October 16, 2009

220 years ago
1789

Born on this date
William Burton. U.S. politician. Dr. Burton, a physician and a member of the Democratic Party, was Governor of Delaware from 1859-1863. He died on August 5, 1866 at the age of 76.

200 years ago
1809

Born on this date
Robert Duncan Wilmot. Canadian politician. Mr. Wilmot, a native of Fredericton, New Brunswick, moved to Saint John with his family at the age of 5, and worked for his father's shipping business before entering politics. He represented Saint John County in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (1847-1861, 1865-1867), serving as Mayor of Saint John (1849-1850). He was a delegate from New Brunswick to the colonial conferences in London in 1866 and 1867, and thus became a Father of Confederation. Mr. Wilmot represented New Brunswick in the Canadian Senate (1867-1880), resigning his Senate seat to succeed the late Edward Barron Chandler as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, seriving from 1880-1885. Mr. Wilmot died at his estate in Sunbury County, N.B. on February 13, 1891 at the age of 81.

190 years ago
1819

Born on this date
Austin F. Pike. U.S. politician. Mr. Pike, a Republican, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1850-1852, 1865-1866) and Senate (1857-1858), serving as President of the latter in 1858. He represented N.H.'s 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1873-1875) and represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1883 until his death on October 8, 1886, eight days before his 69th birthday.

150 years ago
1859

Protest
Abolitionist John Brown and 21 armed followers captured the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Mr. Brown’s idea was to use this as his base of operations from which to make raids to liberate slaves, with the goal of arming the freedmen, setting up a Negro republic, and forcing the South to concede emancipation.

140 years ago
1869

Born on this date
Claude H. Van Tyne. U.S. historian. Dr. Van Tyne specialized in the American Revolution, and wrote several books on the subject, including The War of Independence (1929), which was awarded the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History. Dr. Van Tyne taught at the University of Michigan from 1903 until his death on March 21, 1930 at the age of 60.

110 years ago
1899

Born on this date
Peter Godfrey. U.K.-born actor and director. Mr. Godfrey began his acting career in repertory theatre, but became interested in expressionism, and founded the Gate Theatre in London in 1925. He appeared in a few films in Britain before moving to New York circa 1937 and working in theatre there. Mr. Godfrey moved to Hollywood in 1939, appearing in bit parts in a few movies and directing films such as The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); Christmas in Connecticut (1945); and The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947). He died on March 4, 1970 at the age of 70.

100 years ago
1909

Diplomacy
The first summit between American and Mexican Presidents took place in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez between U.S. President William Howard Taft and Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.

Boxing
Jack Johnson (50-5-9-2) retained his world heavyweight title with a knockout of world middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel (48-5-3-1) in the 12th round at Mission Street Arena in Colma, California. The two men had reportedly agreed to fight the full 20 rounds in order to guarantee a large paying audience for the film of the bout; however, Mr. Ketchel surprised the champion with a punch in the 12th round that knocked him down, and Mr. Johnson promptly got up and knocked out the challenger, along with several of his teeth.



Football
CRU
ORFU
(Toronto) Parkdale Canoe Club (2-0) 31 @ Peterboro (0-1) 1

Baseball
World Series
Pittsburg Pirates 8 @ Detroit Tigers 0 (Pittsburg won best-of-seven series 4-3)

Babe Adams pitched a 6-hitter for his third complete game win of the Series as the Pirates routed the Tigers before 17,562 fans at Bennett Park; it was the first World Series to go the maximum number of possible games. The teams combined to make 34 errors in the 7 games, a World Series record that still stands.

90 years ago
1919

Politics and government
Adolf Hitler delivered his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

70 years ago
1939

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: The Speckled Band

War
The Royal Air Force's No. 603 Squadron intercepted the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain during World War II.

60 years ago
1949

War
The Greek Communist Party announced a "temporary cease-fire," "to avoid the total destruction of Greece," thus ending the Greek Civil War.

