October 30, 2008

120 years ago
1888

Africana
The Rudd Concession was granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

90 years ago
1918

War
The Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies, ending the hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, and paving the way for the occupation of Constantinople and the subsequent partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.

Europeana
The Republic of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed, with Tomas Masaryk as President, Eduard Benes as Foreign Minister, and Milan Stefanik as Minister of War.

Disasters
The patrol vessel HMCS Galiano foundered at Cape St. James, British Columbia, south of the Queen Charlotte Islands, due to leaks in a southwest gale, becoming the only Canadian naval vessel lost in World War I.

80 years ago
1928

Died on this date
Robert Lansing, 64. U.S. politician. Mr. Lansing, a Democrat, was U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of President Woodrow Wilson from 1915-1920. He replaced William Jennings Bryan, who was opposed to American entry into World War I. Mr. Lansing originally advocated a policy of "benevolent neutrality," but increasingly supported the Allied cause. He was the nominal head of the U.S. Commission to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, but fell out of favour with Mr. Wilson because of differing views on the importance of the League of Nations. Mr. Lansing died of heart trouble.

Politics and government
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Ohio was dismissed summarily from office in Cleveland for alleged malfeasance in office.

70 years ago
1938

On the radio
Mercury Theatre on the Air, starring Orson Welles
Tonight's episode: The War of the Worlds

Many listeners thought the program was an actual live news broadcast, and the ensuing panic made this the most famous fictional broadcast in radio history. For more information, see The War of the Worlds Invasion. For the reaction in Toronto, see The War of the Welles.









The Chase and Sanborn Hour, hosted by Don Ameche, on NBC
Tonight's guest: Madeleine Carroll

This is the program that most listeners in America were tuning in to; when a musical number with Dorothy Lamour began a little more than 15 minutes into the program, many listeners switched to CBS, missing the Mercury Theatre on the Air's introductory explanation that what they were hearing was fictitious.



60 years ago
1948

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard) (Best Seller): Twelfth Street Rag--Pee Wee Hunt and his Orchestra (8th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 A Tree in the Meadow--Margaret Whiting (5th week at #1)
2 It's Magic--Doris Day
--Dick Haymes and Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra
--Tony Martin
--Gordon MacRae
3 Twelfth Street Rag--Pee Wee Hunt and his Orchestra
4 Buttons and Bows--Dinah Shore and the Happy Valley Boys
--The Dinning Sisters
5 Maybe You'll Be There--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra
6 My Happiness--The Pied Pipers
--Ella Fitzgerald
--Jon and Sondra Steele
7 Underneath the Arches--Primo Scala's Banjo and Accordion Orchestra with the Keynotes
--The Andrews Sisters
8 Cool Water--Vaughn Monroe and the Sons of the Pioneers
9 You Call Everybody Darlin'--Al Trace and the Revelers
--The Andrews Sisters
10 Until--Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were the version of Buttons and Bows by the Dinning Sisters; Bella Bella Marie, with versions by Larry Green and his Orchestra; and the Andrews Sisters; P.S. I Love You by Woody Herman and his Orchestra (#34); One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) by Jimmy Wakely (#35); Bouquet of Roses by Eddy Arnold (#36); The Click Song by Tony Pastor and his Orchestra (#38); Green-Up Time by Buddy Clark (#39); and Kee-Mo Ky-Mo (The Magic Song) by the King Cole Trio (#40).

War
Israeli forces opened a drive to capture the Gallilee from Fawzi el-Kawukji's Palestinian Arab Army.

Chinese Nationalist forces reported the loss of Mukden to the Communists, leaving the government in control only of the southern coastal section of Manchuria.

Politics and government
General Manuel Odria became the head of a military junta in Peru, promising to retire after the election of a "truly democratic government."

Society
A U.S. Army transport ship landed in New York with 813 European refugees, the first to arrive in the United States under the Displaced Persons Admission Act of 1948.

