Television series
- 1980 - Spider-Woman, an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Woman, finishes airing on ABC
- 1993 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a science fiction television program, begins airing on UPN and in first-run syndication
Births
- 1937 - Glen A. Larson, an American television producer and writer best known as creator of the original Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider series
- 1892 - J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.