June 14, 2009

220 years ago
1789

World events
HMS Bounty mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reached Timor after a journey of nearly 4,600 miles in an open boat, 47 days after the mutiny near Tahiti.

190 years ago
1819

Born on this date
Henry Gardner. U.S. politician. Mr. Gardner, a member of the Whig and then the American ("Know Nothing") Parties, was Governor of Massachusetts from 1855-1858. His administration achieved important electoral reforms, but Mr. Gardner was defeated in his bid for re-election in 1857, and disappeared into obscurity before his death on July 21, 1892 at the age of 73.

170 years ago
1839

Sport
The village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, staged the first Henley Royal Regatta.

110 years ago
1899

Born on this date
June Walker. U.S. actress. Miss Walker was primarily a stage actress, and had a Broadway career spanning 40 years. She was the first actress to play Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926). Miss Walker appeared in several movies and numerous television programs, and died on February 3, 1966 at the age of 66.

100 years ago
1909

Born on this date
Burl Ives. U.S. musician and actor. Mr. Ives was a guitarist, banjoist, and folk singer who achieved popularity on radio and in personal appearances in the 1930s and '40s. He achieved commercial success in recordings, with his hits including The Blue Tail Fly (1947); Lavender Blue (1949); A Little Bitty Tear (1962); and Funny Way of Laughin' (1962). Mr. Ives began appearing in movies in the 1940s; he won an Academy Award for his supporting performance in The Big Country (1958), but probably should have won for playing Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Mr. Ives provided his voice for the television animated Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), which included the song A Holly Jolly Christmas. His re-recording of the song for release as a single in 1965 became an annual staple of radio Christmas playlists. Mr. Ives announced his official retirement on his 80th birthday in 1989, but continued to do occasional benefit performances until 1993. He died on April 13, 1995 at the age of 85.

90 years ago
1919

Aviation
British Army Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown took off from St. John's, Newfoundland in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

75 years ago
1934

Boxing
Max Baer scored a technical knockout of Primo Carnera at 2:16 of the 11th round at Madison Square Garden Bowl in Long Island City, New York to win the world heavyweight title. Despite being much smaller than the "Ambling Alp," Mr. Baer was much the better fighter; he knocked the defending champion down 11 times before finally putting him away. On the undercard, Jim Braddock (48-25-7), signed as a last-minute opponent for rising heavyweight contender John "Corn" Griffin (44-12-4), pulled off a huge upset when he recovered from a knockdown in the 2nd round to score a technical knockout of Mr. Griffin at 2:37 of the 3rd round.



60 years ago
1949

On the radio
Philo Vance, starring Jackson Beck
Tonight’s episode: The Combination Murder Case

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Help Wanted, starring Otto Kruger, D.A. Clarke-Smith, and Peggy French



Died on this date
Russell Doubleday, 77. U.S author and editor. Mr. Doubleday was the brother of publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday, and worked with his brother's firm as an editor and executive. He wrote several books himself from 1898-1940.

Albert II. U.S. space monkey. Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rode a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 83 miles, becoming the first primate in space. He survived the flight, but was killed on impact when his parachute failed.

Asiatica
Bao Dai resumed the title of Emperor of Vietnam, claiming sovereignty over Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin China.

Politics and government
The Bulgarian government announced the expulsion of former Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov from the Communist Party for persistently advocating "anti-Russian" and "nationalist" policies.

Frank Oppenheimer, brother of U.S. nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and a participant in the Manhattan Project, admitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American activities that he and his wife had belonged to the Communist Party during the late 1930s.

Crime
Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 19, shot Philadelphia Phillies’ first baseman Eddie Waitkus in her room at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Miss Steinhagen had developed an obsession with Mr. Waitkus, even learning the Lithuanian language after finding out that he was of that ancestry. She had registered at the hotel under the name Ruth Ann Burns, and had sent Mr. Waitkus a message saying that she had something of importance to tell him. The bullet punctured a lung and lodged near Mr. Waitkus’s heart. He endured four operations, but survived, and returned to play the full season in 1950. At the time of the shooting, he was hitting .304. The shooting occurred just before midnight; the Phillies had beaten the Chicago Cubs 9-2 at Wrigley Field that afternoon, with Mr. Waitkus batting 1 for 4. Miss Steinhagen was eventually judged insane, and served three years in a mental institution. The incident is said to have inspired Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural.

