The passenger ship MV Vipya capsized in a storm while traveling on Lake Nyasa near Chilumba in Malawi, drowning 145 of the 194 passengers and crewmen on board.
Born: Neil Bonnett, American NASCAR driver, in Hueytown, Alabama (killed in accident, 1994), Dixie Deans, Scottish football player, in Johnstone, and Barbara Kopple, American film director, in New York City .