155 out of an entering class of 1,600 at the United States Air Force Academy were women, the first females to be so admitted. This was the day of their admission.
They were also the first women to enter any US service academy, although the following week women would enter West Point and Annapolis.
The People's Revolutionary Tribunal of Angola found three American and ten Britons guilty of war crimes connected with their mercenary service in the Angolan Civil War. Americans Daniel Gearhart and British citizens John Derek Barker, Andrew McKenzie and Tony Callan (Costas Georgiu) received the death sentence.
Gearhart was a Vietnam veteran who had advertised his services in Soldier of Fortune. He arrived in Angola just days before his capture and may never have fired a shot in the war. Callan, a Greek Cypriot, in contrast, was described by other mercenaries as a homicidal maniac.
Soldier of Fortune still exists, although you don't hear about it much anymore. It was hugely destested in Africa at the time due to its embrace of mercenaries, with the 60s and 70s being highwater mark of a sort of romantic view of soldiers of fortune.
British character actor Stanley Baker died at age 48.
The News had a report about a hijacking.
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