An unusual television exchange was carried out by President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. They extended New Year’s greetings to the Soviet and American people and expressed hope that the two countries could narrow their differences in 1986. The substance of the five-minute statements, with voice-over translations, was less significant than the exchange itself. It was the first time that American and Soviet leaders had directly addressed each other’s nation since President Richard M. Nixon visited the Soviet Union in 1972 and Leonid I. Brezhnev the United States in 1973. Mr. Gorbachev’s remarks, in which he wished every American family “good health, peace and happiness,” were carried by ABC, NBC, CBS and the Cable News Network at 1 PM Eastern standard time. Mr. Reagan’s statement, in which he said, “Let’s work together to make it a year of peace,” was carried simultaneously by the Soviet evening television news in Moscow, where it was 9 PM. The general themes of their statements were conciliatory, praising the results of their meeting in Geneva in November and holding out hopes for the future. They are to meet again this year in the United States, but a date has not been fixed. Mr. Reagan initially proposed the second half of June, but Moscow has expressed a preference for a later time.
One minute into the new year, Irish Republican Army guerrillas killed two policemen and wounded a third in an ambush in Northern Ireland that the outlawed IRA said launched a renewed campaign against British forces. Police said three hooded guerrillas detonated a five-pound bomb from a streetcorner trash can as the victims walked by. The police said three hooded guerrillas had detonated the bomb by remote control from a house where they had held a family at gunpoint for six hours. They then fired six shots at the fallen policemen before fleeing. The attack occurred in Armagh, 35 miles from Belfast.
Spain & Portugal are the 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community. Spain and Portugal became members of the European Economic Community after eight years of arduous negotiations. The 12-member community now has a common market that encompasses 320 million people, one-third more than the population of the United States. Spain and Portugal will also take up places in the European Parliament and other Community institutions.
Israeli officials voiced satisfaction with Washington’s apparent support for retaliation over the Rome and Vienna airport attacks. But Israeli officials and newspapers began raising questions about why Israel alone should bear the burden of responding to international terrorism that has affected citizens of many countries, especially the United States. Although they are very pleased to have the United States support, many Israeli officials are increasingly uncomfortable with the idea that they should be the exclusive “world policemen” for a rash of terrorism that has affected citizens of many countries, especially the United States. Senior Israeli officials quickly add that the questions they are raising should not be interpreted as precluding retaliation by Israel alone. But they say that much of what the world is witnessing is state-sponsored terrorism that can be countered only by state-sponsored economic and diplomatic sanctions, and that Israel is no longer the only target of terrorists — who seem just as ready to kill Americans or West Europeans in the Palestinian cause. Their questions also probably reflect a degree of exhaustion in Israel with bearing the political and military costs of fighting terrorism for so many years. touched on these themes — particularly the failure of other countries to impose sanctions against nations that are known to support terrorist groups — in a strikingly low-key address he delivered today to the Israeli Parliament on the Rome and Vienna attacks.
Israeli troops raided homes in the West Bank Tuesday night and detained five Palestinians under administrative orders signed by the military governor. Spokesmen in the military command said the detainees were accused of “hostile terrorist activities.” They would not give details of the purported offenses. A source in the military command said nearly 100 Palestinians had been put under administrative detention as “security risks” since the Cabinet voted in August to revive the policies of administrative detention and expulsion, which had been suspended several years earlier. The revival of the measures was in response to public pressure for a crackdown after a wave of Arab violence. The military governor is empowered to order detentions of up to six months at a time, but the orders must be brought before a military judge for review and approval within 96 hours.
Israeli troops thwarted a rocket attack on northern Galilee Tuesday night, killing one guerrilla, an army spokesman said today. The action took place near Shaqra, in Israel’s self-proclaimed security zone in south Lebanon, when Israeli troops surprised a guerrilla squad setting up two rocket launchers aimed across the nearby border, the spokesman said. Later two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed in the northern Galilee region but caused no injuries or damage, the Israeli television said.
The body of a kidnaped Lebanese Jew was found in West Beirut after his Muslim extremist captors said they killed him to avenge a raid on a Shia Muslim village by an Israeli-backed southern Lebanese militia. Police said the body of Isaac Tarrab was found near Beirut’s devastated downtown area. Tarrab was the second kidnaped Lebanese Jew to be murdered in a week. His captors, called the Organization for the Oppressed on Earth, claim to hold two other missing members of Beirut’s small Jewish community.
The Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia and rival Muslim fighters battled with tanks and artillery 25 miles south of Beirut, and nine combatants were killed, militia sources in Beirut said. According to the sources, the People’s Liberation Army, a coalition of Muslim militias and Palestinian guerrillas, fought the Christian-led South Lebanon Army troops east of Sidon for almost a day. Beirut, meanwhile, was largely calm after heavy fighting between Christian factions.
An estimated 2,000 Soviet military advisers and personnel have arrived in Libya during the last few days to operate Soviet SAM-5 anti-aircraft missiles, the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram said. In an unattributed report under a Tripoli, Libya, dateline, the paper said the missiles, provided to Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, are deployed at seven bases under Soviet control. The Soviet experts “receive their orders directly from Moscow,” Al Ahram said, and “Libyans are banned from entering those bases.”
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi threatens to retaliate if attacked as the United States builds its strength in the Mediterranean. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, warned today that Israeli or American retaliation for airport attacks by Arab terrorists would set off a “tit for tat” cycle of violence, with Libyans harassing “American citizens in their own streets.” The Libyan leader, speaking to a small group of Western reporters in his downtown barracks, said any attack on Libya would mean outright war in the Middle East and Mediterranean. He said Libya would welcome an Israeli attempt to retaliate for the attacks last Friday by Palestinian terrorists on the Rome and Vienna airports in which 18 people were killed and more than a 110 wounded. “If Israel acts against this action, there will be strong and furious counter actions by the Palestinians,” Colonel Qaddafi said. “Tit for tat. If you come back, we come back.”
Iraq and Iran mounted bombing raids today and accused each other of attacking civilian targets in renewed aerial activity in their five-year-old war. Iraq said two civilians were killed and four wounded when two Iranian planes attacked residential areas in the northern province of Sulaimaniya. Iran said its planes caused heavy casualties and damage when they bombed communications sites in northeast Iraq. It was not clear if the two sides were referring to the same raid. The official Iranian news agency said the Iranian strike today was in retaliation for Iraqi raids Tuesday on rural areas in which 30 civilians were wounded.
President J. R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka announced today that he was restoring the political rights of his chief rival, who was barred from political activity more than five years ago. The politician, former Prime Minister Srimavo Bandaranaike, was barred in 1980 from holding political office for seven years after an official investigation held her guilty of abuse of office in the 1970’s. An official announcement from Colombo, the capital of the island republic, said that Mr. Jayewardene had granted a “free pardon” to Mrs. Bandaranaike, the leader of the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party. She had been banned from holding political office and taking part in political campaigns.
Policemen and soldiers killed 12 prison inmates today after they tried to break out of a provincial prison with six hostages, ending a 24-hour drama, official reports said. The six hostages, including the warden, were wounded. The Thai radio said policemen and soldiers surrounding the prison in Sakon Nakhon, about 400 miles northeast of Bangkok, opened fire on the dozen inmates when the prisoners broke open a gate and tried to flee with their hostages. A police officer, reached by telephone near the scene, said a bullet fired by government marksmen struck one prisoner in the forehead. A hand grenade dropped from his hand and the explosion wounded Chief Warden Buncherd Plubplung, another prison officer and four other hostages, none seriously. The police said the prisoners, armed with grenades and knives, seized the hostages Tuesday, demanding a get-away vehicle and more weapons.
A New Year’s editorial in People’s Daily said today that China would concentrate on consolidating and adjusting its economic changes this year, and prepare to take them another step forward in 1987. Chinese officials extended New Year’s greetings to Taiwan, and said they hoped that Taiwan authorities would contribute to reunification, the New China News Agency said. The front-page editorial in People’s Daily said some Peking officials were abusing their power for personal gain and were spreading pessimism. The newspaper urged party members to work hard to modernize China.
China, amid signs of a new cultural chill, canceled a scheduled new year’s day television showing of last July’s “Live Aid” concert, which raised $50 million for African famine relief. An official of China Central Television said there were “all sorts of reasons” but offered no details for the cancellation of a showing of a 50-minute tape of the concert. It was replaced by a program lauding industrial modernization.