Weather
The temperature in Yukon Territory reached 97 degrees Fahrenheit (36.1 degrees), Celsius, a Yukon record.

Labour
Striking Berlin railway workers rejected settlement terms proposed by the city's U.S. and U.S.S.R. military governors.

50 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): Ce serait dommage--Sacha Distel

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Touché, starring Paul Douglas, Hugh Marlowe, Robert Morse, and Dody Heath

War
61 guerrilla prisoners arrived in Managua, marking the end of an unsuccessful two-week invasion of Nicaragua.

World events
Dominican exiles departed Cuba and landed in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of President Rafael Trujillo. All but four were killed or executed.

Politics and government
The Democratic Union for the Defense of African Interests, led by Prime Minister Fulbert Youlou, won 51 of 61 seats in the Republic of the Congo parliamentary election. The African Socialist Movement-Congolese Progressive Party won the remaining 10 seats.

U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey (Democrat--Minnesota) announced the formation of a Wisconsin Humphrey-for-President organization.

Transportation
Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opened to the public in Anaheim, California.

Golf
Billy Casper shot a 4-over-par 84 to win the U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York with a 2-over-par total score of 282, a troke ahead of Bob Rosburg. First prize money was $12,000.



40 years ago
1969

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Get Back/Don't Let Me Down--The Beatles with Billy Preston (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): Get Back--The Beatles with Billy Preston (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France: Oh Happy Day--The Edwin Hawkins Singers

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Storia d'amore--Adriano Celentano

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Das Mädchen Carina--Roy Black (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Get Back--The Beatles with Billy Preston (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Dizzy--Tommy Roe

Australia's top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Get Back/Don't Let Me Down--The Beatles with Billy Preston (2nd week at #1)
2 The Real Thing--Russell Morris
3 Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)--The 5th Dimension
4 Gitarzan--Ray Stevens
5 Hair--The Cowsills
6 Goodbye--Mary Hopkin
7 The Boxer/Baby Driver--Simon & Garfunkel
8 Proud Mary--Creedence Clearwater Revival
9 Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)--Peter Sarstedt
10 Israelites--Desmond Dekker and the Aces

Singles entering the chart were My Sentimental Friend by Herman's Hermits (#36); Time is Tight by Booker T. & the M.G.'s (#37); and Dear Prudence by Doug Parkinson in Focus (#39).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Oh Happy Day--The Edwin Hawkins Singers (2nd week at #1)
2 Big Bamboo--The Merrymen
3 Israelites--Desmond Dekker and the Aces
4 The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles
5 Je t'aime...mon non plus--Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg
6 The Boxer--Simon & Garfunkel
7 Suzanne--Herman Van Veen
8 Cupid--Johnny Nash
9 Stop the Machine--Swinging Soul Machine
10 Let the Sun Shine In--Marva Hodge & the Moody Sec

Singles entering the chart were Break Away by the Beach Boys (#34); I Threw it All Away by Bob Dylan (#36); and The Storm by Gloria (#38).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Get Back--The Beatles with Billy Preston (4th week at #1)
2 Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet--Henry Mancini, his Orchestra and Chorus
3 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
4 Bad Moon Rising--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 Love (Can Make You Happy)--Mercy
6 Grazing in the Grass--The Friends of Distinction
7 Oh Happy Day--The Edwin Hawkins Singers
8 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby--Marvin Gaye
9 These Eyes--The Guess Who?
10 One--Three Dog Night

Singles entering the chart were The Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles (#71); Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part 1) by James Brown (#80); Yesterday, When I was Young (Hier Encore) by Roy Clark (#83); The Girl I'll Never Know (Angels Never Fly this Low) by Frankie Valli (#84); Quentin's Theme by the Charles Randolph Grean Sounde (#85); Dammit Isn't God's Last Name by Frankie Laine (#87); Don't Wake Me Up in the Morning, Michael by Peppermint Rainbow (#88); The Days of Sand and Shovels by Bobby Vinton (#90); It's My Thing (You Can’t Tell Me Who to Sock it To) by Marva Whitney (#94); Funny Feeling by the Delfonics (#95); Moonflight by Vik Venus alias: Your Main Moon Man (#96); Gotta Get to Know You by Bobby Bland (#98); and Tell All the People by the Doors (#100). Moonflight was a "break-in" record, with an interviewer asking questions, and the "answers" consisting of clips of recent hit singles by various artists.

