The Seventies: Sunday, July 18, 1976

Photograph: Perfection. Romania’s Nadia Comăneci earns the first perfect score in Olympic gymnastics history as she performs an excellent balanced jump July 18, 1976, during compulsory events and optional exercises in the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal. The young gymnast went on to win three gold medals in the games. (AP-Photo/mk)

Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast in Olympic history to receive a perfect score (10.00), after being judged perfect in her performance on the uneven parallel bars as part of the compulsory gymnastics exercises event, and went on to win the first of six gold medals. The opinion of the judges was protested by the Soviet gymnastics team, without success. Comaneci had been judged perfect in lower-level competitions prior to appearing in Montreal; a press report noted at the time that her mark was “the first in modern Olympic history but Nadia’s 17th.” According to another observer, a perfect score had been given by one of the four judges in Olympic competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo but “at least three of the four judges must score 10.00 before the overall score comes up the same.” The 14-year-old prodigy of the gymnastics school of Béla Károlyi would achieve six more perfect scores and gold medals before the games concluded.

In other events, Mike Bruner led an American one, two, three sweep in the men’s 200‐meter butterfly final, setting a world record, and the United States basketball team defeated Italy, 106–86.

The African boycott of the Olympic Games in Montreal got support from the Caribbean when Guyana withdrew, bringing the total withdrawal to about two dozen teams involving 600 athletes, as the first day of competition began. The International Olympic Committee will not invoke sanctions against the protesters. Officials of the I.O.C. say that disciplinary measures would only aggravate a “very emotional” situation. The I.O.C. is not expected to try to arrange a reconciliation either, since it regards the dispute as being beyond its jurisdiction.


Hardly 24 hours after the Spanish government promised amnesty to some political prisoners, bombs were exploded in eight cities, including Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Bilbao, damaging public buildings and monuments and injuring seven persons. Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa believed the bombings were the work of two extreme leftist groups, Basque nationalists and the Popular Antifascist Revolutionary Front. These groups were suspect, he said, because their jailed members and others held responsible for violence against persons would not be amnestied. The bombings coincided with the 40th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War.

West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declined to confirm or deny a statement attributed to him that the United States, West Germany, Britain and France would refuse financial aid to Italy if Communists were given seats in its new cabinet. The agreement reportedly was made during the early-July Western economic summit in Puerto Rico. Schmidt, interviewed on the ABC television program Issues and Answers said, however, “not many Western countries would like to help establish a Communist reign in a Western democratic country.” Schmidt also said he expects no basic change in relations between the United States and Europe if either President Ford or Democrat Jimmy Carter wins the November election.

Developed and developing countries have reached a deadlock in their negotiations in Paris over new international economic structures. While neither side is as yet willing to brand the talks a failure, the disagreements — over procedural points that weigh on the more substantive issues — could threaten a timetable already fixed for the second half of this year. What has happened is that commissions on energy, raw materials, development and finance set up by the 27 participants in the Paris Conference on International Economic Cooperation have failed to agree on a work schedule for meetings next September, October and November. A ministerial meeting is supposed to wrap up the conference in December.

As a counterpoint to the conflicts in European Communism, the Soviet Union has been attempting to strengthen its ties with the foreign parties that it already dominates. especially those in Eastern Europe. The effort, which has a long history, has grown more pronounced as nationalist trends and electoral politics have driven some of the West European Communists, among them the Italians and the French, to the periphery of Moscow’s ideological orbit. The Soviet interest in structuring durable political and economic links with Eastern Europe has been particularly visible in the two and a half ‘weeks since the display of ‘Communist disunity in East Berlin, where the heads of 29 European parties gathered for a two‐day meeting that had been carefully negotiated for two years. The conference became a forum for diversity as Italians, Yugoslavs, Frenchmen and Spaniards delivered speeches rejecting Moscow as the repository of infallible ideology, and as the Soviet leader, Leonid I Brezhnev, being faced with increasing recalcitrance, disclaimed any pretensions of dominating the international movement. The conference issued a document that certified each party’s right to pursue its l own road to socialism and omitted the slogans “Marxism-Leninism” and “proletarian internationalism,” concepts with pro‐Soviet connotations.

