September 5, 2008

460 years ago
1548

Died on this date
Catherine Parr, 35 or 36. Queen consort of England and Ireland, 1543-1547. Miss Parr survived the deaths of two husbands before becoming the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII. After his death in 1547, she married Sir Thomas Seymour, and died eight days after giving birth to their daughter Mary.

310 years ago
1698

Economics and finance
In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Czar Peter I of Russia imposed a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

210 years ago
1798

Defense
Conscription was made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.

110 years ago
1898

Died on this date
Sara Emma Edmonds, 56. Canadian-born U.S. nurse, soldier, and spy. Miss Edmonds, a native of Moncton, New Brunswick, moved to the United States at the age of 15. She disguised herself as a man and used the name Franklin Thompson, serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Miss Edmonds contracted malaria and, fearing discovery if she were examined in a military hospital, checked into a private hospital. Upon her recovery, she served as a female nurse, after seeing a wanted poster describing "Franklin Thompson" as a deserter. Miss Edmonds published her autobiography in 1865, gave public lectures in later years, and succeeded in getting the charge of desertion dropped and obtaining an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army.

100 years ago
1908

Baseball
Nap Rucker pitched a no-hitter for the Brooklyn Superbas as they shut out the Boston Doves 6-0 in the second of two games at Washington Park in Brooklyn. Brooklyn first baseman Tim Jordan batted 3 for 3 with a home run and 2 runs. The Doves scored 2 runs in the top of the 8th inning and held on to win the first game 4-3 before 3,000 fans.

Christy Mathewson pitched a 6-hitter to improve his 1908 record to 29-8, winning the pitchers' duel over George McQuillan, who fell to 20-14, as the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 before 14,000 fans at Baker Bowl in Philadelphia.

Ed Reulbach pitched a 4-hitter and hit a double of his own, and Wildfire Schulte drove in 4 runs, as the Chicago Cubs routed the Pittsburg Pirates 11-0 before 15,000 fans at Exposition Park in Pittsburg.

The Cincinnati Reds withstood a 4-run 9th-inning rally and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 at Palace of the Fans in Cincinnati.

The Detroit Tigers broke a 0-0 tie with a run in the top of the 10th inning, but the St. Louis Browns scored 2 in the bottom of the 10th to win 2-1 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Harry Howell pitched a 6-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Ed Summers, who allowed 7 hits.

Walter Johnson pitched a 4-hitter and Jim Delahanty drove in a pair of runs with a double and triple as the Washington Nationals shut out the New York Highlanders 6-0 before 2,500 fans at Hilltop Park in New York.

Topsy Hartsel hit a solo home run in the top of the 6th inning and Mike Powers singled home 2 runs in the 7th to help the Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 before 9,450 fans at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston. The Red Sox scored a run in each of the 8th and 9th innings. Jack Coombs pitched a 6-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Elmer Steele, who allowed 5 hits in a complete game.

Ed Walsh pitched a 5-hitter and had a double of his own, while Lee Tannehill batted 3 for 3 with 2 runs and Patsy Dougherty had 2 hits, a run, and 3 runs batted in as the Chicago White Sox shut out the Cleveland Naps 7-0 at South Side Park in Chicago. Mr. Walsh improved his record for the season to 32-10, while Cleveland starting pitcher Addie Joss, who allowed 7 hits and 4 runs in 4 innings, fell to 18-11. The Naps made 6 errors.

90 years ago
1918

Abominations
The national anthem was sung for the first time at a sporting event during the 7th inning stretch of Game 1 of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

Baseball
World Series
Boston Red Sox 1 @ Chicago Cubs 0 (Boston led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Babe Ruth pitched a 6-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Hippo Vaughn before 19,274 fans at Comiskey Park, which was being used because the Cubs' regular home of Weeghman Park had a smaller seating capacity. Stuffy McInnins singled home Dave Shean with the game's only run in the 4th inning.

80 years ago
1928

Politics and government
The Bulgarian cabinet of Prime Minister Andrey Liapchev resigned. The government was a Democratic Alliance-National Liberal Party coalition.

Crime
Willie Ranieri, 10, was kidnapped in Chicago and held for $60,000 ransom. He was released on September 18.

