November 1, 2011

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Will Morrow and Maurice Pratt!

400 years ago
1611

Theatre
The Tempest by William Shakespeare was performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

180 years ago
1831

Born on this date
Harry Atkinson. Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1876-1877, 1883-1884, 1887-1891. Sir Harry, a native of England, followed his elder brother William to New Zealand at the age of 22 and became a farmer. He represented Grey and Bell in the Taranaki provincial council (1857-1865, 1873-1874), and was a member of the Executive Council (1868, 1874). Sir Harry represented Grey and Bell (1861-1866); Town of New Plymouth (1867-1869); and Egmont (1872-1891) in the N.Z. Parliament, serving as Defence Minister (1864-1866) and as Colonial Treasurer for 10 years, carefully managing government finances. During his last term as Prime Minister, he held seven other posts. Sir Harry was known for his support of the wars against the Māori and his opposition to Māori land rights. He suffered from declining health during his last months as Prime Minister, and was appointed to the Legislative Council in January 1891, accepting an appointment as Speaker of the Legislative Council. On June 28, 1892, Sir Harry presided over the Council's first sitting of the 1892 session, returned to the Speaker's Room, and died at the age of 60.

150 years ago
1861

War
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appointed General George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.

140 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Stephen Crane. U.S. writer. Mr. Crane was a poet, journalist, and author of novels and short stories who was a notable early figure in American Naturalism and Impressionism; Ernest Hemingway was among the writers influenced by his work. Mr. Crane reported on the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, but was best known for the novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895). He was living in England when he suffered a series of pulmonary hemorrhages, and died at the age of 28 on June 5, 1900, at the spa of Badenweiler, Germany while attempting to recover.

125 years ago
1886

Born on this date
Hermann Broch. Austrian-born author. Mr. Broch, a native of Vienna, was considered a major figure in Modernism, although he didn't begin his writing career until he was in his 40s. He emigrated to Britain and then to the United States after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria in 1938, and wrote on politics and worked on mass psychology. Mr. Broch was perhaps best known for his novel Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil) (1945). He died on May 30, 1951 at the age of 64.

100 years ago
1911

War
The world's first combat aerial bombing mission took place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War, as Italian Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped several small bombs.

80 years ago
1931

Football
NFL
Portsmouth (8-1) 0 @ New York (4-3) 14
Chicago Cardinals (1-3) 14 @ Brooklyn (2-7) 7
Providence (1-3-2) 7 @ Staten Island (1-3-1) 7
Green Bay (8-0) 6 @ Chicago Bears (3-3) 2

75 years ago
1936

World events
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini described Italy's new alliance with Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.

70 years ago
1941

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Piano Concerto in B Flat--Freddy Martin (5th week at #1)

Americana
Ansel Adams took a photograph of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

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War
A statement from German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's headquarters charged that the U.S. ships Greer and Kearny had attacked German submarines, and "therefore the United States attacked Germany." A secret Japanese cabinet meeting decided for war against the United States if negotiations did not produce an agreement with the U.S.A. by December 1 for Japan to receive oil from the East Indies and to be left free to settle the China incident without intervention.

Diplomacy
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King met with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Mr. Roosevelt's private home in Hyde Park, New York.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Joseph E. Davies stated that the "treason trials and purges from 1935 to 1938...indicates the amazing farsightedness of [Soviet leader Josef] Stalin...There can be no doubt that these defendants were...in the employ of the German and Japanese high commands."

U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley (Democrat--Kentucky), speaking to Zionists in New York, urged that a Jewish homeland be created in Palestine.

Defense
Panamanian President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia said that his country's policy of neutrality would have to be revised because peace was now endangered.

Transportation
The Rainbow Bridge between Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario opened.

Economics and finance
A Japanese news agency said that unless the U.S. halted its economic blockade, Japan must seek supply sources for vital goods and materials as a measure of self-defense.

Football
CRU
ERFU
Ottawa (5-1) 11 @ Montreal (0-6) 2
Toronto Balmy Beach (2-4) 5 @ Toronto Argonauts (5-1) 8

Wilf Tremblay scored the Rough Riders' touchdown in their win over the Bulldogs at Percival Molson Stadium. George Fraser converted and added a field goal and single, and Arnie McWatters punted for a single for Ottawa. Gord Noseworthy punted for 2 singles for Montreal, who were playing their last game under the name Bulldogs.

Pat Reid scored the Argonauts' touchdown in their win over Balmy Beach at Varsity Stadium. Earl Selkirk converted, and Mike Meikle and Annis Stukus added singles. Singles accounted for all the Balmy Beach points: 3 by Sammy Sward, and 1 each by Bobby Porter and Jack Alexander.

These games marked the end of regular season play for the Eastern Rugby Football Union's only season. Balmy Beach returned to the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1942, while the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Bulldogs suspended operations through the 1944 season because of World War II. The Ottawa Rough Riders played in the Ottawa City Senior Football League in 1942 before suspending operations through 1944. For the present, the Rough Riders and Argonauts were preparing for a 2-game, total points series to determine the ERFU champion, with the first game scheduled for Lansdowne Park in Ottawa on November 8.

60 years ago
1951

War
U.S. and Communist negotiators reached a tentative agreement on the location of the truce line for the eastern half of the Korean front, running east from Kumhwa. Defense
5,000 U.S. troops participating in Desert Rock I, the world's first atomic maneuvers, witnessed from a distance of about six miles in Nevada the explosion of Buster-Jangle Dog, the fourth in a series of seven atomic devices.

Protest
Election day riots in Casablanca resulted in 6 deaths and 60 injuries. French authorities blamed the violence on the Moroccan Independence Party.

Energy
The first coal pipeline unit, owned by the Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Company, began functioning near Cadiz, Ohio.

Economics and finance
West Germany threatened to cancel its new trade pact with East Germany unless Soviet authorities kept their promise to stop interfering with traffic between West Germany and West Berlin.

Increases in federal excise and individual income taxes went into effect in the United States.

50 years ago
1961

At the movies
The Comancheros, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, and Lee Marvin, opened in theatres.



Fear No More, directed by Bernard Wiesen, and starring Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, and Anna Lee Carroll, opened in theatres.



Russiana
The body of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was removed from the mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow where it had lain next to that of Vladimir Lenin since Mr. Stalin's death in 1953, and was reburied near the Kremlin wall.

Baseball
Nippon Series
Yomiuri Giants 3 @ Nankai Hawks 2 (Yomiuri won best-of-seven series 4-2)

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Banks of the Ohio--Olivia Newton-John (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Ame no Ballad--Masayuki Yuhara (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops (2nd week at #1)

Defense
A five-nation Asian defense pact, signed by Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, superseded the British-Malaysian-Singaporean defense treaty under which the U.K. had formerly assumed sole responsibility for security of the area.

Journalism
Two days after The Toronto Telegram published its last edition, The Toronto Sun published its first edition. Many of the Sun's employees were alumni of the Telegram.

Football
NFL
Detroit (4-2-1) 14 @ Green Bay (2-4-1) 14

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Say I Love You--Renée Geyer

#1 single in Switzerland: Japanese Boy--Aneka (2nd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Du entschuldige - i kenn' di--Peter Cornelius (5th week at #1)
2 Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären--Fred Sonnenschein und seine Freunde
3 Dance Little Bird--Electronica's
4 Dance Little Bird--Bobby Setter Showband
5 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
6 Japanese Boy--Aneka
7 Strada del sole--Rainhard Fendrich
8 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
9 Green Door--Shakin' Stevens
10 Only Crying--Keith Marshall

Singles entering the chart were Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären; Japanese Boy; Hooked on Classics by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#11); Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones (#14); Highdelbeeren by Wilfried (#19); and Crazy Music by Ottawan (#20).

Caribbeana
Antigua and Barbuda gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (5-11) 15 @ Montreal (3-13) 39

Tight end Peter Dalla Riva caught 2 touchdown passes for the Alouettes as they overcame a 14-7 deficit and defeated the Rough Riders to clinch the third and final playoff spot in the East Division, becoming the worst team ever to make the playoffs in the CFL.



Calgary (6-10) @ Winnipeg (11-5) 44

Winnipeg receiver Eugene Goodlow tied a CFL single-game record with 15 receptions as the Blue Bombers routed the Stampeders at Winnipeg Stadium. Mr. Goodlow finished the season with 100 receptions, breaking the record of 98 set by George McGowan of the Edmonton Eskimos in 1975. Mr. McGowan had also set the regular season record of 15 pass receptions in a game in 1973. The Stampeders' loss marked the last game for Jerry Williams as a CFL head coach. He had been head coach of the Stampeders from 1965-1968, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1972-1975, before returning to the Stampeders in 1981 as an assistant to Ardell Wiegandt and resuming the head coaching duties with 4 games remaining after the dismissal of Mr. Wiegandt.

25 years ago
1986

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Holiday Rap--M.C. Miker G & D.J. Sven (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Take My Breath Away--Berlin

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Don't Leave Me This Way--The Communards

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Take My Breath Away--Berlin

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Every Loser Wins--Nick Berry (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): True Colors--Cyndi Lauper (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 True Colors--Cyndi Lauper
2 Typical Male--Tina Turner
3 Amanda--Boston
4 I Didn't Mean to Turn You On--Robert Palmer
5 When I Think of You--Janet Jackson
6 Human--Human League
7 Heartbeat--Don Johnson
8 True Blue--Madonna
9 All Cried Out--Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force
10 Throwing it All Away--Genesis

Singles entering the chart were Notorious by Duran Duran (#52); Land of Confusion by Genesis (#62); Control by Janet Jackson (#75); All I Wanted by Kansas (#76); Someday by Glass Tiger (#79); Victory by Kool and The Gang (#80); Goldmine by the Pointer Sisters (#83); and Goin' to the Bank by the Commodores (#89).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 The Lady in Red--Chris de Burgh (2nd week at #1)
2 True Colors--Cyndi Lauper
3 Spirit in the Sky--Doctor and the Medics
4 Rumors--Timex Social Club
5 Friends and Lovers--Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson
6 When I Think of You--Janet Jackson
7 Walk This Way--Run-D.M.C.
8 Human--Human League
9 Stuck with You--Huey Lewis and the News
10 True Blue--Madonna

Singles entering the chart were Stand by Me by Ben E. King (#80); You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi (#82); Word Up by Cameo (#85); Kiss You (When it's Dangerous) by Eight Seconds (#92); Strength in Numbers by Luba (#93); Loving Strangers by Christopher Cross (#95); For Tonight by Nancy Martinez (#96); C'est la Vie by Robbie Nevil (#97); and All I Hear (Is a Heartbeat) by Agent (#98). Stand by Me, the title song of the movie, was a re-release of the hit from 1961, which was three years before RPM began publication.

