June 19, 2010

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Michael Martin!

420 years ago
1590

Born on this date
Philip Bell. English politician. Mr. Bell was Governor of the English colonies of Bermuda (1616-1629); Providence Island (1629-1636); and Barbados (1640-1650). During his terms of office in the latter two, the colonies moved from using indentured English workers to slaves imported from West Africa. Mr. Bell died in his birthplace of Norfolk on March 3, 1678 at the age of 87.

400 years ago
1610

War
French forces commanded by Samuel de Champlain, along with forces of various native tribes, defeated Iroquois forces in the Battle of Sorel in what is now Quebec.

210 years ago
1800

War
French forces commanded by General Jean Victor Marie Moreau defeated Holy Roman Empire and Austrian forces commanded by Baron Pál Kray in the Battle of Höchstädt on the north bank of the Danube River in Bavaria.

190 years ago
1820

Politics and government
The Earl of Dalhousie arrived in Québec to take up his duties as Governor General of British North America.

160 years ago
1850

Born on this date
David Jayne Hill. U.S. academic and diplomat. Mr. Hill was ordained as a Baptist minister, but declined to enter the ministry. He was President of Bucknell University (1879-1888) and President of the University of Rochester (1889-1896), resigning from the latter post because of sectarian divisions. He was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (1898-1903), and U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (1903-1905); the Netherlands (1905-1908); and Germany (1908-1911). Mr. Hill wrote more than 20 books, including biographies and books on social and diplomatic issues. He died on March 2, 1932 at the age of 81.

125 years ago
1885

Americana
The Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home at Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor aboard the French frigate Isere.

120 years ago
1890

Baseball
In Players League games, the Chicago Pirates beat the Cleveland Infants 20-9 in Chicago; the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Quakers 12-2 at Brotherhood Park in New York; and the Pittsburgh Burghers routed the Buffalo Bisons 19-6 at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh.

The Philadelphia Athletics routed the Syracuse Stars 20-2 in an American Association game at Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.

110 years ago
1900

Politics and government
The U.S. Republican National Convention opened at Exposition Auditorium in Philadelphia.

Baseball
The Chicago Colts edged the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 in 14 innings as Clark Griffith outduelled Rube Waddell. Mr. Waddell recorded 12 strikeouts, but Mr. Griffith doubled in the only run in the bottom of the 14th inning.

100 years ago
1910

Born on this date
Sydney Allard. U.K. auto racing driver and automotive executive. Mr. Allard was a drag racer and sports car driver from the late 1920s through the early 1960s, taking time out during World War II to run his car repair shop for the war effort. He founded Allard Motor Company in 1946, which manufactured almost 1,900 cars before going into insolvency in 1958. Mr. Allard died after several months of illness on April 12, 1966 at the age of 55.

Abe Fortas. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1965-1969. Justice Fortas was a lawyer with the U.S. government before founding a private firm in Washington, D.C. He became friends with Lyndon Johnson in the 1940s when the latter was a young Congressman, and President Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1965. Justice Fortas was regarded as holding generally liberal views, and was particularly concerned with children's rights. He continued his close association with President Johnson on political matters, and co-wrote the President's State of the Union speech in 1966. When Chief Justice Earl Warren indicated his intention to retire in 1968, President Johnson nominated Justice Fortas for the position. He was strongly opposed by conservative Senators; a vote on cloture of debate of the Senate filibuster regarding his nomination passed 45-43 on October 1, 1968, but Mr. Fortas asked President Johnson later that day to withdraw his nomination. Several months later, it was revealed that Justice Fortas had accepted a $20,000 retainer fee from the foundation of financier, friend and client Louis Wolfson, who was under investigation for securities violations. Impeachment proceedings against Justice Fortas began, and he resigned from the Court on May 14, 1969. He was rebuffed by his former firm, and founded another, sometimes appearing before his former colleagues on the Supreme Court. Justice Fortas was still an active lawyer when he died from a ruptured aorta on April 5, 1982 at the age of 71.

Paul Flory. U.S. chemist. Dr. Flory was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules." He died on September 9, 1985 at the age of 75.

Society
Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington.

90 years ago
1920

Journalism
The newspaper Le Matin was first published in Quebec.

80 years ago
1930

Politics and government
Premier John Brownlee led his United Farmers of Alberta to a third consecutive majority government in the Alberta provincial election. The UFA, which had been in power since 1924, took 39 of 63 seats in the Legislative Assembly, a decrease of 5 from the most recent election in 1926. The Liberal Party, led by John W. McDonald, won 11 seats--an increase of 5 from 1926--but Mr. McDonald was not elected. The Conservative Party, led by David Duggan, increased from 4 to 6 seats, and the Dominion Labour Party, led by Fred White, dropped from 5 to 4, with 3 independent candidates being elected.

70 years ago
1940

Died on this date
Pete Henderson, 45. Canadian auto racing driver. Mr. Henderson, a native of Arran, Ontario, began racing in 1915, and participated in the Indianapolis 500 in 1916 and 1920, finishing 6th and 10th, respectively. He died in Los Angeles.

Maurice Jaubert, 40. French composer. Mr. Jaubert wrote music for stage and screen. He died as a result of wounds suffered in combat at Azerailles, near Baccarat.

War
Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco secretly offered to join the European war on Germany's side if Spain were given Gibraltar, French Morocco, and other territory in Africa. Advancing German forces in France occupied Cherbourg and Brest. French resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle urged the French commander in North Africa, General Auguste Nogues, to place himself at the head of a colonial resistance movement. The United Kingdom organized an evacuation of children to Canada. Canada and Britain planned steps to be taken if the Royal Navy were forced to withdraw to Canada. Japanese military authorities demanded that the U.K. close off the Burma Road to China and the Hong Kong frontier.

Diplomacy
Calling for a conference of the foreign ministers of the American republics, the United States again warned the Axis powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.

Economics and finance
The United States Senate approved and sent to conference the $1-billion tax bill, which authorized an increase in the national debt to $49 billion.

60 years ago
1950

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: A Child is Crying, starring David Cole, Leslie Nielsen, and Frank M. Thomas

Diplomacy
West German officials reported that 700 Jewish refugees who had emigrated to Israel had returned to Germany illegally because they did not like conditions in Israel.

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick J. Hurley accused "China hand" Jack Service "and several associates" of supplying Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) with secret information in 1944 and "advising" Communist leaders on how to defeat the American policy of helping Nationalist leader Genralissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

Education
The Supreme Court of New York upheld the legality of the state's "released time" system under which children were excused from public school for an hour per week for religious classes off school grounds.

50 years ago
1960

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Letter of Credit, starring Bob Sweeney and Robert Bray



At the movies
All the Fine Young Cannibals, directed by Michael Anderson, and starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey, opened in theatres in the United Kingdom.





Died on this date
Jimmy Bryan, 34. U.S. auto racing driver. Mr. Bryan drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series from 1952-1960, winning 23 races, including the 1958 Indianapolis 500. He won the AAA championship in 1954 and the USAC championship in 1956 and 1957. Mr. Bryan was killed during the Langhorne 100 at Langhorne Speedway when his car rolled and he was thrown to his death. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1999 and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2001.

Alan Stacey, 26. U.K. auto racing driver. Mr. Stacey participated in seven Formula One races from 1958-1960, finishing 8th in the 1959 British Grand Prix and 4th in the non-championship BRDC International trophy race in 1960. He was running 6th during the 25th lap of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps when he was hit in the face by a bird, and his car went over an embankment at the Burnenville corner, went through hedges, and fell into a field.

Chris Bristow, 22. U.K. auto racing driver. Mr. Bristow was known as the "wild man of British club racing." He participated in 4 Formula One races from 1959-1960, with a best finish of 10th in the 1959 British Grand Prix. Mr. Bristow was killed during the 10th lap of the Belgian Grand Prix when his car hit an embankment at the Burnenville corner and rolled over, and he was thrown into barbed wire and decapitated.

Auto racing
Formula One
Jack Brabham won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, with Bruce McLaren second and Olivier Gendebein third in the 17-car field. The deaths of Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey made it the first Formula One race to have two fatal accidents.



USAC
Championship Car Series
Jim Hurtubise won the Langhorne 100 on the dirt track of Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania. Jim Packard finished second and Gene Force third in the 18-car field. Jimmy Bryan suffered a fatal accident on the first lap.

Baseball
Hoyt Wilhelm and Milt Pappas pitched shutouts as the Baltimore Orioles swept a doubleheader from the Detroit Tigers 2-0 and 1-0 before 38,109 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. In the first game, Mr. Wilhelm (4-4) gave up just 2 hits, while Jim Gentile and Ron Hansen hit solo home runs to account for the scoring. Mr. Pappas (5-5) gave up just 3 hits in the second game, with pinch runner Gene Stephens scoring in the top of the 9th inning on a sacrifice fly by Brooks Robinson. Jim Bunning (4-4) and Don Mossi (3-5) were the respective losing pitchers.

Jim Coates (8-0) allowed 11 hits and 5 runs--all earned--in 8.2 innings and batted 3 for 4 with a run and 3 runs batted in to help the New York Yankees defeat the Chicago White Sox 7-5 in the first game of a doubleheader before 48,139 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The White Sox scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th and had runners on second and third bases with 2 out when Bob Turley relieved Mr. Coates and retired Minnie Minoso on a foul popup to end the game. The Yankees scored 2 runs in the 1st inning and went on to a 5-3 win in the second game to complete the sweep. Mr. Turley pitched 3 scoreless innings to get his second save of the day. The Yankees were 3 percentage points ahead of the Orioles for the American League lead, but were ½ game behind Baltimore.



40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Star Crossed Lovers--Craig Scott (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): 21 Years--Dermot Hegarty

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Daughter of Darkness--Tom Jones (2nd week at #1)
2 Knock Knock Who's There--Mary Hopkin
3 Carol Ok--Chris Andrews
4 Spider Spider--Tidal Wave
5 Come Softly to Me--Percy Sledge
6 When Julie Comes Around--The Cuff Links
7 All Kinds of Everything--Dana
8 Ma Belle Amie--Tee Set
9 I Don't Believe in If Anymore--Roger Whittaker
10 Tchaikovsky One--Omega Limited

Singles entering the chart were Up Around the Bend by Creedence Clearwater Revival (#19); and Which Way You Goin' Billy? by the Poppy Family (#20).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 My Baby Loves Lovin'--White Plains (2nd week at #1)
2 Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)--Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
3 Mama Told Me (Not to Come)--Three Dog Night
4 The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue--The Beatles
5 Soolaimón (African Trilogy II)--Neil Diamond
6 Get Ready--Rare Earth
7 Question--The Moody Blues
8 Mississippi--John Phillips
9 I'm Gonna Capture You--Terry Jacks
10 Mississippi Queen--Mountain

Singles entering the chart were Are You Ready? by Pacific Gas & Electric (#23); Canned Ham by Norman Greenbaum (#26); Band of Gold by Freda Payne (#27); The Love You Save by the Jackson 5 (#28); Pearl by Tommy Roe (#29); and (They Long to Be) Close to You by the Carpenters (#30).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKVN)
1 The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue--The Beatles (2nd week at #1)
2 My Baby Loves Lovin'--White Plains
3 A Song of Joy (Himno a la Alegria)--Miguel Rios
4 Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)--Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
5 Maybe I'm Amazed (LP track)--Paul McCartney
6 Mama Told Me (Not to Come)--Three Dog Night
7 Question--The Moody Blues
8 Get Ready--Rare Earth
9 Are You Ready?--Pacific Gas & Electric
10 Mississippi--John Phillips

Singles entering the chart were Spill the Wine by Eric Burdon and War (#19); Save the Country by the 5th Dimension (#26); (They Long to Be) Close to You by the Carpenters (#27); I Just Can't Help Believing by B.J. Thomas (#28); Band of Gold by Freda Payne (#29); and Your Own Back Yard by Dion (#30).

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 The Long and Winding Road--The Beatles (3rd week at #1)
2 Gimme Dat Ding--The Pipkins
3 My Baby Loves Lovin'--White Plains
4 Up Around the Bend--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 Soolaimón (African Trilogy II)--Neil Diamond
6 Mississippi--John Phillips
7 Daughter of Darkness--Tom Jones
8 A Song of Joy (Himno a la Alegria)--Miguel Rios
9 Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)--Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
10 Mama Told Me (Not to Come)--Three Dog Night

Space
Soyuz 9, with cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov aboard, landed in Soviet Kazakhstan after setting a space endurance record of 17 days, 16 hours, and 59 minutes. The previous record of 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes was set by the U.S. Gemini 7 crew of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell from December 4-18, 1965.



Politics and government
Edward Heath became Prime Minister of Great Britain the day after his Conservative party scored an upset win over Harold Wilson’s Labour Party.

Defense
The United States Air Force announced that the first multiple warheads (MIRV) had been deployed on some intercontinental missiles at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Law
The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. It didn't go into effect until January 24, 1978.

Baseball
The Baltimore Orioles swept a doubleheader from the Washington Senators 12-10 and 3-2 in 13 innings before 18,298 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Boog Powell had 4 hits and 4 runs batted in for the Orioles in the first game, while Mike Epstein had 2 home runs--including a grand slam--and a single and drove in 8 runs for the Senators. Jim Hardin pitched the first 10 innings of the second game for the Orioles, and Pete Richert (3-0) got the win in 3 innings of relief. Dave Johnson led off the bottom of the 13th with a double and scored the winning run on a 2-out single by Merv Rettenmund.

Mike Andrews led off the bottom of the 1st inning with a home run and scored ahead of Reggie Smith's homer in the 5th, which was immediately followed by a home run by Carl Yastrzemski, as the Boston Red Sox held on to defeat the New York Yankees 7-4 before 32,311 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Bobby Murcer drove in 2 runs with a single with none out in the top of the 9th and Roy White followed with a home run, but Sparky Lyle relieved Sonny Siebert (6-4) and retired 3 straight batters to end the game.



Ted Simmons singled home Lou Brock and Dick Allen with 2 out in the top of the 17th inning to break a 3-3 tie as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 5-3 before 29,320 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Al Hrabosky (1-0) pitched 2 perfect innings of relief to get the win in his second major league game.

The New York Mets scored 7 runs in the 1st inning en route to a 13-3 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies before 43,866 fans at Shea Stadium in New York. Tom Seaver (10-5) pitched a 9-hit complete game victory, striking out 11 batters and walking none; losing pitcher Jim Bunning (5-7) allowed 8 hits and 7 earned runs in 0.2 innings.

30 years ago
1980

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (Hot Press): What's Another Year--Johnny Logan (5th week at #1)

World events
Iraqi security forces shot and killed three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad. The attack came on the eve of Iraq’s first national assembly elections in 20 years. Iraqi officials said the attack on the British embassy was an attempt to disrupt the vote.

Energy
U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order allowing the sale of 38 tons of enriched uranium to India.

Science
Paleobiologist J. William Schopf of the University of California at Los Angeles announced that an international team of scientists that he had headed had discovered fossils in northwestern Australia that contained the oldest biological cells ever found on Earth. The cells, of five different types, and almost identical in structure to several modern bacteria, were 3.5 billion years old, about 1.2 billion years older than previous finds, and ¾ the age of the Earth. Scientists believed that as living cells they once formed matlike sheets on the floors of lagoons and saline lakes. According to Dr. Schopf, the discovery "says that the origin of life occurred quite a lot earlier than we had expected, and that evolution had proceeded to an advanced level in the first billion years of the history of the planet."

