President Reagan strongly defended plans to develop a defensive weapons system in space. A Republican fund-raising speech by Mr. Reagan in Los Angeles reinforced the Administration’s toughening posture toward the Kremlin. His remarks were a strong reaffirmation of his commitment to the weapons project, and they came after a week of sharp exchanges and other developments that appear to have further chilled relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Speaking here at a fund-raising affair for the Republican Party of California, Mr. Reagan said the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, widely known as Star Wars, offered “us a way out of our nuclear dilemma, the one that has confounded mankind for four decades.” Noting that critics had called the project “unfeasible and a waste of money,” the President said, “Well, if that’s true, why are the Soviets so upset about it? As a matter of fact, why are they investing so many rubles of their own in the same technologies?” Mr. Reagan’s remarks came two days after the Administration announced that, despite Soviet objections, the United States would proceed with plans for the first American test of an anti-satellite weapon.
The Soviet Union denied today that it had used a potentially dangerous chemical in tracking the movements of Americans in Moscow and accused Washington of using the allegations to “poison the atmosphere between our two countries.” Tass, the official press agency, published a statement that it said had been handed to the State Department. The statement said the charges were “absurd,” “outrageous” and a “gross falsehood.” The State Department asserted Wednesday that the K.G.B., the Soviet internal security agency, had been using a yellowish synthetic powder to track American diplomats and possibly other foreign residents of Moscow.
The United States said today that its protest over the Soviet Union’s purported use of a possibly hazardous chemical to track the movements of Americans in Moscow was not intended to “sabotage” the summit meeting scheduled in November between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. When they made the accusation on Wednesday, United States officials said there is a possibility that the chemical could cause cancer. The substance is nitrophenylpentadienal, a little-known substance also referred to as NPPD. Reagan Administration officials asserted today that the accusation about the yellow powder was not deliberately timed to coincide with the announcement this week of American plans to test an anti-satellite weapon.
In the maneuvering in advance of President Reagan’s meeting with Mikhail S. Gorbachev in November, the United States is taking a tough line on arms and other issues in response to what it sees as a Soviet public relations campaign. Critics of the Administration say that Mr. Gorbachev, with announcements of moratoriums on nuclear testing and missile deployments in Europe, has thrown the United States onto the defensive. With a series of hard-hitting statements and policy moves this week, the Administration has tried to regain the upper hand. American officials say that President Reagan, by giving the go-ahead on Tuesday for an anti-satellite weapon test, wanted to show that the Russians cannot slow down American weapon development.
A British jet, British Airtours Flight 28M (officially known as Flight 328), an international passenger flight, en route from Manchester Airport to Corfu International Airport, burst into flames as it sped down a runway, then broke in two. Fifty-five people were killed in the disaster — the fourth major airline tragedy in two months. A total of 137 people were on board the chartered Boeing 737. During the takeoff roll, a loud thump was heard, and takeoff was aborted. An engine failure had generated a fire and the captain ordered evacuation. The engine failure was later traced to an incorrectly repaired combustor, causing the turbine disc to shatter and puncture the wing fuel tanks. Most of the deaths were due to smoke inhalation, not burns; 82 people survived.
A major Bonn spy scandal has been unfolding. It appeared to spread when a senior official of West Germany’s counter-intelligence agency was reported missing. He was the third Government official to disappear in the last three weeks. In addition, a secretary for a lobbying group who was a close friend of one of the government workers has also disappeared.
U.S. aircraft manufacturers have declined to join Israel’s project to build a new warplane, the Lavi fighter, but the program will go ahead anyway, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. Development of the Lavi (Lion), which is expected to make its first test flight late next year, has placed a huge burden on Israel’s inflation-plagued economy. Israel plans to produce 300 Lavis to replace its aging U.S. Phantoms and the Israeli-built Kfir.
A Knesset member charged that a state comptroller’s report shows that much of the land bought by Israelis in the occupied West Bank was obtained by “forgery, deceit, pressures and threats.” Yossi Sarid of the Labor Party said, “All this high-flown talk of ‘redeeming the land, Zionism and pioneering’ serves as a cover for corruption and cheating.” The report shows that 12,500 of 17,500 acres purchased by Jews from Arabs were obtained irregularly. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir branded the investigation “a witch hunt.”