Environment
A fire at the Sandoz chemicals factory near Basel, Switzerland sent tons of toxic chemicals into the Rhine River, turning the water red and killing hundreds of thousands of fish.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (12-4-1) 16 @ Ottawa (3-13-1) 16

The Eskimos had a chance to clinch first place in the West Division with a win over the Rough Riders before 14,058 fans on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Lansdowne Park. They were leading 16-8 late in regulation time and appeared to be heading for more points, but quarterback Matt Dunigan fumbled while attempting to score a touchdown, and the Rough Riders recovered. Ottawa quarterback Gilbert Renfroe marched the Rough Riders for a touchdown pass to Marc Lewis and a 2-point convert pass to Glenn Steele to tie the game with 26 seconds remaining. Neither team came close to scoring in the two 5-minute halves of overtime, with Ken Clark's punt from his own 54-yard line on the last play of the 2nd overtime half coming up short. With the tie, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who were playing at home against the British Columbia Lions the next day, still had a chance to finish first.



CIAU
Manitoba (3-5) 32 @ Alberta (1-7) 9

Doug Lynch completed 6 of 8 passes for 129 yards and 3 touchdowns--2 to Joe Galante and the other to Arliss Ricker--to lead the Bisons over the Golden Bears before about 200 fans at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton. Oddly, the 2 passes that Mr. Lynch didn't complete were intercepted.

20 years ago
1991

Politics and government
Roy Romanow, who had led his New Democratic Party to victory in the recent provincial election, was sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Grant Devine and the Progressive Conservatives.

Law
Clarence Thomas took his place on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Transportation
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced a $6-million, two-year study for a high speed train corridor between Windsor, Ontario and Québec City. The estimated cost of $7 billion would be shared by the governments of Canada and Québec.

10 years ago
2001

Crime
Arsonists destroyed St. John's Church in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The second-oldest Anglican church in Canada was built in 1754; restoration was completed in 2005.

Agriculture
United Grain Growers (UGG) and Agricore merged to become Agricore United, based in Winnipeg.

Baseball
World Series
Arizona Diamondbacks 2 @ New York Yankees 3 (12 innings) (New York led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Steve Finlay and Rod Barajas hit solo home runs off New York starting pitcher Mike Mussina to give the Diamondbacks a 2-0 lead in the top of the 5th inning before 56,018 fans at Yankee Stadium. Miguel Batista started for Arizona and pitched 7.2 innings, but Byun-Hyun Kim, who had failed to protect the lead the previous night, gave up a 2-run home run to Scott Brosius with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to tie the game. Alfonso Soriano singled home Chuck Knoblauch with the winning run off losing pitcher Albie Lopez (0-1) with 1 out in the bottom of the 12th. Sterling Hitchcock (1-0), the last of four New York pitchers, pitched a perfect 12th inning and was credited with the win.

October 31, 2011

720 years ago
1291

Born on this date
Philippe de Vitry. French composer. Mr. Vitry was prominent in the courts of Kings Charles IV, Philippe VI, and Jean II, and was regarded as the greatest musician of his time. He wrote chansons and motets, with only some of the latter surviving. Mr. Vitry was best known for the treatise Ars nova notandi (1322). He died on June 9, 1361 at the age of 69.

620 years ago
1391

Born on this date
Duarte. King of Portugal, 1433-1438. Duarte, known in English as Edward, acceded to the throne upon the death of his father João I. Duarte was known as the "Philosopher King," and was the oldest member of the "Illustrious Generation" of accomplished royal children who contributed to the development of Portuguese civilization during the 15th century. He listened to the unwise advice of his brothers and launched an unsuccessful military attack on the Marinid sultanate of Morocco in 1438, resulting in his youngest brother Ferdinand being handed over to the Marinids as a hostage in return for the safe departure of the Portuguese forces. King Duarte died from the plague on September 9, 1438 at the age of 46; popular legend has it that he died from a broken heart at leaving his brother in enemy hands. Duarte was succeeded on the throne by his 6-year-old son Afonso V, with now-dowager Queen Eleanor of Aragon as regent, leading to a political crisis and a popular uprising.

350 years ago
1661

Died on this date
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, 85-86. Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, 1656-1661. Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, who served under Sultan Mehmed IV, founded the Köprülü political dynasty, and helped rebuild the power of the empire by rooting out corruption and reorganizing the Ottoman army, expanding the empire's borders with military victories over the Cossacks, the Hungarians, and the Venetians. He was succeeded as Grand Vizier by his son Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed.

160 years ago
1851

Born on this date
Louise. Queen consort of Denmark, 1906-1912. Louise, the only surviving child of King Karl XV and Queen Louise of Sweden, was barred from succession to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. She married the future King Frederik VIII of Denmark in 1869, and became queen consort when he acceded to the throne in 1906. The couple had eight children before his death in 1912, and King Frederik was succeeded by his son Christian X. Queen Louise was known for her charitable works; she died on March 20, 1926 at the age of 74.

130 years ago
1881

Born on this date
Toshizō Nishio. Japanese military officer. General Nishio joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1902, and commanded forces in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 until 1941, when he was appointed to the Supreme War Council, serving until his retirement in 1943. Gen. Nishio governed the Tokyo Metropolis from 1944 until the end of World War II; he was arrested by American authorities and was accused of unnamed war crimes, but was never formally charged, and was later released. Gen. Nishio died on October 26, 1960, five days before his 79th birthday.

120 years ago
1891

Football
ORFU
Semi-Finals
Hamilton 4 @ Osgoode Hall 28
Queen's College 15 @ University of Toronto 27

80 years ago
1931

At the movies
Platinum Blonde, directed by Frank Capra and starring Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, and Loretta Young, opened in theatres. Mr. Williams died of peritonitis just three days later.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Montreal (4-0) 23 @ Hamilton (2-2) 14
Ottawa (0-4) 7 @ Toronto (2-2) 24

NFL
Portsmouth (8-0) 14 @ Frankford (1-5-1) 0

75 years ago
1936

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (3-2) 12 @ Montreal (2-3) 14
Ottawa (2-3) 15 @ Hamilton (3-2) 21

Abe Eliowitz completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Burns on the last play of the game, and Mr. Eliowitz converted, as the Indians upset the Argonauts before 4,000 fans at Molson Stadium.

The Rough Riders made 11 fumbles and the Tigers 7 in a loosely-played game at H.A.A.A. Grounds.

WIFU
Finals
Regina 20 @ Winnipeg 7 (Regina won 2-game total points series 24-16)

On the last play of the game, Chappie Cooper of the Roughriders intercepted a pass 1 yard into his end zone and returned it 101 yards for a touchdown (the field at Osborne Stadium was only 100 yards long).

ORFU
Toronto (2-1) 13 @ Sarnia (2-1) 16

The Imperials scored 3 singles in the 4th quarter to defeat Balmy Beach at Athletic Park and force a playoff for the league title.

Canadian university
Toronto (3-1) 35 McGill (1-3) 2
Queen's (2-2) 3 Western Ontario (2-2) 1
Saskatchewan 3 @ Alberta 2 (Saskatchewan won 2-game total points series 8-5)

Mr. Weaver punted for a single in the 3rd quarter to open the scoring, and the Huskies trapped Mr. Wilson, the Alberta punter, in his own end zone for a safety touch later in the quarter to provide the winning margin as they held on to defeat the Golden Bears to win the Hardy Trophy before 750 fans at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton in a game that was played on a field that was covered by six inches of snow. Messrs. Woywitka and Wilson punted for singles for Alberta in the 4th quarter.

70 years ago
1941

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): It's a Great Day for the Irish--Judy Garland; The Jesters (1st month at #1)

War
Reports from London said that German troops had broken through the outer defenses of Tula, 110 miles south of Moscow, and were also driving forward in Crimea. A Yugoslav spokesman in London claimed that 80,000 Serbian guerrillas were fighting German and Italian troops along a 125-mile front in Serbia. A German spokesman in Berlin said that the previous day's sinking of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Reuben James west of Iceland was justifiable under international law if it was escorting a British convoy. U.S. Senator Tom Connally (Democrat--Texas) demanded that Congress "avenge" this "dastardly act of aggression." U.S. Senator George Aiken (Republican--Vermont), opposing amendments to the Neutrality Act, declared that "by ordering convoys...President Roosevelt is personally responsible for whatever lives may have been lost" in the sinking of the Reuben James.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. announced that delegations of the Mongolian People's Republic and Manchukuo had fixed the new frontier in the disputed Bor Nor region during a conference in Harbin, Manchukuo on October 16.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that Josephus Daniels had resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico because of his wife's illness.

Defense
U.S. Senator Harry Truman (Democrat--Missouri) criticized the U.S. government's contract with Alcoa to build and operate four aluminum plants for national defense as "just about the worst contract the government signed."

Americana
Work on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota was completed after 14 years.

Labour
U.S. Army soldiers occupied the Air Associates plant in Bendix, New Jersey; by mid-afternoon, every shop was back in operation.

Disasters
27 miners were killed in an explosion in the Brazeau Collieries in Nordegg, Alberta.

