October 26, 2009

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sveta!

320 years ago
1689

Disasters
Austrian General Enea Silvio Piccolomini ordered the city of Skopje (in present-day Macedonia) to be burned, ostensibly to prevent the spread of a cholera epidemic.

150 years ago
1859

Disasters
The British steam clipper Royal Charter was wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, with 459 dead.

140 years ago
1869

Born on this date
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa. 13th President of Brazil, 1926-1930. Mr. Luís, a member of the Republican Party of São Paulo, held several offices before assuming the presidency. He was the last President of the First Brazilian Republic, which ended when he was ousted in a military coup. Mr. Luís died on August 4, 1957 at the age of 87.

120 years ago
1889

Football
ORFU
Toronto 2 @ Ottawa College 17

This was the second in a series of challenges to the title held by Ottawa College.

Baseball
World Series
Brooklyn Bridegrooms 7 @ New York Giants 11 (New York led best-of-eleven series 4-3)

The Giants scored 8 runs in the 2nd inning and held on for the win before 3,312 fans at the Polo Grounds. Jim O’Rourke started the big inning with a double and finished it with a home run. The Bridegrooms, down 9-0 after 2 innings, came back with 4 in the 3rd and 3 in the 5th to cut the lead to 9-7. Denny Richardson also hit a home run for the Giants.

110 years ago
1899

Born on this date
Judy Johnson. U.S. baseball player. William Julius Johnson was a third baseman in the Negro Leagues with the Hilldale Daisiies (1921-1929, 1931-1932); Homestead Grays (1929-1930, 1937); and Pittsburgh Crawfords (1932-1936). He was known as an excellent contact hitter and the greatest defensive third baseman in the history of the Negro Leagues, helping the Daisies win the 1925 Colored World Series, and helping the 1935 Crawfords earn the reputation as perhaps the greatest team in Negro League history. Mr. Johnson worked as a scout with major league teams in later years, and was hired as a coach by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1954. He served on the Baseball Hall of Fame's Negro Leagues Committee until 1975, when he stepped down upon his own election to the Hall of Fame. Mr. Johnson died on June 15, 1989 at the age of 89, a year after suffering a stroke.

100 years ago
1909

Died on this date
O.O. Howard, 78. U.S. military officer and bureaucrat. Oliver Otis Howard was a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and was known as "The Christian General," with his faith informing his decisions. He lost his arm but earned the Medal of Honor while leading his troops in the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines in 1862, and suffered humiliating defeats in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in 1863, but achieved later success in the Western Theater. When Reconstruction was imposed on the Southern states after the Civil War, Maj. Gen. Howard was put in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau, responsible for integration of freed Negro slaves into Southern society and politics. He was one of the founders of Howard University--which was named in his honour--and served as its first president (1867-1873), and also founded Lincoln Memorial University in 1895. Maj. Gen. Howard returned to military service, conducting campaigns against various Indian tribes in the West from 1874-1879. He was superintendent of the United States Military Academy from 1881-1882, and held several other supervisory positions until his retirement in 1894. Maj. Gen. Howard died 12 days before his 79th birthday.

Itō Hirobumi, 68. Prime Minister of Japan, 1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901. Prince Itō, born Hayashi Risuke, was a samurai who was educated in London, and a prominent member of the Meiji oligarchy. He chaired the bureau that drafted the Meiji Constitution in the 1880s, and was the country's first Prime Minister. Prince Itō was a monarchist who was an independent politician until 1900, when he founded the Rikken Seiyūkai (Constitutional Association of Political Friendship). He pursued an ambitious foreign policy, strengthening ties with Western nations, and agreeing to Japanese hegemony over Korea. In addition to serving as Prime Minister, Prince Itō served four terms as President of the Privy Council, and was in office when he went to Harbin, China for a meeting with Vladimir Kokovtsov, a Russian representative in Manchuria. At the railway station, Prince Itō was shot to death, 10 days after his 68th birthday, by Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.

90 years ago
1919

Football
Wisconsin professional
Oshkosh Professionals 0 @ Green Bay Packers (7-0) 85

Baseball
New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Wagner ruled in favour of the New York Yankees and made permanent the team's temporary restraining order against the American League. Mr. Wagner was persuaded that AL president Ban Johnson had acted incorrectly in banning Carl Mays two days after the pitcher was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Yankees. Mr. Johnson sent telegrams to all the owners except Boston's Harry Frazee telling them not to negotiate for Mr. Mays.

