While returning from an overseas assignment, TWA flight 847 was hijacked by terrorist. Stethem was identified as a U.S. Sailor and was beaten by the terrorist in hopes of having their demands met. Stethem was uncooperative with the terrorist and would not cry out, as he was beat, because of this he was shot and killed. The U.S. Navy would award him the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and the Prisoner of War Medal for his actions that day. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Section 59, Grave 430.
The U.S. Navy would commission the USS Stethem (DDG-63) on October 21, 1995 in Port Hueneme, California, as the thirteenth Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Robert Stethem was posthumously promoted to Steelworker Second Class (SW2) and ultimately to Master Chief Constructionman (CUCM) for making the ultimate sacrifice in the defense of freedom as he laid down his life for the United States and his fellow Americans. (U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Facebook page/ U.S. Navy/ Department of Defense)
Hijackers of a T.W.A. jet freed more than 60 passengers and crew members in Algiers, but they set an ominous new deadline for the people still held hostage. Remaining aboard were 49 passengers and 3 cockpit crew members, all American men, according to a Trans World Airlines spokesman. The hijackers said that unless Israel released more than 700 Shiite prisoners by 5 AM New York time, they would “leave Algiers for another destination and the price will be paid,” the Algerian press agency reported.
Seventeen women and 2 children freed in Beirut Friday from the hijacked Trans World Airlines flight began another leg of their odyssey today as they flew to Paris to join about 25 others who were released from the hijacked aircraft in Algiers late Friday night and this afternoon. The women — 16 Americans and a Mexican — looked drawn and grim as they prepared to board the Air France plane, provided by T.W.A., that would take them to Paris. “I suppose it’s better for us all to be together now,” said Lou Peel, 58 years old, of Hutchinson, Kansas, shortly before leaving for the airport. Her husband, son and daughter-in-law were still aboard the hijacked plane when it returned to Algiers early this morning.
President Reagan receives a call informing him that the hijacked TWA flight 847 has landed in Beirut.
United States Navy Seabee diver Robert Dean Stethem who was murdered by Hezbollah members during the hijacking of the commercial airliner he was aboard, TWA Flight 847. When their demands for the release of 766 Lebanese and Palestinians held by Israel were not met, Stethem, as a member of the U.S. military, was beaten and tortured. Finally, the terrorists shot him in the temple and dumped his body onto the tarmac at the Beirut airport. Stethem was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 59, Grave 430, near other American victims of international terrorism.
The United States has reportedly sent a commando unit to the Mediterranean to be ready to storm the hijacked Trans World Airlines plane if deemed necessary. But American officials said today that they were counting on Algeria and the Red Cross to bring about a nonviolent resolution of the crisis. The officials, who would not confirm the dispatch of the so-called Delta commando unit from Fort Bragg, N.C., said all prudent measures were being taken, including military. Information on the movement of the unit came from other than American sources, but the whereabouts of the team was not disclosed. No Request from Algeria A similar move was made in December, when members from the Delta unit were dispatched to the Mediterranean in case an opportunity arose during the hijacking of a Kuwaiti airliner to Iran.
The Security Council voted unanimously today to extend the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus, amid signs of new obstacles blocking mediation efforts by the Secretary General. The new mandate for the 2,300-member force, which has sought for 20 years to keep the Greek and Turkish communities from fighting, will expire in December. Earlier this week, Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar reported that the Greek Cypriots had accepted his latest proposal for reuniting the island. At the Council meeting, however, the representative of the Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish delegate said there were “substantial and fundamental differences” between the new agreement and an earlier draft.
Pope John Paul II, beginning a three-day journey through northeastern Italy, today criticized the sentences handed out to three Polish activists Friday in a trial in Gdansk. “That which is a right in Italy and some other countries,” the Polish-born Pope said, “is a crime in other countries.” The Pope’s remarks came during a private conversation on the flight to northern Italy from Rome. But they were almost immediately made public by the Vatican. On Friday, a Polish court sentenced the activists to terms of up to three and a half years for planning a 15-minute strike to protest food price increases.