Protest
Tennessee Governor Jim McCord called out the National Guard to protect Loudon Sheriff Henry McDonald from angry mountaineers., following the October 22 death of country singer Ray Brewster, 26, who had been killed in a car accident while fleeing Sheriff McDonald, who had a warrant for Mr. Brewster's arrest on a larceny charge.

Religion
The American Council of Christian Churches, representing 15 fundamentalist Protestant denominations, concluded a three-day convention in Philadelphia after denouncing the World Council of Churches as a "co-operating front for world socialism," and urging a "complete and frank showdown with Russia."

Business
RKO agreed to separate its film production and distribution from its theatre holdings in compliance with a Justice Department antitrust suit. Howard Hughes became a member of the company's board of directors.

A U.S. federal district court in Toledo approved an out-of-court antitrust settlement ordering the dissolution of the National Glass Distributors Association and banning restraint of trade practices by the Libby-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, American Window Glass plate Fourco Glass companies.

Labour
Non-Communist French coal miners resumed work after accepting government terms for settlement of the coal strike, including a 15%-25% pay raise and increased family benefits. Miners belonging to the Communist-led General Confederation of Labour remained on strike.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (5-5-1) 24 @ Montreal (6-5) 1
Hamilton (1-9-1) 5 @ Ottawa (9-2) 18

WIFU
Saskatchewan (3-9) 16 @ Winnipeg (3-9) 7

Sully Glasser, Ken Charlton, and Del Wardien scored touchdowns for the Roughriders and Gabe Patterson added a convert as they beat the Blue Bombers at Osborne Stadium to take the second and last playoff spot in the Western Interprovincial Football Union. Joe Turner scored the Winnipeg touchdown, converted by Don Hiney, with Bob Sandberg adding a single. Mr. Hiney's convert remains the most recent successful drop kick in Canadian senior-level football to date. The Rough Riders and Blue Bombers played each other 6 times in 1948, with each team winning 3 games; Saskatchewan outscored Winnipeg 94-59 in those games, breaking the tie for second place. The Blue Bombers ended the season with five straight losses.

50 years ago
1958

Defense
In a note to the U.K. and U.S.A., the U.S.S.R. agreed to join in Geneva discussions on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests. U.S. State Department spokesman Lincoln White confirmed that the United States was ready to permit European manufacture of U.S. tactical missiles, including the air-to-air Sidewinder and ground-to-air Hawk.

Protest
A court in Johannesburg withdrew charges against 900 African women arrested in recent demonstrations against the extension of racial pass requirements. South African police used clubs and tear gas to disperse 500 Africans demonstrating outside the courthouse.

Medicine
The 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to U.S. geneticists Joshua Lederberg, George Beadle, and Edward Tatum for research with bacteria in developing methods for the study of genetic mechanisms and the discovery that genes transmit hereditary characteristics by controlling chemical reactions.

Disasters
Rescue workers brought 12 more men out of the coal mine at Springhill, Nova Scotia.

Football
CRU
ORFU
Semi-Final
Kitchener-Waterloo 31 @ London 29

Royal Bailey, Bernie Custis, Dave West, and Tom Mooney scored touchdowns for the Dutchmen as they edged the Lords at Labatt Park. Mike Norcia added 2 converts, a single, a field goal, and a single, while Bob Celeri punted for a single. Gerry Thompkins scored 2 touchdowns for the Lords, with Tom Timbrell scoring a touchdown and Al Pfeifer scoring a touchdown and 3 converts in his last game. Mr. Van Kleek completed the London scoring with a safety touch.