80 years ago
1929

Economics and finance
See News from 1930.

Football
CRU
ORFU
Camp Borden (0-5) 0 @ Toronto (4-0) 14
Hamilton (2-2) 10 @ University of Toronto II (0-4) 9 (OT)
Windsor (2-2) 0 @ Sarnia (4-0) 16
Twin Cities (3-2) 12 @ St. Michael's College (2-2) 0

ARU
Calgary 17 @ Edmonton (0-5) 7

Phil Horne scored the Eskimos’ touchdown, converted by Elwyn Jones. Eck Duggan added a single.

Canadian university
Alberta (1-2) 15 @ Manitoba 9

Freddie Hess punted for a single to break a 9-9 tie in the 4th quarter, and Alberta recovered a touchdown in the Manitoba end zone late in the game to clinch victory at Wesley Field in Winnipeg.

NFL
Staten Island (1-1-1) 6 @ Frankford (3-2-2) 6

NCAA
Yale Coach Mal Stevens inserted 5-foot-6-inch, 144-pound quarterback Albie Booth while trailing 13-0 to Army at the Yale Bowl in Connecticut. Mr. Booth became an overnight sensation by scoring every point in a 21-13 upset by running for two touchdowns, making a 65-yard punt return for another, and kicking all three extra points.

70 years ago
1939

Football
WIFU
It was announced that the game scheduled for October 27 between the Calgary Bronks and Edmonton Eskimos at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton had been cancelled because of a heavy snowfall. The Bronks had a record of 4 wins and 7 losses and the Eskimos were 3-8.

60 years ago
1949

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Ben Wright and Eric Snowden, on ABC

Died on this date
Lionel Halsey, 77. U.K. military officer and courtier. Admiral Sir Lionel joined the Royal Navy in 1885, and served in the Boer War and World War I. He was chief of staff, and later, Comptroller and Treasurer to the Prince of Wales, serving until his dismissal in 1936 by the prince, who by that time had acceded to the throne as King Edward VIII. Admiral Sir Lionel took part in the coronation of King George VI in 1937.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. announced the expulsion of Yugoslavian Ambassador to the Soviet Union Karl Mrazovic for "spying and subversive activities."

Politics and government
An investigating committee of the Japanese Diet charged Japanese Communists with promoting labour violence in the hope of provoking a revolution.

U.K. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones rejected West African nationalist demands for self-government for the Gold Coast colony.

Labour
U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Fair Labor Standards Amendment for 1949, raising the hourly minimum wage to 75c.

New York milk distributors accepted a Teamsters union contract proposal calling for the creation of an employer-financed pension and welfare fund covering 15,000 workers.

Baseball
The San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League concluded a tour of the Orient that included 5 games in Japan, one of which drew 100,000 spectators.

50 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): You are My Destiny--Paul Anka

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin (4th week at #1)
2 Mr. Blue--The Fleetwoods
3 Put Your Head on My Shoulder--Paul Anka
4 Teen Beat--Sandy Nelson
5 Don't You Know--Della Reese
6 Lonely Street--Andy Williams
7 Just Ask Your Heart--Frankie Avalon
8 Primrose Lane--Jerry Wallace with the Jewels
9 Poison Ivy--The Coasters
10 Deck of Cards--Wink Martindale

Singles entering the chart were Believe Me by the Royal Teens (#52); Tennessee Waltz by Bobby Comstock (#68); Pretend by Carl Mann (#72); Be My Guest (#80)/I've Been Around (#94) by Fats Domino; The Enchanted Sea by Martin Denny (#81); You Mean Everything to Me by the Fleetwoods (#84); The Hunch by the Bobby Peterson Quintet (#87); Come Into My Heart by Lloyd Price and his Orchestra (#88); I'll Be Seeing You by the Poni-Tails (#89); First Name Initial (#91)/My Heart Became of Age (#99) by Annette with the Afterbeats; The Hunch by Paul Gayten (#97); and There's a Girl by Jan & Dean (#100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKWX)
1 Living Doll--Cliff Richard and the Drifters
--David Hill
2 Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin
3 Teen Beat--Sandy Nelson
4 Broken-Hearted Melody--Sarah Vaughan
5 Morgen--Ivo Robic and the Song-Masters
6 Lonely Street--Andy Williams
7 Battle Hymn of the Republic--The Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Philadelphia Orchestra
8 ('Til) I Kissed You--The Everly Brothers
9 The Battle of Kookamonga--Homer and Jethro
10 Deck of Cards--Wink Martindale