21 Finnish soldiers were released by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army, which had held them hostage for eight days in an effort to secure the return of 11 of its members who, it said, had been turned over to a Shiite militia by the Finns. The Finns, who had been held in a small cream-colored house next to the militia force’s headquarters in the southern Lebanon village of Merj ‘Uyun, about five miles north of the Israeli border, were driven away shortly after 11 A.M. in a white bus belonging to the United Nations, according to Israeli radio reports from the scene. The Finnish soldiers wore the same green uniforms and blue berets of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon that they were wearing when the militia captured them June 7. They declined to speak to reporters as they left the house in single file and boarded the bus.
Shia Muslim militiamen backed by Lebanese army tanks stormed a building held by Palestinians on the edge of a besieged refugee camp south of Beirut, while rival militias battled in the capital. Units of the army’s mostly Shia Muslim 6th Brigade used their Frenchmade tanks to head an assault with Shia Amal militiamen and stormed a building on the outskirts of the Chatilla camp, military sources said. No casualty figures were released.
A special Egyptian court in Cairo endorsed a government ban on a planned march by Muslim fundamentalists on President Hosni Mubarak’s palace to demand that Egypt be ruled under Sharia, or Islamic law. A statement said the court agreed with the Interior Ministry that the march would cause disturbances and friction but maintained that peaceful marches did not violate the constitution. The case was brought to court by clergyman Sheik Hafez Salama who put off the march Friday in the face of a display of force from about 2,000 riot police.
A deafening explosion shook Baghdad early today. The Iraqi Government made no comment about the blast, but Iran reported it had launched a missile at the Iraqi capital. Iran said it hit the Iraqi capital of Baghdad with a long-range missile and made some territorial gains along the border battle zone. Hours later Iraq declared a unilateral halt in attacks on civilian targets. Iraq had no immediate comment on the Iranian claim. The Iranian statement said the latest offensive was launched Friday night shortly after Baghdad announced its two-week truce in another effort to induce Iran to negotiate a settlement.
Faced with problems of disease, crime and overcrowding in refugee settlements along the Cambodian border, Thai officials are planning to meet Monday to discuss the future of Cambodians driven into this country by the Vietnamese offensive last winter, officials said today. The meeting will be held amid reports that there are pressures within the Thai Government to send the more than 225,000 Cambodians, followers of guerrilla armies seeking to oust the Vietnamese-installed Government in Phnom Penh, back to Cambodia now that the summer monsoon season has begun. Thai Foreign Ministry and international aid officials said today that there were no plans for a forced repatriation of the Cambodians, though officals said that at least some of them would be moved from overcrowded settlements to new sites within Thailand, possibly closer to the border.
Leftist guerrillas said their forces shot down a Salvadoran army helicopter gunship and killed 15 soldiers in El Salvador’s northern Morazan province. A clandestine rebel radio broadcast said the U.S.-made UH-1H helicopter was downed “in response to the plans designed by eight American colonels who are directing” about 7,000 government troops battling rebels in the province. A military spokesman said he could not confirm the report, but reported that government troops killed 15 rebels and destroyed five rebel camps.
President Daniel Ortega denied a request from the Nicaraguan Journalists’ Union to lift censorship, saying it will be maintained for the time being because of increased attacks by U.S.-backed contras. In a meeting with the union’s leadership, Ortega said that although he will not lift censorship, he will try to ease controls on the press. Censorship was included in the state of emergency imposed by the Sandinistas in March, 1982.
A leader of Nicaragua’s political opposition said here today that a coalition of anti-Government forces had adopted a “code of conduct” to insure civilian control of its military arm and to soften its identification with the regime of the deposed Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The opposition leader, Alfonso Robelo, who spoke at a news conference here, said, “There’s been a lot of exaggeration regarding atrocities” committed by American-backed rebels against unarmed civilians.
Forensic experts in Sao Paulo, Brazil, reassembled the skeleton police believe is that of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and specialists from the United States, West Germany and Israel will examine the bones. The examination may enable experts to determine if a body dug up near Sao Paulo on June 6 is really that of Mengele, the infamous Nazi “Angel of Death.” Police found all 208 of the dead man’s bones, badly deteriorated from contact with earth and water but apparently identifiable.