Philippine Cardinal Jaime Sin urged the government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos to guard the “sanctity of the ballot” in February’s presidential election. In a televised midnight Mass, Sin declared his neutrality in the voting but cited the need “to safeguard, even with our lives, the sacredness of the decision of conscience expressed in the ballot.” Marcos, his wife, Imelda, and government officials attended the Mass on the presidential palace grounds.
Corazon C. Aquino, the opposition candidate, was forced today to cancel a campaign rally in the home province of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Mrs. Aquino’s campaign aides said time constraints had compelled her to scrap plans to go Thursday to Laoag, capital of the province of Ilocos Norte. But some local sources said she was “frozen out” by officials who denied her a public rally permit and by radio stations that refused to take advertisements announcing her alternative plans for the Government. The President’s son, Ferdinand Jr., is Governor of the province and a daughter, Imee Marcos Manotoc, is a member of the National Assembly from Ilocos Norte.
The United States will help Mexico borrow $4 billion in 1986, according to Reagan Administration sources. They said President Reagan would make the pledge to President Miguel de la Madrid when they meet tomorrow. Mexico says it needs $4 billion to meet next year’s obligations, including interest on its nearly $100 billion of foreign debts, the highest in the third world after Brazil. Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d is also going to the four-hour meeting in Mexicali, to tell Mr. de la Madrid that the United States wants Mexico to stem the flight of capital and strengthen the role of private enterprise.
Aruba’s first home-rule Government took office today after the Caribbean island split from the Netherlands Antilles federation at midnight. A seven-man Cabinet led by Prime Minister Henny Eaman was sworn in by Gov. Felipe Tromp soon after the first session of Aruba’s new Parliament.
When Nicaragua’s elected National Assembly ended its first year of work recently, its President, Carlos Nunez Tellez, said in his closing speech that the Assembly’s principal role was to be “the maximum expression of national unity.” After the speech, several opposition members of the Assembly complained that Mr. Nunez’s statement reflected its weakness and its failure to become an effective forum for political debate. In 1986 the Assembly’s principal task will be to draw up a new constitution, and opposition members are planning to use the constitutional debate to demand greater power for the Assembly. “It will be hard for anyone outside the Sandinista Front to support a constitution in which the Assembly is not given the power to approve treaties or vote on the national budget,” said Luis Humberto Guzman, an Assembly member from the Popular Social Christian Party. “Can you imagine that in a country at war, the parliamentary Committee for Defense has never met?”
A plane crash killed eight Americans and two Chilean crew members in the South Shetland Islands, the Chilean authorities said. The Americans were planning the adventure of a lifetime -spending New Year’s at a Chilean Air Force base in the fog-shrouded wastes of Antarctica. But the twin-engine Cessna 404 that was to take them from Punta Arenas, Chile’s southernmost city, 1,000 miles to the Chilean base crashed as it was approaching the base. The twin-engine Cessna went down as it approached a Chilean air force base on the South Shetland Islands, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, said a spokesman for the Chilean air carrier Aeropetrel, which flies tourists to the base from Punta Arenas. Two of the victims were identified by Aeropetrel as Californians-Irving Lambrecht of Los Angeles and James M. Jasper of Oxnard. The cause of the crash was not known.
Ten blacks were reported killed in Moutsie, north of Pretoria, in a tribal clash set off by an effort by South Africa to redesignate an area as part of a so-called homeland. In Durban, 10 blacks were reported wounded after the police fired tear gas and birdshot at 5,000 blacks who stormed racially segregated beaches set aside for people of Indian descent. Elsewhere, the police said, six more people died in New Year’s unrest, one of them a man of mixed racial descent killed by the police and the rest blacks reportedly slain by other blacks. More than 1,000 people, most of them black, have died in the unrest since September 1984.
South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact.
A House committee today criticized the Reagan Administration’s handling of civil rights complaints against schools and colleges. The report by the House Committee on Government Operations urged the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to adopt new guidelines on when to refer a case to the Justice Department and when to act on its own. It also said the Federal civil rights agency should not let colleges avoid remedying past segregation violations just by making a good-faith attempt to do something about the problems.