Lebanon’s Cabinet appealed to Syria to help stop the carnage as 21 more people were reported slain in continuing artillery duels in Beirut. The appeal was made as the latest cease-fire, this one sponsored by Syria, went unheeded by Muslim and Druze militias and their Christian adversaries. Syria, which has 25,000 troops in Lebanon, most of them in the eastern part of the country, is regarded as the real source of power of Lebanon, although some Arab commentators believe its influence on the combatants may not be as great as is widely believed. Prime Minister Rashid Karami told reporters after the Cabinet meeting, the first in four months, “We demand the deployment of Syrian observers in all of Beirut and not only on the demarcation line, to draft a comprehensive security plan and to bring stability to the capital and then to the whole of Lebanon.” The demarcation line divides Beirut into Christian and Moslem sectors. Mr. Karami, a Sunni Muslim, described the militia battles and recent car bombings as “acts of the devil for which innocents are paying the price.”
Tunisia put its armed forces on alert today in response to what diplomatic sources said was a Libyan threat to use military force in a widening dispute between the two North African countries. The sources said an explicit threat was contained in a message from the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. The message was received as 30 Libyan diplomats expelled by Tunisia were leaving Tunis. The sources said Colonel Qaddafi had threatened to use military force if Tunisia did not stop what he said was an anti-Libyan press campaign. The Tunisian news service reported Wednesday that the Libyans were being expelled for “activities contrary to their diplomatic functions and status,” which is generally taken to mean spying in diplomatic circles.
Tehran radio said Iranian pilgrims staged a huge demonstration in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca. Relaying the sound of thousands of voices chanting slogans against the superpowers and urging Muslims to unite, the radio said that 150,000 of Iran’s pilgrims marched with tens of thousands of pilgrims from other nations. The Iranian newspaper Ettelaat said Saudi police, armed with riot shields, clubs and guns, did not intervene in the march.
India’s Elections Commission said that September elections will take place in troubled Punjab state despite calls for delay by moderate Sikhs who fear a new wave of terror by Sikh separatists. The commission, saying it has been assured that order can be maintained, scheduled elections September 25 for a 117-member state assembly and 13 national Parliament members. Punjab has been under federal rule since October, 1983.
Peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil separatists were adjourned indefinitely, Indian High Commissioner (Ambassador) J.N. Dixit said. The breakdown came after Tamil militants, who want a separate state, walked out of Saturday’s session in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, charging Sri Lankan forces with slaughtering civilians. Dixit blamed the collapse of the talks on “the resurgence of violence in Sri Lanka” and “some gap between the expectations of the Tamil delegation… and what was offered by the Sri Lankan government.”
A top Sri Lanka official will meet Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in New Delhi Friday in a renewed effort to reconvene peace talks between Colombo and Tamil rebels, an Indian official said today. Romesh Bhandari, India’s Foreign Secretary, said Mr. Gandhi would meet Hector Jayewardene, the brother of Sri Lanka’s President J.R.Jayewardene and leader of his country’s delegation at the negotiations. “The first step is to see that the cease-fire is respected and the killing of innocent citizens stopped,” said Mr. Bhandari, who has been Mr. Gandhi’s main envoy in attempts to preserve the talks. Mr. Bhandari was referring to reported attacks on Tamil civilians by Sri Lanka security forces this week that led to a walkout by the Tamil representatives.
North Korea and South Korea agreed today to allow 100 members of families separated by the Korean War to cross the border next month to locate relatives on the other side. Last May, North Korean and South Korean Red Cross representatives agreed in principle to permit “free travel” by people searching for relatives lost during the 40-year partition of the peninsula. At the time, both sides also agreed in principle to discuss ways to reunite separated Korean families as part of a “comprehensive” package, as the North Koreans had recommended.
An official Australian study made public today has ruled out defoliants such as Agent Orange as factors in ill health among Australian veterans of the Vietnam War and their children. The inquiry, which cost $2.66 million, was conducted over two years by Royal Commissioner Phillip Evatt on the use and effects of chemical agents on Australian personnel in Vietnam. “The Commission does not find anything untoward in the mortality rates being experienced by Vietnam veterans in Australia,” Mr. Evatt said in a 3,000-page report. About 47,000 Australians were sent to the Vietnam War between 1963 and 1973. More than 1,500 of them have claimed compensation for ill health and birth defects in their offspring, saying they were caused by chemical defoliants.