A flood in Oklahoma left eight people dead, 2,000 homeless, and ruined $10 million worth of crops.

Boxing
Sugar Ray Robinson (26-0) won a 10-round unanimous decision over former world welterweight champion Fritzie Zivic (111-27-5) at Madison Square Garden in New York.

60 years ago
1951

War
Communist negotiators at Panmunjom proposed a truce on present Korean battle lines. Disagreement remained on the precise location of the front.

World events
Rodolfo Ghioldi, Communist Party candidate for President of Argentina, was shot and seriously wounded while making a speech in Parana.

Poland's Parliament deprived former Polish Workers' Party First Secretary Władysław Gomułka of parliamentary immunity, allowing him to be tried on charges of "nationalist deviationism."

Politics and government
Indianapolis banker Frank McKinney, 47, was elected chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee in Washington.

Religion
The National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States, meeting in New York, urged U.S. President Harry Truman to withdraw the nomination of an ambassador to the Vatican.

Oil
Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies directed the government to renegotiate agreements with U.S. and U.K. pipeline firms in an effort to prevent "smuggling" of oil to Israel.

Business
The Stevens Hotel in Chicago, the world's largest hotel, was taken over by the Hilton chain; it was renamed the Conrad Hilton on November 19, 1951.

Baseball
The Baseball Writers Assocation of America named Brooklyn Dodgers' catcher Roy Campanella as the National League's Most Valuable Player for 1951. He hit .325 with 33 home runs and 108 runs batted in in 143 games.

50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Michael--The Highwaymen (3rd week at #1)

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Cop for a Day, starring Walter Matthau, Glenn Cannon, and Carol Grace

Society
A U.S. federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama ruled that laws against integrated playing fields were illegal. The decision eliminated the last barriers against integrating baseball's minor league Southern Association.

40 years ago
1971

Died on this date
Alfred Appema, 17. Canadian accident victim. Mr. Appema, a resident of Blackfalds, Alberta, was killed when the car he was driving struck a stack of hay bales that had been placed across a highway near Red Deer as a Halloween prank.

Karen Pineau, 17. Canadian accident victim. Miss Pineau was killed when the car she was driving struck a power pole in northeast Edmonton. Her three passengers were injured.

Personal
This blogger went trick-or-treating for the last time, with my friends in Yellowknife.

Terrorism
A bomb exploded in the Post Office tower in London, causing extensive damage but no injuries.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (7-7) 23 @ Toronto (10-4) 15
Saskatchewan (9-6-1) 12 @ Edmonton (6-10) 28

Hamilton quarterback and punter Joe Zuger suffered a serious shoulder separation during the Tiger-Cats' win over the Argonauts at CNE Stadium, and never played another game.

The Roughriders could have captured first place in the Western Football Conference with a win or tie against the Eskimos at Clarke Stadium, but the Eskimos jumped out to a quick 14-0 lead and never looked back. The big play for the Eskimos was a 97-yard touchdown pass from Bruce Lemmerman to Volley Murphy. Saskatchewan quarterback Ron Lancaster completed just 19 of 42 passes. The Roughriders finished with the same record as the Calgary Stampeders, and in the 3 games between the teams, each had a win and a tie, but the Stampeders had outscored the Roughriders 45-31 in those games, and were this awarded first place. The Eskimos' win was their fifth straight.

NFL
New York Jets (2-5) 31 @ San Diego (3-4) 49
Minnesota (6-1) 17 @ New York Giants (2-5) 10
Dallas (4-3) 19 @ Chicago (5-2) 23
St. Louis (3-4) 28 @ Buffalo (0-7) 23
Miami (5-1-1) 20 @ Los Angeles (4-2-1) 14
New Orleans (2-4-1) 14 @ Washington (6-1) 24
Denver (2-4-1) 16 @ Philadelphia (2-5) 17
New England (2-5) 10 @ San Francisco (5-2) 27
Atlanta (3-3-1) 31 @ Cleveland (4-3) 14
Kansas City (5-1-1) 20 @ Oakland (5-1-1) 20
Pittsburgh (3-4) 21 @ Baltimore (5-2) 34
Cincinnati (1-6) 6 @ Houston (1-5-1) 10

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Out Here on My Own--Nikka Costa (12th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Why Tell Me, Why--Anita Meyer (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin (3rd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Why Tell Me, Why--Anita Meyer (6th week at #1)
2 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
3 Super Freak--Rick James
4 Hurt (Nieuwe Versie)/Hurt (Oude Versie)--Timi Yuro
5 Tainted Love--Soft Cell
6 'n Beetje Verliefd--André Hazes
7 Pretend--Alvin Stardust
8 Meer Nederlandse Sterre (Holland Olé)--Rubberen Robbie
9 Mexico--The Les Humphries Singers
10 I'm So Glad to Be a Woman--Love Unlimited

Singles entering the chart were O Superman by Laurie Anderson (#20); Let's Groove by Earth Wind & Fire (#28); Tonight I'm Yours by Rod Stewart (#33); Love Potion Number Nine by Lee Towers (#34); Wired for Sound by Cliff Richard (#35); and Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees by Marcia Hines (#36).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross (3rd week at #1)
2 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
3 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
4 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
5 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
6 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
7 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg
8 The Night Owls--Little River Band
9 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
10 Step by Step--Eddie Rabbitt

Singles entering the chart were Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (#56); Heart Like a Wheel by Steve Miller Band (#74); Pay the Devil (Ooo, Baby, Ooo) by the Knack (#81); I'm Just Too Shy by Jermaine Jackson (#82); The Jam was Moving by Debbie Harry (#84); The Cowboy and the Lady by John Denver (#85); Castles in the Air by Don McLean (#88); More than Just the Two of Us by Sneaker (#89); Hooked on Classics by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#90); Sweet Merilee by Donnie Iris (#91); and Destroyer by the Kinks (#92).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross (3rd week at #1)
2 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
3 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
4 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
5 Who's Crying Now--Journey
6 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
7 Step by Step--Eddie Rabbitt
8 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg
9 The Night Owls--Little River Band
10 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger

Singles entering the chart were Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (#56); Heart Like a Wheel by Steve Miller Band (#73); Pay the Devil (Ooo, Baby, Ooo) by the Knack (#85); I'm Just Too Shy by Jermaine Jackson (#86); The Cowboy and the Lady by John Denver (#87); Sweet Merilee by Donnie Iris (#88); Hooked on Classics by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#89); and Slip Away by Pablo Cruise (#90).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross (3rd week at #1)
2 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
3 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
4 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
7 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
8 The Night Owls--Little River Band
9 Step by Step--Eddie Rabbitt
10 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg

Singles entering the chart were Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (#45); Heart Like a Wheel by Steve Miller Band (#74); I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World by Ronnie Milsap (#76); Mistaken Identity by Kim Carnes (#81); Bet Your Heart on Me by Johnny Lee (#83); Snap Shot by Slave (#88); I'm Just Too Shy by Jermaine Jackson (#89); and Pay the Devil (Ooo, Baby, Ooo) by the Knack (#90).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (6th week at #1)
2 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
3 The Friends of Mr. Cairo--Jon and Vangelis
4 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
7 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
8 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
9 Who's Crying Now--Journey
10 Urgent--Foreigner

Singles entering the chart included All I Have to Do is Dream by Andy Gibb (#42); We're in This Love Together by Al Jarreau (#44); Oh No by the Commodores (#45); More Stars on 45 by Stars on 45 (#47); and Back to the 60's by various artists (#49).

Technology
This day's issue of Record World included a two-page advertisement (pp. 8-9) for the Sony PCM-3324 Multi-Track Digital Recorder, enabling master recording for "the compact digital audio disc that 29 major hardware manufacturers and 5 major software manufacturers have already committed to."

Football
CFL
Hamilton (11-4-1) 21 @ Toronto (2-14) 11
Saskatchewan (9-7) 5 @ British Columbia (10-6) 13

The Roughriders were leading the Lions 5-4 in the 4th quarter on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Empire Stadium in Vancouver, but Saskatchewan running back Lester Brown fumbled deep in his own end, and the Lions recovered. Larry Key scored on a short touchdown run, and a 2-point convert attempt was unsuccessful. Lui Passaglia kicked a field goal a few minutes leader to conclude the scoring. The win gave the Lions the third and last playoff spot in the West Division and eliminated the Roughriders.

CIAU
Manitoba 13 @ Alberta (5-2) 34

Peter Eshenko caught 8 passes for 178 yards and 2 touchdowns, while the Alberta defense made 6 interceptions--3 by Glen Music--as the Golden Bears beat the Bisons at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton to clinch a playoff spot.

25 years ago
1986

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): The Final Countdown--Europe (4th week at #1)

On television tonight
Shaka Zulu, on SABC Tonight's episode: Episode 2



Died on this date
Robert Mulliken, 90. U.S. physicist and chemist. Dr. Mulliken was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method."

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (6-10-1) 4 @ Calgary (11-7) 36

Rick Johnson passed for 2 touchdowns and rushed for another to lead the Stampeders over the Roughriders before 24,704 fans at McMahon Stadium. Calgary wide receiver Tony Woodruff decided to ride the Stampeders' horse mascot before the game, but the ride down the sidelines resulted in CTV host Al McCann being run over.



20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): The Fly--U2 (2nd week at #1)

10 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Régine Cavagnoud, 31. French skier. Miss Cavagnoud competed in the World Cup alpine circuit from 1991-2001, winning 8 races and recording 23 podium finishes. She won the gold medal in the Super-G event at the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton, Austria. Miss Cavagnoud was training in Austria when she was involved in a high-speed collision with German coach Markus Anwander; both suffered serious injuries, and Miss Cavagnoud died two days after the accident.

Journalism
Joe Falls of The Detroit News was voted the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, and was to be inducted into the writers' wing of the Baseball Hall of fame the following summer.