Lower-priced textile imports have contributed to a loss of 60,000 industry jobs in the Carolinas since 1980. Over the last two weeks Carolina Democrats have broadcast an insistent message to textile workers: President Reagan and his backers are sending your jobs overseas. The drive began the day after Mr. Reagan vetoed a bill that would have curbed textile imports.
President Reagan watches the Rose Bowl game (UCLA vs. Iowa).
Former CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin offered to become a double agent when FBI agents confronted him with the allegations that he spied for China for more than 30 years, the Washington Post reported. Citing a court document filed by federal prosecutors, the newspaper reported that when agents arrested Chin on Nov. 23, they told him he would “have to disclose everything that had occurred” during his alleged spying before authorities would decide whether to accept his offer. Chin, 63, who retired from the CIA in 1981, is charged with spying for the Chinese from 1952. When agents confronted Chen, he offered to act as a double agent, according to court documents, the Post said.
Knife-wielding inmates rioted at the West Virginia Penitentiary, seizing control of the maximum-security facility, taking 14 hostages, and demanding to meet with the Governor, the authorities said. State troopers in riot gear encircled the 120-year-old prison, and officials made plans to “take back the institution,” said Sheriff Donald Bordenkircher of Marshall County, a former warden of the penitentiary. The uprising, which began about 5:30 Wednesday evening, involved up to 200 of the 750 inmates at the prison, said Sgt. Larry Henry, a spokesman for the state police.
The director of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies will resign after an internal investigation into his acceptance of research funds from the Central Intelligence Agency, the school disclosed today. A. Michael Spence, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said that Nadav Safran, director of the Middle Eastern center, would step down at the end of the academic year. In a six-page report on the investigation, made available today, Mr. Spence said that the university itself was to blame for failing to act when Mr. Safran first informed it of a C.I.A. contract to help finance a book on Saudi Arabia. The contract contained restrictions that violated Harvard’s rules on research sponsored by outside organizations, Mr. Spence concluded.
Women won a comparable worth case in Washington State, giving 35,000 state employees expectations of bigger paychecks in the new year. The settlement ended a 12-year dispute over whether equal pay should be given for different jobs deemed to be of comparable value. The $482 million accord would give the workers, mostly women, pay increases of at least 2.5 percent through a complex distribution formula.
Ricky Nelson’s DC-3 had engine trouble before its last flight, and one member of the singer’s band had talked of quitting because he did not trust the plane, friends and relatives said. The DC-3 crashed Tuesday near De Kalb, Texas, killing Mr. Nelson, 45, his fiancée and five members of his band.
Beleaguered Miami Police Chief Clarence Dickson announced a crackdown on old-guard officers for “degrading the department” by leaking tips to the news media that are hurting morale on the scandal-wracked force. The department is reeling from last week’s arrests of five officers and former officers on charges varying from drug trafficking to first-degree murder. Police say there may be more arrests in the cases.
More than 600 Boston school bus drivers prepared to strike over medical benefits and pension plans, but city officials who called the demands “outrageous and unreasonable” said public schools will stay open. The drivers, who have been without a contract since August, planned to begin their strike today, seeking 100% medical insurance, a pension plan and midday safety checks. School Superintendent Laval Wilson called the union’s demands “outrageous and unreasonable.”
An auto safety group charged that automatic overdrive transmissions in many General Motors cars and trucks have defects that could drive up people’s repair bills. GM’s new generation of automatic transmissions beginning in 1982 and later model large cars and trucks are plagued with problems, said the Center for Auto Safety. An analysis shows a pattern of “repeated breakdowns at low mileage” on a “myriad of defects” of the automatic overdrive transmissions from 1982 through 1985, the center said. But a spokesman said the defects are not safety dangers.
Four years ago Argyle Street in the heart of Chicago’s rundown Uptown area resembled a ghost town after dark. Its commercial life was dominated by pimps, prostitutes and drug pushers who assembled on unlit, crumbling sidewalks to ply their trades. Today Argyle Street is fast becoming a flourishing “Little Saigon,” The city’s small Vietnamese refugee community has turned it into an exotic pocket of restaurants and shops with an Indochina flavor. On weekends a festive atmosphere prevails as the 50 or so family-owned businesses are crowded by Americans and Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong from all over the Middle West.