The senior Red Cross official in Ethiopia said today that the famine had grown “much worse” in parts of the country where Government troops and rebel forces remain in conflict. “There has been no improvement in these areas,” said Leon de Reidmatten, head of the delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross. “The relief effort here has not been nearly commensurate with the need. The situation has become much worse.”
Botswana’s President said today that he was seeking a United Nations Security Council debate about a raid on the capital city of Gaborone in which South African troops killed 16 people. President Quett K. Masire said he was appealing to other nations “to persuade South Africa to see reason.” Mr. Masire rejected Pretoria’s assertion that the raid Friday was aimed at bases of the African National Congress, a guerrilla group fighting white-minority rule in South Africa. He said Pretoria had not produced any weapons or military equipment captured in the raid because the victims were civilians.
A Soviet spacecraft landed on the dark side of Venus and began drilling into soil to determine the composition of the planet. Meanwhile, a balloon-borne probe was drifting 33 miles above the planet’s surface, transmitting data on atmospheric conditions back to Earth, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. A similar balloon and landing vehicle were released on Venus last week by another Soviet spacecraft. The Venus probe is part of an international mission conducted with participation of the French National Space Agency and has U.S. instruments aboard each craft.
Soviet spy operations in the U.S. have overwhelmed American counterespionage forces, according to senior Government officials. The officials, who deal with intelligence matters, disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified from 500 to 600 agents of the K.G.B. among the nearly 2,600 Soviet officials in the United States. In addition, there are at least 200 K.G.B. agents among the 800 members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, according to the Senate intelligence panel.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on Civil Rights.
A “Star Wars” test in space will be conducted by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. The countdown began today for a weeklong mission of the space shuttle Discovery that will include the first shuttle experiment to develop weapons for President Reagan’s proposed shield against nuclear missiles. The shuttle is scheduled to take off at 7:33 A.M. Monday with seven crew members, including a Saudi Prince. Plans call for the crew to release four satellites into orbit. The missile defense test is scheduled for Wednesday, when a low-powered laser in Hawaii is to bounce its beam off a special mirror that will be mounted on a window of the Discovery. The goal is to see if computers on the ground can adjust the laser beam to counteract the distorting effects of the earth’s turbulent atmosphere.
American counterespionage forces are undermanned in their battle against increasingly advanced Soviet spying, according to a published report. Four agents are needed to cover one suspect day and night, and “we don’t even have a man-to-man defense,” CIA Director William J. Casey was quoted as saying in today’s editions of the New York Times. At least 700 intelligence agents have reportedly been identified among Soviet officials and members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, and it has been estimated that there are 300 to 400 FBI agents assigned to monitor the agents.
Mayors of big cities are fearful that President Reagan’s budget and tax proposals will fall particularly hard on urban centers with large concentrations of poor members of minority groups. A panel of 12 mayors adopted a resolution, which is expected to be approved by the full conference, that the Reagan plan to end the deduction of state and local taxes from Federal income tax payments would “make it more difficult for cities to provide basic services.”
A United Airlines pilots’ strike ended when union leaders ratified a tentative contract agreement. United said full service would be restored in three to four weeks. Its 5,000 pilots had been on strike for 29 days. The last hold-up was removed when the Association of Flight Attendants agreed that those honoring the pilots’ picket line, a majority of its 9,000 members, would return to work without a contract. The flight attendants, saying they would pursue the matter in court, released the pilots from their pledge not to end the strike until the cabin crews had settled their differences with the nation’s largest airline.
The United States’ dependence on the Soviet Union and southern Africa for supplies of several vitally important metals could be ended within a decade, according to a report from the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. The report recommends development of promising deposits in other regions of the world, improved manufacturing processes, recycling of scrap and waste, and development of substitute materials such as ceramics. It noted that the United States, while blessed with an abundance of many other natural resources, has almost no available chromium, cobalt, manganese and platinum, metals essential in many critical processes.