Baseball
World Series
Arizona Diamondbacks 3 @ New York Yankees 4 (10 innings) (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

New York first baseman Tino Martinez hit a 2-run home run off Byun-Hyun Kim with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to tie the game 3-3, and then shortstop Derek Jeter homered off Mr. Kim (0-1) with 2 out in the 10th to end the game before 55,863 fans at Yankee Stadium. Mariano Rivera (1-0), who entered the game in the 10th, was the winning pitcher. The game ended after midnight EST, marking the beginning of World Series action in November.

October 30, 2011

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Angie Buan!

400 years ago
1611

Died on this date
Karl IX, 61. King of Sweden, 1604-1611. Karl IX was the youngest son of King Gustav I. When his brother Johan III died in 1592, the throne passed to his son Sigismund, a Roman Catholic who was living in Poland. Duke Karl and and the Swedish privy council ruled in Sigismund's name, and eventually forced Sigismund to abdicate in favour of Karl, who was a Lutheran. Karl IX's reign was one of constant warfare, mostly unsuccessful, against Russia and Poland. He died 26 days after his 61st birthday, and was succeeded by his son Gustav II.

180 years ago
1831

Crime
Nat Turner, who had led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in August that had resulted in the deaths of 55-65 white people, was arrested after being discovered by white farmer Benjamin Phipps in a hole covered with fence rails.

140 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Buck Freeman. U.S. baseball player. John Frank Freeman began his major league career as a pitcher with the Washington Statesmen in 1891, posting a 3-2 record with an earned run average of 3.89 in 7 games. He played in the minor leagues for the next six years, returning to the major leagues as a right fielder with the Washington Senators (1898-1899); Boston Beaneaters (1900); and Boston Americans (1901-1907), batting .293 with 82 home runs and 713 runs batted in in 1,126 games. He led the National League in home runs in 1899 (25) and the American League in home runs in 1903 (13), and led the AL in runs batted in in 1902 (121) and 1903 (104). Mr. Freeman helped the Americans win the first modern World Series in 1903, batting .281 with no homers and 4 RBIs in 8 games as they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 games to 3. He played at least 728 games in at least 11 seasons in the minor leagues from 1891-1912, and was 4-12 with a 2.53 ERA in 19 games in the minors from 1892-1899. Mr. Freeman died on June 25, 1949 at the age of 77.

125 years ago
1886

Football
ORFU
Round 3
City
Toronto 24 London 7 @ Hamilton

College
Ottawa College 2 @ University of Toronto 2 (Replay scheduled for November 4)

100 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Ruth Hussey. U.S. actress. Miss Hussey was a stage actress who played supporting roles in movies such as Another Thin Man (1939); The Philadelphia Story (1940); and The Uninvited (1944). She died on April 19, 2005 at the age of 93.

Baseball
Clark Griffith was named manager of the Washington Nationals.

90 years ago
1921

Football
APFA
Rochester (0-3) 0 @ Akron (6-0) 19
Detroit (1-3-1) 0 @ Buffalo (5-0) 21
Cleveland (2-1) 2 @ Dayton (2-2-1) 3
Rock Island (3-1-1) 13 @ Green Bay (1-1) 3
Columbus (0-5) 0 @ Minneapolis (1-2) 28

70 years ago
1941

War
The U.S.S.R. claimed that Soviet forces had beaten off German attacks on Tula, 110 miles south of Moscow. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk west of Iceland while on convoy duty. U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh told an America First Committee rally in New York that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was practicing "dictatorship and subterfuge" to lead the United States into war.

Defense
The Vichy French regime announced that French Somaliland authorities had agreed to discuss British requests for the use of the port of Djibouti and the railroad to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Bolivian defense ministry announced that it wuld not renew the Italian military mission's contract at the end of the year.

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, adopted resolutions urging the formation of an armed Jewish corps in the Near East, and attacking the United Kingdom's curtailment of Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Abominations
1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi in western Ukraine were sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

Radio
NBC and CBS filed suit in New York to restrain the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from putting into effect on November 15 its "anti-monopoly rules."

Labour
Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis called off the four-day coal mine strike until November 15 to give the National Defense Mediation Board time to settle the dispute over a union shop. U.S. President Roosevelt ordered the Army to take over the Air Associates plant in Bendix, New Jersey after non-strikers clashed with returning strikers.

Disasters
20 people were killed aboard an American Airlines plane that crashed near St. Thomas, Ontario.

14 people were killed when a Northwest Airlines plane crashed near Moorhead, Minnesota.

Horse racing
Filisteo, a 7-year-old bay from Argentina, set a world record of 3 minutes 30 4/5 seconds for the distance of 2 miles 70 yards at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

60 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Court Day, starring Richard Coogan, Parker Fennelly, and Steve Holland

Defense
U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered 15,000 troops to the Middle East in a move to guard against further Suez violence.

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission set off Buster-Jangle Charlie, the third in a series of seven atomic explosions in Nevada; it was a large blast compared to the bombs that exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Politics and government
An NBC poll of 1948 Republican National Convention delegates showed that U.S. Senator Robert Taft (Ohio) was favoured by a more than 2-1 margin over General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the 1952 Republican Party U.S. presidential nomination.

50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Quisiera Ser--Dْo Dinلmico (6th week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Il faut savoir--Charles Aznavour (9th week at #1)

On television tonight
Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Masquerade, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Tom Poston, and John Carradine



Died on this date
Luigi Einaudi, 87. 2nd President of Italy, 1948-1955. Professor Einaudi was an economist who was named a Senator in the Kingdom of Italy in 1919, and opposed the country's subsequent Fascist regime. He was Governor of the Bank of Italy (1945-1948), and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (1947-1948) before serving a term as President. Prof. Einaudi became the first Italian President to appoint a Prime Minister who didn't already have majority support in Parliament, naming Giuseppe Pella to the office after Alcide de Gasperi and Attilio Piccioni had failed to obtain parliamentiary support. Prof. Einaudi finished his term as President in 1955, after which he was made a Life Senator.

Defense
The U.S.S.R. detonated the world's largest nuclear device--estimated at 50 megatons, or the equivalent of 50 million tons of TNT--in the largest man-made explosion in history.

Russiana
Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts," it was decreed that Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (5-10-1) 19 @ Winnipeg (12-3) 13
Edmonton (10-4-1) 20 @ Calgary (6-9) 8

Johnny Bright and Bobby Walden scored touchdowns, while Jackie Parker added a convert, 2 field goals and a single for the Eskimos as they beat the Stampeders at McMahon Stadium.

Baseball
Nippon Series
Nankai Hawks 6 @ Yomiuri Giants 3 (Yomiuri led best-of-seven series 3-2)

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): Tom Tom Turnaround--New World (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Tanta voglia di lei--Pooh (8th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Reason to Believe/Maggie May--Rod Stewart (4th week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Daddy Cool--Drummond (7th week at #1)
2 Come Back Again--Daddy Cool
3 Love is a Beautiful Song--Dave Mills
4 What the World Needs Now is Love/Abraham, Martin and John--Tom Clay
5 Butterfly--Danyel Gerard
6 I Woke Up in Love this Morning--The Partridge Family
7 Signs--Five Man Electrical Band
8 Never Ending Song of Love--Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
9 He's Gonna Step on You Again--John Kongos
10 L.A. International Airport--Susan Raye

Singles entering the chart were Co-Co by the Sweet (#31); and Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum by Middle of the Road (#39).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Soley Soley--The Middle of the Road
2 Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes--Rod McKuen
3 Spanish Harlem--Aretha Franklin
4 Non, Non, Rien N'a Changé--Poppys
5 Het Soldaatje (De Vier Raadsels)--De Zangeres Zonder Naam
6 Mamy Blue--Pop-Tops
7 Only Lies--Greenfield & Cook
8 She Flies on Strange Wings--Golden Earring
9 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down--Joan Baez
10 Jij En Ik Blijven Bestaan (De Wereld Zal Toch Ooit Vergaan)--Vader Abraham met Zijn Zeven Goede Zonen

Singles entering the chart were Without a Worry in the World by Rod McKuen (#27); Ode Aan Manuela by Kermisklanten (#32); Father and Son by Cat Stevens (#34); Cousin Norman by the Marmalade (#35); California Calling by Fickle Pickle (#36); and Voor Jou by the Shepherds (#38).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Maggie May/Reason to Believe--Rod Stewart (5th week at #1)
2 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
3 Yo-Yo--The Osmonds
4 Superstar/Bless the Beasts and Children--Carpenters
5 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
6 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 Do You Know What I Mean--Lee Michaels
8 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down--Joan Baez
9 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
10 I've Found Someone of My Own--The Free Movement

Singles entering the chart were Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin (#69); Till by Tom Jones (#71); Scorpio by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band (#77); Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers (#86); Brand New Key by Melanie (#87); Got to Be There by Michael Jackson (#89); Lisa, Listen to Me by Blood, Sweat and Tears (#90); Long Promised Road by the Beach Boys (#93); I Bet He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) by the Intruders (#99); and Walk Right Up to the Sun by the Delfonics (#100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
2 Maggie May--Rod Stewart
3 Yo-Yo--The Osmonds
4 Superstar--Carpenters
5 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
6 I've Found Someone of My Own--The Free Movement
7 Tired of Being Alone--Al Green
8 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
9 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
10 Do You Know What I Mean--Lee Michaels