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Get Back--The Beatles with Billy Preston (4th week at #1)
2 Bad Moon Rising--Creedence Clearwater Revival
3 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
4 Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet--Henry Mancini, his Orchestra and Chorus
5 Love (Can Make You Happy)--Mercy
6 These Eyes--The Guess Who?
7 Grazing in the Grass--The Friends of Distinction
8 Oh Happy Day--The Edwin Hawkins Singers
9 More Today than Yesterday--The Spiral Starecase
10 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby--Marvin Gaye

Singles entering the chart were The Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles (#61); The Feeling is Right by Clarence Carter (#64); Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part 1) by James Brown (#68); I'm Still a Struggling Man by Edwin Starr (#72); Tell All the People by the Doors (#75); Doggone Right by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (#76); The Prophecy of Daniel & John the Divine (Six-Six-Six) by the Cowsills (#78); Pinch Me (Baby, Convince Me) by Ohio Express (#81); Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good) by Neil Diamond (#83); Put a Little Love in Your Heart by Jackie DeShannon (#88); Moonflight by Vik Venus alias: Your Main Moon Man (#92); Don't Tell Your Mama (Where You've Been) by Eddie Floyd (#93); Didn't We by Richard Harris (#95); Memphis Underground by Herbie Mann (#97); Stay and Love Me All Summer by Brian Hyland (#98); and In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) by Zager & Evans (#100).

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 Get Back--The Beatles with Billy Preston (4th week at #1)
2 Medicine Man (Part I)--Buchanan Brothers
3 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
4 Goodbye--Mary Hopkin
5 Love (Can Make You Happy)--Mercy
6 Gitarzan--Ray Stevens
7 Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet--Henry Mancini, his Orchestra and Chorus
8 The Boxer--Simon & Garfunkel
9 Bad Moon Rising--Creedence Clearwater Revival
10 Sorry Suzanne--The Hollies
Pick hit of the week: Israelites--Desmond Dekker and the Aces

Sorry Suzanne was the Hollies’ last single before Graham Nash left the group for Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Died on this date
Wynonie Harris, 53. U.S. singer. Mr. Harris was a rhythm and blues singer who placed 16 singles on the Billboard Race/Rhythm and Blues chart from 1945-1952, reaching #1 with Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well (1945); Good Rocking Tonight (1948); and All She Wants to Do is Rock (1949). He died of esophageal cancer.

Science
The University of Maryland announced the apparent detection of gravitational waves that impinge upon and pass through the earth.

Baseball
Reggie Jackson batted 5 for 6 with 2 home runs, a double, and 10 runs batted in to lead the Oakland Athletics over the Boston Red Sox 21-7 before 22,395 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Every Oakland player, including substitutes, had at least one hit. Carl Yastrzemski homered twice for the Red Sox.

Dick Ellsworth pitched a 6-hit shutout and had 2 hits of his own as the Cleveland Indians routed the Minnesota Twins 12-0 before 17,022 fans at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.

The Baltimore Orioles scored all their runs in the first 5 innings and amassed 19 hits as they beat the Chicago White Sox 12-3 before 6,445 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Boog Powell drove in 3 runs for the Orioles with a pair of home runs.

Gus Gil doubled home 2 runs and came around to score on a bases-loaded walk as the Seattle Pilots scored 3 runs in the top of the 9th inning to overcome a 4-2 deficit and defeat the New York Yankees 5-4 before 9,214 fans at Yankee Stadium.