Chinese Communist forces launched an amphibious attack on the Nationalist naval base in the Chu Shan Archipelago near Shanghai.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. and East Germany established formal relations.

Medicine
Dr. Arne Frantzell of Uppsala University in Sweden demonstrated a new X-ray technique capable of producing clear pictures of body tissue.

Economics and finance
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg postponed plans for economic unification, because of the Netherlands' unfavourable balance of trade.

Labour
A strike of 7,500 Singer Manufacturing Company workers in Elizabeth, New Jersey ended in failure after 168 days.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Hamilton (0-9) 16 @ Montreal (5-4) 29

Both teams had played the day before--the Wildcats at home vs. Ottawa, and the Alouettes in Toronto.

NFL
Philadelphia (3-1) 21 @ Chicago Bears (3-1) 38
Pittsburgh (3-1) 21 @ New York Giants (2-2) 17
New York Bulldogs (0-4) 14 @ Washington (2-2) 38
Los Angeles (4-0) 21 @ Detroit (0-4) 10
Chicago Cardinals (2-2) 39 Green Bay (1-3) 17 @ Milwaukee

AAFC
New York (4-1) 24 @ Baltimore (1-6) 21
Buffalo (1-5-1) 7 @ San Francisco (6-1) 51

50 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Just Ask Your Heart--Frankie Avalon (3rd week at #1)
2 One Minute to One--Ricky Nelson
3 Living Doll--Cliff Richard and the Drifters
4 Mr. Blue--The Fleetwoods
5 Teen Beat--Sandy Nelson
6 In the Mood--Ernie Fields Orchestra
7 Caribbean--Mitchell Torok
8 True True Happiness--Johnny Tillotson
9 Come on and Get Me--Fabian
10 Igmoo (The Pride of South Central High)--Stonewall Jackson

Singles entering the chart were Poco-Loco by Gene and Eunice (#24); Shout (Part I) by the Isley Brothers (#33); Somethin' Else by Eddie Cochran (#34); It Happened Today by the Skyliners (#36); I've Been Around by Fats Domino (#37); The Angels Listened In by the Crests (#38); and Unforgettable by Dinah Washington (#39).

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight’s episode: Mr. Denton on Doomsday, starring Dan Duryea, Martin Landau, Jeanne Cooper, and Malcolm Atterbury

Died on this date
George Marshall, 78. U.S. military officer and politician. General of the Army Marshall was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1939-1945 under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and was largely responsible for organizing the U.S. military buildup and coordinating Allied activities in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. He served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Truman from 1947-1949, and became known for the Marshall Plan, a program of economic aid to Western European countries that has been credited with preventing the recipients from turning to Communism, and led to Gen. Marshall being awarded the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize. Gen. Marshall served as Secretary of Defense under President Truman from 1950-1951.

Ram Hall, 62. U.S. musician. Minor Hall, the younger brother of jazz drummer Tubby Hall, was also a jazz drummer, based in New Orleans. He played with the bands of Lawrence Duhe, King Oliver, Jimmie Noone, before joining Mutt Carey's Jeffersonians (1927-1932) and Kid Ory's Creoloe Jazz Band (1945-1956).

Television
CBS President Frank Stanton banned quiz programs from the network. The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, chaired by Rep. Oren Harris (Democrat--Arkansas), was currently investigating claims that the outcomes of shows had been rigged.

World events
French Socialist Party leader Francois Mitterand, an advocate of a negotiated peace in Algeria, escaped assassination when unknown attackers riddled his car with machine gun fire in Paris.

Politics and government
The French National Assembly approved President Charles de Gaulle's program for Algerian peace and self-determination.

Diplomacy
Soviet authorities seized the chief security officer of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Russell Langelle, and ordered him expelled from the U.S.S.R.

Disasters
Typhoon Charlotte caused 28 deaths in Okinawa.