A “very depressed man” ignited natural gas in his Portland, Oregon basement today, killing himself and touching off an explosion that demolished three homes, wrecked dozens of others and injured six people. The blast, which sent up a billowing fireball and was felt seven miles away, destroyed the home of Don Nickerson, 52 years old, whose death was apparently a suicide. The explosion, at 3 P.M., toppled a power line, ripped through two neighboring houses and hurled debris as far as three blocks, officials said. Don Mayer, a fire department spokesman, said 30 to 40 houses in a three-block radius were damaged. Twelve people were sent to hospitals but only six required treatment, officials said. Neighbors described the dead man as “very depressed” and one said Mr. Nickerson had called him about two hours before the blast, saying, “If the house goes, just duck.”
Public schools in San Jose, California will not have to bus students but will have to speed up desegregation efforts, a Federal district judge ruled Tuesday after 14 years of legal wrangling. The judge, Robert Peckham, accepted San Jose’s proposal for gradual desegregation, based largely on creating schools that would attract students from all over the area. Parents could choose at least three schools they would be willing to let their children attend. Joe Wilson, president of the San Jose School Board, said the plan would cost the district $32 million over five years. The ruling came after 14 years of struggle that began with a lawsuit on behalf of all Hispanic students charging intentional segregation. Judge Peckham said he would order mandatory assignment of students if the district’s plan did not work.
A man with a rifle barricaded himself inside his Dallas, Texas apartment today, firing shots from his front window that killed one man and injured two others before the police wounded him in a hail of gunfire, the authorities said. Lieutenant Ron Waldrop of the police identified the gunman as Krzysztof Sulak, 31 years old, who had recently emigrated from Poland. Mr. Sulak’s wife fled from the apartment about 1 AM when her husband began loading his rifle, Lieutenant Waldrop said. She said her husband had a history of mental illness. Mr. Sulak was in serious condition at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He had been shot in the jaw and shoulder, said a hospital spokesman who declined to give her name.
Kidney patients often choose to die by stopping dialysis treatment, and these little-publicized deaths of people gravely ill with kidney failure are likely to become more common, a study has found. Researchers surveyed a large dialysis program and found that halting therapy accounted for 22 percent of the deaths among the patients.
A long-term federal study of 13 million U.S. births from 1970-71 to 1982-83 shows increases in the rate of 11 different types of birth defects, a spokesman for the national Centers for Disease Control said. Among the types of birth defects being seen more frequently by physicians are two serious heart malformations-ventricular septal defects, up 10.8% for the period, and patent ductus arteriosus, up 17.5%, said Lee M. James, a statistician with the Atlanta-based CDC who participated in the 14-year study.
Doctors disputed a claim at a recent Senate hearing that an AIDS virus infection among West German prostitutes has reached major proportions and has been transmitted to American GIs. Dr. James J. James, stationed at the U.S. Army Hospital in Berlin, and two colleagues said a far larger percentage of female intravenous drug users test positive for exposure to the virus believed to cause AIDS. But researcher William A. Haseltine told the Senate hearing last September that between 20% and 50% of unregistered prostitutes are infected with the AIDS virus and 5% of U.S. soldiers reporting to venereal disease clinics in Berlin are also infected. In Atlanta, two organizations representing American prostitutes said they will cooperate with the Centers for Disease Control in a federal study seeking to determine whether prostitutes are spreading AIDS to heterosexuals. The leaders said they welcomed the study because AIDS threatens their lives and their livelihoods.
The NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00.
American singer Barbra Streisand and hairdresser/film producer Jon Peters’ romantic relationship ends.
72nd Rose Bowl: #13 UCLA beats #4 Iowa, 45–28. Eric Ball, a second-string freshman tailback, scored four touchdowns and ran for 227 yards today as U.C.L.A. continued its Rose Bowl domination of Big Ten teams by upsetting favored Iowa. Chuck Long of Iowa, the nation’s best senior quarterback in the regular season, was completely stymied and unable to rescue the Hawkeyes as he has done so many times. Ronnie Harmon, the All-American Iowa tailback, lost four fumbles in the first half, leaving him with thorny memories of the 72nd Rose Bowl, played before a crowd of 103,292. It was U.C.L.A.’s third Rose Bowl victory in the last four years and the Pac-10’s fifth straight triumph over the Big Ten. The Pac-10 champions have won 17 of the last 21 Rose Bowls.
