June 9, 2012

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sandie Topechka!

110 years ago
1902

Born on this date
Roy Hamey. U.S. baseball executive. Mr. Hamey had a career in organized baseball spanning four decades, mostly with the New York Yankees' organization. He was president of the American Association (1946); general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates (1946-1950) and Philadelphia Phillies (1954-1959), and assistant general manager of the Yankees (1951-1954, 1959-1960). Mr. Hamey replaced George Weiss as general manager of the Yankees shortly after the 1960 season, and presided over teams that won three straight American League pennants (1961-1963), winning the World Series in his first two years as GM. He retired after the 1963 season, but came out of retirement briefly to serve as chief executive of the Seattle Pilots after the 1969 season, while AL President Joe Cronin was searching for someone to buy the club. Mr. Hamey returned to retirement after Bud Selig bought the Pilots in 1970 and moved them to Milwaukee to become the Brewers. Mr. Hamey died of a heart attack on December 14, 1983 at the age of 81.

Popular culture
Joe Horn and Frank Hardart opened the Automat at 818 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. It was America's first coin-operated cafeteria.

Academia
Woodrow Wilson was unanimously elected President of Princeton University.

80 years ago
1932

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell, on NBC

60 years ago
1952

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Blind Man's Bluff, starring Mary Farrell and Mercer McLeod

50 years ago
1962

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: Let's Twist Again--Peppino Di Capri

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Good Luck Charm--Elvis Presley (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): I Can't Stop Loving You--Ray Charles (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 I Can't Stop Loving You--Ray Charles (3rd week at #1)
2 Stranger on the Shore--Mr. Acker Bilk
--Andy Williams
3 Palisades Park--Freddy Cannon
4 The One Who Really Loves You--Mary Wells
5 It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'--Johnny Tillotson
6 Soldier Boy--The Shirelles
7 Lovers Who Wander--Dion
8 Second Hand Love--Connie Francis
9 Mashed Potato Time--Dee Dee Sharp
10 (The Man who Shot) Liberty Valance--Gene Pitney

Singles entering the chart were Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) by Richard Chamberlain (#73); I Need Your Loving by Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford (#80); Sealed with a Kiss by Brian Hyland (#88); The Wah Watusi by the Orlons (#90); Lisa by Ferrante and Teicher (#92); Bongo Stomp by Little Joey and the Flips (#93); Johnny Loves Me by Shelley Fabares (#96); (Girls, Girls, Girls) Made to Love by Eddie Hodges (#99); Down in the Valley by Solomon Burke (#100); and Have a Good Time by Sue Thompson (also #100).

40 years ago
1972

Disasters
At least 236 people in South Dakota were killed when a flash flood caused by heavy rain and a ruptured dam roared from the Black Hills and struck the Rapid City area.

30 years ago
1982

World events
General Efrain Rios Montt deposed his two fellow junta members and named himself President of Guatemala. Gen. Rioa Montt had promised that he would be only a caretaker ruler and would not seek the presidency, but said that the other two junta members had been devoting more time to politics than to governing.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrived in Bonn, West Germany, where he urged that both Eastern and Western blocs agree to a ceiling of 700,000 ground troops in Europe for each alliance. Mr. Reagan also reiterated U.S. commitment to the defense of Europe, particularly West Germany.

War
Israel claimed that its air force had shot down 22 Syrian fighter jets and destroyed a Syrian surface-to-air missile system in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. Syria claimed to have lost only 16 planes, and that they had shot down 19 Israeli jets. Israeli ground forces had pushed to within four miles of Beirut.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Calgary (0-1) 0 @ Winnipeg (1-0) 22

25 years ago
1987

Died on this date
Madge Kennedy, 96. U.S. actress. Miss Kennedy starred on Broadway and in silent movies before marrying and retiring to the stage. From the 1950s to the 1970s, she appeared in character roles in television programs and in such movies as The Marrying Kind (1952); Lust for Life (1956); North By Northwest (1959); They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969); The Day of the Locust (1975); and Marathon Man (1976).

Journalism
The Panamanian newspaper La Prensa concluded a three-day series of articles by recently-ousted chief of staff Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, accusing dictator General Manuel Antonio Noriega of various crimes, including rigging the 1984 presidential election, and planning the 1981 death of dictator Omar Torrijos Herrera in a plane crash. The Roman Catholic Church called for an investigation of the charges.

Religion
One million people attended a mass conducted by Pope John Paul II in Lublin, Poland.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware announced his intention to seek the 1988 Democratic party nomination for President of the United States.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Ottawa (1-0) 29 @ Toronto (0-1) 14

20 years ago
1992

Crime
Nine people, including five police officers, were charged with 170 counts of child abuse at an unlicensed babysitting service in Martensville, Saskatchewan.

10 years ago
2002

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Los Angeles Lakers 106 @ New Jersey 103 (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 3-0)

Golf
Pak Se Ri of South Korea won the LPGA tournament by four strokes over Beth Daniel; it was Miss Pak’s fourth major championship in her career and her second LPGA title in the previous five years.