The Zigeunerlager, a section of the Auschwitz concentration camp that was intended to segregate Gypsy families from other minorities marked for extermination, received its first group of deportees.
Born: Bill Duke, American actor and director, in Poughkeepsie, New York; and Darcus Howe, British civil rights activist, as Leighton Rhett Radford Howe, in Moruga, Trinidad (d.