15th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Michigan beats #7 Nebraska, 27–23. Michigan turned two third-quarter Nebraska fumbles into 1-yard touchdown runs by Gerald White and Jim Harbaugh and rallied to beat the Cornhuskers, in the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl game today. Behind by 14–3 at halftime, the Wolverines, ranked fifth in both news-agency polls, scored twice in a 2-minute-14-second span to spark a 24-point third period that led to the victory. Michigan wound up with a 10–1–1 record, losing to Iowa by 2 points and tying Illinois. Nebraska, ranked sixth by the United Press International poll and seventh by The Associated Press, finished with a 9–3 mark.
52nd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #1 Penn State, 25–10. With their powerful wishbone offense stopped for much of the evening, the Oklahoma Sooners took advantage of five turnovers in the victory over Penn State in the 52nd Orange Bowl tonight that seemed certain to guarantee the Sooners the top ranking in the final national college football polls. Oklahoma (11–1) ended what had been a perfect Penn State season with an overwhelming defense that intercepted three passes by John Shaffer, the Nittany Lion quarterback, and another by Matt Knizner, the substitute who entered the game in the fourth quarter. Jamelle Holieway, the remarkable freshman quarterback, threw a 71-yard touchdown pass to the tight end Keith Jackson to overcome an early Penn State lead. And Tim Lashar kicked four field goals to set an Orange Bowl record and help put the Sooners in position for their third top ranking under Coach Barry Switzer. It would be the sixth time Oklahoma has won or shared the final top ranking. The loss left Penn State with a final record of 11–1.
52nd Sugar Bowl: #8 Tennessee upsets #2 Miami, 35–7. Ken Donahue is at his best in a darkened room where the only sound is the hum of a film projector. He had spent most of his coaching career plotting defensive strategy for a college football coaching legend and now he does the same for Johnny Majors, who has something of a reputation himself at Tennessee. Donohue’s design for the Volunteers’ defense tonight against Miami will make Majors even more popular tomorrow. The 60-year-old Donahue served as Bear Bryant’s chief assistant for 21 years before Bryant’s successor at Alabama, Ray Perkins, told him he would be making a coaching change for the 1985 season. Donahue was invited back to his home state, Tennessee, by Majors, and he slowly built a defense worth of a Southeastern Conference champion. Tonight, that defense humbled the quarterback Vinny Testaverde and spurred Tennessee to a stunning upset against Miami in the Sugar Bowl game before a crowd of 77,432 in the Superdome.
For most teams, a bowl game represents an end, the culmination of a season’s worth of efforts and achievements. But for Texas A&M, today’s bowl game may have been a beginning. In winning the 50th Cotton Bowl, 36–16, the surprising Aggies, who combined an inflexible defense with a strong balanced offense to capture their first Southwest Conference title in 18 seasons, proved why they may be one of the country’s stronger contenders for next season’s final No. 1 ranking by routing one of this season’s early favorites, Auburn. The Aggies managed the victory by twice stopping Auburn’s running back, Bo Jackson, the Heisman Trophy winner, on fourth-down efforts in the final quarter and with a Cotton Bowl record total of 292 yards passing by Kevin Murray.
Born:
Glen Davis, NBA power forward and center (NBA Champions-Celtics, 2008; Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Clippers), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Nick Hagadone, MLB pitcher (Cleveland Indians), in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Tanner Purdum, NFL long snapper (New York Jets), in Enid, Oklahoma.
Ramses Barden, NFL wide receiver (New York Giants), in Altadena, California.
James Davis, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player (French Open doubles 2008 [with Luis Horna]), in Concordia, Argentina.
Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor (“Merlin”; “Humans”; “Mammals”), in Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Jessica Gunning, English actress known for “Baby Reindeer”, in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Died:
Bruce Norris, 61, American Hockey Hall of Fame executive (owner Detroit Red Wings, 1952-1982).
Marty Friedman, 96, American Basketball Hall of Fame guard and coach (tied World Championship series, New York Whirlwinds, 1921).
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