Pinch hitter Ken Rudolph doubled home Randy Hundley with 1 out in the top of the 10th inning and scored on a double by Don Kessinger as the Chicago Cubs broke a 7-7 tie and defeated the Cincinnati Reds 9-8 before 16,008 fans at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Rich Nye entered the game for the Cubs in the bottom of the 10th and retired the first 2 batters he faced, but Lee May hit a home run and Johnny Bench drew a base on ball. Ferguson Jenkins then relieved Mr. Nye and induced Tommy Helms to ground into a force play at second base to end the game.

Mike Wegener pitched a 4-hitter and singled and scored in a 6-run 2nd inning as the Montreal Expo shut out the San Francisco Giants 8-0 before 11,724 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Mr. Wegener scored when Ron Fairly hit a 3-run home run to climax the 2nd inning; it was Mr. Fairly's first homer of the season, and his first since being acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers three days earlier.

30 years ago
1979

Music
60,000 people attended a concert at the Arena of Milan in memory of Italian musician Demetrio Stratos, who had died of a heart attack in New York the day before, while awaiting a bone marrow transplant. The concert had originally been scheduled to pay for his medical expenses.



25 years ago
1984

Diplomacy
U.S. President Ronald Reagan said that he was "willing to meet and talk any time" with the Soviets, and that he would no longer insist that a summit must be preceded by careful preparations and deal with specific issues. Mr. Reagan denied that he had softened his opposition because of the approaching presidential election. A spokesman for the Kremlin said that the U.S.S.R. favoured a summit with the United States on important issues dividing the countries.

Politics and government
U.S. President Ronald Reagan stated his support for an immigration bill before Congress that would seek to control the flow of immigrants, chiefly Hispanics, across the country’s southern borders. He said "We’ve lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive."

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Calgary (1-2) 31 @ Saskatchewan (1-2) 29

20 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Minä olen muistanut--Kim Lönnholm (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Eternal Flame--Bangles (3rd week at #1)

Diplomacy
U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle visited Costa Rica, where President Oscar Arias agreed with his view that open elections in Nicaragua were not possible at the present time.

Politics and government
Democrats in the United States House of Representatives selected Dick Gephardt of Missouri as their new majority leader and William Gray III of Pennsylvania as majority whip. Mr. Gray became the first Negro to hold a top leadership position in Congress.

Economics and finance
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 247-178 in favour of raising the minimum wage from $3.35 to $4.55 per hour, but the vote was well short of the 2/3 majority required to override President George Bush’s veto the previous day.

10 years ago
1999

Died on this date
Bernie Faloney, 66. U.S.-born Canadian football player. Mr. Faloney, a native of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, was a quarterback and punter at the University of Maryland (1951-1953), who was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 1954, but instead joined the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, leading them to their first Grey Cup championship. He spent the next two years in the U.S. Air Force, and then joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in 1957, leading them to the Grey Cup championship that year; he remains the only quarterback to play for Grey Cup championship teams with different teams in each of his first two seasons. Mr. Faloney led the Tiger-Cats to IRFU championships in 1958 and 1959, and was named the East's All-Star quarterback in both seasons. When the Tiger-Cats missed the playoffs in 1960, Mr. Faloney was given some of the blame, and he was traded to the Montreal Alouettes after the season for quarterback Sam Etcheverry. Mr. Etcheverry insisted that the trade voided his contract, and the deal was cancelled, with Mr. Faloney was returned to the Tiger-Cats, where he proceeded to lead them to four straight Eastern Football Conference championships, winning the Grey Cup in 1963. He was given the Schenley Award as the Canadian Football League's Most Outstanding Player in 1961, and was the East's All-Star QB again in 1961 and 1964. Mr. Faloney was finally traded to the Alouettes in 1965, and despite throwing 29 interceptions and only 8 touchdown passes, was named the EFC's All-Star quarterback again. He fell out of favour with new Montreal head coach Darrell Mudra near the end of the 1966 season, and was traded to the British Columbia Lions in 1967. Mr. Faloney had a good season individually, but the team finished fifth and last in the Western Football Conference; when he was unable to agree on contract terms in 1968, he retired and spent the next few years as a colour commentator on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation telecasts of games in Eastern Canada. Mr. Faloney was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1974 and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1999. He remained in Hamilton until his death from colorectal cancer, the day before his 67th birthday.