Singles entering the chart were Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin (#46); Got to Be There by Michael Jackson (#59); Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers (#69); Cherish by David Cassidy (#74); I Say a Little Prayer/By the Time I Get to Phoenix by Glen Campbell/Anne Murray (#80); Family Affair by Sly and the Family Stone (#81); Behind Blue Eyes by the Who (#82); Ain't Nobody Home by B.B. King (#84); Long Ago Tomorrow by B.J. Thomas (#85); I'm Still Waiting by Diana Ross (#87); My Part/Make it Funky (Part 3) by James Brown (#89); You are Everything by the Stylistics (#90); Scorpio by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band (#92); Dolly Dagger by Jimi Hendrix (#94); Soledad by Eric Clapton and Jimmy Witherspoon (#95); If it's Alright with You by Rose Colored Glass (#97); Walk Easy My Son by Jerry Butler (#98); Olena by Don Nix (#99); and Louisiana Lady by New Riders of the Purple Sage (#100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
2 Yo-Yo--The Osmonds
3 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
4 Maggie May/Reason to Believe--Rod Stewart
5 Do You Know What I Mean--Lee Michaels
6 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 Superstar--Carpenters
8 Sweet City Woman--Stampeders
9 Thin Line Between Love & Hate--The Persuaders
10 I've Found Someone of My Own--The Free Movement

Singles entering the chart were Have You Seen Her by the Chi-Lites (#20); Got to Be There by Michael Jackson (#66); Brand New Key by Melanie (#73); Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers (#75); Theme from "Summer of '42" by Peter Nero (#80); Behind Blue Eyes by the Who (#82); White Lies, Blue Eyes by Bullet (#84); My Part/Make it Funky (Part 3) by James Brown (#85); Lisa, Listen to Me by Blood, Sweat and Tears (#87); Ain't Nobody Home by B.B. King (#89); If it's Alright with You by Rose Colored Glass (#94); Dolly Dagger by Jimi Hendrix (#96); Walk Right Up to the Sun by the Delfonics (#98); I Say a Little Prayer/By the Time I Get to Phoenix by Anne Murray/Glen Campbell (#99); and Lookin' Back by Bob Seger (#100).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Yo-Yo--The Osmonds
2 Maggie May--Rod Stewart
3 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
4 Superstar--Carpenters
5 One Fine Morning--Lighthouse
6 Do You Know What I Mean--Lee Michaels
7 Rain Dance--The Guess Who
8 Go Away Little Girl--Donny Osmond
9 Down by the River--Joey Gregorash
10 Sweet Sounds of Music--The Bells

Singles entering the chart were Everybody's Everything by Santana (#62); An Old Fashioned Love Song by Three Dog Night (#68); Till by Tom Jones (#84); Banks of the Ohio by Olivia Newton-John (#86); Baby I'm-A Want You by Bread (#90); Lisa, Listen to Me by Blood, Sweat and Tears (#91); Wild Night by Van Morrison (#92); Your Move by Yes (#93); Brand New Key by Melanie (#94); Behind Blue Eyes by the Who (#95); Bow Down to the Dollar by Jericho (#96); For Ladies Only by Steppenwolf (#97); Love by the Lettermen (#98); Out of My Mind by Rain (#99); and Are You Old Enough by Mark Lindsay (#100).

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 Yo-Yo--The Osmonds
2 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
3 It's a Cryin' Shame--Gayle McCormick
4 Maggie May--Rod Stewart
5 The Desiderata--Les Crane
6 Little Kind Words--Lighthouse
7 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
8 Loving Her was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)--Kris Kristofferson
9 One More Mountain to Climb--Doctor Music
10 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
Pick hit of the week: New Jersey--England Dan and John Ford Coley

Journalism
After 95 years in business, the Toronto Telegram published its last edition. John Bassett, who had bought the paper in 1952, had endured numerous labour disputes and decided to cease publication as a strike was looming. The Telegram had lost $635,000 in 1969 and $921,000 in 1970, and was projected to lose another $900,000 in 1971. Sportswriter Ted Reeve, who had worked at the "Tely" for 48 years, quipped, "And they told me this was going to be a permanent job." Many of the Telegram's employees immediately found work with the Toronto Sun, which published its first edition two days after the Tely published its last.

Football
CFL
Montreal (6-8) 7 @ Ottawa (6-8) 9
Calgary (9-6-1) 7 @ British Columbia (6-9-1) 30

Montreal guard and kicker Justin Canale missed 4 field goals, allowing Ottawa to escape with a narrow victory and take the third and final playoff spot in the Eastern Football Conference on the basis of 2 wins in the 3 games during the season between the teams. The win at Lansdowne Park was the Rough Riders' third straight. The defending Grey Cup champion Alouettes were only 3 points below their 7-6-1 record of 1970, but that was enough to eliminate them from playoff contention.

The Stampeders could have clinched first place in the Western Football Conference with a win over the Lions at Empire Stadium in Vancouver, but the Lions won handily to clinch fourth place ahead of the Edmonton Eskimos. The Stampeders finished the season with a record of 1-5-1 in their last 7 games; in their last 2 games, they were outscored 65-19 while losing to the WFC's two worst teams. It was the first CFL game for Calgary defensive back Reggie Holmes; he was replacing Bill Van Burkleo, who had suffered a season-ending shoulder separation a week earlier.

CIAU
Calgary (4-3) 19 @ Saskatchewan (2-5) 14
Alberta (6-2) 8 @ Manitoba (4-3) 22
Exhibition
Seattle Cavaliers 6 @ British Columbia 9

The Dinosaurs rushed for 282 yards as they defeated the Huskies at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon.

Dennis Hrycaiko's 109-yard punt return for a touchdown with less than 4 minutes remaining in the game was the big play for the Bisons in their win over the Golden Bears on a snowy day at Pan Am Stadium in Winnipeg.

Doug Kiloh kicked 3 field goals for the Thunderbirds as they beat the Cavaliers, a semi-pro team, at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver. Bob Cason passed 7 yards to Ed Softi for the Seattle touchdown in the 1st half; 53-year-old kicker Dick Barnes hit the upright on his convert attempt.

NCAA
Ed Marinaro of Cornell University rushed for 272 yards in a win over Columbia University at Schoelkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, to break the NCAA Division I career rushing record previously held by Steve Owens, who played for the University of Oklahoma from 1967-1969. With this game, Mr. Marinaro surpassed 4,000 yards rushing in less than 3 years.

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Japanese Boy--Aneka (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): La danse des canards--J.J. Lionel

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Urgent--Foreigner (3rd week at #1)
2 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
3 Wired for Sound--Cliff Richard
4 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
5 Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through--Jim Steinman
6 Endless Love--Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
7 One Day in Your Life--Michael Jackson
8 Hak Hom Blokkies--David Kramer
9 You Drive Me Crazy--Shakin' Stevens
10 Green Door--Shakin' Stevens

Singles entering the chart were Love Hurts by the Mattisson Brothers (#15); and Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones (#20).

Society
Nicholas Reed, secretary of the British pro-euthanasia group Exit, was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for aiding and abetting suicide.

Football
CIAU

Calgary (3-4) 16 @ British Columbia (7-1) 25

Glenn Steele rushed for 259 yards and 2 touchdowns to lead the Thunderbirds over the Dinosaurs on a rainy night at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver.

25 years ago
1986

Hit parade
Edmonton's Top 30 (CHED)
1 Typical Male--Tina Turner (2nd week at #1)
2 True Colors--Cyndi Lauper
3 When I Think of You--Janet Jackson
4 Throwing it All Away--Genesis
5 Heartbeat--Don Johnson
6 Two of Hearts--Stacey Q
7 I Am by Your Side--Corey Hart
8 Spirit in the Sky--Doctor and the Medics
9 Rumors--Timex Social Club
10 Sweet Love--Anita Baker
11 Human--Human League
12 Take Me Home Tonight--Eddie Money
13 Dreamtime--Daryl Hall
14 Heaven in Your Eyes--Loverboy
15 Girl Can't Help It--Journey
16 Amanda--Boston
17 True Blue--Madonna
18 Innocent--Luba
19 Where's the Fire--Tim Feehan
20 Love Will Conquer All--Lionel Richie
21 Word Up--Cameo
22 The Way it Is--Bruce Hornsby and the Range
23 I'll Be Over You--Toto
24 Hip to Be Square--Huey Lewis and the News
25 The Next Time I Fall--Peter Cetera with Amy Grant
26 You Give Love a Bad Name--Bon Jovi
27 Stuck with You--Huey Lewis and the News
28 Emotion in Motion--Ric Ocasek
29 Freedom Overspill--Steve Winwood
30 What About Love--'Til Tuesday

On television tonight
Our World, hosted by Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Halloween 1938



Abominations
Montréal-based Canadair was awarded the Canadian Armed Forces CF-18 fighter maintenance contract by the federal Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney over a superior bid from a firm based in Winnipeg. This flagrant act of partisan Quebec favouritism helped stoke the fires of western alienation the led to the creation of the Reform Party of Canada a year later.

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (12th week at #1)

On television tonight
The Wonder Years, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Full Moon Rising

Diplomacy
U.S. President George Bush opened a Middle East peace conference in Madrid.

Disasters
A Canadian Armed Forces Hercules C-130 crashed on Ellesmere Island in the Northwest Territories while on a routine supply mission; 5 of the 13 passengers died from injuries or hypothermia before rescuers could reach them over 33 hours later.

10 years ago
2001

Baseball
World Series
Arizona Diamondbacks 1 @ New York Yankees 2 (Arizona led best-of-seven series 2-1)

New York ace Roger Clemens (1-0) allowed just 3 hits in 7 innings and Mariano Rivera pitched 2 hitless innings to earn the save. Scott Brosius singled home Bernie Williams in the bottom of the 6th inning to break a 1-1 tie. Arizona starter Brian Anderson (0-1) was the losing pitcher. U.S. President George W. Bush became the first sitting president to throw out the ceremonial first ball at a World Series game since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. 55,820 fans were in attendance at Yankee Stadium to see a game that dragged on for 3 hours and 26 minutes despite a total of just 17 batters reaching base.

October 29, 2011

690 years ago
1321

Died on this date
Stefan Uroš II, 68 (?). King of Serbia, 1282-1321. Stefan Uroš II, the youngest son of King Stefan Uroš I, acceded to the throne of the Nemanjić dynasty upon the abdication of his brother Stefan Dragutin. During his reign, Serbian economic power grew, and he was successful in resisting the efforts of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII to impose Roman Catholicism on Serbia, resulting in King Stefan Uroš being proclaimed a saint by the Serbian Orthodox Church.