A federal judge ordered implementation of an $87.7-million desegregation plan in Kansas City involving voluntary student transfers to and from suburban districts to help racially balance an inner city school district. The plaintiffs appealed U.S. District Judge Russell G. Clark’s decision, claiming the suburban district’s involvement should be mandatory. Clark ordered improvements within the Kansas City School District, requiring the state of Missouri to pay about $67.6 million and the school district about $20.1 million to finance the plan.
Federal plans for commercial incineration of hazardous waste on ships in the Gulf of Mexico are stirring opposition along the Gulf Coast. Only Florida backs the proposal. The Attorneys General of Texas, Louisiana and Alabama say they will sue if the Environmental Protection Agency goes ahead. There have been objections from migrant farm workers, shrimp boat owners, environmentalists and residents of the Alabama and Louisiana ports where polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB’s, and dioxin and other wastes would be loaded on incinerator ships. Opponents fear a spill that would devastate the coastal economy.
The 104-year-old Strong’s Bank in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, was closed after Circuit Judge James Fiedler declared the bank insolvent because of poor-quality loans and financial mismanagement. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., noting that Strong’s was the 47th bank to fail this year, said it suspects about $1.1 million in brokered funds placed in the bank by a New Jersey firm were used to fund fraudulent transactions. Court testimony disclosed that about 23% of the $20 million in bank loans on Strong’s books were in trouble. FDIC officials were preparing to pay off insured depositors up to the insurance limit of $100,000.
A faction of Catholic bishops criticized the “inherent weaknesses” of capitalism, blaming capitalism for the widening gap between the rich and the poor in many Third World countries. Some at the bishops’ annual meeting at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, asked for the addition of a treatise on capitalism in the second draft of the bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. The second draft is due out in September for discussion at the bishops’ November meeting in Washington. The pastoral, already four years in the making, probably will not be finally approved until November, 1986.
Jurors in Levant, Kansas, convicted a man and a woman of kidnapping and murdering two grain elevator workers in a crime spree that left four persons dead. Lisa J. Dunn, 18, of Traverse City, Michigan, and James C. Hunter Jr., 33, of Amoret, Missouri, contended that they stood by helplessly as a friend, Daniel Remeta, 27, committed the crimes. Remeta pleaded guilty to the shootings and to the murder of a restaurant manager. A fourth person in the group, Mark Walters, 18, was killed in a shoot-out with police that ended the spree, which started with a robbery in Michigan.
Two tornadoes hit northern Oklahoma early yesterday, slightly injuring three people, ripping roofs from homes and downing power lines. One tornado touched down shortly after midnight in Owasso; the other was reported north of Blackburn.
Lake Champlain, a center of tourism in northern New York, is polluted by PCB’s, a hazardous chemical, according to the State Department of Environmental Conservation. The extent and source of the pollution is not known, but the department has discovered that eels caught near the city of Plattsburgh have concentrations of PCB’s – polychlorinated biphenyls – almost five times the safe level set by the Federal Government. Because of those levels, the Health Department has warned the public not to eat any American eels, the most common variety, taken in the lake near Plattsburgh. It also warned the public not to eat more than one meal a month of another species, the brown bullhead, because of excessive P.C.B. concentrations. However, most of the fish in the lake, such as bass, trout and Atlantic salmon, show only small traces of PCB’s, and there are no restrictions on eating them.
“Pryor’s Place” children’s show last airs on CBS-TV.
Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title. Thomas, displaying a right-handed complement to his fine left jab, scored a one-punch knockout of Weaver at 1 minute 42 seconds of the eighth round tonight to retain the World Boxing Council title and establish himself as the finest heavyweight champion this side of Larry Holmes. Thomas, who has battled back from heroin addiction, broken hands and an eye injury, weathered some rough spots in the scheduled 12-round bout at the Riviera Hotel and Casino before landing a booming right hand to Weaver’s left temple. Weaver was hurt so badly that after the bout he insisted the punch, which he admitted he had not seen, had landed on his chin. “I still feel it, too,” said Weaver, rubbing his chin.
