The Basque separatist group ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) carried out its first act of terrorism on the 25th anniversary of the 1936 uprising that brought Francisco Franco to power in Spain, by sabotaging a train carrying hundreds of veterans to San Sebastián.
At a council in Zagorsk of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy I, the Patriarch of Moscow, pressured the assembled group to approve changes in the laws of the church.