Singles entering the chart were Dance with Me by the Drifters (#44); Don't Destroy Me by Crash Craddock (#53); Mexican Joe by Mitchell Torok (#54); Happy Anniversary by the Four Lads (#55); Igmoo (The Pride of South Central High) by Stonewall Jackson (#56); There I've Said it Again by Sam Cooke (#57); There's a Girl by Jan & Dean (#58); Come Into My Heart by Lloyd Price and his Orchestra (#59); and Theme from "A Summer Place", with versions by Percy Faith and his Orchestra; Don Ralke and his Orchestra; and Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra (#60).

Died on this date
Ernst Fast, 78. Swedish runner. Mr. Fast was a long distance runner who won several Swedish championships from 1899-1905, and won a bronze medal in the marathon at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.

Space
The U.S.S.R. revealed the first pictures of the far side of the Moon. The photographs had been taken by the Soviet probe Lunik III three weeks earlier and transmitted by radio to Earth.

Diplomacy
The Communist Chinese Foreign Ministry laid claim to more than 6,000 square miles of traditionally Indian-controlled territory in the northern province of Ladakh, citing as evidence a road built across Ladakh in 1957 by China and used "without hindrance."

Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro charged that the United States had permitted planes from Miami to drop anti-government leaflets and bombs on Havana.

Politics and government
The Independence Party, led by Olafur Thors, and the Social Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Emil Jonsson, retained their slim coalition majority in the Lower House of the Althing in the Icelandic general election. The Independence Party won 16 of 40 seats, and the Social Democrats took 6. The Progressive Party was second with 11 seats, and the People's Alliance was next with 7. There had been an election just four months earlier, but in the meantime, 5 seats were added to the Lower House, and a form of proportional representation introduced.

Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin denounced French President Charles de Gaulle's plan for Algerian self-determination as a move toward appeasement that had "revived hope in the rebel camp."

Science
Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their discovery of the antiproton." Jaroslav Heyrovský was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis."

Labour
Kaiser Steel Corporation and the United Steel Workers of America signed a two-year contract in Washington providing for 22½c in hourly pay raises and improved benefits. It also provided that work-rule disputes would be referred to a union-company committee.

Football
CFL
WIFU
Saskatchewan (1-15) 37 @ Winnipeg (12-4) 30

Despite outscoring the Blue Bombers, CFL Commissioner Sydney Halter forfeited the game to the Blue Bombers because the Roughriders used coach Frank Tripucka as a quarterback, although he hadn’t been on the team’s final list of American players at the October 1 deadline, and was therefore ineligible to play. The Blue Bombers, like the Edmonton Eskimos two days earlier, had voiced no objections to having Mr. Tripucka play. He played very well on this night, completing 17 of 26 passes for 208 yards and a touchdown to Ferd Burket. Mr. Burket also rushed 27 times for 108 yards and 4 touchdowns for Saskatchewan, while Reg Whitehouse added 4 converts and a field goal. Ernie Pitts caught 2 touchdown passes for Winnipeg, giving him 16 for the season, breaking the record of 14 set by Saskatchewan’s Jack Hill the previous year. Kenny Ploen threw one of the touchdown passes to Mr. Pitts, while halfback Leo Lewis threw the other. Mr. Ploen also completed a touchdown pass to Carver Shannon. Gerry James rushed for the other Winnipeg touchdown and added 3 converts and a field goal.

ORFU
Sarnia @ London, rescheduled from October 24, was postponed again to October 28.