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Steve Bedrosian and Jeff Dedmon combined on a four-hitter, and Terry Harper belted a three-run homer in a five-run third inning that carried Atlanta to a rain-interrupted 7–0 victory over Cincinnati. Bedrosian (3–5) allowed three hits, walked three, struck out four and hit one batter in seven innings before leaving for a pinch-hitter. Dedmon pitched the last two innings. The Braves, winning for the seventh time in their last 10 games, took their 5–0 lead a half-inning after rain delay of more than an hour. Paul Runge started the rally with a walk and went to second on a wild pitch by Joe Price (2–1) one out later. Brad Komminsk reached safely when the third baseman Wayne Krenchicki booted his grounder and Glenn Hubbard followed with a run-scoring double inside third base. Dale Murphy was walked intentionally to load the bases, and Bob Horner hit a sacrifice fly to left, driving in his 500th career run. Harper then lined a 1–2 pitch over the left-field fence, his fifth home run of the season.
Pedro Guerrero hit his third home run in five times at bat and Orel Hershiser pitched his seventh career shutout today with a three-hitter in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 3–0 victory over the Houston Astros. Guerrero had hit his 10th and 11th home runs on consecutive times at bat in Friday night’s 10–2 victory over the Astros. After grounding out and flying out against the starter, Bob Knepper (6–3), Guerrero belted No. 12 over the left-field fence. Hershiser (6–1) did not allow a base runner until he walked Bill Doran to start the fourth inning and Denny Walling got the first hit with a single to center field.
Only 24 hours after they lost in the ninth inning and fell into third place, the Mets lost in the ninth inning again tonight and fell into fourth place for the first time in more than a year. They lost this one to the Montreal Expos, 3–2, just when Sid Fernandez needed only one out to escape the bottom of the ninth inning. But then, with a stunning staccato, Andre Dawson doubled into the left-field corner and Hubie Brooks lined a long single to the fence in left-center, and the game was gone. It was the third straight loss for the Mets and the 10th in the last 13 games in a tailspin accompanied by injuries, slumps and the breakdown of the bullpen.
Jack Clark hit his 14th home run and the rookie Vince Coleman tripled and scored to back the four-hit pitching of Danny Cox, leading St. Louis over Chicago by a score of 2–0. The victory was the third straight for the Cardinals, who have won seven of their last nine starts. It extended Chicago’s longest losing streak of the season to four games. Cox (8–2) pitched his second shutout and fifth complete game of the season. He walked four, struck out seven and retired nine batters in a row in one stretch.
The Padres blanked the reeling Giants, 1–0. LaMarr Hoyt pitched a five-hitter for his sixth consecutive victory, and Tony Gwynn knocked in the only run of the game with a fifth-inning single. Gwynn’s two-out hit off Jim Gott (3–4) was all Hoyt needed as the Giants were shut out for the fifth time in their last 10 games. The winning rally started with a one-out single by Garry Templeton. Hoyt sacrificed, and Templeton went to third on Gott’s wild pitch. After Tim Flannery walked on four pitches, Gwynn looped a run-scoring single to left for his fifth game-winning RBI of the season. Gott left after five innings because of a strain in his lower back, and Scott Garrelts and Greg Minton, in relief, shut out the Padres on one hit over the last four innings.
The Phillies crushed the Pirates, 13–3. Glenn Wilson drove in four runs and Juan Samuel had three hits and drove in a pair of runs to back John Denny’s 10-hit, 13-strikeout pitching. Denny (4–5), whose previous career high was 10 strikeouts, survived a three-run homer by Jason Thompson in the sixth inning after the Phillies built an 8–0 lead. Denny also contributed two hits and scored a run. Mike Schmidt drove in two runs, including his first game-winning RBI of the season. Two Pirates pitchers, Rick Rhoden and Cecilio Guante, each let a run score on a wild pitch.
Larry Sheets, a rookie used as a pinch-hitter despite a 3-for-23 slump, delivered a go-ahead run-scoring single to cap a three-run rally in the sixth as the Orioles beat the Brewers, 7–5. Fred Lynn launched the rally with a single and scored on Eddie Murray’s eighth home run off Ted Higuera for a 4–4 tie. In relief, Bob Gibson (5–4) issued two walks and a sacrifice bunt before Sheets laced a single to center on a 2–2 pitch, scoring Cal Ripken Jr. Nate Snell (1–1) pitched 3 ⅔ innings, allowing one run and four hits, for his first major-league victory. He was relieved with two outs in the ninth by Tippy Martinez.
