August 11, 2011

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Audrianna De Sousa!

140 years ago
1871

Disasters
Two explosions of guncotton occurred at the Prentices Guncotton Factory in Stowmarket, England, killing 28 people and injuring about 70.

100 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Thanom Kittikachorn. Prime Minister of Thailand, 1958, 1963-1973. Supreme Commander Thanom had a military career spanning almost 45 years. He participated in a successful coup led by Colonel Sarit Thanarat in 1957, and became Defense Minister, serving as Prime Minister from January-October 1958. Supreme Commander Thanom was appointed Prime Minister the day after Field Marshal Sarit's death from liver failure in 1963, and governed as an anti-Communist dictator for almost 10 years, finally stepping down in October 1973 in the face of public protest. He went into exile in the United States and Singapore as democratic government returned to Thailand, but returned to Thailand in 1976 as a novice Buddhist monk. Mr. Thanom's return sparked mass protest, resulting in another military coup, but he claimed to be uninterested in returning to politics, and he kept his word, although he soon left the monkhood. Mr. Thanom died on June 16, 2004 at the age of 92.

Swimming
Duke Kahanamoku, famous as the father of surfing, broke the world record in the 100-yard freestyle by 4.6 seconds at Honolulu Harbor.

90 years ago
1921

Politics and government
Julian Hedworth George Byng was installed as Governor General of Canada, succeeding the Duke of Devonshire.

70 years ago
1941

War
The government of Ecuador announced that Peruvian forces had attacked the border town of Zapotillo in the Ecuadorian province of Loja on August 9 and 10, in violation of their truce.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, meeting aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta at Argentia, Newfoundland, discussed war aims; they agreed on an eight-point freedom of the seas; self-determination; free trade; and postwar disarmament.

U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull said that the United States would discuss a restoration of amicable relations with Japan only if Japan adhered closely to international law.

Diplomatic sources in Ankara reported that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had warned Iran that unless German agents in the country were expelled, the U.S.S.R. may send troops into Iran under the 1921 Soviet-Iranian treaty.

The Argentine Foreign Office received written promises from the German and British ambassadors to eliminate their propaganda in Argentina.

Defense
The Canadian government banned the use of silk in order to conserve wartime supplies for parachutes. U.S. President Roosevelt issued an executive order empowering the Federal Reserve Board to curb installment buying of consumer gooods made of needed defense materials.

Politics and government
A subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities offered the New York Labor Department evidence purporting to prove that Nancy Reed, dismissed on July 11 as an investigator for the department, had been a member of the Communist Party for years.

Scandal
Richard Whitney, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, was released on parole from Sing Sing Prison after serving 40 months of his 5-10 years sentence for grand larceny.

Economics and finance
The Japanese government applied four new imperial ordinances under the National Mobilization Act of 1938 to control minimum prices on the stock exchanges; regulate marine transport; appraise corporation-owned stocks; and fix prices for more than 7,000 articles.

60 years ago
1951

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): My Heart Cries for You--Guy Mitchell (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Come On-A My House--Rosemary Clooney (Best Seller--3rd week at #1; Disc Jockey--3rd week at #1; Jukebox--2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Come On-A My House--Rosemary Clooney
--Kay Starr
2 Too Young--Nat "King" Cole
3 Jezebel--Frankie Laine
4 Sweet Violets--Dinah Shore
5 My Truly, Truly Fair--Guy Mitchell
--Vic Damone
6 The Loveliest Night of the Year--Mario Lanza
7 How High the Moon--Les Paul and Mary Ford
8 Because of You--Tony Bennett
--Les Baxter and his Orchestra
9 On Top of Old Smoky--The Weavers and Terry Gilkyson
--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
10 Mister and Mississippi--Patti Page
--Dennis Day

Singles entering the chart were In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening by Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman (#22); Laura by Stan Kenton and his Orchestra (#35); Dream by Voices of Walter Schumann (#36); Detour by Patti Page (#37); When the Saints Go Marching In by the Weavers (#38); Cold, Cold Heart by Tony Bennett (#39); and Longing for You, with versions by Vic Damone and Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra (#40). In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening was from the movie Here Comes the Groom (1951), and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves split a doubleheader at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, with the Dodgers winning the first game 8-1 and the Braves winning the second game 8-4. Red Barber and Connie Desmond were the announcers for these games, the first to be broadcast in colour, over New York station WCBS. CBS had developed a field-sequential colour system that could only be seen on special sets, and the signals could not be seen on regular black-and-white sets.

Died on this date
Stephen Early, 61. U.S. journalist and bureaucrat. Mr. Early worked with Stars and Stripes, Associated Press, and Paramount News before serving as White House Press Secretary for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) and Harry Truman (1950). He was Deputy Secretary of Defense (1949-1950). Mr. Early died 16 days before his 62nd birthday, a week after suffering a heart attack.

War
U.S. and Communist truce negotiators at Kaesong sat in unbroken silence for 2¼ hours when the Communists refused to discuss anything but a cease-fire on the 38th Parallel.

