King David Hotel bombing: At 12:37 pm[REF] in Jerusalem, the Zionist terrorist group Irgun detonated 350 kilograms of gelignite explosives at the King David Hotel, headquarters of the British Mandate for Palestine, collapsing a section of the building and killing ninety-one people.
Born: Danny Glover, American film actor (Lethal Weapon films), in San Francisco; and Mireille Mathieu, French singer, in Avignon .