At 11:52 AM, N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer, collided with the left horizontal stabilizer of the DC-9, shearing off the top of the Piper’s cockpit and decapitating the pilot and both of his passengers.
The heavily damaged Piper fell onto an empty playground at Cerritos Elementary School.
Simultaneously, the DC-9, with most of its vertical and all of its horizontal stabilizers torn off, rolled inverted and immediately dived, slamming into a residential neighborhood at Holmes Avenue and Reva Circle in Cerritos, exploding on impact.
The explosion scattered the DC-9’s wreckage across Holmes Avenue and onto Carmenita Road, destroying four other houses and damaging seven more, killing all 64 passengers and crew aboard the jetliner and 15 people on the ground. A fire sparked by the crash contributed significantly to the damage in Cerritos.
When the air traffic controller assigned to Flight 498 saw the plane vanish from his radar screen, he immediately called up an inbound American Airlines MD-83 for assistance. The pilot reported a large smoke plume off to his left.
Senior Reagan Administration officials said today that the United States would retaliate against the Soviet Union unless a U.S. News & World Report correspondent arrested in Moscow Saturday was freed promptly. They said the Administration had ruled out trading a Soviet physicist arrested recently in New York for the correspondent, Nicholas Daniloff, and was prepared for a long confrontation over this issue. One White House official said the longer Mr. Daniloff remained in detention, the worse it would be for Washington-Moscow relations. He said “a lot of people in this Administration are furious” about what he called the “frame-up” of Mr. Daniloff, who is under investigation in a Moscow prison by the K.G.B., accused of espionage. Mr. Daniloff was seized in Moscow after a Soviet acquaintance gave him an envelope that contained two maps marked “top secret.” “The White House will not make any deals for Daniloff’s release, since he is not a spy, and to do so would make any American hostage to this kind of frame-up,” a senior official said. “Moscow must learn it cannot keep doing this.”
The K.G.B. said today that the Moscow correspondent of U.S. News & World Report had been “engaging in an act of espionage” when he was detained on Saturday. The correspondent, Nicholas S. Daniloff, remained in detention today. In a statement put out by the Government press agency Tass and read on the evening television news, the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence and internal security agency, said material confiscated from Mr. Daniloff “fully expose the U.S. correspondent as being involved in intelligence activities.” American diplomats said the Foreign Ministry informed the United States Embassy today that Mr. Daniloff was being held on suspicion of “violating Soviet law and engaging in activities incompatible with his status as a correspondent.”
The White House issued an unusual and sharply worded statement today deploring the actions of Reagan Administration officials in disclosing Washington’s intention to relax its nuclear arms negotiating stand in talks with the Soviet Union. The statement by Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said the officials’ actions “ill serve the President” and added that the Administration “must question their motives” in making the positions known. “We believe the principle of confidentiality is essential to the successful outcome of these discussions,” the statement said. “We are committed to preserving this principle and, therefore, will have no comment on the discussions that take take place within our Government or at the table in Geneva.
Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die.
Thousands of Solidarity supporters attended Masses throughout Poland in low-key observances of the sixth anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Bloc’s first independent trade union. In the Baltic port of Gdansk, Solidarity’s birthplace, thousands avoided confrontations with truckloads of riot police as they gathered with Lech Walesa for a Mass at St. Brygida’s Roman Catholic Church. Before the Mass, Walesa, a Solidarity co-founder and winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, laid flowers at a monument to workers outside the Lenin Shipyard.
Henry Moore, the sculptor, died at his home in Much Hadham, England. A longtime favorite in the United States, where his carvings, bronzes and drawings are in both public and private collections, he was in many parts of the world the No. 1 choice whenever a public sculpture was needed. He was 88 years old.
Increasing activity by Iranians in Lebanon appears to have further radicalized local Shiite Muslim militants, undermining new moves by the Government to bring an end to the 11-year-old civil war. Iranian representatives have been attending meetings of Shiite militants, who have denounced the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon and oppose projected discussions between Muslim and Christian leaders for national reconciliation. Hojatolislam Hassan Akhtari, the Iranian Ambassador in Damascus, Syria, was in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon last Thursday to attend a meeting of 35 Shiite clergymen, who later declared in a statement that Iran under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “rejected” the situation in southern Lebanon.
