chumocracy noun: A government, organization, or culture in which friends and associates are favored, especially in appointments to positions of authority.
☰Thought of the Day
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." - Arthur Conan Doyle, from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769 attendees)
- American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp, and Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 seconds to win gold at the Munich Olympics with a world record time of 3:55.19
- Fifteen people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
- Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has his Twitter account hacked; racist comments are posted in his name
- Julie Bishop [Jacqueline Wells], American actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2001)
- Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2016)
- John Peel [Ravenscroft], British popular music radio presenter (BBC Radio 1, 1967-2004), born in Heswall, England (d. 2004)
- Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient, born in Lincoln, Maine (d. 1993)
- Trevor Jackson, American actor (Grown-ish), and RandB singer-songwriter ("Drop It"), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