420 years ago
1591

Religion
Cardinal Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti was elected Pope Innocent IX, succeeding Gregory XIV.

300 years ago
1711

Born on this date
Laura Bassi. Italian physicist. Dr. Bassi became the first woman to obtain a doctorate in science, which was awarded by the University of Bologna in 1732. She began teaching at that university a month later, becoming the first salaried female teacher at a university. Dr. Bassi was Italy's most important popularizer of Newtonian physics, and was the University of Bologna's Chairman of Experimental Physics from 1776 until her death on February 20, 1778 at the age of 66.

180 years ago
1831

Born on this date
James Boucaut. U.K.-born Australian politician. Sir James, a native of Cornwall, moved to South Australia with his parents in 1846, and was a lawyer before entering politics. He represented Adelaide (1861-1862); West Adelaide (1865-1868); The Burra (1868-1869); West Torrens (1871-1875); and Encounter Bay (1875-1878) in the South Australian House of Assembly, serving two terms as Attorney General and three terms as Premier of South Australia (1866-1867, 1875-1876, 1877-1878). Sir James left politics in 1878 when he accepted an appointment to the Supreme Court of South Australia, serving on the bench until his retirement. He died on February 1, 1916 at the age of 84.

150 years ago
1861

Born on this date
Andrei Ryabushkin. Russian artist. Mr. Ryabushkin painted scenes of ordinary Russian life in the 17th century. He died of tuberculosis on May 10, 1904 at the age of 42.

140 years ago
1871

Died on this date
Andrea Debono, 49. Maltese trader and explorer. Mr. Debono moved with his family as a young man to Alexandria, and then to Cairo, and finally Khartoum in 1848. In 1851, he adopted the name Latif Effendi and began representing Rustum Pasha Jarkas, Governor-General of Sudan when it was under Egyptian control. Mr. Debono made significant profits in the ivory trade and began exploring the Nile River in the early-mid 1850s, becoming the first European to explore the Sobat River tributary of the White Nile. He was British Consular Agent in Khartoum (1855-1856), but was accused by British Consul John Petherick of involvement in slave trading. All charges were later dropped, but Mr. Debono's reputation was ruined. He returned to Cairo, where he died of a heart attack, nine days before his 50th birthday.

130 years ago
1881

Born on this date
John DeWitt. U.S. athlete. Mr. DeWitt played football at Princeton University (1901-1903) as a guard, kicker, and occasionally as a fullback, earning All-American honours in his last two seasons. He also participated in discus and hammer throw, winning a silver medal in the latter at the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis. Mr. DeWitt had a successful business career, but died suddenly aboard a train while commuting from his home in Connecticut to his office in New York City on July 28, 1930 at the age of 48. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1952; veteran college football writer Dan Jenkins named him the winner of a retroactive Heisman Trophy for 1903.

120 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Fanny Brice. U.S. entertainer. Miss Brice, born Fania Borach, was a singer, comedienne, and actress who made many appearances in plays and films, but was perhaps best know for playing the character Baby Snooks on radio from 1937-1951. She died on May 29, 1951 at the age of 59, five days after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, which occurred two days after the latest episode of The Baby Snooks Show. Miss Brice was the subject of the play (1964) and film (1968) Funny Girl, and the film sequel Funny Lady (1975).

110 years ago
1901

Died on this date
Leon Czolgosz, 28. U.S. assassin. Mr. Czolgosz was a factory worker before becoming a socialist and anarchist. On September 6, 1901, he shot U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo; Mr. McKinley died eight days later. Mr. Czolgosz was charged with first-degree murder on September 16; his trial began in Buffalo on September 23, and he was convicted after just two days. He was executed in the electric chair at Auburn Prison.

Crime
Nurse Jane Toppan was arrested in Amherst, Massachusetts for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

100 years ago
1911

Died on this date
Joseph Pulitzer, 64. Hungarian-born U.S. publisher and politician. Mr. Pulitzer emigrated to the United States at the age of 17, served with the Union Army in the Union Army in the American Civil War, becoming an American citizen in 1867. He was briefly a lawyer and represented the 5th St. Louis District in the Missouri House of Representatives (January-March 1870), beginning his journalistic career in St. Louis in the late 1860s with the German-language newspaper Westliche Post. Mr. Pulitzer bought the St. Louis Dispatch in December 1878 and merged it with the St. Louis Post, promptly merging them into the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1883, he bought the New York World from railroad magnate Jay Gould, using his papers to pioneer yellow journalism, emphasizing gossip, sex, violence, and crime. Mr. Pulitzer, originally a Republican, switched his allegiance to the Democratic Party in 1874, and represented New York's 9th District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1885-1886). His health declined over many years, and he died aboard his yacht in Charleston, South Carolina while on the way to his winter home on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Mr. Pulitzer bequeathed $2 million to Columbia University, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was founded in 1912. The school founded the Pulitzer Prizes in 1917, originally just for journalism, and later expanded to literature, poetry, history, music, and drama.

90 years ago
1921

Football
CRU
ARU
The game between the Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Tigers, scheduled to be played at Hillhurst Park in Calgary, was cancelled. The Eskimos had beaten the Tigers 72-2 on October 1 in Edmonton, and the Tigers apparently weren't enthusiastic about playing them again. The Eskimos' record currently stood at 3-0, while the Tigers were 1-1.

NCAA
Centre College 6 @ Harvard 0

The Praying Colonels of Centre College from Danville, Kentucky ended the Crimson's 25-game winning streak at Cambridge, Massachusetts in the "upset of the century."

80 years ago
1931

Baseball
Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher Lefty Grove was named the Most Valuable Player in the American League for 1931. He posted a record of 31-4, leading the AL in wins; winning percentage (.886); complete games (27); strikeouts (175); shutouts (4); and earned run average (2.05) in helping the Athletics win their third straight American League pennant.

75 years ago
1936

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Louis Hector and Harry West, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Haunted Bagpipes

70 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Harvey Hendrick, 43. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Hendrick played football and baseball at Vanderbilt University before playing first base and outfield with seven major league teams from 1923-1934, batting .308 with 48 home runs and 413 runs batted in in 922 games. His best season was 1929, when he batted .354 with 14 homers and 82 RBIs with the Brooklyn Robins. As a rookie in 1923, Mr. Hendrick was a member of the New York Yankees when they won their first World Series championship, and batted 0 for 1 in the World Series. Mr. Hendrick committed suicide by shooting himself, 11 days before his 44th birthday.

War
The German command announced that its forces had broken through Soviet defenses and entered the Crimean Peninsula after a battle lasting from October 18-28. U.S. Navy Secretary Frank Knox announced that the destroyer USS Kearny had been struck on October 17 by one of three torpedoes after she had dropped depth bombs on a submarine attacking a convoy west of Iceland.

Abominations
In a massacre known as the "Great Action," over 10,000 Jews were shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort in the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania.

Terrorism
The U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of William Michael Etzel by federal agents in Baltimore on charges of sabotaging bombers at the Glenn L. Martin Company. Mr. Etzel was of German ancestry.

Politics and government
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Charles Fahy to succeed Francis Biddle as U.S. Solicitor General.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Export-Import Bank announced that it would offer more than $70 million monthly to Latin American importers to finance purchases in the United States.

Labour
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt conferred at the White House with Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis and asked Mr. Lewis to reopen struck coal mines pending consideration of the UMW's union shop demand by the National Defense Mediation Board.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers signed contracts in New York permitting the NBC and CBS radio networks to use its songs for the first time since January 1, 1941.

60 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Veil, starring Lee J. Cobb and Arlene Francis



Died on this date
J.L.F.M. de Raymond. French diplomat. Jean Louis Francois Marie de Raymond, France's commissioner in Cambodia, was stabbed to death while asleep by a member of a Communist terror cell.

Diplomacy
U.K. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recalled Ambassador to Iran Sir Francis Shepherd to London for consultations.

Defense
The U.S. Defense Department reported that it had bought or ordered $62.9 billion worth of weapons and equipment since the beginning of the Korean War, compared to $13.2 billion in the 12 months preceding the conflict.

France offered to furnish 100,000 Berber tribesmen from French Morocco as NATO troops, calling for U.S. political support in Morocco.

Religion
Pope Pius XII, addressing Italian obstetricians, urged doctors and midwives to oppose abortion (even to save a mother's life), sterlization, contraception, and artificial insemination.

50 years ago
1961

Died on this date
Astrid Holm, 68. Danish actress. Mrs. Holm, born Astrid Rasmussen, appeared in plays from the 1910s through the 1940s, and movies in the 1910s and '20s. Her films included Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage) (1921) and Du skal ære din hustru (Master of the House) (1925). Mrs. Holm died after years of declining health.

