Race riots break out in the Crown Heights area of New York city:
The violent race riots broke out between African-American and Orthodox Jewish residents of Crown Heights after 2 children were accidentally run down by the motorcade of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a leader of the Orthodox Jews.
A fire at the Rex Cinema in Abadan, Iran, kills over 400 people:
The incident which is considered to be a run-up to the Iranian Revolution occurred during the screening of The Deers, a film by Iranian director Masoud Kimiai. Many people at the time believed that the fire was started by SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency.
Sputnik 5 is launched by USSR:
The Soviet spacecraft carried two dogs, Strelka and Belka, who became the first living beings to survive in space.
- 1946 Bill Clinton
American politician, President of the United States
- 1942 Fred Thompson
American politician, actor
- 1919 Malcolm Forbes
American publisher
- 1883 Coco Chanel
French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company
- 1994 Linus Pauling
American chemist, activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1977 Groucho Marx
American comedian, actor
- 1895 John Wesley Hardin
American outlaw, gunfighter
- 14 Augustus
Roman Emperor
