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Gov. James R. Thompson today commuted the sentence of a man jailed six years for a rape his accuser now says never happened. But the Governor said that after reviewing an investigation by his staff, examining numerous records, and listening to 24 witnesses at a three-day clemency hearing, he believed the man, Gary E. Dotson, had been properly convicted.
Frank V. Trzaskos held up his right hand and won a nod from the moderator. ''What this town needs,'' Mr. Trzaskos said, addressing the assembled citizenry, ''is not a computer system, but a new police car.''
I think I'm capable of handling any challenge. Coach John Thompson has prepared me well for anything. I wasn't particularly hoping for one particular team. I just wanted to get this over with.'' - Patrick Ewing. [C6:6.]
The House Budget chairman pledged today that his committee would write a spending plan cutting the Federal deficit by more than $50 billion in 1986 without raising taxes. Representative William H. Gray 3d, the Pennsylvania Democrat who heads the panel, did not rule out a reduction in the cost-of-living increase in Social Security payments. But he said the committee would not cut so deeply into programs for the elderly as the Senate did in the budget outline it approved early Friday morning.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 8, 1985, covering May 13, 1985.
USA for Africa
Phil Collins
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Madonna
1985Javi Balboa, Equatoguinean footballer[â ]
Javier Ăngel Balboa Osa is a former professional footballer who played as a winger, most notably for Real Madrid and Benfica.
1985Jaroslav HalĂĄk, Slovak ice hockey player[â ]
Jaroslav HalĂĄk is a Slovak former professional ice hockey goaltender. He was selected in the ninth round, 271st overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. HalĂĄk played for the Canadiens as well as the Boston Bruins, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, and Washington Capitals.
1985Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer[â ]
Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits (2009â2011), Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013â2016), and Mötley CrĂŒe guitarist Mick Mars in the film The Dirt (2019). He has also appeared in the series Vicious, Riviera, Inhumans, and Those About to Die.
1985Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player[â ]
Travis Zajac is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. Zajac was selected in the first round, 20th overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, with whom he would go on to play for 15 years and over 1,000 NHL games. He also briefly played for the New York Islanders.
1985Leatrice Joy, American actress (born 1893)[â ]
Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.
1985Richard Ellmann, American literary critic and biographer (born 1918)[â ]
Richard David Ellmann, FBA was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.
1985Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.[â ]
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. As Philadelphia police attempted to evict MOVE members from a house, they were shot at. Philadelphia police aviators then dropped two explosive devices from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter onto the roof of the occupied house. For 90 minutes, the Philadelphia Police Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 previously evacuated neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless. Six adults and five children were killed in the attack, with one adult and one child surviving who were occupants of the home. A lawsuit in federal court found that the city used excessive force and violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
In 1985, the world population was approximately 4,868,943,465 people[â ]