The White Sox edged the Angels, 3–2. Harold Baines snapped a 2–2 tie with a two-out double in the seventh inning as Chicago stretched its lead over California in the American League West to 1 ½ games. Rudy Law, whose grounder had forced Ozzie Guillen following his leadoff single, scored from first base on Baines’s double to left-center off right-handed Kirk McCaskill (1–5). Dan Spillner (1–1) went 1 ⅓ innings for the victory after the Chicago starter, Floyd Bannister, was forced out after five innings by a blister on his pitching hand. Bob James, the last of four Chicago pitchers, went the final two innings for his league-leading 16th save.
Dave Kingman drove in four runs with two singles and a double to pace a 14-hit attack for Oakland, as the A’s prevailed over the Indians, 8–6. Rookie Tim Birtsas (3–1) picked up the victory. Jay Howell got the last five outs for his 13th save.
The Rangers routed the Twins, 11–2. Larry Parrish drove in four runs to lead a 17-hit Texas attack and Mike Mason and Dave Stewart combined on a four-hitter. Mason (5–6) left in the seventh with a blister. Stewart pitched the final three innings.
The Boston Red Sox scored two runs on a pair of two-out, bases-loaded walks by Gary Lavelle in the bottom of the eighth inning to rally for a 7–5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays tonight. With their third consecutive victory over Toronto, their 12th triumph in the last 13 games and 15th in the last 17, the third-place Red Sox charged to within four and a half games of the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East.
Seattle’s infield records 21 assists in a 2–1 win over Kansas City, tying the Major League record last accomplished by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935. Jack Perconte’s infield single with the bases loaded drove in the winning run. Matt Young (5–8) struggled with his control but kept Kansas City batters hitting grounders. He gave up six hits and walked four batters in eight innings. Edwin Nunez and Ed Vande Berg finished up.
The Yankees lose their fourth consecutive game, 10–8, to the Detroit Tigers. The Yankees faced deficits of 5–0, 7–4 and 9–6, and cut them to one run each time. Their final surge came in the eighth inning when Mike Pagliarulo, who was criticized last week by Steinbrenner because of his sub-.200 average, hit a two-run home run off Jack Morris to make the score 9–8. Sparky Anderson, the Detroit manager, then turned the game over to Willie Hernandez, who retired four consecutive batters to earn his second save in two games and his 13th of the season.
Cincinnati Reds 0, Atlanta Braves 7
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Baltimore Orioles 7
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Boston Red Sox 7
Chicago White Sox 3, California Angels 2
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Chicago Cubs 0
Oakland Athletics 8, Cleveland Indians 6
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Houston Astros 0
New York Mets 2, Montreal Expos 3
Detroit Tigers 10, New York Yankees 8
Philadelphia Phillies 13, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Kansas City Royals 1, Seattle Mariners 2
San Diego Padres 1, San Francisco Giants 0
Minnesota Twins 2, Texas Rangers 11
Born:
Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish pop singer (Girls Aloud – “Sound of the Underground”; “The Promise”), in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Mike Fiers, MLB pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Oakland A’s), in Hollywood, Florida.
D.J. Strawberry, NBA shooting guard (Phoenix Suns), in New York, New York.
Leilani Mitchell, American-Australian WNBA and Team Australia guard (Olympics, 2016, 2020; New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Washington Mystics), in Richland, Washington
Ashley Shields, WNBA guard (WNBA Champions-Shock, 2008; Houston Comets, Detroit Shock), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Chioma Nnamaka, Swedish WNBA guard (Atlanta Dream), in Uppsala, Sweden.
Died:
Robert Stethem, 23, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847.
Andy Stanfield, 57, American athlete (Olympic gold 200m, 4x100m relay 1952, silver 200m 1956; WR 200m: 20.60 1952).
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