Football
CFL
Montreal (3-9-1) 9 @ Toronto (7-5-1) 15

NFL
Chicago (5-2) 21 @ Baltimore (3-4) 20
Cleveland (5-2) 21 @ St. Louis (3-4) 10
Dallas (4-3) 17 @ New York (5-2) 16
Detroit (4-3) 28 @ Los Angeles (1-6) 10
Minnesota (1-6) 10 @ Green Bay (6-1) 28
Philadelphia (6-1) 27 @ Washington (0-7) 24
San Francisco (4-3) 10 @ Pittsburgh (2-5) 20

AFL
Denver (3-5) 0 @ San Diego (8-0) 37
New York (4-3) 14 @ Oakland (1-6) 6
Boston (4-3-1) 18 @ Dallas (3-4) 17
Houston (3-3-1) 28 @ Buffalo (3-5) 16

Baseball
Nippon Series
Nankai Hawks 3 @ Yomiuri Giants 4 (Yomiuri led best-of-seven series 3-1)

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): L'Amour est l'Enfante de la Liberte--Rumour (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Borriquito--Peret (2nd week at #1)

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Mammy Blue--Charisma (2nd week at #1)
2 Never Ending Song of Love--The New Seekers
3 You--Peter Maffay
4 Butterfly--Danyel Gerard
5 Co-Co--The Sweet
6 Daar's Niks Soos Ware Liefde--Groep Twee
7 Silver Threads and Golden Needles--Barbara Ray
8 Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum--Middle of the Road
9 Tom Tom Turnaround--New World
10 Hey--Hedgehoppers Anonymous

Singles entering the chart were Get Me Some Help by Neville Whitmill (#19); and What are You Doing Sunday by Dawn (#20).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
2 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
3 Yo-Yo--The Osmonds
4 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
5 Birds of a Feather--Raiders
6 The Desiderata--Les Crane
7 I've Found Someone of My Own--The Free Movement
8 Only You Know and I Know--Delaney & Bonnie
9 Superstar--Carpenters
10 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Singles entering the chart were Two Divided by Love by the Grass Roots (#24); Trapped by a Thing Called Love by Denise LaSalle (#28); Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin (#29); and Do I Love You by Paul Anka (#30).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKVN)
1 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
2 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
3 Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops
4 If You Really Love Me--Stevie Wonder
5 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
6 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 I've Found Someone of My Own--The Free Movement
8 Down by the River--Joey Gregorash
9 What are You Doing Sunday--Dawn
10 Birds of a Feather--Raiders

Singles entering the chart were It's a Cryin' Shame by Gayle McCormick (#33); Lovin' You Ain't Easy by Pagliaro (#34); Everybody's Everything by Santana (#35); I Believe in You by Rita Coolidge (#39); and That Girl Becomes a Woman by Michael Vincent (#40).

Died on this date
Arne Tiselius, 69. Swedish biochemist. Dr. Tiselius was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins." He died of a heart attack.

A.C. Valdez, Jr., 55. U.S. evangelist. Alfred Clarence Valdez was the son of Pentecostal evangelist Adolpho Clarence Valdez, who was usually referred to as A.C. Valdez, Sr. A.C., Jr. worked with his father at Trinity Tabernacle in Phoenix, and became a travelling faith healer after the "healing movement" broke out in 1948. He was involved with the Voice of Healing organization in the early 1950s, but ran into trouble when a couple in Winnipeg killed their 7-year-old foster daughter while following his teachings. Mr. Valdez then toured Europe before conducting meetings in Milwaukee in the fall of 1953. He received such an enthusiastic reception that he decided to make the Wisconsin city his home base, founding the Milwaukee Evangelistic Temple in 1954. Mr. Valdez became known as the "Flying Evangelist" for his practice of occasionally holding services on planes. In 1970 Mr. Valdez, Jr. fell ill, and R.W. Culpepper took over the ministry of his church (which, of course, makes the reader wonder why Mr. Valdez, Jr. wasn't able to heal himself). In July 1971 A.C. Valdez, Jr. petitioned for bankruptcy in Federal Court in Milwaukee, but died of a heart attack three months later. A.C., Sr. and Mr. Culpepper attempted to keep the church going, but it closed a few years later. A.C. Valdez, Sr. died on February 12, 1981 at the age of 84.

Duane Allman, 24. U.S. musician. Mr. Allman was a Southen rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who performed with his younger brother Gregg in several bands in the 1960s before forming the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. Duane was known as the best slide guitarist of his era, playing not only with his own band, but as a session player with other artists. He contributed greatly to the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominoes (1970). Mr. Allman died several hours after suffering serious injuries in a motorcycle crash in Macon, Georgia.

Politics and government
Finnish Prime Minister Ahti Karjalainen and his centre-left coalition government resigned, and a caretaker government headed by Teuvo Auro was appointed by President Urho Kekkonen.

Protest
More than 10,000 people demonstrated in Montreal in support of locked-out employees of the newspaper La Presse. The rally was organized by the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), la Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), and the Corporation des enseignants du Québec (CEQ). One woman at the rally died from suffocation.

Journalism
The English-language Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph decided to publish weekly instead of daily.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Senate voted 41-27 to refuse to authorize the continuation of U.S. foreign aid. It was the first Senate rejection of such aid in more than 20 years.

Boxing
George Foreman (32-0) scored a knockout over Luis Pires (18-8-1) when Mr. Pires retired after the 4th round of their heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden in New York.



30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
Edmonton's Top 10 (CFRN)
1 More to Love--Jim Photoglo (5th week at #1)
2 We're in this Love Together--Al Jarreau
3 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
4 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg
5 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
6 When She was My Girl--Four Tops
7 Alien--Atlanta Rhythm Section
8 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
9 Here I Am--Air Supply
10 (You'll Always Find Me) In the Kitchen at Parties--Jona Lewie

20 years ago
1991

Died on this date
Mario Scelba, 90. Prime Minister of Italy, 1954-1955. Mr. Scelba was an early member of Christian Democracy in the 1940s, and served as Minister of Mails and Communications (1945-1947) and Minister of the Interior (1947-1953, 1954-1955, 1960-1962). He was known for his law and order and anti-Communist policies, and successfully reorganized the Italian police force. Mr. Scelba was Prime Minister from February 1954-July 1955, but a couple of scandals and intraparty machinations led to his resignation. He was a Member of the European Parliament (1960-1979), and was its President (1969-1971). Mr. Scelba died from a thrombosis.

Space
The American Galileo probe made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

Disasters
Fire destroyed the Yale Hotel in Grand Forks, British Columbia.

10 years ago
2001

Television
Los Angeles TV station KTLA originated the first coast to coast high-definition telecast.

October 28, 2011

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Kerry Hoffer and Mona Bernales!

160 years ago
1851

Politics and government
The Hincks-Morin Ministry took office in the Province of Canada, with Francis Hincks, Inspector-General of Canada West, as Premier, and Augustin-Norbert Morin, Provincial Secretary of Canada East, as Deputy Premier.

125 years ago
1886

Americana
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Grover Cleveland.

120 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Ormer Locklear. U.S. aviator. Second Lieutenant Locklear served with the United States Army Air Service before embarking on a career as a barnstorming stunt pilot. He made his way to Hollywood, where he starred in the movies The Great Air Robbery (1919) and The Skywayman (1920). Mr. Locklear was killed at the age of 28 on August 2, 1920 when he crashed during a stunt filmed at night, when lights that should have been turned off remained on, obscuring his view. Milton "Skeets" Elliott, the flying partner who accompanied him, was also killed in the crash.

Education
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Manitoba Separate Schools Act--removing funding for Catholic and Protestant denominational schools and establishing a system of tax-supported, non-sectarian public schools--was unconstitutional.

Disasters
The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, struck Gifu Prefecture, killing 7,123 people and injuring 17,175.

100 years ago
1911

Football
CRU
ORFU
St. Michael's College (2-2) 2 @ Hamilton (3-0) 52
Dundas (0-4) 0 @ Toronto Amateur Athletic Club (2-1) 34

WCRFU
Bill Dobbie kicked 10 singles for the Calgary Tigers in a game.

80 years ago
1931

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Dying Detective

Politics and government
As a result of the economic crisis, the Quebec government of Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau split the Ministry of Public Works and Labour into two departments. Charles-Joseph Arcand (Liberal--Maisonneuve) was named as Quebec's first Minister of Labour.

75 years ago
1936

At the movies
The House of Secrets, directed by Roland D. Reed, and starring Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison, and Sidney Blackmer, opened in theatres.



70 years ago
1941

War
Russian troops, aided by bad weather, counter-attacked German troops west of Moscow.

World events
One person was arrested after a shot was fired into the air as acting Argentine President Ramon Castillo boarded a train in Buenos Aires.

Defense
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the $5.985-billion Lend Lease bill and issued an executive order creating the Office of Lend-Lease Administration in the Office of Emergency Management, with Edward Stettinius in charge.

Protest
Joseph McWilliams, leader of the American Destiny Party, was ordered to complete a 60-day workhouse term for violating his probation by making anti-Jewish speeches.

Disasters
15 men were killed in a coal mine explosion near Nortonville, Kentucky.

60 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Out There, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Outer Limit, starring Wesley Addy, Robert Allen, and Robert Webber

This was the first episode of the short-lived series, which probably suffered from not having a commercial sponsor and a poor time slot--6 P.M. Eastern Time on Sundays. The Outer Limit was dramatized on several radio series in the 1950s.

Died on this date
Mady Christians, 59. Austrian-born U.S. actress. Miss Christians, a native of Vienna, moved to Berlin with her family at the age of 1 and to New York City in 1912, where her father was a theatre manager. She appeared in movies in Europe from 1916-1933, including Dich hab ich geliebt (It's You I Have Loved) (1929), Germany's first all-sound film. Miss Christians moved to the United States in 1934, and became known for her starring roles in plays such as Watch on the Rhine (1941) and I Remember Mama (1944). Her Hollywood movies included Come and Get It (1936); Tender Comrade (1943); and All My Sons (1948). Miss Christians was critical of U.S. congressional investigation of alleged Communists, which led the Federal Bureau of Investigation's security division to begin investigating her. Miss Christians was offered a role in the Somerset Maugham TV Theatre production of The Mother (1951), but was dropped a week before rehearsals were to begin, although she was still offered the salary. She was briefly hospitalized as a result of the stress, and collapsed and died from a cerebral hemorrhage at a friend's home.

War
Communist truce negotiators at Panmunjom conceded to U.S. demands that the cease-fire line should be "related to current battle positions" rather than fixed summarily at the 38th Parallel.

Diplomacy
A six-day International Peace Assembly sponsored by the Yugoslavian government ended in Zagreb after passing resolutions affirming the independence of individual states and the right of colonial peoples to self-determination and condemning all acts of aggression.

Defense
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission set off Buster-Jangle Baker, the second in a series of seven atomic explosions in Nevada, a small blast with the force of 10 tons of TNT.

