In the primary election for
Mayor of the US city of Los Angeles, Republican
Norris Poulson gained 44% of the vote,[5] with the incumbent,
Fletcher Bowron, also a Republican, winning only 37.13%, after a number of unsuccessful recall attempts. A run-off between the two had to be held the following month.
The
North Down by-election in Northern Ireland, brought about by the death of the sitting
Ulster Unionist Party MP,
Walter Smiles, in the sinking of the
MV Princess Victoria during North Sea storms earlier in the year, resulted in the unopposed election of another UUP candidate, Smiles' daughter
Patricia Ford, who thus became the first woman to be elected to a Northern Ireland constituency.[21]
A new television channel,
WEEU-TV, began broadcasting in the US state of Pennsylvania.[22] It would go out of business after less than two years.
US baseball player
Mickey Mantle hit a 565-foot (172 m) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by historians of the sport.[25]
US singer
Frank Sinatra and arranger
Nelson Riddle began their first recording sessions together at
Capitol Records, which would result in some of the defining recordings of Sinatra's career.
US jazz trumpeter
Miles Davis, at the height of his heroin addiction, recorded his album Miles Davis Volume 2 at WOR Studios, New York City.[29]
Died:Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), 51, French artists' model, after collapsing outside her flat in Paris, suffering from complications of alcoholism or drug dependence.[37]
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