A woman suspected of having infiltrated the environmental group Greenpeace before a ship belonging to the group was bombed in New Zealand last month was identified in the French press today as an officer in the French external intelligence agency. Agence France-Presse and the weekly magazine L’Express identified her as Christine Cabon, a 34-year-old lieutenant. The woman, previously identified as Frederique Bonlieu, is being sought by the New Zealand police in connection with the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, on July 10.
A Salvadoran court has ordered the reopening of an investigation into the March, 1980, murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the attorney general’s office announced. The case was shelved last December after judicial authorities said there was insufficient evidence to proceed. However, Santiago Mendoza Aguilar, El Salvador’s new attorney general, pressed for a fresh inquiry and the court granted his request. The archbishop’s murder, as he celebrated Mass in a hospital in San Salvador, is widely believed to have been planned by right-wing death squads.
Leftist Salvadoran rebels said today that they had inflicted 109 casualties on Government soldiers during a three-day campaign to paralyze national transportaion. A spokesman for the United States-backed military, however, said the number of army casualties was “not higher than 12” during the three days, and that the guerrillas had suffered between 15 and 20 casualties. The rebel-run Radio Venceremos said the transportation stoppage campaign, which began Monday, was “95 percent effective.”
U.S.-supported Nicaraguan rebels, often accused by the Sandinista government of committing atrocities, have adopted a code of conduct for the treatment of prisoners and civilians in war, a spokesman for the contras said. Carlos Icasa, an official of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, said that the contras began putting the code into practice this week. Drawn up with the help of the International Red Cross, it “is one of the most advanced in the world because it eliminates the death penalty, even for prisoners of war,” Icasa said.
President Reagan attends a Republican fundraiser in Los Angeles, California, then attends a private dinner at the home of Betsy Bloomingdale.
Uniform Medicare payments to doctors would be imposed under proposals made by the Department of Health and Human Services. Department officials said they would ask Congress to approve a Medicare fee schedule setting standard payments for more than 6,000 medical procedures. The fees would be based on how much doctors have typically charged, and how much Medicare has paid, for various services.
Senior officials in the Pentagon told Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger today that the Army’s Sergeant York antiaircraft gun had continued to have trouble tracking and destroying targets in recent tests, according to a source familiar with the weapon. However, a top official in the Army’s testing program told Mr. Weinberger that the Army still believed the troubled $4.5 billion weapon could be made to perform adequately. The Secretary met for more than two hours with an Army general and top civilian officials responsible for research, testing, program evaluation and weapons acquisition in a meeting that officials said could determine whether the Sergeant York gun would survive or be scrapped. Defense Department officials declined to discuss the meeting in any detail, but said Mr. Weinberger was not expected to announce a final decision until next week.
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, aimed at granting the federal city full representation on Capitol Hill, died seven years after it was passed by Congress. Only 16 of the 38 states needed for ratification had approved the amendment to give the city two senators and at least one representative in the House. “Unfortunately, it’s dead,” Mayor Marion Barry said. “We are still enslaved.” Capital residents can vote in presidential elections and elect a mayor and City Council, but Congress must approve the city budget.
State laws requiring the use of seat belts and child-restraint devices have dramatically reduced highway deaths and prompted motorists to buckle up in record numbers, the national Centers for Disease Control said in Atlanta. In the four years since Tennessee required its motorists to install child-restraint devices, for example, automobile-associated deaths among children under 4 decreased more than 50%, the CDC said.
The Colorado Board of Health will start keeping track of individuals who have been exposed to AIDS virus but show no symptoms of the disease. The department will require laboratories and doctors to report on a confidential basis the names and addresses of individuals who have taken a blood test that shows they carry antibodies to the AIDS virus. It will use the information to help counsel those who carry the antibodies. The federal Centers for Disease Control keep track only of actual AIDS cases, which now number more than 12,000 in the United States.
