- Henry Miller, American writer (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn), dies of circulatory complications at 88