October 1, 2009

1,050 years ago
959

Died on this date
Eadwig, 19 (?). King of the English, 955-959. Eadwig, aka Edwy the Fair, was the son of King Edmund the Magnificent, and succeeded his uncle Eadred on the throne. Eadwig's reign was marked by disputes with the nobility and clergy, most notably St. Dunstan. King Eadwig died under uncertain circumstances and he was succeeded by his brother Edgar the Peaceful.

290 years ago
1719

Died on this date
Margaret Hughes, 74 (?). English actress. Miss Hughes has been credited as the first woman to perform on stage in England, playing Desdemona in a performance of Othello on December 8, 1660, when she was 15. She was the longtime mistress of cavalry general Prince Rupert.

100 years ago
1909

Born on this date
Sam Yorty. U.S. politician. Mr. Yorty, a Democrat until 1980, sat in the California State Assembly from 1937-1941 and 1949-1950, and represented California's 14th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1951-1953. He was Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961-1973, during which time Los Angeles grew as a major city, but Mayor Yorty's popularity gradually declined. He was defeated by Tom Bradley in 1973, and failed in later attempts to win office. Mr. Yorty died on June 5, 1998 at the age of 88.

90 years ago
1919

Football
CRU
IRFU-Canadian university
Exhibition
The Montreal Winged Wheelers and McGill University played a "game" where no score was kept. It was the first "game" to be played at Molson Stadium in Montreal.

Baseball
World Series
Chicago White Sox 1 @ Cincinnati Reds 9 (Cincinnati led best-of-nine series 1-0)

The Reds scored 5 runs off Ed Cicotte in the 4th inning on their way to a shocking rout of the favoured White Sox before 30,511 fans at Redland Field. Mr. Cicotte started the game by hitting Cincinnati leadoff hitter Morrie Rath with a pitch--a sign that something suspicious was going on.

70 years ago
1939

On the radio
British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill delivered a speech on the British Broadcasting Corporation on The First Month of the War. He described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" during the broadcast.



War
After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile German forces entered the city.

60 years ago
1949

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)--Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters; Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard) (Best Seller): That Lucky Old Sun--Frankie Laine

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 You're Breaking My Heart--Vic Damone (3rd week at #1)
--The Ink Spots
--Buddy Clark
2 Some Enchanted Evening--Perry Como
--Bing Crosby
3 Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You)--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
--The Mills Brothers
4 That Lucky Old Sun--Frankie Laine
--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
5 Room Full of Roses--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Dick Haymes
--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra
6 Jealous Heart--Al Morgan
7 Maybe it's Because--Dick Haymes
--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra
8 The Huckle-Buck--Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
--Frank Sinatra
9 Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk--Perry Como
10 Dance of the Hours--Spike Jones and his City Slickers

Singles entering the chart were I Can Dream, Can't I? by the Andrews Sisters (#36); Through a Long and Sleepless Night, with versions by Vic Damone; and Bill Farrell (#37); and Dry Bones by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (#38). Vic Damone's version of Through a Long and Sleepless Night was the other side of My Bolero, charting at #18.

On the radio
Tales of Fatima, starring Basil Rathbone, on CBS
Tonight’s episode: Study in Suspicion

This was the 39th and last episode of the series.

Died on this date
Oswald Garrison Villard, 77. German-born U.S. journalist. Mr. Villard, the son of an American foreign correspondent, moved to New York with his family at the age of 4. His father Henry bought The Nation and the New York Evening Post, and Oswald wrote for both publications, and ended up editing the latter. Oswald Garrison Villard was known for his support for Negro civil rights, and he and his mother Fanny co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples in 1913. Mr. Villard supported the New Deal economic policies of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later opposed Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy. Mr. Villard wrote books critical of journalists and newspapers, calling them to a higher standard. He died from a stroke.

Eddie Kolb, 69. U.S.-born Canadian baseball pitcher and oil executive. Mr. Kolb was a clerk at a tobacco store in Cincinnati who was allowed to pitch the second game of a doubleheader--and the final game of the season--with the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars. The Spiders lost 19-3 to the Cincinnati Reds on October 15 to finish the 1899 season with a record of 20-134; Mr. Kolb pitched a complete game, allowing 18 hits and 19 runs--9 earned--for an earned run average of 10.13 in his only major league game. He played and managed in professional leagues before moving to Calgary and became a restaurateur. When oil was discovered in Turner Valley, Alberta, Mr. Kolb became heavily involved, and was the first secretary of the Alberta Petroleum Association. He died in Calgary.

Buddy Clark, 37. U.S. singer. Mr. Clark, born Samuel Goldberg, appeared on the radio program Your Hit Parade (1936-1938) and had a hit record with the song Spring is Here (1938). He disappeared from the charts until the late 1940s, when Linda (1947) became the first of a string of hits for Mr. Clark. Hours after appearing as a guest on the radio program Club Fifteen, Mr. Clark was killed in the crash of a small plane in West Los Angeles; he and five friends had rented the plane to fly to Stanford University to attend a football game.