The 40,000-ton Kiev, regarded in the West as the Soviet Union’s first aircraft carrier, sailed through the Bosporus for its first voyage to the Mediterranean. Diplomatic sources said the Kiev was not operational, having no aircraft on board. But reports from Turkey said the Russians advised that the vessel carried about 30 airplanes and 25 helicopters. Witnesses spotted no aircraft. The Soviet fleet has lacked an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, although it has had helicopter carriers in the past. Military sources said the Kiev raised the Soviet Mediterranean fleet to 69 vessels, about 10 more than the U.S. 6th Fleet which includes two aircraft carriers.

Israel devalued its pound by 2% and linked it to four European currencies in addition to the U.S. dollar. The changes were an effort to boost exports. The pound will be linked to the dollar, British pound, West German mark, French franc and Dutch guilder. The new rate of exchange was put at 8.12 pounds to the dollar. The latest devaluation is the 20th since the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Christian rightists started a new attack on the isolated Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar, on the outskirts of Beirut, which has been under siege for nearly a month. Meanwhile, residential areas of Moslem-controlled western Beirut were shelled by mortars, apparently in revenge for the shelling of Christian areas outside Tell Zaatar by Palestinian and leftist Moslem artillery. The rightist-controlled radio reported that many Palestinian fighters and civilians at the camp had surrendered, but it did not repeat earlier reports that the camp had fallen. Palestinian sources said that two rightist attacks had been repulsed and that troop reinforcements had reached the camp during the last few days, The camp has been under siege for 28 days. Heavy fighting was reported on other fronts in the city and in the mountains. Leftist newspapers charged today that Syria brought new reinforcements last night into Masnaa, the border station on the Beirut‐Damascus highway.

There were predictions that the reinforcements were headed for the area of Aintura, a key mountain town where Palestinian and Muslim forces are blocking a road leading from Zahle, in Syrian‐held eastern Lebanon, to Junieh, the “capital” of the Christian‐held shorefront northeast of Beirut. Palestinian officials such as Abu Iyad, the No. 2 man after Yasser Arafat in Al Fatah the (main Palestinian commando group, have said they expect the next decisive battle to come in that area. Many Lebanese in the Muslim‐controlled area of western Beirut were still expressing fears touched off Friday by an announcement by the United States Embassy that it was organizing a new evacuation of foreign citizens. The announcement coincided with a spate of rumors predicting an imminent full‐scale attack on western Beirut by the Syrians and right‐wing Christians.

The leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Sudan discussed inter‐Arab problems and other matters today in their second day of talks in Saudi Arabia, Egyptian sources reported tonight. The Egyptian Government news agency reported that the talks had been held in a “brotherly spirit” and it was understood that the Egyptian War Minister and the Sudan’s Chief of Staff had taken part in a separate meeting today with Saudi Arabia’s Minster of State for Foreign Affairs, Prince Saud, in the Saudi diplomatic capital, Jidda. A Saudi Government radio broadcast, monitored in Amman, Jordan, and relayed here said that an important joint communiqué would be issued tomorrow concerning “the present situation that the Arab world is experiencing,” in the names of the three leaders — President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and President Gaafar al‐Nimeiry of the Sudan.

The Indian Government has “impounded” the passports of three more citizens of India who live in the United States and are leaders of Indians for Democracy, an émigré organization that opposes the policies of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The action was confirmed last week by M. R. Sivaramakrishnan, a press counselor at the Indian Embassy here. All three who received letters from the embassy notifying them of the revocation of their passports and one other who was informed earlier maintain permanent residence status in this country and are not in jeopardy of being deported.

The death toll from earthquakes in Bali last week has risen to 489, according to latest reports in Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta. A number of people are still missing, and 2,555 are being treated for injuries. Hospitals in Bali are overflowing, and hundreds are being cared for in makeshift centers. Officials said the most pressing need was for medical supplies and tents. So far no foreigners are known to have been injured or killed. The disaster site, in the Buleleng Regency area, is well away from main tourism centers on the south coast.

An unidentified young man was seized by Montreal policemen when he broke from the crowd and rush toward a limousine carrying Queen Elizabeth II outside Christ Church Cathedral. He was hastily grabbed by the queen’s bodyguard and hustled away. Police said later, “He just wanted to be closer to the queen and to get her autograph. He wasn’t armed and apparently meant no harm. He has been questioned and will be released without charge.”

