Comedian Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer at the age of 42.

The proprietors of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City apologized to Bertha Rayner Frank for her experience with anti-Jewish discrimination at their hotel.

The Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls, a residence and vocational training center for young women, opened its doors.

Susan Sontag's last essay, "Regarding the Torture of Others," was published in the "New York Times Magazine."

Psychologist Carol Gilligan published "In a Different Voice," the first book to argue that women's psychological development could not be understood by studying men.

Birth of opera star and arts advocate Beverly Sills.

Belle Moskowitz, who became the most important female political activist of her day, passed a bill through the New York State Assembly requiring major NY dance halls to obtain a license.