Abominations
Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) publicly proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China at a ceremony in Tiananmen Square in Peking (Beijing). He appointed Chou En-lai as Premier.

Diplomacy
Newly-appointed Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai sent a note to U.S. Consul General O. Edmund Clubb in Peking (Beijing) requesting the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Labour
The United Steel Workers of America began a nationwide strike of 500,000 workers against U.S. Steel and other major steel producers in a dispute over workers' pensions.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (3-3) 11 @ Ottawa (6-0) 34

WIFU
Winnipeg (1-7) 7 @ Saskatchewan (5-3) 24
Calgary (7-0) 12 @ Edmonton (2-5) 8

ORFU
Windsor (3-2) 6 @ Hamilton (3-2) 20

ORFU-Canadian university
Exhibition
Toronto 6 @ University of Toronto 40
Sarnia 20 @ University of Western Ontario 11

Baseball
Johnny Lindell hit a solo home run with 2 out in the bottom of the 8th inning to break a 4-4 tie as the New York Yankees edged the Boston Red Sox 5-4 before 69,551 fans at Yankee Stadium, moving into a first place tie with the Red Sox with 1 game remaining between the teams the next day to settle the American League pennant race.

50 years ago
1959

On television tonight
The Lawless Years, starring James Gregory, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Al Brown Story

This was the first episode of the season.



Died on this date
Enrico De Nicola, 81. 1st President of Italy, 1948. Mr. De Nicola, a Liberal, was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1909, holding various minor before serving as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1920-1924. He withdrew from politics during the era of Fascist power in Italy from the 1920s through World War II, but was named provisional head of state in 1946, and served as President from January 1-May 12, 1948. Mr. De Nicola declined to be a candidate for President in the first constitutional election, and became a Senator for Life, serving as President of the Senate from 1951-1952 and President of the Constitutional Court from 1956-1957.

Economics and finance
A World Bank meeting in Washington adopted proposals for the establishment of an International Development Association, capitalized initially at $1 billion.

Labour
Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports in the United States were shut down by a strike of 70,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Union whose contracts had expired.

Baseball
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers 0 @ Chicago White Sox 11 (Chicago led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Ted Kluszewski batted 3 for 4 with 2 home runs and 5 runs batted in to lead the White Sox to their rout of the Dodgers before 48,013 fans in the first World Series game at Comiskey Park in 40 years. Early Wynn allowed 6 hits in 7 innings to get the win over Roger Craig.



Junior World Series
Minneapolis Millers (AA) 2 @ Havana Sugar Kings (IL) 3 (10 innings) (Havana led best-of-seven series 2-1)

The Sugar Kings scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to tie the score and a run in the bottom of the 10th to defeat the Millers at Gran Estadio de La Habana.

40 years ago
1969

On television tonight
Then Came Bronson, starring Michael Parks, on NBC
Tonight's episode: A Famine Where Abundance Lies

Music
The album The Monkees Present was released on Colgems Records in the U.S.A. and RCA Victor Records in Canada. It was the last new album with Michael Nesmith as a member of the group until Just Us (1996).

World events
Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) presided in Peking over celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. His deputy and heir, Lin Piao, warned the Chinese to prepare for a possible war with the U.S.A. or U.S.S.R.

Politics and government
Swedish education minister Olaf Palme was elected leader of the Social Democratic party as its leader to replace Prime Minister Tage Erlander, who was retiring after 23 years.

Scandal
The United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, looking into corruption in the operations of servicemen’s clubs, started hearings with charges that Army non-commissioned officers had systematically bilked the clubs of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

30 years ago
1979

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): My Sharona--The Knack (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Kanpaku Sengen--Masashi Sada (10th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Lady Laura--Roberto Carlos

Died on this date
Roy Harris, 81. U.S. composer. Mr. Harris wrote over 170 works in all major genres except opera, and was especially prolific as a choral composer. Between 1933 and 1976, Mr. Harris composed 13 symphonies.

Religion
Pope John Paul II arrived in Boston to begin his first pastoral visit to the United States.

Defense
Responding to pressure to do something about the presence of a brigade of Soviet troops in Cuba, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a series of political and military steps. There would be increased surveillance of Cuba; the establishment of a Caribbean task force based in Key West, Florida; and 1,500 Marines would take part in a landing exercise in the next few weeks at the U.S. naval base of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Carter said he had been given assurances by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that the Soviet troops would not assume a combat function and would never be a threat to the U.S.A. or any other nation.

Politics and government
The American Canal Zone in Panama ceased to exist as Panama took formal control of the territory. The U.S.A. would reatain effective control of about 40% of the area which had served as home for the Americans who had built and operated the canal and attendant services since 1904. In compliance with the Panama Canal Treaty, Panama would take responsibility for public services in the area over a 30-month period.