Mexican officials, concerned for the lucrative American tourist business, sent armed troops on border patrol over the weekend to prevent terrorist attacks and robberies, The troops patrolled the Baja California coast in jeeps to protect American citizens camping on the beaches in Ensenada, Calif., near the Mexican border. The beaches attract two million American tourists each year. The victimizing of Americans appears to be only a small part of an increasingly ugly mood along the border.

A Buenos Aires hotel owner was killed by leftist guerrillas because he raised room rates in the middle of Argentina’s deepening recession, the Buenos Aires Hotel Assn. claimed. The association said at least 100 other hotel owners have been threatened by guerrillas since the military government gave permission for them to raise room rates June 30. Rates at the hotel involved, used by indigents and poor immigrants, went from about 70 cents to $1.50 a day. Many families were evicted because they could not pay the higher rates.

Diallo Telli, the minister of justice for the West African nation of Guinea since 1972, and the secretary general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) from 1964 to 1972, was arrested at his home and charged with attempting to overthrow the government of Guinean President Sekou Toure. The indictment followed discussions in a special commission of inquiry headed by Mamadi Keïta, the Minister of Education and half-brother of Toure’s wife. Telli was imprisoned at Camp Boiro, where he and four other arrested government ministers would die of enforced starvation in 1977. Telli’s arrest, along with those of five other people, was announced by Toure in a radio address on July 24. Two days before his arrest, Radio Conakry had announced that 19 people had been rounded up after the discovery of a plot to assassinate Toure.

Angola still has not released the body of executed American mercenary Daniel F. Gearhart, officials at the American Embassy in Lisbon said. “We are frankly surprised at the lack of response,” an embassy spokesman said. Gearhart, 34, was executed July 10 with three British mercenaries for fighting against the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the recent civil war. The embassy spokesman said he understood that friends of Gearhart’s had raised the $5,000 demanded by Angola to get the body shipped back to the United States.

Demonstrating students at one of South Africa’s three black universities today threw a gasoline bomb into one of the main campus buildings and damaged others before being subdued by policemen using tear gas. The incident at the university of Fort Hare was the first serious disturbance since widespread anti‐government rioting by blacks faded four weeks ago. The university was closed indefinitely after the protest by the students against the government’s handling of the riots last month. Disturbances at that time at the two other universities for blacks caused them to be closed. Initial reports said there had been no casualties in the upheaval, which began last night and continued spasmodically until policemen moved onto the campus in force this afternoon. Apparently the police, though armed, did not open fire.


Neither President Ford nor Ronald Reagan has been able to muster a clear majority of the 2,259 delegates to the Republican National Convention. The final delegates were picked Saturday night in Salt Lake City and Ronald Reagan got all 20 in Utah, which, with Connecticut, held the last of the state conventions. President Ford won all 35 Connecticut delegates. The New York Times national delegate tabulation gives the President 1,102 of the 1,130 delegate votes needed for nomination. Mr. Reagan has 1,063 and 94 are uncommitted. Even the popularity of Senator Jake Garn, a conservative, pro‐Ford former Mayor of Salt Lake City, was insufficient to dent Mr. Reagan’s dominance in Utah. Mr. Garn pulled only 676 votes, against the 1,761 he needed to get on the delegate slate. Mr. Garn joins such other party luminaries as Governor James E. Holshouser Jr. of North Carolina, Senators Barry Goldwater and Paul J. Fannin of Arizona, Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington and Senator John G. Tower of Texas on the list of those whose loyalty to Mr. Ford cost them delegate positions.

A “major break” in the kidnapping of 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver was expected by law enforcement officials in Chowchilla, Calif., and neighboring counties. “For the first time we are in a concrete position with solid leads to follow,” the sheriff of Madera County said. He released a drawing of two of the three kidnapping suspects, based on descriptions by two of the children, and the license plate number of a van used in the abduction.

Jimmy Carter returned to the simple white First Baptist Church here today and taught a Sunday school lesson on the need for love justice and humility. In his first opportunity to speak at the church since his nomination as the Democratic candidate for President in New York City last week, the 51‐year‐old former Georgia Governor asked whether anyone remembered the “one more thing” that he had said in his acceptance speech must come “out of love.” One man in the room crowded with about 80 persons, half of whom were members of the men’s, women’s and couples’ Sunday school classes and the other half reporters and Secret Service agents, replied: “Obedience.” “Simple justice,” Mr. Carter corrected him softly.

Former Senator and former Democrat Eugene J. McCarthy, and Independent candidate for the Presidency this year, didn’t sound either convinced or threatened by his old party’s show of unity in Madison Square Garden last week. He wasn’t much impressed, either, by Jimmy Carter’s choice of his old seat‐mate from Minnesota, Senator Walter F. Mondale. for second spot on the ticket. Mr. Mondale backed then Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey against Mr. McCarthy’s anti‐Vietnam Presidential candidacy in 1968, something that Mr. McCarthy never forgets. “I read somewhere where Mondale said he was an early opponent of the war,” he said. “He must have meant early 1969.”

Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) returns to Washington tomorrow when Congress convenes after a 2 ½-week recess. Hays, 65, central figure in the congressional payroll sex scandal who was stripped of his chairmanship of the powerful Administration Committee, has not been on Capitol Hill since he took an accidental overdose of sleeping pills on June 10 at his farmhouse in Belmont, Ohio.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is trying to recover thousands of dollars it says were lost in padded or misspent school desegregation grants, sources close to the investigation said. The estimated loss of government funds might total $200,000. Nobody, however, predicted that the money would be recovered. “These were grants, which make them less recoverable than, say, contracts,” said a spokesman for the U.S. Office of Education. He said several grants had been halted before full payment was made to prevent further loss but that no money had been recovered. The FBI investigated the department’s allegations of misspending and referred the case to federal prosecutors. A grand jury considered the matter without taking action.

Post office charges for special delivery, insurance, money orders and certified or registered mail went up Sunday, but the cost of sending junk mail came down. The minimum special delivery fee for a first-class letter increased to $1.25 from 80 cents and certified mail went to 60 cents from 40 cents. Insurance for material valued up to $15 increased to 40 cents from 25 cents and the money order fee for up to $10 went to 50 cents from 30 cents. Other rate changes included moderate reductions for many types of third-class advertising mail and small increases for second-class magazines.

Rockets with warheads containing the nerve agent GB, also known as nerve gas, were being neutralized at the Army’s chemical warfare test station in Utah after having been stored in open pits since 1969, according to Army spokesmen. Of 36,000 M-55 rockets awaiting destruction, an estimated 569 still have the warheads intact, each containing 10.5 pounds of the nerve agent, Army officials said. The 61 storage pits were being cleared one by one and cost of the project was estimated by the Army at $4.3 million. The expected completion date is October 31.

The Energy Research and Development Administration was accused by nine public interest groups of working to defeat Proposition 15, the recently defeated nuclear safety initiative, while putting up an official front of neutrality on the subject. “ERDA’s official position was that the agency would take no position on the initiative,” said John Abbotts, a member of the Public Interest Research Group, “but ERDA’s own documents show that the agency worked behind the scenes to defeat the initiative.” ERDA did not immediately respond to the allegations.

Civil rights advocates announced plans for another march through Chicago’s Marquette Park shortly after Saturday’s attempt to walk through the predominantly white area ended in violence. Sixty-three persons were arrested and 33 others injured after about 150 marchers — both black and white and guarded by 200 policemen — clashed for 40 minutes with a crowd of whites at the edge of the city park, officials said. Three persons, including two policemen, remain hospitalized. A spokesman for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Movement, which organized the march to protest lack of open housing in the area, said the group would seek a permit for a march on August 14.

For four days, the state’s 11 major witnesses in the trial of William and Emily Harris have told the jury about their experiences with the revolutionary couple and Patricia Hearst some two years ago, experiences some described as friendly, zany or frightening. The fast‐moving testimony on the events of May 16 and 17, 1974, was unusually free of legal conflict between prosecution and defense. The jurors learned that a woman later identified as Miss Hearst fired shots at a sporting goods store to aid the Harrises escape, and that the fugitives subsequently commandeered four cars and two car owners in their flight from the police. This week, however, a major battle will be fought outside the jurors’ presence over the admissibility of a tape recording sent to a Los Angeles radio station by the revolutionaries in June 1974. In it Mr. Harris, calling himself “General Teko,” says, “We were forced to fight our way out of the store.”

Connecticut’s secretary of state, Gloria Schaffer, was overwhelmingly named Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate and said that, despite polls showing her badly trailing Republican incumbent Lowell P. Weicker Jr., she would beat him. Mrs. Schaffer received 1,114 votes at the Democratic state convention in Hartford to 60 for former Rep. Donald Irwin. “I have not lost an election. since I ran for the state Senate in 1958,” Mrs. Schaffer said, “and I am. not going to lose now. I expect to win in November.” A professional poll commissioned by the Republican state committee recently showed Mrs. Schaffer running behind Weicker, 29% to 58%. Mrs. Schaffer was the leading vote-getter in the state in 1974 when she was reelected secretary of state.

Scattered afternoon showers helped fire fighters contain a blaze that had consumed more than 880 acres of timber in mountainous terrain near Grand Valley, Colorado, and caused the deaths of four men, the Bureau of Land Management said. Spokesman Pat Archer said that at the height of the fire-believed to have been caused by lightning-265 fire fighters had been at the scene. Three Forest Service employees were killed Saturday and another man suffered severe burns and remained in critical condition. A fourth man, the pilot of a B-26 bomber converted to drop fire retardant, was killed when the plane crashed in a canyon.

The first of two Viking landing craft completing a journey from earth of nearly half a billion miles that took nearly a year is preparing to land Tuesday on the surface of Mars, where it will take and transmit the first photographs from the surface of another planet. The scheduled landing time is 7:53 AM, Eastern daylight time, but because of the time it takes radio signals traveling at the speed of light to cross the 240 million miles from Mars to Earth, it will be 19 minutes later — 8:12 AM — before the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena receives signals from the landing craft.

Thiokol conducts a 2-minute test firing of the proposed space shuttle’s Solid Rocket Booster at Brigham, Utah.

American country singer Tammy Wynette (34) weds real-estate mogul Michael Tomlin, divorced later in 1976.

“Something’s Afoot” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances.

63rd Tour de France won by Lucien Van Impe of Belgium.

James Hunt survived a multicar crash at the start of the race today and became the first English driver in 18 years to win the British Grand Prix, defeating the world champion, Niki Lauda of Austria.


Major League Baseball:

The California Angels overcame the slugging of Reggie Jackson and Bobby Grich to defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 8–6. Jackson batted in four runs, three with a homer. Grich accounted for two RBIs with a triple and homer. The Angels, who had a two-run single by Tony Solaita while scoring three times in the first inning, fell behind before regaining the lead at 6–5 in the sixth on a pass to Bruce Bochte, single by Ron Jackson, a sacrifice, infield out by Terry Humphrey and single by Dave Collins. After both clubs picked up singletons in the eighth, Solaita clinched the victory for the Angels with a homer in the ninth.

Getting their power from four homers, good for 10 runs, the White Sox trounced the Brewers, 13–3. Lamar Johnson hit his first two round-trippers of the year, driving in four runs, while Kevin Bell and Bill Stein each connected for the circuit with two men on base.

Sal Bando and Don Baylor drove in three runs apiece and the Athletics continued to run wild on the bases while trouncing the Tigers, 10–1. Bando, hitless in 16 previous times at bat, broke out of his slump with a double and single. The A’s stole four bases, giving them a total of 13 thefts in the four-game series with the Tigers.

Marty Pattin made his second start of the season and emerged with credit for the Royals’ 6–3 victory over the Red Sox. George Brett sealed the Royals’ triumph by hitting a two-run homer in the seventh. Pattin weakened in the eighth and gave way to Steve Mingori, who finished.

When the Dodgers missed a rundown play in the ninth inning, Mike Schmidt raced home to bring a 2–1 victory to the Phillies. Dick Allen homered for the Phillies’ other run. Steve Garvey drove in Bill Buckner with the tying tally in the sixth but then was somewhat of a goat in the ninth. Schmidt was hit by a pitch and took third on a single by Greg Luzinski. Jerry Martin ran for Luzinski. Tommy Hutton grounded to Garvey, who stepped on first to retire the batter and then tried to run down Martin. However, Martin evaded the tag and returned to first safely as Schmidt scored the winning run from third.