Cuban inmates rioted at a detention center in Florence, Arizona, setting fires, breaking windows and furniture and shouting that they wanted to return home, authorities said. “The Cubans have totally torn up the facility,” said Ruth Anne Myers, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. No injuries were reported. The Cubans were among those who came to the United States during a 1980 boatlift and who later were convicted of crimes.
Religious leaders are debating whether more than 200 American churches and synagogues are justified in harboring illegal aliens from Central America. Backers say that those providing sanctuary have reclaimed an ancient tradition to meet the needs of those fleeing the turmoil in El Salvador and Guatemala, while critics say the idea of sanctuary is being subverted by opponents of the Administration’s immigration and Central American policies.
Federal District Judge Harvey Alexander 2d in Baltimore agreed today to permit Michael L. Walker, a Navy yeoman charged with spying for the Soviet Union, to move to a Federal prison from a county jail in Maryland. Mr. Walker’s lawyers had asked for the transfer from the Harford County detention center in Bel Air, about 15 miles from Baltimore. They said his activities and contacts with other inmates were too restricted. Kathryn Morse of the Federal Bureau of Prisons would not immediately disclose where Mr. Walker had been assigned. Mr. Walker and his father, John A. Walker Jr., are scheduled to be tried later this year in Baltimore. Both pleaded not guilty to spying charges.
A man set to inherit millions from a tobacco fortune was arrested and charged with murdering his mother and her adopted son by blowing up their car in Naples, Florida. Steven W. Benson, 34, was held without bail in the July 9 blast that killed Margaret Benson, 63, and her adopted son, Scott, 21. The prisoner’s sister, Carol Benson Kendall, 40, suffered burns over 30 percent of her body in the auto explosion.
Governor Bob Graham urged clemency in asking his Cabinet to allow a 76-year-old man serving a life sentence for killing his incurably ill wife to be released from prison pending the outcome of his Florida state court appeals. The prisoner, Roswell Gilbert, was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in May even though he maintained he fatally shot his longtime wife, Emily, because of her painful illnesses.
A killer dubbed “the night stalker” by the Los Angeles police for seven slayings there since March was linked today to the killing of a man in San Francisco. The police said they believed the same person was responsible for the slayings in the Los Angeles area and the killing last weekend, almost 400 miles away, of Peter Pan, 66 years old, in his home here. Mr. Pan and his wife, Barbara, 64, had both been shot in the head. She remains hospitalized. A detailed comparison of the killing here was made with two of the Los Angeles slayings, said Officer Martin Barbero of the San Francisco police.
The police in Austin, Texas said they were forced Wednesday to drop murder charges against an Air Force sergeant accused of starving his mother to death because his actions violated no state law. The Air Force man, Staff Sgt. Joe Victor Dixon, was released after the Austin police found that they could not charge him with murder in connection with the death of his 68-year-old mother, Vera Inez Dixon.
Texas Republicans had trouble for many years getting anyone to run for office, but now the party may have more candidates than its leaders want. Splits are occurring among Republicans as they press to seize once solid Democratic territory.
The Air Force will conduct its first silo launch of the controversial MX missile today at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the Pentagon announced in Washington. It will be the ninth flight test of the missile, which can deploy up to 10 nuclear warheads. All of the previous launches have been from above-ground canisters. For this launch, the canister will be lowered into a test silo. The Pentagon refused to give an exact time for the launch.
Acid rain in the Rocky Mountains has been linked with sulfur emissions from copper smelters up to 600 miles away, scientists reported in the August 30 issue of Science magazine. The study, by researchers for the Environmental Defense Fund, blamed changes in the levels of sulfur dioxide emissions at the smelters for the level of sulfate in the rain. Acid rain has been blamed for destroying aquatic life in high-altitude Eastern lakes and for harming forests. “These results are a direct demonstration that reducing sulfur dioxide emissions reduces acid rain,” one of the report’s authors, Michael Oppenheimer, said.
Los Angeles County and the Federal Government helped finance a pamphlet called “Shooting Up and Your Health,” which gives advice on how to safely inject drugs, according to three county supervisors, who called for an inquiry. “I am shocked that this publication was put out with the blessings and the sanction of the county,” said one of the Supervisors, Kenneth Hahn. Irv Cohen, acting director of the County Department of Health Services, said distribution of the pamphlets was halted Wednesday. The pamphlet advises intravenous drug users, who are known to be at risk of getting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, to avoid sharing needles. The AIDS Project L.A., which helped produce the pamphlet, receives Federal money.