Transportation
The Mass Transit Railway (MTR), the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opened.

25 years ago
1984

Died on this date
Walter Alston, 82. U.S. baseball manager. Mr. Alston played in one game with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1936, striking out in his only time at bat in the major leagues. As a minor leaguer, he led the Mid-Atlantic League in home runs in four seasons. He began his career as a manager in 1940, while still playing in the minors. From 1950-1953 Mr. Alston managed the Montreal Royals of the International League; his teams never finished lower than second place, and the Royals won the Junior World Series (defeating the Kansas City Blues, champions of the American Association) in 1953. Mr. Alston became manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954, and led the team to its first World Series victory in 1955. He accompanied the team when it moved to Los Angeles in 1958, and managed the Dodgers until he handed the reins to coach Tom LaSorda with four games remaining in the 1976 season. His career regular season record with the Dodgers was 2,040 wins, 1,613 losses, 5 ties, .558 winning percentage. His teams won the World Series in 1955, 1959, 1963, and 1965, plus National League pennants in 1956, 1966, and 1974. Mr. Alston was named the Major League Manager of the Year by The Sporting News in 1955, 1959, and 1963. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.

20 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): On Our Own--Bobby Brown (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Lambada--Kaoma (6th week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Swing the Mood--Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers (3rd week at #1)
2 Flamenco Turistico--Stefanie Werger
3 The Best--Tina Turner
4 Lambada--Kaoma
5 French Kiss--Honesty 69
6 Dressed for Success--Roxette
7 Das Omen (Teil 1)--Mysterious Art
8 A Cry in the Night--Lory "Bonnie" Bianco
9 Sealed with a Kiss--Jason Donovan
10 French Kiss--Lil Louis

Singles entering the chart were Lambada; the version of French Kiss by Lil Louis; Healing Hands by Elton John (#14); Mixed Emotions by the Rolling Stones (#17); This One by Paul McCartney (#22); and Cherish by Madonna (#26).

Abominations
Denmark introduced the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership."

World events
More than 6,000 East Germans who had taken refuge in West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw arrived by train in West Germany; the East German government had agreed to their departure.

Football
CFL
Calgary (8-5) 33 @ Ottawa (2-11) 13
Toronto (5-8) 24 @ Winnipeg (7-6) 17

Terrence Jones, who alternated with Danny Barrett at quarterback, rushed 6 times for 62 yards, including 2nd-quarter touchdowns of 1 and 40 yards, to lead the Stampeders over the Rough Riders before 21,943 fans at Lansdowne Park. Lorenzo Graham added 97 yards on 12 carries and Tim Petros carried 10 times for 47 and a touchdown as the Stampeders amassed 266 yards rushing. Tyrone Thurman scored the only Ottawa touchdown on a 36-yard pass from Damon Allen in the 4th quarter.



In a rare Sunday night game, a fierce wind kept the offenses from accomplishing much at Winnipeg Stadium. The Argos picked up just 13 first downs to 8 for the Blue Bombers; Toronto had just 151 yards net offense to 108 for Winnipeg. The Argos mounted the game’s only offensive touchdown drive while they had the wind behind them in the 1st quarter. Terry Underwood, who ended up rushing for 84 yards on 19 carries in place of injured Gill Fenerty, ran 1 yard for a touchdown to give Toronto an early lead. The Argos’ only other touchdown was scored by Mike "Pinball" Clemons on a 25-yard punt return in the 3rd quarter when Bob Cameron’s punt travelled just 8 yards into the wind, and Mr. Clemons scooped up the ball as it bounced back toward the Winnipeg line while the Blue Bombers moved out of the way to avoid a no yards penalty. Winnipeg’s only touchdown came in the 2nd quarter when Rod Hill blocked a Glenn Harper punt and Paul Clatney scooped up the ball and ran it in from the 5-yard line. Toronto quarterbacks John Congemi and Rick Johnson combined to complete just 4 of 16 passes for 29 yards. 22,189 frozen fans were on hand, but there wasn’t much action for them to see.



10 years ago
1999

World events
Russia declared a small group of pro-Russia Chechens as the "sole legitimate authority" in the rebellious republic of Chechnya.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (7-6) 17 @ Calgary (9-4) 21

Kelvin Anderson rushed 26 times for 158 yards in going over 1,000 yards rushing for the fourth straight season, and Mark McLoughlin kicked 5 field goals in as many attempts to lead the Stampeders to victory in front of 26,062 fans on a cold, snowy night at McMahon Stadium. Duane Forde scored the only Calgary touchdown on a 1-yard run in the third quarter. Hamilton's touchdown came early in the game on a 22-yard pass from Danny McManus to Darren Flutie. Paul Osbaldiston converted and added 3 fourth-quarter field goals and a single. Mr. Anderson was helped by the insertion of former Edmonton Eskimo Thomas Rayam into the Calgary lineup at offensive tackle for his first game as a Stampeder.