Dr. Pierre Bourgrat of Marseiiles, convicted of slaying and robbing a patient, escaped from the Devil's Island penal colony in French Guiana.

70 years ago
1938

World events
Almost 60 youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile (Nacistas) were gunned down by the Chilean government in the Seguro Obrero massacre in retaliation for an attempted coup d'état.

Football
WIFU
Edmonton (0-2) 8 @ Winnipeg (2-0) 33
Calgary (0-2) 0 @ Regina (2-0) 9

Wayne Sheley scored 2 touchdowns to lead the Blue Bombers over the Eskimos before 5,000 fans at Osborne Stadium. Eddie O'Brien scored the Eskimos' only touchdown on a 2-yard pass from quarterback Harold Sutton.

Howard Cleveland scored the only touchdown as the Roughriders blanked the Bronks at Parc de Young. It was the second straight shutout suffered by Calgary.

60 years ago
1948

Died on this date
Richard C. Tolman, 67. U.S. physicist and chemist. Dr. Tolman was an authority on statistical mechanics and made important contributions to theoretical cosmology. He taught at California Institute of Technology from 1922 until his death.

Politics and government
Robert Schuman became President of the Council of Ministers while serving as France's Foreign Minister; as such, he was the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. He announced his new cabinet, composed of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans.

Polish Deputy Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka was dismissed as Secretary of the Communist Party for supporting Yugoslavia in its dispute with the Cominform. He was replaced by President Boleslaw Bierut.

Defense
The British cabinet voted to curtail demobilization, due to the Berlin crisis and conflict in Malaya.

50 years ago
1958

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): When--The Kalin Twins (3rd week at #1)

Literature
The novel Doctor Zhivago by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in New York by Pantheon.

Politics and government
Former French Prime Minister Pierre Mendes-France called for the defeat of the Gaullist constitution,which he claimed would imperil democracy in France.

Energy
New York Governor Averell Harriman and Ontario Premier Leslie Frost formally opened the St. Lawrence River power project in Massena, New York.

Football
CFL
IRFU
Hamilton (4-0) 26 @ Toronto (1-3) 17

The Tiger-Cats scored 3 touchdowns in the 3rd quarter as they beat the Argonauts before 26,781 fans at Varsity Stadium. Tommy Grant, Gerry McDougall, Harry Lampman, and Paul Dekker scored the Hamilton touchdowns, with Mr. Lampman catching his TD pass on a fake field goal attempt. C.R. Roberts rushed 85 yards for the first Toronto touchdown in the 2nd quarter, and Joe Trivisonno scored the other when he recovered a blocked punt in the Hamilton end zone in the 3rd quarter.

40 years ago
1968

Boxing
Buster Mathis (26-1) won a 10-round split decision over Amos "Big Train" Lincoln (42-12-1) in a heavyweight bout at Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Baseball
Gene Mauch, who had managed the Philadelphia Phillies from 1960 until being fired during the 1968 season, was named as the first manager of the Montreal Expos, who were to begin play in the National League in 1969.

30 years ago
1978

Died on this date
Nikodim, 48. U.S.S.R. clergyman and spy. Metropolitan Nikodim, born Boris Georgiyevich Rotov, was ordained as a Russian Orthodox bishop at the age of 31 and was named Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod in 1963, eventually becoming one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches. Metropolitan Nikodim was actually an agent of the Soviet secret police force KGB, and served the Soviet cause through his ecumenical activities with the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC. Two days after the installation of Pope John Paul I, Metropolitan Nikodim met the new pontiff, and suddenly collapsed with a fatal heart attack; Pope John Paul prayed over him in his final moments. Metropolitan Nikodim was succeeded in his office by Metropolitan Anthony, presumably also a KGB agent.

Canadiana
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named L’'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site and Nahanni National Park Reserve as two of the first twelve World Heritage Sites.

Diplomacy
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

Scandal
A U.S. federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Representative Daniel Flood (Democrat--Pennsylvania) on three counts of perjury. The 75-year-old, 15-term Congressman was charged with lying to a grand jury and to a trial jury about payoffs allegedly made to him and to former aide Stephen Elko. Mr. Elko had been convicted in 1977 of soliciting a bribe, perjury, and obstruction of justice.