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Thad Bosley hit a pinch-hit home run over the right-field fence leading off the ninth inning to give the Chicago Cubs a 3–2 victory in Atlanta. It was Bosley’s fifth homer of the season and his second as a pinch-hitter. He leads the National League in pinch hits with 16. Bosley’s game-winner came on a 3–2 pitch from Braves’ reliever Rick Camp. The victory went to reliever Ron Meridith (2–0).
Terry Leach, who pitched six stout innings as an emergency replacement last month, rose to dramatic heights once more. He faced only 30 batters, allowed three singles and one walk and nothing else and pitched the Mets to a 7–0 victory over Vida Blue and the Giants. Leach got another emergency start because scheduled pitcher Sid Fernandez was experiencing dizziness. Blue, 36 years old and still firing fastballs at 93 miles an hour, surrendered one run in the fourth and another in the fifth, and then was floored when Darryl Strawberry socked a two-run home run over the fence in straightaway center field in the sixth.
The Houston Astros held a 1–0 lead going into the ninth inning tonight but St. Louis won the game, 2–1, helped by some timely substituting by Manager Whitey Herzog. The Cardinals struggled against the knuckleball pitcher Joe Niekro, who held the Cards to four hits and no runs over eight innings before leaving the game in the ninth. With St. Louis trailing, 1–0, Tom Herr reached base on an error and scored the tying run on the pinch-hitter Brian Harper’s single. Bill Dawley came on with the bases loaded and walked Mike Jorgensen -the Cardinals’ third pinch hitter of the inning — to force home Harper with the winning run.
Shane Rawley pitched his first National League shutout and doubled home a run for Philadelphia as the Phillies beat the Dodgers, 2–0. The Dodgers, who had 22 hits in a 15–6 victory over the Phillies Wednesday night, were held to four hits by Rawley (10–6), who last pitched a shutout on July 17, 1983, for the Yankees against Minnesota. It was the fifth straight victory and fourth complete game of the season for Rawley. Jerry Reuss (11–8) was the loser, though he allowed 10 hits in seven innings. The Phillies took a 1–0 lead in the first when Juan Samuel lined his 11th triple of the season and scored on Glenn Wilson’s sacrifice fly. Philadelphia added a run in the fourth when John Russell doubled and came home on Rawley’s double to right-center. The Dodgers threatened in the eighth when Steve Sax led off with a double and took third on a fly out. Rawley struck out Mariano Duncan and got Bob Bailor on an infield out.
Rick Rhoden pitched eight innings of shutout ball and singled home a run for Pittsburgh as the Pirates downed the Reds, 5–1. Pete Rose of Cincinnati got a single in three times at bat and is 13 hits short of breaking Ty Cobb’s career record of 4,191. Rhoden (8–13) gave up six hits, walked three and struck out six before leaving the game with the bases loaded and no outs in the ninth. The reliever Rod Scurry yielded a sacrifice fly, but got the last three outs. Rhoden’s check-swing single in the third inning drove in Sammy Khalifa, who doubled against Jay Tibbs (6–14). The Pirates scored two more runs against Tibbs in the sixth and one in the seventh.
Andy Hawkins pitched a four-hitter and Steve Garvey knocked in two runs as San Diego swept its three-game series with Montreal, winning this one, 3–0. Hawkins (16–4), who walked two and struck out four, now has two shutouts this season. Garvey collected his 61st and 62nd runs batted in during the third inning with a double off the right-field wall against Floyd Youmans (1–1), who had a four-hitter going until he was relieved by Tim Burke in the eighth. With two outs in the third, Tony Gwynn reached second on an error by the Expo shortstop Hubie Brooks. Graig Nettles walked, and he and Gwynn scored on Garvey’s double. The Padres got their final run in the eighth. The Expos have scored two runs in their last 36 innings, and one was unearned.