40 years ago
1968

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): Those were the Days--Mary Hopkin (6th week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Hey Jude/Revolution--The Beatles (4th week at #1)
2 Harper Valley P.T.A.--Jeannie C. Riley
3 Those were the Days--Mary Hopkin
4 Little Arrows--Leapy Lee
5 Mary, Mary/What am I Doing Hangin' 'Round--The Monkees
6 Over You--Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
7 I've Gotta Get a Message to You/Kitty Can--The Bee Gees
8 Help Yourself--Tom Jones
9 1,2,3, Red Light--1910 Fruitgum Company
10 I Say a Little Prayer/The House that Jack Built--Aretha Franklin

Singles entering the chart were Les Bicyclettes de Belsize by Engelbert Humperdinck (#29); Elenore/Surfer Dan by the Turtles (#35); Sweet Blindness by the 5th Dimension (#39); and Little Arrows by the Dixie Bells (#40).

Died on this date
Rose Wilder Lane, 81. U.S. writer and political theorist. Mrs. Lane, the daughter of authoress Laura Ingalls Wilder, wrote fiction and non-fiction, and collaborated with her mother on her Little House novels. Mrs. Lane spent her later years as a prominent supporter of libertarianism. She died in her sleep just before she was to begin a three-year world tour.

Conrad Richter, 78. U.S. author. Mr. Richter was mainly known for his novels about the American frontier. The Town (1951) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, while The Light in the Forest (1953) is probably his best-known work. Mr. Richter died 17 days after his 78th birthday.

Ramon Novarro, 69. Mexican-born U.S. actor. Mr. Novarro, born Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego, began his movie career in Hollywood in 1917, and became a star in the 1920s in films such as Scaramouche (1923) and Ben-Hur (1925). He was a drunkard and sodomite, and was murdered by homosexual prostitute brothers Paul Ferguson, 22, and Tom Ferguson, 17, who called him and offered their sexual services. Mr. Novarro invited them to his home; the brothers believed that he had a large amount of money hidden in his house, and beat and tortured him in an effort to make him say where it was. They had to settle for taking $20 from Mr. Novarro's bathrobe pocket, and he died of asphyxiation from choking on his vomit after being beaten.

Malcolm Hale, 27. U.S. musician. Mr. Hale played lead guitar and trombone with the pop music group Spanky and Our Gang, and arranged many of the group's recordings. He was found dead in his Chicago apartment; the cause of death was originally reported as bronchial pneumonia, but in later years it was said to be carbon monoxide poisoning from a bad heating system.

Music
Frank Sinatra recorded the song My Way in Los Angeles.

Space
The U.S.S.R. spacecraft Soyuz 3, with Georgy Beregovoy as Pilot, landed in snow near Karaganda, Kazakhstan to complete its four-day mission.

Europeana
A law signed in Bratislava created a two-state system in Czechoslovakia, with the state of Bohemia and Moravia in the west and a Slovak state in the southeastern part of the country.

Golf
Chi Chi Rodriguez won the Sahara Invitation Tournament in Las Vegas in a playoff after posting a 4-round score of 274. First prize money was $20,000.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (8-7-1) 20 @ Saskatchewan (11-3-1) 34

George Reed rushed for 140 yards and 4 touchdowns to lead the Roughriders over the Eskimos before 17,048 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Jim Thomas and Thermus Butler rushed for Edmonton touchdowns, with Peter Kempf adding 2 converts and 2 field goals.

30 years ago
1978

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Three Times a Lady--Commodores

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Tomei Ningen--Pink Lady (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): You're the One that I Want--John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (4th week at #1)

Crime
Valdik Enger and Rudolf Chernayev, former Soviet employees of the United Nations who had been arrested in May 1978 and convicted of espionage for trying to buy U.S. military secrets, were sentenced by a U.S. court in Newark to 50 years each in prison.

Protest
Major demonstrations continued throughout Iran, as Muslim leaders protested Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's modernization programs.

Economics and finance
The U.S. dollar concluded six days of decline by plunging to record lows against the Japanese yen and West German mark, with dollar purchases of over $2 billion by central banks in Tokyo, Europe, and New York succeeding only in keeping the dollar from falling further.

