Events in History
- In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
- Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years
Event of Interest
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport
Ronald Reagan
Deaths in History
- Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
- Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/pres (1961-63), dies