Wade Boggs and Jim Rice delivered run-scoring singles during a four-run third inning and the rookie Mike Trujillo (3–2) pitched eight strong innings tonight, helping the Boston Red Sox break a six-game losing streak with an 8–4 victory over the Texas Rangers. Meanwhile, the Red Sox right-hander Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd, who was involved in a shouting match with Rice Wednesday night, failed to appear at Fenway Park for tonight’s game. Boyd, frustrated by what he termed a lack of offensive support this season from his teammates, was involved in a heated exchange with Rice, who accused the 25-year-old pitcher of “showing up the team.”
The Yankees’ winning streak came to an end tonight when pinch-hitter Bob Boone, who did not start because of a slightly pulled groin, singled to left field with two out in the bottom of the ninth to score Bobby Grich from second base for a 3–2 California Angels victory. The Yankees, who had won seven in a row, also lost a half game to Toronto in the American League East, and now are three and a half behind. Ron Guidry, the Yankee starter, left after eight innings with the game tied and without his 17th victory. Rich Bordi came in and walked Grich before Juan Beniquez put down a sacrifice bunt. It was fielded by the third baseman Mike Pagliarulo, who threw late to second in an attempt to get Grich.
Steve Balboni’s two-run homer and Willie Wilson’s two-run triple keyed a sixth-inning rally that led Kansas City past Chicago, 7–3. With the Royals trailing, 3-2, in the sixth, Frank White drew a walk from Joel Davis (1–1) and Balboni then socked his 26th homer of the season. John Wathan drew a walk and Buddy Biancalana was awarded first base on interference by the catcher Carlton Fisk. Wilson’s triple to right-center drove home two runs and made it 6–3. Wilson leads the major leagues with 18 triples. Danny Jackson (12–7) went seven and two-thirds innings for the victory. Dan Quisenberry finished up for his American League-leading 30th save. The victory gave Kansas City a 22–10 record since the All-Star Game break and placed the Royals 14 games over .500 for the first time this season.
Matt Young pitched a five-hitter and Phil Bradley drove in three runs with a homer and double to give Seattle a 4–0 shutout victory over the Orioles. Young (8–14) broke a six-game losing streak that dated to June 25. He struck out seven and walked three. Alan Wiggins had three of Baltimore’s hits. Orioles third base coach Cal Ripken Sr. was ejected by home plate umpire Dale Ford in the fourth for arguing a strike called on his son, Cal Jr.
Darrell Evans hit his 28th home run of the season on the first pitch of the 13th inning, and Lance Parrish added a run-scoring single, driving in Lou Whitaker, who had walked, to wrap it up for the Tigers, who topped the A’s, 5–3. Evans homered off Keith Atherton (4–5), the A’s fourth pitcher of the game. Bill Scherrer (2–1) got the victory with two innings of shutout relief, and Chuck Cary worked the 13th for the save in his major league debut. Frank Tanana, Detroit’s starter, struck out 11 batters and allowed only one earned run in eight innings. Aurelio Lopez got out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the ninth after walking three batters. Tommy John shut out the Tigers for five innings and held a 3–0 lead. He left the game after Parrish opened the sixth with a home run, his 19th, and Barbaro Garbey singled.
Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta Braves 2
Texas Rangers 4, Boston Red Sox 8
New York Yankees 2, California Angels 3
Kansas City Royals 7, Chicago White Sox 3
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Houston Astros 1
San Diego Padres 3, Montreal Expos 0
San Francisco Giants 0, New York Mets 7
Detroit Tigers 5, Oakland Athletics 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Cincinnati Reds 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Baltimore Orioles 0, Seattle Mariners 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1318.1 (-11.43)
Born:
Brittany Lang, American golfer (U.S. Open 2016), in Richmond, Virginia.
Ryan Feierabend, MLB pitcher (Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays), in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sandy Rosario, Dominican MLB pitcher (Florida-Miami Marlins, San Francisco Giants), in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.
Chad Simpson, NFL running back and kick returner (Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins), in Miami, Florida.
Jey Uso [Joshua Samuel Fatu], American professional wrestler (Raw Tag Team champion with twin brother Jimmy), in San Francisco, California.
Jimmy Uso [Jonathan Solofa Fatu], American professional wrestler (Raw Tag Team champion with twin brother Jey), in San Francisco, California.
Died:
Paul Peter Ewald, 97, German Crystallographer and Physicist who devised the theory of X-ray interference by crystals and pioneered X-ray diffraction methods.
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