40 years ago
1969

Music
Little Richard, Bo Diddley, and Albert Collins put on a concert at McMahon Stadium in Calgary before the University of Calgary Dinosaurs’ football game. Those who wished to brave the cold weather could pay $2 for the 1 P.M. concert. Only 764 showed up for the game.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (7-5-1) 9 @ Montreal (2-9-2) 25
British Columbia (5-10) 22 @ Winnipeg (3-11-1) 3

Hamilton quarterback John Eckman, who had thrown 6 interceptions against the Toronto Argonauts a week earlier, did it again against the Alouettes. Rod Woodward made 3 of the interceptions; the others were by Mike D’Amato, John Baker, and Larry Fairholm. Mr. Baker returned his 58 yards for a touchdown, while Montreal’s offensive touchdowns were scored by quarterback Sonny Wade and running back Dick Smith. Gino Berretta converted all 3 and added a field goal. Mr. Wade completed just 4 of 14 passes for 75 yards. Tommy-Joe Coffey accounted for all the Tiger-Cats’ scoring with 3 field goals. Only 8,590 were in attendance at Autostade.

The Lions rolled up 332 yards rushing on a windy day at Winnipeg Stadium to keep their playoff hopes alive. Jim Evenson rushed for 182 yards--including a 61-yard touchdown--and Charlie Brown added 145. B.C.’s other touchdown came on a pass from quarterback Paul Brothers to Jim Young. Ted Gerela converted both and added 2 field goals and a single. Ken Phillips punted for a single for his first point in the CFL. Pierre Guindon’s field goal was all the scoring the Blue Bombers could muster. Butch Pressley was Winnipeg’s best offensive weapon, carrying 9 times for 53 yards and catching 3 passes for 54. 17,032 fans saw the Blue Bombers get eliminated from playoff contention for the third straight year.

CIAU
Alberta (3-2) 53 @ Calgary (1-4) 29

Ludwig Daubner rushed 10 times for 138 yards and scored 3 touchdowns for the Golden Bears. John McManus caught 2 touchdown passes and Bill Manchuk 1, while Don Hickey scored the other Alberta major. Mr. Daubner converted 5 of the touchdowns, and the Golden Bears scored 3 safety touches. Jim Dallin added to the Alberta ground game with 10 carries for 129 yards. Calgary quarterback Joe Petrone, who was under constant pressure from Alberta defenders, scored 1 of the Dinosaurs’ touchdowns and added 2 converts and a field goal. Norm Minor scored 2 Calgary touchdowns and Bill Newcomb scored the other. Only 764 were in attendance on a cold Sunday afternoon at McMahon Stadium, some of whom may have come to hear a pre-game concert featuring Little Richard, Bo Diddley, and Albert Collins.

NFL
San Francisco (1-4-1) 24 @ Baltimore (3-3) 21
St. Louis (2-3-1) 21 @ Cleveland (4-1-1) 21
New Orleans (0-6) 10 @ Philadelphia (2-4) 13
Washington (4-1-1) 14 @ Pittsburgh (1-5) 7
Atlanta (2-4) 10 @ Green Bay (4-2) 28
Detroit (3-3) 10 @ Minnesota (5-1) 24
Los Angeles (6-0) 9 @ Chicago (0-6) 7

AFL
Cincinnati (3-4) 22 @ Kansas City (6-1) 42
Denver (3-4) 21 @ Houston (4-3) 24
Buffalo (1-6) 6 @ Miami (1-5-1) 24
Oakland (6-0-1) 24 @ San Diego (4-3) 12
Boston (0-7) 17 @ New York (5-2) 23

Baseball
Nippon Series
Yomiuri Giants 6 @ Hankyu Braves 5 (Yomiuri led best-of-seven series 1-0)

30 years ago
1979

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Oh! Susie--Secret Service (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): We Don't Talk Anymore--Cliff Richard (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Aline--Christophe (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Park Chung-hee, 62. President of South Korea, 1963-1979. Mr. Park, who had survived assassination attempts in 1968 and 1974, was "accidentally" shot dead by the chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jea Kyu, in an apparent coup attempt. Protests against his authoritarian rule had been increasing in recent weeks. Mr. Park had been de facto ruler of South Korea since a military coup in 1961. A civilian government was restored in 1963, with Mr. Park narrowly winning the presidential election as candidate of the Democratic Republican Party over incumbent President Yoon Po-son. Mr. Park won another narrow victory over Yoon in 1967. In 1971, Mr. Park succeeded in getting the Republic of Korea’s constitution amended to allow him to run for a third term as President. He was elected again, this time over Kim Dae-Jung. In 1972, Mr. Park used emergency measures left over from the Korean War to dissolve parliament and suspend the constitution, effectively legalizing a dictatorship.

