Television series
- 1974 - The Six Million Dollar Man, based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, begins airing on ABC
Deaths
- 1971 - Virgil Finlay (b. 1914), an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator
- 1936 - Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865), a British author and poet whose works included short stories, novels, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, and science fiction