Rico Carty, Indians’ designated hitter, smashed a pair of two-run homers in a 6–1 victory over the Twins. Alan Ashby accounted for the Tribe’s two other runs with a single and double. Stan Thomas pitched the distance for the Indians, turning in his first complete game of the season.

A tremendous batting outburst by Ed Herrmann, who drove in seven runs with seven hits in 10 trips (5-for-5 in the opener), paced the Astros to 7–6 and 14–1 victories in a sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Expos. The opener was decided in the 10th inning when the Astros scored on singles by Jose Cruz, Enos Cabell and Herrmann. Four other hits by Herrmann in the game included a homer. The Expos sent the contest into overtime with a four-run rally in the ninth, three runs scoring on a pinch-homer by Jose Morales. Dan Larson, coming up from Memphis (International), made his debut with the Astros in the nightcap and breezed to victory with a five-hitter. The Astros backed their rookie with 22 hits, including two singles in five trips for Herrmann, who batted in three runs.

Dave Kingman smashed his 32nd homer of the season in support of Mickey Lolich, who allowed only two hits and pitched the Mets to a 2–0 victory over the Braves. The Mets scored their initial run in the third inning on a single by Roy Staiger, sacrifice by Lolich and single by Felix Millan before Kingman clouted his homer in the next stanza.

A six-run explosion in the fifth inning helped the Reds outlast the Pirates, 9–8. The Reds trailed, 3–1, when Tony Perez and Cesar Geronimo opened the fifth with singles. Dave Concepcion bunted and when Doc Medich threw wildly, one run scored. Mike Lum batted for Don Gullett and tripled to drive in two tallies. Ed Armbrister, running for Lum, beat the throw home on a grounder by Ken Griffey before Joe Morgan came to the plate and hit a two-run homer. The Reds picked up a run in each of the next two innings before the Pirates fell short with rallies that included a homer by Bob Robertson with a man on base.

Butch Metzger, who relieved Dan Spillner in the ninth inning, received credit for his sixth straight victory without a defeat when the Padres counted in their half to edge the Cubs, 2–1. Doug Rader was safe on an error to open the stanza and was forced by Fred Kendall. Bob Davis ran for Kendall and took second on a sacrifice by Enzo Hernandez. After an intentional pass to pinch-hitter Willie McCovey, Jerry Turner looped a single into left field to score Davis.

With two out in the 10th inning, the Cardinals scored on a walk and singles by Ted Simmons and Joe Ferguson to gain a 5–4 victory for a split of a doubleheader with the Giants, who won the opener by the same 5–4 score. In the lidlifter, Mike Tyson homered for the Cardinals and Bpbby Murcer for the Giants to help effect a 4–4 tie before the Giants scored the deciding run in the sixth inning on a double by Darrell Evans, bunt by Mike Sadek and sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Chris Arnold.

The Rangers ended their 10-game losing streak by beating the Yankees, 3–2. Steve Hargan pitched the route, setting a Ranger club record for longest complete game. Both Yankee runs were unearned. The Rangers tied the score in the ninth after Jeff Burroughs singled, Juan Beniquez took over on the paths and came home on a sacrifice and single by Lenny Randle. In the 12th, a pass to Jim Sundberg, a sacrifice, two-out intentional walk to Mike Hargrove and single by Beniquez, who remained in the game after his pinch-running appearance, gave the Rangers their victory.

California Angels 8, Baltimore Orioles 6

Milwaukee Brewers 3, Chicago White Sox 13

Oakland Athletics 10, Detroit Tigers 1

Boston Red Sox 3, Kansas City Royals 6

Philadelphia Phillies 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 1

Cleveland Indians 6, Minnesota Twins 1

Houston Astros 7, Montreal Expos 6

Houston Astros 14, Montreal Expos 1

Atlanta Braves 0, New York Mets 2

Cincinnati Reds 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 8

Chicago Cubs 1, San Diego Padres 2

St. Louis Cardinals 4, San Francisco Giants 5

St. Louis Cardinals 5, San Francisco Giants 4

New York Yankees 2, Texas Rangers 3


Born:

Elsa Pataky (stage name for Elsa Lafuente Medianu), Spanish stage, film and TV actress(“The Fast and the Furious” series of films); in Madrid, Spain.