Libya’s leader, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, said he will form an international army to fight the United States if it persists in threatening new attacks against his country. In a fiery speech in Tripoli on the anniversary of his 1969 revolution, Qaddafi called President Reagan “Israel’s crazy dog.” He threatened to assemble an army including “fighters from Latin and South America, Asia and Africa to fight America everywhere.” It was his first public speech in the capital since the U.S. air raid in April, after Libya was linked to a terrorist bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen.
Four foreign Arabs, accused by the Government of planning terrorist attacks in Morocco, are under arrest, the Government said today. The development comes a month after the Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, held talks with King Hassan II. The suspects, according to the Government, are two Tunisian women, a Lebanese Palestinian and another Palestinian who were carrying explosives and were arrested August 22 and 27. The Information Ministry said they had planned attacks on public places. The Information Ministry said they had confessed to belonging to “a group of professionals of international terrorism having already committed several outrages in various countries, notably in Europe and the Middle East.” It said the explosives were disguised as “common decorative objects.” It did not give the circumstances of the arrests but added that the four would stand trial.
Two Iranian pilots have defected to Iraq with their U.S.-made F-14 jet fighter, an Iraqi military spokesman said in Baghdad. The spokesman, quoted on Baghdad radio, said the plane’s defecting pilot and co-pilot were a major and a captain. Last week, Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, said his country’s air force had 74 or 75 of the sophisticated F-14s, but Western military analysts estimate that no more than a dozen remain operational. Earlier this month, Iraq said an Iranian pilot defected by flying a civilian aircraft to Baghdad, bringing two relatives with him.
After months of maneuvering by American and French manufacturers, Indonesia signed a contract to buy 12 advanced U.S. F-16 jet fighters. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the sale, already approved by Congress, totals $337 million, including spare parts, maintenance and training. The signing of the contract ended a bitter competition for the sale between General Dynamics, maker of the F-16, and the French company Dassault-Breguet, which builds the Mirage 2000 fighter. Dassault-Breguet had offered a deal that would require France to buy Indonesian exports worth 80% of the planes’ price. Terms of the U.S. contract were not detailed.
China has made “great progress” in developing a manned space program, and the day that it launches its first astronaut is “not far off,” the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily reported. It said China has already begun to choose its first team of astronauts, but it did not indicate a launch date. The Chinese have reportedly been working for several years on problems associated with building a space shuttle. In June, Sun Jiadong, vice minister of astronautics, disclosed plans for a Chinese astronaut but said that such a program “must be worked out gradually in keeping with our needs and capabilities.”
Reagan Administration officials said today that they were increasingly concerned by what they consider President Corazon C. Aquino’s lack of effectiveness in handling insurgencies by Communists and other groups in the Philippines. They added that they wanted her to take tougher measures against them. The officials said their concerns were virtually certain to be discussed when President Reagan and other high-ranking officials meet Mrs. Aquino on her trip to the United States in mid-September. The new Philippine leader made conciliation with rebel groups a main theme of her presidency after vowing during her election campaign to seek a cease-fire and negotiations. In recent months the Reagan Administration has generally concluded that such an approach is not succeeding, the officials said.
Bolivia freed 88 of the 162 union leaders, political activists and journalists arrested last week under a state of siege imposed to crush labor unrest. Among the 88 was Andres Soliz, correspondent for the French news service Agence France-Presse, Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy told Bolivian radio. He said 54 of the 74 people still under detention have been sent into temporary, internal exile in Bolivia’s northern jungle. The state of siege was imposed after thousands protested plans to close state-owned tin mines.
A man believed to be the Nazi war criminal Walter Kutschmann, accused in the deaths of 1,500 Polish Jews, has died of heart failure nine months after his arrest on a West German extradition request, officials said today. The suspect died Saturday at Fernandez Hospital, according to a police spokesman at the city’s judicial morgue. The man had lived in Argentina since 1947 under the name of Pedro Olmo. He was arrested November 14. West Germany said Mr. Olmo was in fact Mr. Kutschmann, once a lieutenant in the Nazi SS. Mr. Kutschmann reportedly headed an execution squad in Poland that killed 20 Jewish university professors and 18 of their relatives in 1941. He is also accused of taking part in the execution of at least 1,500 Jews in Brzeziny and Podajce, Poland, in 1942.