Baseball
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn notified Hall of Famer Willie Mays that if he accepted a position with Bally Manufacturing Corporation‚ owner of several gambling casinos‚ he would have to disassociate himself from major league baseball.

25 years ago
1984

Died on this date
Gus Mancuso, 78. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Mancuso was a catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals (1928, 1930-1932, 1940-1942); New York Giants (1933-1938, 1942-1944); Chicago Cubs (1939); Brooklyn Dodgers (1940); and Philadelphia Blue Jays (1945), batting .265 with 53 home runs and 543 runs batted in in 1,460 games. He played in 5 World Series--playing on World Series championship teams in 1931 and 1933--and was regarded as one of the best defensive catchers of the 1930s.

Medicine
The heart of a baboon was implanted in a 15-day-old girl in a five-hour operation performed at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. Doctors said that the girl, identified as "Baby Fae," was "doing fine," but was still listed in critical condition. Dr. Leonard Bailey headed the team that performed the operation. The girl had been born with a severe heart defect--hydroplastic heart syndrome--with the left side of her heart being much smaller than the right side. As a result, she had almost died. A young baboon was chosen as the donor because, it was reported, a compatible human heart was not available, and doctors expected that the heart would grow with the child.

Football
CIAU
Alberta (6-1) 28 @ British Columbia (3-4) 9

Jeff Funtasz rushed 31 times for 254 yards and 2 touchdowns at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver as the Golden Bears eliminated B.C. from playoff contention. Mr. Funtasz ran 3 yards in the second quarter for his first touchdown, and 86 yards in the fourth quarter for his other score. Alberta’s other major score came on an 8-yard pass from Mark Denesiuk to Brad Clark early in the second quarter. Rick Magee converted all 3 and added 2 field goals and a single. Glenn Steele scored the Thunderbirds’ touchdown on a 2-yard run after Frank Cusati had taken over at quarterback for starter Jordan Gagner. Tom Dixon converted and added 2 singles. The Golden Bears’ total of 364 yards rushing included 91 on 8 carries by Tom Richards. Scott Smith led Alberta’s receivers with 4 catches for 76 yards. Alberta amassed 546 yards in net offense to B.C.’s 191.

20 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Finnish Singles Chart): Lambada--Kaoma

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Swing the Mood Again--Various Artists (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Charles J. Pedersen, 85. U.S. chemist. Mr. Pedersen shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity."

Disasters
China Airlines Flight 204, a Boeing 737-200 bound for Taipei, crashed into a mountain after taking off from Hualien Airport in eastern Taiwan, killing all 54 people aboard.

10 years ago
1999

Died on this date
Hoyt Axton, 61. U.S. musician. Mr. Axton was a singer-songwriter who wrote Joy to the World, which was a huge hit for Three Dog Night in 1971; in fact, it was the biggest hit single of the year in the United States. At the same time that Joy to the World was a hit, Steppenwolf was climbing the charts with another of Mr. Axton’s compositions, Snow Blind Friend. Mr. Axton hit the top 10 again as a songwriter in 1975 with Ringo Starr’s recording of No No Song. Mr. Axton played a sleazy evangelist in an episode of the television comedy series WKRP in Cincinnati, and later did television commercials for an Alberta car dealership.

Politics and government
Indonesian President Abdurrahman Rahid announced the appointment of a "national unity cabinet" that included a civilian defense minister and excluded anyone identified with past corruption.

Baseball
World Series
Atlanta Braves 5 @ New York Yankees 6 (New York led best-of-seven series 3-0)

Chad Curtis’s second home run of the game, leading off the bottom of the 10th inning against Mike Remlinger, gave the Yankees their win over the Braves before 56,794 fans at Yankee Stadium. The Braves were leading 5-1 after 4½ innings, but couldn’t hold it. Tino Martinez hit a home run for New York, and Chuck Knoblauch’s 2-run homer in the 8th tied the game 5-5. Mariano Rivera pitched 2 innings of scoreless relief to get the win.





Nippon Series
Fukuoka Daiei Hawks 5 @ Chunichi Dragons 0 (Fukuoka led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Tomohiro Nagai was removed after 6 innings while pitching a no-hitter, but was still credited with the win as the Hawks shut out the Dragons before 37,832 fans at the Nagoya Dome. Kenji Johjima provided the necessary scoring with a 2-run home run in the 4th inning.