November 13, 2009

690 years ago
1319

Died on this date
Erik VI, 45. King of Denmark, 1286-1319. Erik VI acceded to the throne upon the murder of his father Erik V, with his mother leading a regency. He attempted to recover Denmark's empire, but bankrupted the country, spending much of the treasury on jousting tournaments. King Erik VI survived all 14 of his children, and died without an heir; he was succeeded by his younger brother Christopher II.

450 years ago
1559

Born on this date
Albrecht VII. Sovereign of the Netherlands, 1598-1621. Albrecht VII, the fifth son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, held various titles, including Viceroy of Portugal (1583-1593) and Archduke of Austria (March-October 1619). He acceded to the latter position upon the death of his brother Matthias, but abdicated in favour of Ferdinand II. Albrecht VII died on July 13, 1621 at the age of 61, after a period of declining health.

110 years ago
1899

Born on this date
Iskander Mirza. Governor-General of Pakistan, 1955-1956; 1st President of Pakistan, 1956-1958. Major General Mirza served with the Military Police in India from 1920-1947, spending most of his career in the violent North-West Frontier Province. He was a member of the Muslim League from 1950-1955, and held various offices, including Secretary of Defence (1947-1954), after Pakistan obtained her independence from British rule in 1947. As Governor of East Bengal (1954), Maj. Gen. Mirza imposed martial law, arresting over 1,000 political activists, and was replaced after just five months. He served as acting Governor-General of Pakistan from August-October 1955 in place of ailing Malik Ghulam, and then dismissed Mr. Ghulam and took the office on a full-time basis, forcing Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra to resign. When Pakistan became a republic in 1956 and adopted a new constitution, Maj. Gen. Mirza was unanimously elected President, a ceremonial head of state. He soon founded the Republican Party in opposition to the Muslim League, and began interfering in civilian administration, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister H.S. Suhrawardy in October 1957 and his successor, I.I. Chundrigar, just two months later. President Mirza then appointed Feroz Khan as Prime Minister, but declared martial law in October 1958, with General Ayub Khan as chief martial law administrator. However, Gen. Khan had the support of the military, and was able to force the resignation of President Mirza on October 27, 1958. He was banished to exile in London, where he lived under reduced financial circumstances until his death from a heart attack on November 13, 1969, his 70th birthday.

100 years ago
1909

Football
CRU
ORFU
Peterboro (0-4) 9 @ (Toronto) Parkdale (3-1) 40

80 years ago
1929

Died on this date
Viktoria of Prussia, 63. German royal family member. Princess Viktoria was the daughter of Kaiser Friedrich III and Victoria, Princess Royal, a daughter of Queen Victoria. She was married to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1890 until his death in 1916. In 1927, Princess Viktoria married Alexander Zoubkoff, a Russian refugee 35 years her junior. He squandered much of her remaining money on his own amusements, and she was on the verge of divorcing him, when she fell ill with pneumonia and died, leaving no children.

70 years ago
1939

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

War
Canadian Army Lieutenant General H.D.G. Crerar set up Canadian Military headquarters in London in order to coordinate the move of the First Canadian Division to Britain.

60 years ago
1949

Literature
The New York Herald Tribune listed The Egyptian by Mika Waltari and White Collar Zoo by Clare Barnes as the best-selling fiction and non-fiction books, respectively.

Politics and government
Prime Minister Antonio Salazar's National Union won all 120 seats in the National Assembly in the Portuguese general election, facing little opposition.

Religion
The American Jewish Congress concluded a four-day meeting in New York after choosing Rabbi Irving Miller to succeed the late Rabbi Stephen Wise as president. The meeting also confirmed the expulsion from the AJC of the American Jewish Labor Council and the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, included on the U.S. Justice Department's list of subversive organizations.

Football
NFL
Philadelphia (7-1) 44 @ Washington (3-4-1) 21
Los Angeles (6-1-1) 7 @ Pittsburgh (4-3-1) 7
New York Giants (5-3) 30 @ Green Bay (2-6) 10
Chicago Cardinals (4-4) 65 @ New York Bulldogs (1-6-1) 20
Detroit (1-7) 24 @ Chicago Bears (5-3) 27

AAFC
Chicago (4-6) 10 @ New York (7-2) 14
Buffalo (3-5-2) 7 @ Cleveland (7-1-2) 7
San Francisco (8-3) 41 @ Los Angeles (3-7) 24

50 years ago
1959

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight’s episode: The Lonely, starring Jack Warden, Jean Marsh, and John Dehner

The first two days of filming for this episode took place in Death Valley, but cast and crew had to give up because of the 130 F heat. Bernard Herrmann wrote the music. Look for Ted Knight in a small role.



Space
Dr. Otto Struve, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Greenbank, West Virginia, announced plans to listen for radio signals from space sent by intelligent beings from planets of other solar systems.

Diplomacy
The Cuban government reiterated charges of U.S. complicity in the "leaflet bombing" of Havana, and called on the United States to change the policy of exerting influence to prevent Cuba from acquiring arms.

Crime
The state of Illinois paroled Roger "The Terrible" Touhy, a Prohibition-era mobster who had serve 25 years of a 99-year sentence for the 1933 murder of alleged swindler John "Jake the Barber" Factor.