25 years ago
1985

Baseball
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth announced that starting in August minor league players would be subject to mandatory testing for cocaine‚ amphetamines‚ marijuana‚ heroin‚ and morphine. Major league officials would be subject to the same program, but not major league players. Mr. Ueberroth hoped they would voluntarily comply.

20 years ago
1990

Died on this date
George Addes, 78. U.S. labour leader. Mr. Addes was a founder of the United Automobile Workers of America, and served as its secretary-treasurer (1936-1947). He was one of the leaders of a faction of the UAW supporting piecework and incentive pay in auto plants; the other faction, led by Walter Reuther, accused Mr. Addes of being a Communist.

World events
Recently-released South African terrorist and activist Nelson Mandela addressed the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, and met with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Protest
Protesters, mainly sodomites organized by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), demonstrated outside the 6th annual International AIDS Conference in San Francisco on the eve of the conference’s opening. The protesters were primarily concerned about the slow pace of testing anti-AIDS drugs and by the shortage of money for research and treatment. Of course, the sodomites weren’t interested in slowing the spread of the disease by curbing their ungodly behaviour.

10 years ago
2000

Diplomacy
The United States lifted some economic sanctions against North Korea.

Abominations
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.

Disasters
58 Chinese immigrants were found dead in the unrefrigerated, sealed compartment of a tomato truck when it was examined in Dover, England.

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Indiana 111 @ Los Angeles Lakers 116 (Los Angeles won best-of-seven series 4-2)

The Lakers, aided by 3-point field goals by Derek Fisher, Robert Horry, and Rick Fox, outscored the Pacers 37-27 in the 4th quarter before 18,997 fans at Staples Center. Shaquille O’Neal led the Lakers with 41 points and 12 rebounds, and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the finals as the Lakers won their first National Basketball Association title in 12 years and their first under head coach Phil Jackson, who had coached the Chicago Bulls to 6 titles in the 1990s.



Baseball
The New York Yankees scored 9 runs in the 8th inning and 8 more in the 9th as they whipped the Boston Red Sox 22-1 before 33,370 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Rob Stanifer, the third of four Boston pitchers, allowed 7 hits and 9 runs--only 1 earned--in 0.2 innings, walking 1 batter and striking out none in the 82nd and last game of his 3-year major league career.

Geoff Jenkins doubled home Santiago Perez and scored on a single by Jeromy Burnitz as the Milwaukee Brewers did all the scoring in the 4th inning of a 2-0 win over the Florida Marlins before 7,612 fans at Pro Player Stadium in Miami. Jaret Wright (3-1) allowed 3 hits in 8+ innings; Bob Wickman relieved him with a runner on first base and none out in the 9th, and retired the Marlins on a line drive double play and an outfield fly. Losing pitcher Chuck Smith (0-1) allowed just 4 hits and 2 earned runs in 7.2 innings.

Peter Bergeron doubled home Terry Jones and scored on a single by Wil Guerrero as the Montreal Expos scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to overcome a 1-0 deficit and defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 before 7,483 fans at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The Pirates twice had runners on first base in the 9th, but the first was erased on a double play; after Pat Meares drew a base on balls, pinch hitter Luis Sojo grounded out to second base to end the game.

Pinch hitter Danny Bautista led off the bottom of the 9th inning with a single and scored on a bases-loaded walk to Steve Finley with 2 out to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-2 win over the San Diego Padres before 37,336 fans at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks had tied the game with 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th. San Diego starting pitcher Stan Spencer allowed 3 hits and no runs in 5 innings, walking 3 batters and striking out 2, striking out in both plate appearances, in the 24th and last game of his 3-year major league career.

Jason Giambi led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a single and scored on a 2-out single by pinch hitter Jeremy Giambi to give the Oakland Athletics a 13-12 win over the Baltimore Orioles before 13,297 fans at Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland. The Orioles scored 5 runs in the top of the 3rd to take an 8-1 lead, but the Athletics scored 6 in the bottom of the 3rd. Luis Matos made his major league debut as Baltimore's center fielder, batting 0 for 4 with a base on balls and a run, and making 3 putouts.