** Texas fiddling, with influences from Mexican fiddling and an emphasis on competitive playing.

** Récord, a Mexican sports newspaper

** Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete

** Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor ( b. 1908 )

** Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader ( d. 2002 )

** Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer ( d. 2007 )

** Felipe Munoz, Mexican swimmer

** A strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco.

** Javier Solis, Mexican ranchera & bolero singer ( d. 1966 )

** Lucero, Mexican singer and actress

** Adela Noriega, Mexican actress

** Villano IV, Mexican wrestler

** The Mexican volcano Parícutin is born in a farmer's cornfield.

** Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor ( b. 1934 )

** Jorge Russek, Mexican actor ( b. 1932 )

** Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor ( b. 1946 )

** Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor ( b. 1899 )

** Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress

** Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor ( d. 2007 )

** Mexican – American War formally ends, making the unincorporated, unorganized California Territory a provisional official possession: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest United States.

** Martín Hernández, Mexican actor and model

** Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor ( b. 1923 )

** José Limón, Mexican choreographer ( b. 1908 )

** Ana Alicia, Mexican actress ( Falcon Crest )

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )