The photo was taken with a motorized camera and also shows falling potted plants, as well as pieces of the collapsed fire escape. Other photos of the series show Bryant and Jones waiting for a turntable ladder and the moment of the fire escape’s collapse with both victims on it. Published originally in the Boston Herald American, the photo was published in more than 100 newspapers and resulted in the adoption of new fire escape legislation in the United States.
The tillerman of the first fire ladder company to arrive at the scene, Robert O’Neill, asked 19-year-old Bryant to lift her two-year-old goddaughter Jones to him on the roof, but Bryant was unable to do so and O’Neill jumped down to help before the ladder could reach them. O’Neill had one arm around Bryant and one hand on a rung of the ladder when the fire escape collapsed. O’Neill managed to hang by one hand and was rescued, but Bryant and Jones fell approximately 50 feet (15 meters). Bryant sustained multiple head and body injuries and died hours later. Jones survived the fall as she had landed on Bryant, softening the impact. A helicopter pilot, Joe Green, who provided traffic reports and landed on a nearby roof, reportedly offered to pick up Bryant and Jones, but got no response from the firefighter.
Police obtained an arrest warrant for the building’s owner, Fred Durham, for trash fires behind the building. A police complaint charged Durham with keeping an unlicensed lodging house. Three trash fires behind the building were reported in the weeks preceding the accident.
Within 24 hours, action was taken in Boston to improve the safety of all fire escapes in the city. Fire safety groups used the photos to promote similar efforts in other U.S. cities.
The Soyuz astronauts landed safely on the steppes of Soviet Central Asia, successfully completing their rendezvous in space with the American Apollo astronauts. The landing took place on schedule at 1:51 P.M. Moscow time (6:51 A.M., Eastern daylight time) 34 miles northeast of Arkalyk in Central Kazakhstan. Colonel Aleksei Leonov and Valery Kubasov were described by Soviet space officials as feeling fine. Colonel Leonov said the flight was “hard, very hard.”
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington) said the European security conference would result in a one-sided agreement favoring the Soviet Union and urged President Ford not to attend its finale in Helsinki. Jackson said the conference would be interpreted by Moscow as formal Western recognition of Communist domination in Eastern Europe.
Three Portuguese ministers have handed in their resignations and declined to join the Cabinet now being formed, a spokesman for the Premier, Major General Vasco Gonçalves, said today. The resignations were a new blow to the military’s efforts to form the fifth provisional government since April last year. Earlier, the Socialist party had rejected offers of place in the new Cabinet. The most important of the three was the overseas minister, Antonio de Almeida Santos, whose chief task was to dismantle Portugal’s colonial empire after the army coup that toppled 50 years of right‐wing dictatorship last year. The others were the foreign trade minister, Jose da Silva Lopes, and the minister for the environment, Colonel Jose Augusto Fernandes.
Greek‐Americans and their allies engaged in intensive lobbying on Capitol Hill in Washington today to prevent the Ford Administration from resuming arms shipments to Turkey. At issue is a bill, which may be brought to the House floor tomorrow, that would lift a congressionally imposed embargo on munitions shipments to the Turks. The bill was passed, 41 to 40, by the Senate In May. The embargo on Turkey stemmed from her use of American‐made weapons — contrary to American law — during the invasion of Cyprus, and her subsequent refusal to negotiate a settlement of the island dispute.
A German commuter train, en route from Hamburg to Cuxhaven, crashed into a freight train coming the other way, killing 8 people and injuring 24. The trains collided near the suburban station of Hausbruch, West Germany. The police said there was no immediate indication what caused the crash.
Britain’s Labor government won overwhelming House of Commons backing for its anti-inflation measures of strict price and pay controls. Its program, designed to cut Britain’s annual inflation rate from 26% to 10% in a year, was approved by a 262-54 vote. Opposition came chiefly from left wingers in the ruling party. Unexpectedly strong support came from former Prime Minister Edward Heath, making his second Commons speech since being replaced as Conservative Party leader.
Amintore Fanfani, the leader of Italy’s governing Christian Democratic party, was voted out of office tonight by his party’s National Council. The decision‐making body of Italy’s largest party voted, 103 to 69 with 8 abstentions, against Mr. Fanfani who,’ at 67 years old, was thought by many to be the most politically Ipowerful man in the country. The decision came at the end lof four days of intensive debate and squabbling within the party, whose council had been meeting to discuss party losses in recent elections. Mr. Fanfani, who was in his second term as party leader, has in effect steered party policy for nearly 25 years. His removal does not affect the Christian Democrats’ position as the governing party in Parliament or the premiership of Aldo Moro.
Andrei Amalrik, the dissident writer who spent the last five years in prison and internal exile, resumed his public criticism of Soviet authorities today. The 37‐year‐old writer and historian, whose works are banned in this country, said the authorities had ordered him to leave Moscow but that he intended to disobey so that he could remain with his wife, Gyusel, in their Moscow apartment. He said that the authorities had told him to leave Moscow within 72 hours, but that he had ignored the order and the deadline had passed. He said tis wife, an artist, had been threatened with explusion from Moscow unless she evicted him from the apartment.
The U.S. State Department approved the sale of 1.440 pistols to a private arms dealer in Beirut last May at a time of intense street fighting there, a department spokesman confirmed. Blaming the approval on a bureaucratic “foulup,” the department has announced suspension of deliveries of another 500 handguns to Lebanon. The fighting between Muslims and Christians had claimed 200 lives in April and resumed in mid-May.
The State Department promised to send to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a scaled-down weapons package for Jordan shortly. Senate opponents of the original proposal to sell $350 million worth of advanced antiaircraft missiles and other weapons argued it could upset the Mideast balance of power. Senator Clifford P. Case (R-New Jersey) said the compromise could involve the sale of three to six Hawk missile batteries instead of the planned 14 and 50 Vulcan radar-directed antiaircraft guns instead of 100.
King Hussein of Jordan, long the odd man out in the Arab world, has lately struck a comfortable, advantageous balance with Egypt and Syria as the process of Middle Eastern peace negotiations unfolds. The King, humiliated last October at the Arab leaders’ meeting in Rabat, Morocco, when the Israeli‐occupied West Bank of his kingdom was declared the province of the Palestine Liberation Organization, today finds his standing in Arab circles the highest in years. One reason, according to informed diplomats and Jordanians, is that King Hussein, though stung by the Rabat decision, formally accepted it. “He acted like a king,” said a Jordanian official. With the King’s reputation rehabilitated, millions of dollars began flowing into Jordan’s needy coffers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi, putting the country in good financial shape for the first time in years.
President Anwar Sadat told the opening session of the annual congress of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt’s political organization, that there was not sufficient ground at the moment to renew the mandate of the United Nations forces in Sinai. He did not mention the American-sponsored negotiations for a new interim agreement on Sinai with Israel.
Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia told President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing today that the oil producers did not plan to raise prices again later this year if currency rates in the West were stabilized, according to a senior French official. Mr. Giscard d’Estaing has been urging a return to fixed-exchange rates and has suggested a meeting of the United States, Japan, France, Britain and West Germany to discuss it. Treasury Secretary William Simon of the United States said yesterday in Washington that the floating dollar, fluctuating against other currencies as the market moves, had avoided serious crises. “I know the U.S. would not agree to any such return to fixed rates,” Mr. Simon said before two House subcommittees.
Uprisings began across Afghanistan as the Mujahideen led an unsuccessful revolt against the government of President Mohammed Daoud Khan. The Islamist rebels attacked government headquarters in the provinces of Badakhshan, Laghman, Logar, and Panjshir.
India’s upper house of parliament gave its expected overwhelming approval to Prime Minister Gandhi’s sweeping emergency powers, and the main opposition parties then walked out in a boycott of the session, called to ratify the state of emergency. An opposition member said the session could not function as a free and democratic Parliament. He cited the suspension of rules under which members could question cabinet ministers, and the government’s decision to apply to speeches in Parliament the ban on publishing statements by the opposition. The ban applies also to foreign publications but a number of correspondents reported them anyway. Two British journalists and one American left under an expulsion order early today.
Federal investigators have nearly completed security checks on the 131.000 South Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees seeking resettlement in the United States and have identified only 30 individuals whom they consider undesirable and unwelcome. The 30 are among 175 cases still under investigation. according to General Leonard F. Chapman Jr.. commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to create a self‐governing commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the United States flag. A voice vote sent the measure to the Senate, which is expected to pass it. Already approved by a plebiscite in the widely scattered Pacific islands, the plan for the new political relation with the United States is scheduled to come into full effect about 1981. The island group, with a population of 15,000, is part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or Micronesia, which the United States has administered under United Nations trusteeship since World War II. The agreement embodied in the legislation provides for United States sovereignty and control of defense and foreign affairs. Present residents will have the choice of citizenship or looser association as United States nationals.
More than 300 nuclear scientists and engineers staged their first strike in Canadian history, threatening to tie up work on $6 billion worth of nuclear power projects in Canada and Argentina. The strikers are scheduled to vote this afternoon on a new contract offer from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. But negotiators for the Society of Professional Engineers and Associates warned that the offer would need to be a “substantial improvement” over the company’s previous package.
Four persons, including the mayor of Acapulco, died when their plane hit bad weather and crashed in a mountainous area about 75 miles from the Mexican resort, authorities reported. The bodies of Mayor Ismail Andraca Navarrete, a federal government official, an Acapulco union leader, and the plane’s pilot were flown to Acapulco.
Mexico will begin exporting refined oil at the end of this year. Antonio Dovali Jaime, director of Pemex. the government oil monopoly, announced. He said this would be possible with the completion of three new refineries. The refineries are being constructed in Lula. Salina Cruz and Cadereyta. The operation of the new refineries will increase Mexico’s daily refined oil production to 520.000 barrels, he said.
The political arm of the largest left-wing Perónist guerrilla group called today for the resignation of President Isabel Martinez de Perón and new elections in Argentina. The call, made in newspaper advertisement, came as Pedro Bonanni, 69, an old-time conservative Perónist, was air Ipointed Argentina’s fourth Minister of the Economy in 10 months. Only hours after being sworn in, Mr. Bonanni issued a decree freezing prices, Reuters reported. An official announcement said the decree was part of a proposed emergency plan to rescue the nation from inflation and economic crisis.
The guerrillas, called the Montoneros, are believed to number several thousand. They are the wealthiest guerrillas in Latin America after receiving ransom reported at $60‐million for the release of two executives of an Argentine multinaItional company. The guerrillas largely suspended their terrorist activity in the last month of political and economic crisis, although they have been active among the militant rank‐and‐file trade unionists who have continued to strike sporadically for further wage increases. The Montoneros made their demands public through the Authentic Perónist Party, which has served as their ‘political vehicle in recent provincial elections.
President Idi Amin of Uganda said today that he wanted to restore good relations with the United States and Britain and would welcome reopening of the United States Embassy in Kampala, which was closed two years ago in a dispute over Marine guards. President Amin also said in an interview with western newsmen that he was ready to lead a pan‐African military invasion of South Africa and Rhodesia, both of which are governed by whites. He declared that Uganda had already trained thousands of saboteurs for infiltrating. President Amin declined to say when or how such an assault would take place because it was “top secret — I can’t even tell my wife.” But he spoke of combined air and sea attacks. The President, who is known for unpredictable pronouncements and anti‐Western pressures, bantered with the interviewers and commented that British newspapers had described him as mad.
A June rise in the Consumer Price Index reversed at least temporarily the nation’s progress toward a lower rate of inflation. Higher prices for meat, gasoline and used cars were mainly responsible for an increase of eight-tenths of 1 percent — the largest in any month this year. Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, also called the increase “higher than expected” and added: “It’s just a signal that inflation has not been defeated and it’s a warning that it needs continued concentration and Congress should not do anything in the way of excessive spending to make it worse.” Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon took a similar view, saying, “The uptrend shows that inflationary pressures remain a serious and continuing problem.” The rise in meat prices is in considerable degree a result of last year’s poor corn and soybean crops, which affect consumer beef, pork and poultry prices with varying lags. Judging from futures prices on the commodity markets, these prices should be turning downward later this year, particularly if crops are normal.
The House of Representatives voted 262 to 167 to reject President Ford’s energy plan, which would have let the average price of oil produced in the United States rise by more than 60 percent in the next 30 months. After months of disputes, the President and Congressional Democrats appear no closer to a resolution of their fundamental differences on the issue. Since the Democrats lack the votes to override a veto of legislation to reduce oil prices, the deadlock remains. John Rhodes, the House Republican leader, said that he was hopeful of reaching a compromise before the August recess. If the President’s authorty to regulate oil prices is not extended by then, all controls will be lifted automatically on August 31, and the price of oil will rise abruptly. Both Congress and Mr. Ford say that they do not want that to happen.
Members of the family of Frank Olson said that President Ford has instructed the Central Intelligence Agency to make available all relevant materials and documents concerning his death as a result of a CIA experiment with the drug LSD. The White House confirmed the report.
The House of Representatives followed the Senate in voting to restore the citizenship of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate commander in the Civil War, who had sought to regain it by taking an oath of allegiance in 1865 after the surrender. Ten House members voted against the measure, with some objecting that it should include amnesty for draft evaders in the Vietnam war.
The House passed by voice vote a bill providing increases of 10% to 12 for 2 million veterans disabled in military service — more than double what the Ford Administration had asked. The Senate is expected to act on the measure later this week and send it to President Ford. There has been no indication whether he would veto it. Senator Vance Hartke (D-Indiana), meanwhile, announced he was introducing legislation to provide up to $5 billion more for veterans seeking to buy homes. The money would be transferred from the GI insurance fund.
Attorney General Edward H. Levi outlined the Administration’s proposed gun control law before the Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee. It includes an FBI check on those who want to buy handguns and sets strict standards on the manufacture of pistols. The proposal would also assign 500 new Treasury agents to the nation’s 10 largest cities to attack the handgun black market. Levi said the bill would ban the sale of two or more handguns to an individual in one month and ban the cheaply made, easily concealed “Saturday night specials.” National gun registration and licensing are not included in the legislation. Levi said, because “that would be illusory in its expectations.”
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld from the Justice Department on at least nine occasions over the last 20 years information about possible criminal violations committed by CIA employees, according to agency documents made public today. Knowledge of the nine cases, the details of which were not provided, was suppressed by the CIA on the strength of what agency officials have characterized as a secret “agreement” with the Justice Department allowing the CIA to use its discretion in refering such cases for possible prosecution.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to give former President Richard M. Nixon $175,000 for his office staff in the next year, $53.848 more than the House allowed. Committee senators said they felt Mr. Nixon was entitled to more flexibility in his staff arrangements than the 5 increase the House approved. The Senate figure was $28.000 less than President Ford had recommended. The money bill contains $60.000 for Mr. Nixon’s annual pension. an amount fixed by law.
A split within the Republican Party could cost the GOP the White House in 1976, warned Vice President Rockefeller. He cautioned the party “not to allow the dust to get in our eyes” at the Republican convention to a point where the election was forgotten. He said his statements — made at a news conference in Cincinnati — were not aimed at winning him the vice presidential nomination but getting President Ford nominated unanimously.
A statement from Interior Secretary Stanley Hathaway disclosed that he was in the Bethesda Naval Medical Center suffering from moderate depression brought on by overwork. Reports circulated that he wished to resign but had been persuaded to wait for a possible improvement.
Alford R. (Skip) Carey, an associate of Governor Marvin Mandel and head of Maryland’s school construction agency, was indicted in Annapolis on a variety of charges, including embezzlement of $22.105 in state funds. Carey was the only one charged in two multiple-count indictments obtained by a special three-man panel appointed by Mandel and legislative leaders to probe allegations of irregularities in the handling of portable classroom contracts by the school agency. Mandel suspended Carey without pay from his $31,000-a-year job.
General Motors Corp. has been notified that it must revise affirmative action programs at two plants before it can receive any more federal contracts. The auto maker unexpectedly was notified of the ban July 15 by the Defense Department. a GM spokesman said in Detroit. But the spokesman said GM “would continue to be an awardable company while these technicalities are worked out.” The two plants are the truck and coach division in Pontiac and the Allison diesel division in Indianapolis.
General Motors urged the Environmental Protection Agency to abandon proposed rules that would require new cars to be tested on the assembly line to make sure they meet emission standards. The company said the proposed rules would impose emission standards 30% to 45% more severe than those now required by law. General Motors claimed the EPA proposal requires new investments to set up testing stations on assembly lines. GM estimated the proposed rule would reduce fuel economy from 13% to 16% because cars would have to be tuned to meet a tougher standard.
An anticipated natural gas shortage next winter “may very well conjure up realistic visions of Washington’s discomfort at Valley Forge.” according to a report released by the House Government Operations Committee. If the predictions of natural gas producers, shippers, distributors and users prove correct, says the report, the resulting effect on industry, commerce and homeowners would assume proportions of a national emergency. Among the states most severely affected would be New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Ohio. Kentucky and West Virginia, the report adds.
A group of congressmen introduced a bill to study the feasibility of converting House office buildings to the use of solar energy. The bill would authorize the office of the Capitol architect to study for six months the possibility of converting the heating. cooling, and electrical systems of any or all of three office buildings to solar energy.
Christina Onassis married Alexandros Andreadis tonight in a tiny chapel overlooking this seaside suburb of Athens, uniting two of Greece’s great fortunes.
Major League Baseball:
The Orioles handed Nolan Ryan his eighth straight defeat, routing the Angels’ ace in the second inning en route to posting an 8–3 victory. The Orioles scored four runs off Ryan in the first, one crossing the plate on a single by Tommy Davis and two on a single by Brooks Robinson. Davis then applied the kayo blow in the second, hitting a homer with a man on base. Davis added his fourth RBI of the game with a single in the fourth. Don Baylor wrapped up the Orioles’ scoring with a homer in the fifth.
Sandy Alomar collected three doubles, batting in two runs and scoring three, to lead the Yankees’ attack in an 11–6 victory over the White Sox. Jim Kaat, who started for the White Sox in a bid for his 15th victory, was kayoed in the seventh inning. Catfish Hunter, who was the winner, also departed under fire in the eighth. Dick Tidrow, relieving, gave up a run-scoring single by Nyls Nyman and hit two batters with pitches before Tippy Martinez took over with the bases loaded and struck out Pat Kelly to end the rally. Kelly had accounted for the first three White Sox runs with a homer off Hunter in the fifth.
Homers proved decisive in a split of a twi-night doubleheader as the Royals won the first game, 3–2, and the Brewers took the second game, 6–3. Vada Pinson started the Royals on the way to their victory in the opener with a circuit clout in the fourth inning. A single by Cookie Rojas and double by John Mayberry added a marker in that same stanza. Buck Martinez then provided what proved to be the Royals’ winning run with a round-tripper in the fifth. In the nightcap, the Brewers prevailed with the help of two-run homers by George Scott in the first inning and Don Money in the seventh.
The Red Sox built up a 5–0 lead, with a two-run single by Carlton Fisk as their decisive blow, and held on to defeat the Twins, 5–4. In the second inning, a walk to Fred Lynn, triple by Jim Rice and single by Rico Petrocelli gave the Red Sox their first two tallies. Three other runs followed in the third. After singles by Denny Doyle and Lynn around a pass to Carl Yastrzemski loaded the bases, Cecil Cooper walked to force in one run and Fisk followed with his two-run single. The Twins were unable to catch up, although Rod Carew hit a homer with a man on base in the sixth.
Scoring a total of 27 runs to set an Oakland club record for a doubleheader, the Athletics swamped the Tigers, 11–0 and 16–4. Glenn Abbott held the Tigers to three hits in the opener. Gene Tenace homered in the third inning and added two RBIs with a single in the sixth when the A’s exploded for seven runs. Larry Haney hit his first homer of the season with a man on base in the ninth. In the nightcap, the A’s had two big innings, scoring nine runs in the fourth and six more in the sixth. In the fourth, Reggie Jackson and Billy Williams each homered with two aboard. Sal Bando added a solo swat in the fifth before the A’s went on their other scoring spree in the sixth.