The cloud of volcanic gas that burst from Lake Nios and killed more than 1,500 people was preceded by a series of explosions heard by villagers a few hours earlier, an Italian scientist said today. The volcanologist, Franco Barbieri, who spent three days interviewing witnesses about the seismic activity at the crater lake in northwest Cameroon, said residents first noticed smoke and steam escaping from the lake about 4 PM on August 21.
Two planes collided near Los Angeles, killing 82 people, 15 of them on the ground, and destroying houses when the planes plunged into a residential neighborhood in suburban Cerritos. No one aboard the planes survived. All 64 passengers and crew members aboard an Aeromexico DC-9 approaching Los Angeles International Airport and three people in a single-engine Piper Cherokee aircraft were killed. Traffic controllers at the airport reportedly took over the direction of the approaching DC-9 one to two minutes before the collision. The falling jetliner destroyed houses in a middle-class neighborhood in Cerritos, a suburb of Los Angeles, and neighbors rushed to the aid of others. One man described racing into houses and hearing cries that suddenly ended. At least nine houses were completely destroyed, a resident said. Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops. On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28 Cherokee owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, killing all 64 on the DC-9, all 3 in the Piper, and an additional 15 people on the ground. Eight on the ground also sustained minor injuries. Blame was assessed equally on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the pilot of the Cherokee. No fault was found with the DC-9 or the actions of its crew.
The collision today between a Mexican airliner and a small private plane in southern California was the first serious accident in the nation this year, when crowded skies and an understaffed air traffic control system have caused concern about air safety. Investigators said it was too soon to determine what caused the accident southeast of Los Angeles. But the pattern it followed has long haunted those concerned with aviation safety: An airliner filled with passengers approaches a busy airport on a Sunday when the sky is crowded with unusually large numbers of pleasure fliers and, because of error by one or more pilots or by a traffic controller on the ground, they collide. The collision today also resulted in the most feared ending to that pattern when wreckage from the two planes rained into a residential neighborhood, setting homes ablaze.
Donald D. Engen, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said that all FAA employees who fly, control or work on airliners will be tested for drugs when they are hired, and again when they take their annual physical examinations. “I have had a (testing) plan in being for the last year and a half. I didn’t have the money earlier this year; I do now. And we are implementing the plan this year,” Engen said on ABC television’s “This Week With David Brinkley.” Engen said he felt “honor bound to ensure that we will not have anyone using drugs in the FAA,” an arm of the Transportation Department.
President Reagan places a call to entertainer Jerry Lewis.
President Reagan continues with his ranch chores after his morning ride.
Prosecution of hundreds of farmers has been undertaken by the Reagan Administration on charges of selling crops and livestock that were used as collateral for loans from the Government or Government-regulated farm lenders. These prosecutions are a result of new loan policies established by the Farmers Home Administration to stem its losses in this era of huge Federal deficits. But many farmers who face charges say they are trapped in a web of Federal regulation that forces them choose between feeding their families or breaking the law.
Republicans will be watching 4 states when the struggle for control of the Senate begins today, nine weeks before Election Day. Special interest will focus on Louisiana, Missouri, Colorado and California. The Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take control of the Senate.
A bomb threat failed to disrupt the second day of the convention of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at East Windsor, Connecticut, and the white supremacist group picked Jim Ferrands of Shelton, Connecticut, as its new imperial wizard. Three dozen Klansmen met at a 100-acre tobacco farm, whose owner, Edwin Thrall, offered it as a gift to the Klan. Thrall said the Klan would have to pay $30,000 in back taxes on the property, which Klan leaders said would be “no problem.” The convention began a day earlier with five arrests and a cross burning.
World Airways is making plans to end all scheduled flights by September 15, the Oakland Tribune reported. The airline, which started scheduled service out of Oakland Airport on April 11, 1979, will disclose its decision in a letter to employees, the newspaper said. Top officials at World Airways, founded by the late Edward J. Daly, were unavailable for comment. Canceling flights of the airline’s 12 passenger planes would result in layoffs for about half of World’s 1,600 employees, the newspaper said. Reports of World’s decline arose during persistent rumors that it is on the verge of selling at least part of its operation to United Airlines, the newspaper said. The talks have stalled over how many World employees United will hire. World has lost money for four years. The closure would be the second recent airline shutdown. Denver-based Frontier Airlines was put into bankruptcy Thursday by its owners, People Express, which is also in financial trouble.
Eight hundred nurses at three city-operated Boston hospitals ended their 48-hour walkout as scheduled today after they were found in contempt of court and their union was fined $20,000 for missing two shifts. The job action was the second in two weeks by the nurses, members of Local 285 of the Service Employees International Union, who seek pay parity with nurses in privately run hospitals. The nurses were found in contempt of court Saturday by Judge John Moriarty of Suffolk County Superior Court after they defied a temporary restraining order and staged the walkout. Judge Moriarty ordered nurses back to work at Boston City Hospital and facilities in Mattapan and Long Island by 3 P.M. Saturday to avoid their union’s being be fined $10,000 a shift. The nurses missed two shifts.
Two rural states are at opposite ends of a scale measuring the ratio of millionaires to residents, with land-rich North Dakotans leading and West Virginians trailing, the Census Bureau said. Nationally, the United States has 175.9 millionaires per 100,000 residents, the bureau said. North Dakota was tops in the nation, with 565.5 millionaires for every 100,000 residents. Minnesota, another agricultural state, was ranked second with 425.9 millionaires per 100,000, followed by 387.8 in Florida. California ranked seventh with 261.2, whereas West Virginia was at the bottom of the list with 30.6 millionaires per 100,000.
Starting Monday, people under 21 years old will not be able to quench their thirst with alcoholic drinks in Texas and North Carolina as those states become the latest to raise their legal drinking age. Officials estimate that the new laws will affect more than 477,000 19- and 20-year-old drinkers in Texas and about 300,000 in North Carolina. States have been raising the drinking age because of a law that cuts the Federal highway funds of states with drinking ages below 21. Eight states and the District of Columbia still sell alcoholic drinks to customers under 21.
The Newport, Rhode Island, home of sculptor Felix de Weldon, famous for the Iwo Jima monument at Arlington National Cemetery, was invaded by a burglar in the third break-in at a Newport mansion in six weeks. James H. Hval, 32, of Providence was arrested in the mansion and charged with burglary, police said. He was ordered held pending arraignment Wednesday. The break-in followed the August 2 robbery of $5 million in jewelry from the home of oil heiress Carolyn Skelly, and the July 22 theft of $1 million in cash and jewelry from a family at the Summer Wind estate. A New York City man was charged in that case.
A woman was swept out of her truck and drowned and 40 to 50 families fled their homes after a crack developed in a dam in heavy rain that swept across West Texas. The woman’s body was found hours after her husband and child were rescued from a tree branch where they clung when their truck got stranded on a bridge, police Lieutenant Jerry Edwards said. “Unofficially, we’ve had over five inches of rain in about four hours,” Edwards added. The 35- to 40-foot-high Comanche Trail Lake dam near Big Spring cracked and families living in low-lying areas voluntarily evacuated, he said, adding that most returned after the water level behind the dam began dropping and inspectors examined it.
Entertainer Joey Heatherton was free on bail after being arrested and charged with stabbing an acquaintance in the hand with a kitchen knife. Police in Ramapo, New York, where the 41-year-old movie and television actress was visiting, identified the victim as Jerry Fisher, one of her hosts, but said they did not know the relationship between the two. Heatherton was charged with assault and possession of a controlled substance, which police said was less than an ounce of cocaine. Fisher was treated at a hospital and released.
Fights and booing erupted among 28,000 fans at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration when the favored championship contender was disqualified because it might have been intentionally injured. The horse, Ebony’s Time Around, had been heavily favored to win the $10,000 first prize and the grand championship Saturday.