40 years ago
1969

On television tonight
Dragnet 1970, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Burglary: Mister



Music
Paul Revere and the Raiders performed at the Stampede Corral in Calgary.

Space
Soyuz 6, the first of three Soviet spacecraft launched the previous week on consecutive days, returned to Earth.

War
The North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks proposed that the United States immediately begin secret peace talks with the Viet Cong. The proposal, which bypassed the South Vietnamese government, was countered by an American plan to begin secret talks among all four participants in the negotiations aimed at reaching a settlement of the Vietnam War.

Medicine
Max Delbruck, Alfred Hershey, and Salvador Luria of the United States were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries about viruses and viral diseases. They "set the solid foundation on which modern molecular biology rests."

Baseball
World Series
Baltimore Orioles 3 @ New York Mets 5 (New York won best-of-seven series 4-1)

The Mets overcame a 3-0 deficit and defeated the Orioles before 57,937 fans at Shea Stadium to win their first World Series. The Orioles scored their runs in the 3rd inning when Mark Belanger led off with a single, pitcher Dave McNally followed with a home run, and after Don Buford and Paul Blair made outs, Frank Robinson hit his first home run of the series. The Mets got a break in the 6th when a pitch from Mr. McNally came close to Cleon Jones, but New York manager Gil Hodges retrieved the ball and showed home plate umpire Lou DiMuro that there was a smudge of shoe polish on the ball, thereby proving that Mr. Jones had been hit by the pitch. He was awarded first base, and Donn Clendenon followed with his 3rd home run of the series, cutting the lead to 3-2. Second baseman Al Weis, who had hit only 7 home runs in his major league career, hit one off Mr. McNally in the 7th to tie the score. In the 8th, Mr. Jones doubled off relief pitcher Eddie Watt, and after Mr. Clendenon made an out, Ron Swoboda doubled him home. Ed Charles made the second out, and Jerry Grote hit a grounder to Orioles’ first baseman Boog Powell for what should have been the third out. Mr. Powell booted it, and when his throw to first was mishandled by Mr. Watt, Mr. Swoboda came home with the Mets’ 5th run. Jerry Koosman retired the Orioles in the 9th, going the distance for his second win of the series.





30 years ago
1979

World events
Relief officials reported that the first substantial food shipment for Cambodia, 1,500 tons, had arrived in the port of Kompong Son. An agreement had been reached between the British-based volunteer organization Oxfam and the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian regime of Prime Minister Heng Samrin on the distribution of food and medicine.

Politics and government
Two days after conceding defeat to the Justice Party in mid-term parliamentary elections, Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, leader of the Social Democratic party, announced that he and his cabinet would resign. Former Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, leader of the Justice Party, said that he would try to get the parliament to vote for early general elections so that his organization could win a clear majority and he could feel secure as Prime Minister. The Justice Party held only 181 seats and its right-wing allies 46 of the 450 seats in the National Assembly.

Scandal
Paul Curran, a special federal investigator appointed by U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell on March 22 to independently investigate the business affairs of President Jimmy Carter, said that an exhaustive inquiry of loans to Mr. Carter’s family peanut business by the National Bank of Georgia had turned up "no evidence whatsoever" that proceeds had been diverted to Mr. Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign. Mr. Curran said that his team had reviewed more than 80,000 documents and interviewed numerous witnesses, including President Carter. In his report, Mr. Curran said, "Every nickel and every peanut have been tracked into and out of the warehouse, and no funds were unlawfully diverted." The report did say, however, that the Carter warehouse loans had insufficient collateral for long periods in 1975 and 1976, that the warehouse had major overdrafts of its bank account in late 1975, and that the bank often held cheques because the account had insufficient funds.

Disasters
Two large waves struck the French Riviera near Nice, drowning at least nine people and tearing hundreds of boats from their moorings.

