The CIA sent a report to U.S. President Truman that concluded that the Soviet Union would have a stockpile of 100 atomic bombs by the end of 1953, and 200 by the end of 1955.
Born: Mark Spitz, American Olympic swimmer, 7 time gold medalist in 1972, 2 in 1968, in Modesto, California; and Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican presidential nominee, in Magdalena de Kino (assassinated in 1994) .