Events
- 1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
- 1985 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
Births
- 1963 - Hiroaki Hirata, voice actor
- 1980 - Seiichiro Maki, footballer