DDR border security authorities forbid passers-by and the West Berlin fire brigade to rescue Cetin Mert, a five-year-old Turkish boy. He fell into the Spree from a steep bank in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin; the entire width of the Spree belongs to East Berlin at this location.more
In Stuttgart-Stammheim, the leading figures in the "Baader-Meinhof Group" go on trial: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Jan Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin.