U.S. President Harry Truman's National Security Training Commission proposed to Congress that all youths reaching age 18 be given six months of compulsory military training.

Labour
36 died and 200 were hospitalized in Atlanta from drinking moonshine whiskey made from wood alcohol and water.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (5-5) 22 @ Montreal (3-7) 34

NFL
Chicago Bears (4-1) 28 @ Detroit (2-2-1) 23
Green Bay (3-2) 29 @ New York Yanks (0-4-1) 27
Los Angeles (3-2) 17 @ San Francisco (3-2) 44
New York Giants (3-1-1) 13 @ Cleveland (4-1) 14
Pittsburgh (1-3-1) 28 @ Chicago Cardinals (1-4) 14
Washington (2-3) 27 @ Philadelphia (2-3) 23



50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Mexico--Bob Moore and his Orchestra (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: La novia--Tony Dallara (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Weiße Rosen aus Athen--Nana Mouskouri (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Dutch Top 40): Och was ik maar bij moeder thuis gebleven--Johnny Hoes (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): Walkin' Back to Happiness--Helen Shapiro (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Runaround Sue--Dion (2nd week at #1)
2 Big Bad John--Jimmy Dean
3 Hit the Road Jack--Ray Charles and his Orchestra
4 Bristol Stomp--The Dovells
5 Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)--Sue Thompson
--The Lennon Sisters
6 Crying--Roy Orbison
7 Let's Get Together--Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills
8 Ya Ya--Lee Dorsey
9 This Time--Troy Shondell
10 I Love How You Love Me--The Paris Sisters

Singles entering the chart were Tonight by Ferrante & Teicher (#74); Gypsy Woman by the Impressions (#82); The Way I Am by Jackie Wilson (#84); Goodbye Cruel World by James Darren (#85); Rockin' Bicycle by Fats Domino (#93); Walk on By by Leroy Van Dyke (#95); I'll Be True by the Orlons (#96); Just Because by the McGuire Sisters (#97); Young Boy Blues by Ben E. King (#99); and Danny Boy by Andy Williams (#100). Rockin' Bicycle was the B-side of What a Party, which charted at #40.

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Goodbye Cruel World--James Darren
2 Runaround Sue--Dion
3 Language of Love--John D. Loudermilk
4 Big Bad John--Jimmy Dean
5 Blue Hawaii (LP)--Elvis Presley
6 God, Country and My Baby--Johnny Burnette
7 You're the Reason--Bobby Edwards
8 Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)--Sue Thompson
9 Bristol Stomp--The Dovells
10 Tower of Strength--Gene McDaniels

Singles entering the chart were Flying Blue Angels by George, Johnny and the Pilots (#27); He's Not Just a Soldier by Little Richard (#33); Dreamin' About You by Annette and the Vonnair Sisters (#37); Little Lonely by Chad Allen (#44); Town Without Pity by Gene Pitney (#46); The Door to Paradise by Bobby Rydell (#49); and English Country Garden by Jimmie Rodgers (#50). Town Without Pity was the title song of the movie.

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKWX)
1 Goodbye Cruel World--James Darren
2 Big Bad John--Jimmy Dean
3 Walk on By--Leroy Van Dyke
4 Let There Be Drums--Sandy Nelson
5 Runaround Sue--Dion
6 You're So Square--Buddy Holly
7 Blue Hawaii (LP)--Elvis Presley
8 El Toro--Link Wray
9 So Long Baby--Del Shannon
10 Tower of Strength--Gene McDaniels

Singles entering the chart were A Thousand Feet Below by Terry Tyler (#28); Blue Moon by the Ventures (#33); Crazy by Patsy Cline (#36); Coming from the Mountains by the Kingston Trio (#37); Let Me Tell You About Johnny by Dodie Stevens (#38); It's All Because by Linda Scott (#39); and School is In by U.S. Bonds (#40).

On television tonight
The Roaring 20's, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Standing Room Only

Football
CFL
Ottawa (7-6) 29 @ Hamilton (10-3) 44
Saskatchewan (4-10-1) 17 @ British Columbia (1-12-2) 17

Gerry McDougall scored 3 touchdowns for the Tiger-Cats in their win over the Rough Riders at Civic Stadium.

Ray Purdin scored 2 touchdowns in the last 1 minute and 2 seconds for the Roughriders in their tie against the Lions at Empire Stadium in Vancouver. On the last play of the game, Saskatchewan quarterback Dave Grosz completed a 24-yard pass to Mr. Purdin for a touchdown, and Reg Whitehouse kicked the convert to tie the game.

Canadian university
McGill (2-2) 24 @ Toronto (1-3) 21
Queen's (4-0) 27 @ Western Ontario (1-3) 7
Alberta (1-1-2) 6 @ British Columbia (2-0-1) 13

The Thunderbirds defeated the Golden Bears before 5,000 fans at Varsity Stadium in Vancouver to clinch the western Canadian title for UBC. Ted Frechette opened the scoring for Alberta with a 2-yard touchdown rush 4:52 into the game, but the convert was missed. Dave Bianco rushed 5 yards for the UBC touchdown at 4:50 of the 2nd quarter, converted by Dave Barker. Mr. Barker kicked a field goal in the 3rd quarter, Barry Carkner added a single in the 4th, and the Thunderbirds scored a safety touch in the 4th when Wayne Henry blocked a punt and Alberta punter Maury Van Vliet, Jr. outraced the B.C. players to the ball and punted it through his own end zone from the Alberta 7-yard line. The Golden Bears mounted a drive to the B.C. 18-yard line in the last minute, but 3 straight passes to the end zone were incomplete.

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): Mamy Blue--Pop-Tops (2nd week at #)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Did You Ever--Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (4th week at #1)

Space
Prospero became the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket; it was launched from the Royal Australian Air Force Range Complex in South Australia.

Politics and government
The Newfoundland provincial election resulted in the Progressive Conservative Party, led by Frank Moores, winning 21 of 42 seats in the House of Assembly, an increase of 18 from their total before the election. The Liberal Party of Premier Joey Smallwood, which had governed the province since its entry into Confederation in 1949, won 20 seats, a decrease of 19. The remaining seat was won by New Labrador Party leader Tom Burgess, a former Liberal, who initially declared that he would support the PCs. However, when Mr. Moores failed to offer him a seat in the cabinet, Mr. Burgess returned to the Liberals, and Mr. Smallwood tentatively retained power.

Economics and finance
A turning point in the United Kingdom's 10-year effort to join the European Economic Community was reached when the British House of Commons approved the principle of British membership.

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates (3rd week at #1)
2 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
3 My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)--Chilliwack
4 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
5 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
6 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
7 The Night Owls--Litte River Band
8 Sausalito Summernight--Diesel
9 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
10 The Voice--The Moody Blues

Singles entering the chart were No Reply at All by Genesis (#12); Wired for Sound by Cliff Richard (#17); and Say Goodbye to Hollywood by Billy Joel (#20).

Baseball
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers 9 @ New York Yankees 2 (Los Angeles won best-of-seven series 4-2)

With the score tied 1-1 in the bottom of the 4th inning, New York manager Bob Lemon removed starting pitcher Tommy John for a pinch hitter. The move backfired, and relief pitcher George Frazier (0-3) gave up 3 runs in the 5th and the Dodgers added 4 more in the 6th off Ron Davis. Burt Hooton (1-1) pitched 5.1 innings to pick up the win, while Steve Howe pitched 3.2 innings to earn his first save. Mr. Frazier became the second pitcher ever to lose 3 games in a single World Series, and the first to accomplish the feat in a best-of-seven Series. The first, Lefty Williams, was one of the crooked Chicago White Sox players who participated in the fix of the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, losing 5 games to 3. Three Dodgers shared the award as the Series' Most Valuable Player: third baseman Ron Cey, left fielder Pedro Guerrero, and catcher Steve Yeager. 56,513 were in attendance at Yankee Stadium.



25 years ago
1986

Died on this date
John Braine, 64. U.K. author. Mr. Braine was one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s and '60s, and was best known for his novels Room at the Top (1957) and Life at the Top (1962).

Weather
Edmonton experienced its first snowfall of the season.

Crime
Jeremy Bamber, 24, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering five members of his family in Essex, England.

Baseball
Larry Bowa was hired as manager of the San Diego Padres, replacing Steve Boros. Under Mr. Boros, the Padres had finished fourth in the National League West Division with a record of 74-88, 22 games behind the first-place Houston Astros.

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Say Yes--Chage and Aska (13th week at #1)

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Onnellinen perhe--Ne Luumäet (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Sylvia Fine, 78. U.S. songwriter. Miss Fine wrote songs for her husband, Danny Kaye, including Anatole of Paris and Knock on Wood.

Canadiana
Nicole Dunsdon, Miss Interior of British Columbia, was chosen Miss Canada 1992. The pageant was televised by CTV, and was the last Miss Canada pageant until the name was revived in 2008.



10 years ago
2001

Terrorism
17 worshippers and one guard were killed when masked gunmen attacked a church in Bahawalpur in eastern Pakistan.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (10-6) 38 @ Montreal (9-8) 18

The Alouettes' loss to the Tiger-Cats at Molson Stadium was their sixth straight, and marked the end of the line for Rod Rust as their head coach. Alouettes' president Larry Smith fired Mr. Rust within the next few days and replaced him with general manager Jim Popp.

British Columbia (7-9) 34 @ Calgary (7-10-0-1) 16



Baseball
World Series
New York Yankees 0 @ Arizona Diamondbacks 4 (Arizona led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Randy Johnson (1-0) pitched a 4-hitter and struck out 11 batters while not walking any, and Matt Williams hit a 3-run home run off losing pitcher Andy Pettitte in the bottom of the 7th inning to put the game away before 49,646 fans at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. The home run was just the fifth and last hit given up by Mr. Pettitte (0-1), who struck out 8 and walked 1 in 7 innings.