gamy adjective: 1. Having the flavor or odor of game, especially game meat. 2. Having the flavor or odor of meat kept until slightly tainted. 3. Ill-smelling; rank. 4. Sordid, seamy, corrupt, or disreputable. 5. Suggestive or racy. 6. Plucky or spirited.
☰Thought of the Day
"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history." - Winston Churchill, from his 1935-05-02 House of Commons remarks
- Juan José Flores, General and first President of Ecuador (1839-1845), born in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela (d. 1864)
- George II, King of Greece (1922-24 and 1935-47), born at Tatoi Palace in Parnitha, Kingdom of Greece (d. 1947)
- Roscoe [Charles Barnet] Harvey, British soldier, born in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (d. 1996)
- Boyd Neel, English conductor (Story of an Orchestra), born in Blackheath, London (d. 1981)
- Lucha Reyes 'Morena de Oro', Peruvian singer (Siempre criolla), born in Lima, Peru (d. 1973)
- Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist (Hoyle–Narlikar theory), born in Maharashtra, India
- Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD) (European Commissioner, 2004-14; Minister of Transport, 1982-89; House of Representatives, 1971-78, 1981-82, 1986) , born in Rotterdam, Netherlands-
- Lisa Lampanelli, American stand-up comedian, insult comic, and actress (New York Friars' Club, The Howard Stern Show, The Celebrity Apprentice 5), born in Trumbull, Connecticut
- Boston Braves begin drive from last to the NL pennant with a 3-2 win against the 2nd placed Cincinnati Reds
- Transport #7 departs Drancy, France with 999 French Jews sent to Auschwitz Concentration camp; 17 survive until the war's end
- XXII Summer Olympic Games open in Moscow, Russia; led by United States, 66 nations boycott event because of Soviet-Afghan war
- British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Mark O'Meara wins his 2nd major championship of the year (Masters) and first Open title by 2 in a 4-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Brian Watts
- Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad, one of the oldest known species in the human family tree and 6-7 million years old
- Jean-Baptiste Davaux, French classical composer, born in La Côte-Saint-André, France (d. 1822)
- Arthur Fielder, English cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), born in Plaxtol, Tonbridge, Kent (d. 1949)
- Joris van Severen, Flemish politician and founder of the Alliance of Dietsche National Solidarists, born in Wakken, Belgium (d. 1940)
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian (Carnival in Romans; Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error), born in Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais, France (d. 2023)
- Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast (Olympic 1976, 80 Gold), born in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia