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Ted Simmons had a pinch-hit home run off the reliever Lee Smith to lead off the ninth inning and give Atlanta Braves a 4–3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Simmons was batting for Jeff Dedmon (1–2), the winning pitcher, when he hit a 1–2 pitch into the right-field bleachers. Smith (8–9) had entered the game to start the inning. Dedmon pitched three innings of two-hit relief for the victory. Chicago took a 3–0 lead in the second when Shawon Dunston hit his 14th home run, a blast off David Palmer that scored Jody Davis and Ron Cey.
The Boston Red Sox edged the Cleveland Indians, 4–3. Don Baylor’s fly ball with two outs in the ninth inning fell for a game-winning single as Boston rallied to beat Cleveland. Baylor’s hit appeared to be a routine fly to right field, but the ball fell at Mel Hall’s feet for a single, scoring Wade Boggs from second base and giving the Red Sox only their third victory in eight games. Boggs opened the ninth against Frank Wills (1–3) with a line single and was sacrificed to second. After Bill Buckner was walked intentionally, Ernie Camacho came on and retired Jim Rice before Baylor got his 13th game-winning run batted in of the season. Calvin Schiraldi (2–1) relieved Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd with one out in the eighth for the victory. He struck out four of the five batters he faced.
The Detroit Tigers fell to the California Angels, 5–3. George Hendrick’s three-run double broke a tie with two out in the eighth inning, giving California its seventh straight victory. California’s winning streak is its longest since May 1983. The Angels completed their first four-game sweep of Detroit ever and increased their lead in the American League West to five and a half games over the Texas Rangers who lost to the Chicago White Sox. With two outs in the eighth, Walt Terrell walked Reggie Jackson, Doug DeCinces singled and Brian Downing walked on four pitches. Hendrick followed with a liner to right-center, beyond the diving Chet Lemon, the center fielder. It was only the sixth hit off Terrell (11–11). Donnie Moore (3–5) pitched the final one and a third innings for the victory. Ruppert Jones, whose last 11 RBIs have come on seven home runs, hit a home run leading off the the Angels’ first inning — his 15th of the year.
The Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers, 3–1. Richard Dotson limited Texas to four singles in seven and one-third innings, striking out 10 batters, and Carlton Fisk and Tim Hulett singled in first-inning runs for Chicago. The White Sox won only the second of their 13 games with Texas this year. Dotson (9–13), who had gone three starts without a decision, walked three as he reached a career high in strikeouts. Ray Searage and Bobby Thigpen finished; Thigpen got his third save. Mike Loynd (2–2) of the Rangers pitched only the first inning. He got the first two batters out, but George Foster singled and Ron Hassey walked. Fisk then singled Foster home and Hulett scored Hassey with the first of his three hits in the game.
Jim Morrison had two hits and knocked in two runs, and Bob Walk allowed seven hits in seven innings today to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Houston Astros, 8–2. It was the Pirates second consecutive victory over the Astros, who still lead the National League West by seven games. The Pirates have battered Houston pitching for 29 hits and 21 runs in the two games. Walk (7–7) won for the third time in his last four decisions, getting two innings of relief help from Larry McWilliams. Bob Knepper (15–10) went four and one-third innings and gave up seven runs on eight hits.
Steve Balboni hit a single, double and triple and Lonnie Smith had four hits, to lead Scott Bankhead and Kansas City past Milwaukee, 6–1. Bankhead (8–7) gave up six hits and a walk in eight innings, striking out four batters before Bud Black relieved. Balboni singled in a run in the third, tripled and scored in the sixth, and doubled home a run in the seventh. The Royals had 17 hits in the game. Smith doubled leading off the Royals’ first inning against Bill Wegman (4–10) and scored as Mike Kingery reached base on a fielding error by Gorman Thomas, the first baseman.
The San Diego Padres downed the Montreal Expos, 4–1. Kevin McReynolds and Tony Gwynn drove in two runs each to back Ed Wojna. Wojna, recalled from Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League last Thursday, retired nine of the first 10 batters he faced and did not allow a hit until Mitch Webster singled to lead off the fourth. Wojna was staked to a 1–0 lead in the second inning when McReynolds equaled his career high by hit his 20th home run of the season off Jay Tibbs (6–8). The Padres added three more in the third inning. Bruce Bochy led off with a single. One out later, Tim Flannery singled, and Gwynn doubled into the left-center field alley for his first and only hit in 12 times at bat in the series. One out later, Gwynn scored on an infield hit by McReynolds.