Baseball
World Series
Pittsburgh Pirates 4 @ Baltimore Orioles 0 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)

John Candelaria pitched 6 innings and Kent Tekulve the last 3 as they combined on a 7-hitter for the Pirates in defeating the Orioles before 53,739 fans at Memorial Stadium. Omar Moreno had 3 of the Pirates’ 10 hits. Jim Palmer pitched 8 innings for the Orioles in taking the loss.





25 years ago
1984

Economics and finance
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced that industrial production had edged downward in September by 0.6%, its first decline since November 1982. Leading banks lowered their prime lending rate by ¼ percentage point to 12.5%, another sign of a cooling economy.

Baseball
Gene Mauch, who had retired from the California Angels after the 1982 season, was rehired as their manager.

20 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Right Here Waiting--Richard Marx (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Lambada--Kaoma (9th week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Cherish--Madonna (2nd week at #1)
2 Mixed Emotions--Rolling Stones
3 Girl I'm Gonna Miss You--Milli Vanilli
4 If I Could Turn Back Time--Cher
5 Heaven--Warrant
6 Miss You Much--Janet Jackson
7 Sowing the Seeds of Love--Tears for Fears
8 Healing Hands--Elton John
9 18 and Life--Skid Row
10 Love Song--The Cure

Singles entering the chart were Hey Men by Men Without Hats (#72); House of Dreams by Blue Rodeo (#75); We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel (#79); Don't Know Much by Linda Ronstadt (featuring Aaron Neville) (#81); Holding on to You by Peter Frampton (#84); Poison by Alice Cooper (#87); Blame it on the Rain by Milli Vanilli (#90); and You've Got It by Simply Red (#92).

Died on this date
Cornel Wilde, 77. Austro-Hungarian-born U.S. actor. Mr. Wilde, born Kornél Lajos Weisz in what is now Slovakia, moved with his family to New York in 1920. His movies included Leave Her to Heaven (1945); A Song to Remember (1945); Forever Amber (1947); Shockproof (1949); and The Big Combo (1955). Mr. Wilde died of leukemia three days after his 77th birthday.

Walter Farley, 74. U.S. author. Mr. Farley was known for his novel The Black Stallion (1941) and numerous sequels.

Politics and government
History was made in Alberta when Reform Party candidate Stan Waters won easily over Bill Code of the Liberals, Bert Brown of the Progressive Conservatives, and two independents to become the first person ever to be elected to the Canadian Senate. The election took place in conjunction with civic elections; Jan Reimer won the Edmonton mayoral election, easily defeating incumbent Terry Cavanagh and five other candidates.

10 years ago
1999

Died on this date
Jean Shepherd, 78. U.S. author. Mr. Shepherd was best known for writing and narrating the movie A Christmas Story (1983).

Ella May Morse, 75. U.S. singer. Miss Morse, a pop and jazz singer, was best known for Cow-Cow Boogie, a 1942 hit that was the first recording made for Capitol Records to sell a million copies. She had several other hits through the early 1950s.

Don Kates, 46. Canadian football player. Mr. Kates single-handedly cost the University of Alberta Golden Bears a possible championship in 1974 when the team discovered that he hadn’t bothered to register as a student. Mr. Kates, who had played for the Golden Bears in the early 1970s, had transferred to the University of Manitoba and played for the Bisons, and then had returned to the U of A. He was a halfback and kicker who was leading the Western Intercollegiate Football League in scoring as the Golden Bears scored over 50 points in each of their first 4 games in 1974, all of which were lopsided victories. The deadline for registration as a student occurred prior to the third game, and Mr. Kates played games 3 and 4 while ineligible, although he had told the team that he had registered. When the Golden Bears found out about the deception, they informed the WIFL and hoped for the best. They won their fifth game of the season (without Mr. Kates in the lineup) before the verdict came in. The Golden Bears were stripped of their victories in games 3 and 4, but the wins weren’t awarded to the losing teams, and the games weren’t counted as losses against the Golden Bears. They still had a shot at the WIFL title, but they would have to win all 3 of their remaining games. The emotional roller-coaster probably affected them too much, because they suffered two close losses in a row to eliminate them: 40-38 to Saskatchewan and 10-9 to Manitoba. The Golden Bears won their final game of 1974 46-0 at UBC to finish 4-2. Oddly, Mr. Kates died 25 years almost to the exact date of the WIFL’s verdict. Years after the scandal, the mention of the name of Don Kates to Golden Bears’ head coach Jim Donlevy was still enough to make him angry, and for good reason. The 1974 edition of the University of Alberta Golden Bears would certainly have won the WIFL title and may well have won the Vanier Cup, and ranked with the powerhouse squads of 1963 and ‘64 as the best teams they ever had.