25 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Karma Chameleon--Culture Club

On the radio
Stories of Sherlock Holmes, starring Graham Armitage as Sherlock Holmes and Kerry Jordan as Dr. Watson, on Springbok Radio
Tonight's episode: The Return of Irene Adler

War
Hudson Austin, a leader in the coup that had toppled and assassinated Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop on October 19, was captured by U.S. forces.

Politics and government
Raul Alfonsin, candidate of the Radical Civic Union, was the surprise winner of the Argentinian presidential election, which was to end more than seven years of military rule. The inauguration of Mr. Alfonsin was scheduled for December 10.

Football
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Calgary (8-7) 35 @ Hamilton (5-10) 12
British Columbia (10-5) 5 @ Saskatchewan (4-11) 11

Rookie Danny Barrett made his first regular season start as a CFL quarterback, completing 8 of 23 passes for 213 yards and a 56-yard touchdown pass to Vic Wallace in the 2nd quarter as the Stampeders beat the Tiger-Cats before 14,010 fans at Ivor Wynne Stadium. Mr. Barrett also rushed 6 times for 26 yards. Calgary's Ray Crouse rushed for 154 yards on 21 carries and touchdowns of 39, 12, and 2 yards in the 2nd half. Rocky DiPietro scored the Tiger-Cats' only touchdown on a 4-yard pass from Dieter Brock just 2:29 into the game, after the Stampeders had turned the ball over on a fumble by punter Mike McTague. The win meant nothing in the standings for Calgary, but the loss hurt Hamilton's playoff chances, forcing them to tie or beat the Montreal Concordes a week later in order to beat the Concordes to take the last playoff spot in the Eastern Division.

In a game that had no effect on the standings, Homer Jordan completed a 56-yard pass to Nate Johnson in the 2nd quarter for the game's only touchdown as the Roughriders defeated the Lions before 23,895 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Mr. Jordan completed 11 of 29 passes for 129 yards and 2 interceptions. Joe Paopao started at quarterback for B.C. and completed 16 of 27 passes for 172 yards and 2 interceptions. Rookie Tim Cowan replaced him for the 2nd half and completed just 5 of 20 passes for 53 yards. Saskatchewan's Mike Washington led all rushers with 69 yards on 16 carries, while B.C.'s Merv Fernandez led all receivers with 82 yards on 6 receptions.

20 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Desire--U2 (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: A Groovy Kind of Love--Phil Collins

Died on this date
T. Hee, 77. U.S. animator. Thornton Hee worked in film, and later, television from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was best known for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of the Walt Disney movie Fantasia (1940).

Business
Philip Morris purchased Kraft for $13.1 billion to create one of the largest corporate mergers ever. The combined company, marketing cigarettes, beer, coffee, spaghetti, cheese, ice cream, margarine, and other foods, would be the world's largest producer of consumer goods.

Football
CFL
Toronto (13-4) 22 @ Winnipeg (9-8) 16
Saskatchewan (10-7) 22 @ Calgary (6-11) 28

The Argonauts scored 2 early touchdowns on short drives and held on to defeat the Blue Bombers at Winnipeg Stadium. Lee Morris, playing his first CFL game, was impressive as a Toronto wide receiver.

Mark McLoughlin kicked 5 field goals and a convert to help the Stampeders beat the Roughriders before 18,863 fans at McMahon Stadium.

10 years ago
1998

Business
Loblaws announced that it would buy Provigo, Quebec's biggest grocery store chain, in a $1.62-billion deal.

Football
CFL
Toronto (9-9) 12 @ Winnipeg (3-15) 31

Jay Walker, playing what turned out to be his final CFL game, threw 2 touchdown passes to Milt Stegall, while Troy Westwood added 2 converts and 5 field goals to help the Blue Bombers beat the Argonauts before 16,205 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. It was the final game for Gary Hoffman as Winnipeg's head coach.