40 years ago
1969

On television tonight
Dragnet 1970, on NBC
Tonight's episode: D.H.Q.: Missing Person

Died on this date
Margery Lawrence, 81. U.K. authoress. Miss Lawrence wrote romantic, horror, fantasy, and detective fiction, specializing in ghost stories.

Iskander Mirza, 70. Governor-General of Pakistan, 1955-1956; 1st President of Pakistan, 1956-1958. Major General Mirza died from a heart attack on his 70th birthday after 11 years of exile in London. Denied a burial in East Pakistan, he was given a state funeral in Iran.

Bobbie Rosenfeld, 64. Ukrainian-born Canadian athlete and journalist. Miss Rosenfeld, who moved to Barrie, Ontario with her family in 1904, won the silver medal in the women's 100-metre dash at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and was lead runner for the women's team that won the gold medal in the 4 x 100-metre relay in a record time of 48.2 seconds. She once shared the world record for the 100-yard dash (11.0 seconds), and held Canadian records in the running and standing broad jump and the discus throw. Miss Rosenfeld also played numerous other sports, including hockey, softball, and basketball. She was forced to retire in 1933 because of arthritis, and became a sports columnist with the Toronto Globe and Mail, where she worked for almost 30 years. In 1950 Miss Rosenfeld was chosen Canada's female athlete of the half-century; she was elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1955.

Music
Gordon Lightfoot performed at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton for the first of two consecutive nights. Mr. Lightfoot had recently left United Artists and signed with Reprise Records, and in addition to his familiar songs, he sang a number of new songs that hadn't yet been released.

War
U.S. President Richard Nixon, in separate speeches to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, said that he appreciated Congressional support for his Vietnam policy and asked opponents for understanding and "constructive criticism."

Journalism
U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew, speaking in Des Moines, attacked television network news programs as selective and often biased. The networks replied sharply.



Terrorism
Four people, all residents of the East Village in New York City, were charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with four recent bombings in the city, as well as four others since July that had occurred in corporate or government buildings. A fifth person was sought.

Britannica
Irene Hanson, 33, gave birth to Great Britain's first live quintuplets of the 20th Century at Queen Charlotte's maternity hospital in London.

30 years ago
1979

On the radio
Yellowknife's second radio station, CJCD, began broadcasting at 1240 on the AM dial.

Politics and government
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan opened his campaign for the 1980 Republican Party U.S. presidential nomination with a nationally-televised speech in New York City. Mr. Reagan called for a new North American economic and military partnership with Mexico and Canada to take full advantage of the assets of the continent.

Journalism
The Times, Great Britain's most famous newspaper, was published for the first time in nearly a year after a labour dispute.

Hockey
NHL
New York Rangers 5 @ New York Islanders 10



Edmonton 5 Washington 3

Basketball
NBA
Philadelphia 76ers' center Darryl Dawkins completed a dunk over Bill Robinzine of the Kansas City Kings, shattering the fiberglass backboard at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.



20 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): If I Could Turn Back Time--Cher

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Lambada--Kaoma (13th week at #1)

Died on this date
Franz Josef II, 83. Prince of Liechtenstein, 1938-1989. Franz Josef II, whose full name was too long to repeat here, was the son of Prince Aloys, who renounced his right of succession in favour of his son. Franz Josef II succeeded his childless great-uncle Franz Josef I. Franz Josef II was the first Prince of Liechtenstein to be a full-time resident of the principality. He died just 26 days after his wife Georgina and was succeeded by his son Hans-Adam II.

Victor Davis, 25. Canadian swimmer. Mr. Davis won the gold medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke event at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984 and won silver medals in the 100-metre breaststroke and 4 x 100-metre medley. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he won another silver medal in the 4 x 100-metre medley. Mr. Davis is perhaps best remembered for his performance at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, when he embarrassed Canada by throwing a temper tantrum in view of Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. Davis died two days after being run over by a man he'd just had a verbal altercation with in a bar in Montreal.

10 years ago
1999

At the movies
Toy Story 2, an animated film directed by John Lasseter, and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, received its first public screening, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. It had received a private screening at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita on November 12.





Died on this date
Donald Mills, 84. Mr. Mills was the last surviving member of the Mills Brothers singing group, who performed from the 1920s to the 1980s. He died of pneumonia.

Football
CIAU
Atlantic Final
Acadia 24 @ St. Mary’s 25

Ontario-Quebec Final
Ottawa 6 @ Laval 38

Ontario Final
Waterloo 32 @ Wilfrid Laurier 20

St. Mary’s, trailing 24-15 with 4 minutes remaining, got a converted touchdown by Dean Jones and then a 10-yard game-winning field goal by Jay Currie with 39 seconds left to win the Jewett Trophy.

Daniel Fleury returned a punt 96 yards for a touchdown to put the game out of reach as the Laval Rouge et Or routed the Ottawa Gee-Gees to win the Dunsmore Cup.

Waterloo quarterback Ryan Wilkinson, who had gone 0 for 4 in passing the week before, completed 6 of 10 passes for 197 yards to lead the Warriors past their city rivals at University Stadium in Waterloo to win the Yates Cup. A standing-room crowd of 7,000 were inside the stadium, while hundreds outside were turned away. One of Mr. Wilkinson’s completions went for 75 yards to Grant Baechler to set up a touchdown run by Mike Bradley. Mr. Bradley also scored on a 15-yard pass from Mr. Wilkinson.