World events
Jerri Nielsen, an American doctor suffering from breast cancer, was evacuated from the South Pole after a five-month wait caused by bad weather. She had treated herself until a U.S. military plane could make the rescue.

Football
CFL
Toronto (7-8) 2 @ Hamilton (9-6) 18

Kickers accounted for all the scoring, as Paul Osbaldiston kicked 6 field goals for the Tiger-Cats while Dan Giancola missed 2 field goals that went for single points for the Argonauts. Hamilton quarterback Danny McManus completed 28 of 41 passes for 310 yards. Corey Grant caught 8 of Mr. McManus’s passes for 121 yards. 23,832 witnessed the snoozefest at Ivor Wynne Stadium.

CIAU
St. Francis Xavier (1-4) 20 @ St. Mary’s (4-1) 53
Mount Allison (1-4) 6 @ Acadia (4-1) 10
Windsor (0-5) 15 @ McGill (2-4) 47
Waterloo (3-3) 18 @ Concordia (6-0) 19
Guelph (2-4) 12 @ Queen’s (1-5) 21
Bishop’s (1-5) 12 @ Western Ontario (6-0) 22
Ottawa (6-0) 33 @ York (1-5) 25
Wilfrid Laurier (5-1) 60 @ Toronto (1-5) 3
Laval (4-2) 49 @ McMaster (4-2) 6
Regina (0-6) 10 @ Manitoba (4-2) 24
Calgary (2-4) 23 @ Alberta (2-4) 32

Ryan Jones completed 13 of 18 passes for 188 yards and 3 touchdowns for St. Mary’s as the Huskies beat the X-Men at Huskies Stadium.

Matt Trudeau kicked 4 field goals and Anthony Jean blocked a punt and returned it 40 yards for the Stingers’ only touchdown in Concordia’s win over the Warriors.

Mathieu Brassard scored 4 touchdowns for Laval. The Rouge et Or rolled up a 35-4 halftime lead over the Marauders.

Harvey Stables caught 3 touchdown passes for Wilfrid Laurier in the Golden Hawks' rout of the Varsity Blues at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

Nathan Connor rushed 21 times for 123 yards in Alberta’s win over their provincial rivals at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton.

Baseball
American League Championship Series
New York 1 @ Boston 13 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-1)

The Red Sox scored 2 runs in each of the first 3 innings as they hammered starting pitcher Roger Clemens and the Yankees before 33,190 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Nomar Garciaparra had 4 hits for the Red Sox, including a home run. John Valentin had a home run and 5 runs batted in, and Brian Daubach also homered for the Red Sox. Pedro Martinez pitched 7 innings to get the win.



National League Championship Series
Atlanta 2 @ New York 3 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

John Olerud drove in all 3 runs for the Mets as they edged the Braves before 55,872 fans at Shea Stadium. Mr. Olerud hit a solo home run in the 6th inning off John Smoltz to give the Mets a 1-0 lead, but Brian Jordan and Ryan Klesko hit consecutive home runs off Mets’ starter Rick Reed in the top of the 8th to give the Braves a 2-1 lead. Mr. Olerud drove in 2 runs with a single off reliever John Rocker in the bottom of the 8th to provide the winning margin.