Posting the third shutout in his last four starts, Gaylord Perry yielded only two hits and pitched the Rangers to a 4–0 victory over the Indians. The Rangers decided the outcome with three runs in the third inning. Jeff Burroughs walked with the bases loaded to force in the first marker and Jim Spencer followed with a single to add two more. A walk to Spencer and singles by Toby Harrah and Roy Howell accounted for the last run in the fifth. The shutout victory was the Rangers’ second straight since Frank Lucchesi replaced Billy Martin as manager.
A wild throw by Vic Correll in attempting to complete a double play in the ninth inning enabled the Phillies to defeat the Braves, 1–0, behind the three-hit pitching of Steve Carlton. Jay Johnstone led off the ninth with an infield single for the Phillies’ sixth hit off Carl Morton, who then suffered a spell of wildness, walking Greg Luzinski and Dick Allen to load the bases. Regaining his control, Morton retired Mike Schmidt on a pop fly. Johnny Oates then grounded to Marty Perez, who threw home, forcing Johnstone, but Correll’s peg to first base hit Oates and bounced away, allowing Luzinski to cross the plate.
Jerry Koosman stole the first base of his major league career, giving the Mets’ lefthander something more than his pitching to remember in a 3–1 victory over the Reds. After the Mets took a 1–0 lead, Koosman singled in the third inning and then made a surprise dash for second. When catcher Bill Plummer’s throw went into center field, Koosman advanced to third in position to score on a sacrifice fly by Wayne Garrett. The Reds’ only run came in the ninth on singles by George Foster, Dave Concepcion and Merv Rettenmund.
A single by Gary Carter in the 11th inning for his third hit of the game drove in the run that gave the Expos a 2–1 victory over the Astros. Pepe Mangual walked to lead off and Mike Jorgensen sacrificed. After an intentional pass to Larry Biittner, Carter rapped his single to pin the defeat on Jose Sosa, a loser in relief in his first appearance for the Astros since being called up from Columbus (Southern).
Willie Montanez, who batted in four runs with a sacrifice fly, homer and single, played a big part in the Giants’ 9–5 victory over the Cubs. Montanez’ sacrifice and an error by Jose Cardenal put three runs on the board in the first inning. The Cubs erupted for four runs in the fourth, but the Giants had a matching four-run outburst in the fifth, two scoring on Montanez’ homer. Montanez singled for his fourth hit of the game in the seventh and crossed the plate on a double by Chris Speier.
Al Hrabosky, continuing to gain revenge on manager Walter Alston for leaving him off the N. L.’s All-Star team, was the winner in relief when the Cardinals defeated the Dodgers in 11 innings, 4–3. Hrabosky had previously won over the Dodgers in two successive games July 12–13 after Alston announced his pitching selections. Mike Marshall, who was named to the All-Star team, drew the Dodgers’ defeat when Ron Fairly singled in the 11th, Willie Davis doubled and Mario Guerrero hit a sacrifice fly.
A triple by Johnny Grubb in the sixth inning for the first hit in his last 15 times at bat and a single by Tito Fuentes enabled Randy Jones to pitch the Padres to a 1–0 victory over the Pirates. The shutout was the fifth of season for Jones, who triumphed in his duel with Bruce Kison.
California Angels 3, Baltimore Orioles 8
New York Yankees 11, Chicago White Sox 6
Oakland Athletics 11, Detroit Tigers 0
Oakland Athletics 16, Detroit Tigers 4
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Kansas City Royals 3, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Kansas City Royals 3, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 4
Houston Astros 1, Montreal Expos 2
Cincinnati Reds 1, New York Mets 3
Atlanta Braves 0, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, San Diego Padres 1
Chicago Cubs 5, San Francisco Giants 9
Cleveland Indians 0, Texas Rangers 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 846.76 (-7.98, -0.93%)
Born:
Scot Shields, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Angels, 2002; Anaheim-Los Angeles Angels), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Sam Jacobson, NBA point guard (Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves), in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.
Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball pitcher (2004 Central League MVP, 2009-10 MLB player); in Tokushima City, Japan.
Died:
Emlen Tunnell, 50, NFL defensive back and the first African-American inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the first black assistant coach in the NFL, died of a heart attack at the New York Giants training camp in Pleasantville, New York.
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