• 1932: Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech.
• 1960: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in.
• 1981: Dorothy Fisher, SA's first female heart transplant patient, dies, twelve years after she had received her new heart.
• 2003: Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

• 1922: Elsabé Antoinette Murray Steytler (Elsa Joubert), SA author and winner of several awards, is born in Paarl, CP.
• 1977: Two newspapers, the World and the Weekend World are banned. This day was later commemorated by journalists country-wide as national Press Day.
• 1971: Last issue of "Look" magazine is published.
• 1933: Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936.
• 1941: 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico.
• 1997: 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleve Indians)