World events
Argentina's Radical and Socialist Parties reported that police had arrested many of their leaders in a pre-election drive against alleged terrorism by President Juan Peron's political opponents.

Politics and government
Prime Minister Rene Pleven's new cabinet, the 15th of the post-World War II years, gained a vote of confidence in the French National Assembly despite Communist and Gaullist opposition.

Baseball
Sid Gordon of the Braves and Duke Snider of the Dodgers each hit a home run in each game in the doubleheader split before 22,308 fans at Ebbets Field.

Frank Baumholtz and Hank Sauer hit run-scoring singles in the bottom of the 8th inning to enable the Chicago Cubs to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader before fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Bob Kelly (3-1) pitched a 9-hit complete game victory over Vern Law (3-8), who hit his first major league home run in the 5th inning. Monty Basgall played the last 2 innings at second base for the Pirates, with no plate appearances and 2 putouts in the 200th and last game of his 3-year major league career. Clyde McCullough drove in both runs with an outfield fly in the 2nd inning and a solo home run in the 5th and Bob Friend (5-8) pitched a 5-hitter to outduel Bob Rush (7-7), who allowed 3 hits in 8 innings, as the Pirates won the second game 2-1.

Max Lanier (6-8) pitched a 2-hitter and batted 2 for 3, scoring the first run in a 2-run 5th inning, as the St. Louis Cardinals shut out the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 before 8,421 fans at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Losing pitcher Ken Ramsdell (9-12) allowed 7 hits in a complete game.

Bobby Brown singled home 2 runs and scored himself in a 3-run 11th inning as the New York Yankees broke a 4-4 tie and defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 7-4 before 4,972 fans at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. Mr. Brown batted 4 for 6.

50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): You Don't Know--Helen Shapiro (2nd week at #1)

On television tonight
The Lawless Years, starring James Gregory, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Blood Brothers

Indianica
The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli were merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (2-0) 21 @ Montreal (0-1) 15

Montreal's Don Clark rushed 106 yards for a touchdown, the longest rushing play in CFL history to that time, as the Alouettes lost to the Blue Bombers at Molson Stadium. This was the first regular season interlocking game between Eastern and Western teams in CFL history. The partial interlocking schedule was introduced in 1961.

Baseball
Warren Spahn (12-12) pitched a 6-hitter to outduel Jack Curtis (7-7), who also pitched a 6-hitter, to earn his 300th career major league win as the Milwaukee Braves edged the Chicago Cubs 2-1 before 40,775 fans at County Stadium in Milwaukee.

The New York Yankees scored 6 runs in the 3rd inning to take an 8-0 lead, and coasted to a 12-5 win over the Washington Senators before 22,601 fans at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Roger Maris hit his 42nd home run of the season for New York in the 5th, while Mickey Mantle hit his 44th in the 7th. New York shortstop Tony Kubek batted 4 for 6 with a triple, 3 runs, and a run batted in.

Luis Aparicio's home run with 2 out in the bottom of the 3rd inning was the only run as the Chicago White Sox edged the Kansas City Athletics 1-0 before 20,941 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Billy Pierce (7-7) pitched a 5-hitter to outduel Jim Archer (8-7), who allowed 6 hits in a game that was played in 1 hour 32 minutes.

Earl Battey hit solo home runs in the 2nd and 7th innings to support the 6-hit pitching of Pedro Ramos (9-13) as the Minnesota Twins edged the Detroit Tigers 2-1 before 34,117 fans at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. Paul Foytack (7-7) allowed 6 hits in 6.2 innings to take the loss.

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Get it On--T. Rex (3rd week at #1)

Sport
British Prime Minister Edward Heath, at the helm of his 42-foot yacht Morning Cloud, steered the British team to victoryin the Admiral's Cup, a 5-day, 605-mile race.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (2-0) 20 @ Ottawa (2-2) 17
Calgary (3-0) 31 @ Edmonton (1-3) 1

Tommy-Joe Coffey's field goal in the 4th quarter provided the winning margin for the Tiger-Cats in their win over the Rough Riders at Lansdowne Park.

The Eskimos opened the scoring with a single by Dave Cutler on a missed field goal, but the Stampeders dominated the game at Clarke Stadium after that. Former Stampeder quarterback Larry Lawrence, activated by the Eskimos before the game, entered in relief of Don Trull in the 2nd quarter, but the two generated only 94 yards in net offense. Several Eskimo careers ended with this game: Bob McCarthy; Keith Christensen (who went on the injured list for a month and was then released; Terry Swarn--the team's nominee for most outstanding player in 1970--and most notably, Jim Thomas, who had led the team in rushing in 7 of his first 8 seasons. He carried 5 times for 12 yards in this game and then spent the remainder of the season on the injured list, ending a spectacular 9-year career.

30 years ago
1981

Weather
Edmonton was hot but smoky, as there was a forest fire at Swan Hills, about 110 miles away.

