At the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, “All That Jazz” and “Kagemusha” were jointly awarded the Palme d’Or award.
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Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
A fire broke out in the Britannia Bridge in North Wales.
Walt Disney incorporated his first film company called Laugh-O-Gram Studio.
Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundian Faction at the siege of Compiègne.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second in the film series, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in the US.