Disasters
A "Soviet expert" and 14 Guineans were killed when a U.S.S.R.-made Guinean passenger plane crashed in bad weather on a flight from Moscow to Conakry, Guinea.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (7-1) 23 @ Montreal (4-4) 18

20 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Perfect--Fairground Attraction (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Gert Fröbe, 75. German actor. Mr. Fröbe appeared mostly in German movies, but was best known for playing the title role in Goldfinger (1964). He also appeared in Mr. Arkadin (1955) and The Longest Day (1962). Mr. Fröbe died of a heart attack.

Politics and government
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed an agreement in principle, giving the Dene and Metis people of the Western Arctic $500 million and 10,000 square kilometres of land, as well as special rights to another 180,000 square kilometres. It was the largest land transfer in Canadian history, and followed 13 years of negotiations.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Federal Home Loan Bank Board and Robert M. Bass Group Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas teamed up to rescue American Savings & Loan Association of Stockton, California. The government would provide $2 billion in aid for the insolvent insititution, and Bass would put $550 million into American S&L, a unit of the Financial Corporation of America. This was the fourth $1 billion-plus rescue of a savings-and-loan within three weeks, and the costliest ever.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (6-3) 27 @ Calgary (2-7) 11
Toronto (7-2) 28 @ Hamilton (6-3) 56

Defensive end Stew Hill returned an interception 12 yards for a touchdown and Tracy Ham completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to Jim Sandusky as the Eskimos took a 17-0 lead after the 1st quarter and coasted to victory over the Stampeders before 27,768 fans at McMahon Stadium. Damon Allen started at quarterback for Edmonton but left with a shoulder injury after just 2 plays, an was replaced by Tracy Ham. Mr. Ham then suffered an ankle injury on a cheap shot by a Stampeder late in the 2nd quarter, and wide receiver and former high school quarterback Stephen Jones replaced him for 2 plays to finish the half. Mr. Ham played the entire 2nd half. Tim Petros rushed 1 yard for the Calgary touchdown in the 2nd quarter. It was the first CFL game for Calgary kicker Mark McLoughlin, replacing departed veteran J.T. Hay, and he kicked a convert and field goal. Things got exciting in the Calgary dressing room after the game when quarterback Rick Worman, who completed just 19 of 43 passes for 246 yards, was being interviewed and mentioned a missed block during the game by running back John Williams. Mr. Williams jumped up and appeared to be strangling Mr. Worman when the reporters were ordered outside.

Earl Winfield returned a punt 109 yards for a touchdown in the 1st quarter, caught a 58-yard touchdown pass from Mike Kerrigan in the 3rd quarter, and returned a kickoff 100 yards for a third TD on the last play of the 3rd quarter as the Tiger-Cats ended the Argonauts' 7-game winning streak before 18,300 fans at Ivor Wynne Stadium. Mr. Kerrigan completed 21 of 34 passes for 398 yards and added 2 touchdown passes to Jacques Chapdelaine and another to Rocky DiPietro, while Jed Tommy ran for another Hamilton TD. Toronto quarterback Gilbert Renfroe threw 2 touchdown passes to Jeff Boyd and another to Darrell K. Smith. The teams combined to score 41 points in the 3rd quarter, with Hamilton outscoring Toronto 21-20.

10 years ago
1998

Died on this date
Ferdinand Biondi, 88 or 89. Canadian broadcaster. Mr. Biondi performed various jobs with the Montreal French-language station CKAC from 1936-1965. He was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1983.

Leo Penn, 77. U.S. actor and director. Mr. Penn appeared in plays and television programs, and directed episodes of many television programs. He was the father of actors Sean and Chris Penn and musician Michael Penn. Leo Penn died of lung cancer, 15 days after his 77th birthday.

Willem Drees, Jr., 75. Dutch politician. Mr. Drees, the son of former Prime Minister Willem Drees, was the leader of the Democratic Socialists '70 from 1971-1977, serving as the party's Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from May-July 1971 and 1973-1977.

Football
CFL
Montreal (8-2) 26 @ British Columbia (3-7) 15



CIAU
British Columbia (1-0) 44 @ Alberta (0-1) 3