Baseball
Intercontinental Cup @ Renfrew Park, Edmonton
Australia (1-5) 6 @ Panama (1-4) 9
South Korea (3-2) 0 @ Cuba (3-2) 8
Canada (3-2) 6 @ Dominican Republic (4-2) 10
U.S.A. (5-0) 6 @ Japan (1-4) 1

The game between Australia and Panama was played at South Side Industrial Park. Braudilio Vinent pitched a 6-hit shutout for Cuba against South Korea.

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Everybody Plays the Fool--Aaron Neville (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (2nd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Wind of Change--Scorpions (6th week at #1)
2 Bobby Brown--Frank Zappa
3 Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)--Crystal Waters
4 The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in his Kiss)--Cher
5 Sailing on the Seven Seas--OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
6 Losing My Religion--R.E.M.
7 Jesus Loves You--Bow Down Mister
8 Baby Baby--Amy Grant
10 Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)--Roxette
9 Senza una donna (Without a Woman)--Zucchero/Paul Young

Singles entering the chart were You Could Be Mine by Guns N' Roses (#17); Désenchantée by Mylène Farmer (#22); Any Dream Will Do by Jason Donovan (#25); and Hast a bisserl Zeit für mi by Alpentrio Tirol (#28).

Died on this date
Charles Allard, 71. Canadian broadcasting executive. Dr. Allard, a heart surgeon from Edmonton, founded the Allarco real estate and broadcasting empire. He founded the Edmonton television station CITV in 1974 and owned Superchannel and 50% of the Family Channel. Mr. Allard also owned the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association in the team's early years in the World Hockey Association in the 1970s.

J.D. McDuffie, 52. U.S. auto racing driver. Mr. McDuffie drove on the NASCAR circuit, participating in 653 races from 1963-1991. He had 106 top-ten finishes, but never won a NASCAR race. Mr. McDuffie was killed in a crash during the Budweiser at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, New York.

Tennis
Jennifer Capriati, 15, won her second straight tournament, beating Katerina Maleeva in the Player's Challenge Tournament in Toronto. The $100,000 purse was the largest of her 17-month career.

Golf
John Daly, an unknown who had driven all night from Memphis to make the first-round tee-off time as a last-minute replacement for Nick Price, won the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana with a 12-under-par score of 276, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Lietzke. First prize money was $230,000.



Baseball
Rookie Wilson Alvarez, making his second major league start, pitched a no-hitter to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 7-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles before 40,455 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.







The Boston Red Sox scored 5 runs in the top of the 1st inning and held on to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-6 before 50,297 fans at SkyDome in Toronto.

Mickey Tettleton hit a home run in each game, but his Detroit Tigers lost both games of a doubleheader 12-6 and 10-8 to the New York Yankees before 34,733 fans at Yankee Stadium. Dave Bergman homered twice for Detroit in the second game, while teammate John Shelby hit into a force play in his only plate appearance and made 2 putouts in right field in the 1,036th and last game of his 11-year major league career.

Jeff Manto hit a solo home run in the top of the 13th inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 2-1 lead, but the Indians made 2 errors in the bottom of the inning, allowing the Kansas City Royals to score 2 unearned runs for a 3-2 win before 27,006 fans at Royals Stadium.

Juan Gonzalez singled home Julio Franco with 1 out in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Texas Rangers a 5-4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers before 31,169 fans at Arlington Stadium.

George Bell hit a home run to lead off the bottom of the 14th inning, giving the Chicago Cubs a 3-2 win over the New York Mets before 33,128 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Charlie Hayes scored on a wild pitch by Jeff Fassero with 2 out in the bottom of the 8th inning to break a 4-4 tie and give the Philadelphia Phillies a 5-4 win over the Montreal Expos before 35,274 fans at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.

Darren Lewis singled home Robby Thompson with 2 out in the bottom of the 7th inning to break a 3-3 tie and give the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers before 53,759 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

Ricky Bones allowed 2 hits and 2 bases on balls but no runs in 7 innings in his major league debut, striking out 6, while batting 0 for 2 with a base on balls and a run as the San Diego Padres routed the Cincinnati Reds 13-0 before 17,889 fans at Jack Murphy-San Diego Stadium. San Diego second baseman Bip Roberts batted 4 for 4 with 2 home runs, including one to lead off the game.

10 years ago
2001

Football
CFL
Calgary (2-4) 35 @ Saskatchewan (2-4) 4



Edmonton (3-3-0-1) 39 @ British Columbia (3-3) 42

Baseball
Barry Bonds hit his 50th home run of the season and winning pitcher Livan Hernandez added his first major league homer to help the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 9-4 before 40,541 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Mr. Hernandez (11-11) batted 4 for 4, improving to 12 for 13 for the season. Sammy Sosa hit his 41st home run of the season for the Cubs.

Ichiro Suzuki singled home 2 runs to tie the score and Mark McLemore followed with a single to score Tom Lampkin with the winning run as the Seattle Mariners scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the Chicago White Sox 4-3 before 45,898 fans at Safeco Field in Seattle.

Jose Cruz, Jr.'s solo home run with 1 out in the top of the 10th inning--his second of the game--broke a 6-6 tie as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Anaheim Angels 7-6 before 27,927 fans at Edison International Field of Anaheim. Mr. Cruz finished the game 4 for 6.