Every now and then, somebody like Fernando Valenzuela will come along and give the Mets a shot of reality, and that’s what happened yesterday afternoon at Shea Stadium. But, in these days of utter unreality for the Mets, it didn’t do much to diminish their headiness as they turned into September with a lead of 19 games and only 32 left to play. The reality of the situaton was that the Los Angeles Dodgers, who had lost nine straight to the Mets, beat them this time, 7–4. And Valenzuela, who hadn’t beaten the Mets in two other attempts this year, went nine innings and beat them convincingly to become the first 17-game winner in the National League this year.
Joaquin Andujar pitched a five-hitter for his first American League shutout while Jose Canseco and Carney Lansford hit home runs, giving Oakland a 7–0 victory over Baltimore. Andujar (8–6) allowed only two runners to reach second base. He walked one batter and allowed only singles. Lansford’s three-run homer in the third inning was his 16th of the season. Canseco’s 27th homer of the year was a two-run shot in the seventh that raised his major league-leading RBI total to 99.
The Philadelphia Phillies nipped the San Francisco Giants, 4–3. Juan Samuel hit a home run with one out in the seventh inning to snap a 3–3 tie and give Philadelphia the victory and a sweep of their three-game series with San Francisco. It was the fifth straight victory for the Phillies and their 11th in 14 games. The Giants lost their third consecutive game. Kent Tekulve (8–3) pitched one and one-third innings of two-hit relief for the victory, and Steve Bedrosian got the final three outs for his 22d save. Vida Blue (9–9) had a season-high 10 strikeouts, allowing six hits in seven innings.
The Seattle Mariners topped the New York Yankees, 6–2. Harold Reynolds, shaking off a run-producing throwing error, hit a two-run double in support of Mike Moore’s nine-hit pitching. Moore, 9–11, struck out 10 and walked two in pitching his ninth complete game of the year. Luis Quinones scored Seattle’s final run when he raced home on reliever Rod Scurry’s bases-loaded wild pitch in the eighth.
The St. Louis Cardinals pummeled the Cincinnati Reds, 9–3. Terry Pendleton tripled, singled twice, scored three runs and drove in two more to lead St. Louis. Andy Van Slyke and Tommy Herr each had two runs batted in to help back Bob Forsch (13–8), who allowed eight hits in his third complete game. Forsch struck out two and walked three in working around Kal Daniel’s home run, single and two RBIs for Cincinnati. Pendleton’s triple followed two walks by Tom Browning (11–11) and put the Cardinals ahead to stay in the third inning.
In Toronto, Lloyd Moseby hit a grand slam and Willie Upshaw hit a home run and doubled today as the Toronto Blue Jays won their eighth straight game, beating the Minnesota Twins, 7–5. The Blue Jays remained three and a half games behind the Boston Red Sox, who beat the Cleveland Indians. Trailing by 4–0, Toronto tied the game in the third on Moseby’s second career grand slam. Mark Portugal walked the first three batters then Moseby hit his 20th home run, making 1986 his first 20-homer season.
Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta Braves 4
Cleveland Indians 3, Boston Red Sox 4
Detroit Tigers 3, California Angels 5
Texas Rangers 1, Chicago White Sox 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Houston Astros 2
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Kansas City Royals 6
San Diego Padres 4, Montreal Expos 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, New York Mets 4
Baltimore Orioles 0, Oakland Athletics 7
San Francisco Giants 3, Philadelphia Phillies 4
New York Yankees 2, Seattle Mariners 6
Cincinnati Reds 3, St. Louis Cardinals 9
Minnesota Twins 5, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Born:
Blake Wheeler, NHL right wing (NHL All-Star, 2018, 2019; Boston Bruins, Atlanta Thrashers, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers), in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Juan Nicasio, Dominican MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers), in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
D.J. White, NBA power forward and center (Oklahoma City Thunder, Charlotte Bobcats, Boston Celtics), in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Died:
Urho Kekkonen, 85, Finnish politician (8th President of Finland 1956-81).
Henry Moore, 88, English artist and sculptor (known for ‘Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae’).
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