April 14, 2012

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Laura O’Leary!

100 years ago
1912

Business
James Cash Penney opened his first store, the Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, New York, marking the beginning of the J.C. Penney retail chain.

Disasters
The British White Star ocean liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 11:40 P.M.

80 years ago
1932

Protest
15,000 unemployed relief workers rioted on Queen Street in Auckland in the most destructive of a series of such demonstrations in New Zealand's four largest cities.

70 years ago
1942

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Detroit 3 @ Toronto 9 (Detroit led best-of-seven series 3-2)

60 years ago
1952

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Men on the Mountain

This was a restaging of a story originally broadcast on December 18, 1950.

50 years ago
1962

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: Quando, Quando, Quando--Tony Renis (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Wonderful Land--The Shadows (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Johnny Angel--Shelley Fabares (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Good Luck Charm--Elvis Presley
2 Johnny Angel--Shelley Fabares
3 Slow Twistin'--Chubby Checker (with Dee Dee Sharp)
4 Mashed Potato Time--Dee Dee Sharp
5 Don't Break the Heart that Loves You--Connie Francis
6 Hey! Baby--Bruce Channel
7 Love Letters--Ketty Lester
8 Lover Please--Clyde McPhatter
9 Soldier Boy--The Shirelles
10 Young World--Rick Nelson

Singles entering the chart were Everybody Loves Me But You (#63)/Here Comes that Feelin' (#100) by Brenda Lee; I Sold My Heart to the Junkman by the Blue-Belles (#85); I Love You by the Volumes (#86); Any Day Now by Chuck Jackson (#91); Conscience by James Darren (#93); Runaway by Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra (#94); I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Tony Bennett (#96); Thou Shalt Not Steal by John D. Loudermilk (#97); and Number One Man by Bruce Channel (#99).

Boxing
South American light heavyweight champion Mauro Mina (38-2-2) knocked out Von Clay (16-7-2) in the 6th round of a heavyweight bout before 28,980 fans at Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru.



40 years ago
1972

Diplomacy
U.S. President Richard Nixon addressed a joint session of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, saying that the U.S. recognized Canada’s desire to end American domination of the Canadian economy and that the two nations should always maintain their “very separate identities.” Noting that his visit came midway between his trips to Peking and Moscow, Mr. Nixon termed U.S.-Canadian relations as the model for an even wider goal, “a better world order,” adding, “We can walk our own road in our own way without moving further apart.”



30 years ago
1982

World events
At least 15 Islamic nations in Africa and Asia joined in a general strike to protest the April 11 attack by Israeli soldier Alan Harry Goodman on the Dome of the Rock, the Islamic shrine on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Mr. Goodman had been captured by Israeli police and border guards after shooting and killing at least 2 Arabs and wounding at least 30, but King Khalid of Saudi Arabia had called for a strike against Israel to protest Mr. Goodman’s attack. Businesses, airports, and banks were closed.

25 years ago
1987

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Division Semi-Finals
Toronto 2 St. Louis 1
Los Angeles 4 @ Edmonton 5 (Edmonton won best-of-seven series 4-1)

10 years ago
2002

World Events
Hugo Chavez resumed his position as President of Venezuela, a day after being forced from office by generals who had broken ranks with pro-Chavez demonstrators firing on anti-Chavez demonstrators in Caracas. Popular demonstrations against and condemnations of the ouster by other governments led to Mr. Chavez’s return to power.

Politics
Jose Alexandre “Xanana” Gusmao won a landslide victory in soon-to-be-independent East Timor’s first presidential election.

Golf
Tiger Woods won the Masters at Augusta, Georgia for the second straight year and the third time in his career.

Curling
Canada, represented by the Randy Ferbey rink from Alberta, defeated Norway 10-5 to win the men’s world championship.

Track and field
Khalid Khannouchi of the United States won the London Marathon, breaking his own world record. Paula Radcliffe of the United Kingdom won the women’s event, the first marathon she’d ever entered.