August 9, 2012

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Kavita Duggal!

110 years ago
1902

Born on this date
Zino Francescatti. French musician. René-Charles Francescatti was a classical violinist who was a child prodigy and performed and recorded internationally in a career spanning almost 70 years until his retirement in 1976. He died on September 17, 1991 at the age of 89.

Britannica
Edward VII was crowned King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India was crowned at Westminster Abbey, along with his consort, Queen Alexandra.

60 years ago
1952

Hit Parade
#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Auf Widerseh'n Sweetheart--Vera Lynn (Best seller--5th week at #1; Disc Jockey--3rd week at #1; Juke Box--1st week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart--Vera Lynn (3rd week at #1)
--Eddy Howard
2 Here in My Heart--Al Martino
3 Delicado--Percy Faith and his Orchestra
4 Kiss of Fire--Georgia Gibbs
5 I'm Yours--Don Cornell
--Eddie Fisher
6 Botch-A-Me--Rosemary Clooney
7 Half as Much--Rosemary Clooney
8 Walkin' My Baby Back Home--Johnnie Ray
--Nat "King" Cole and Billy May and his Orchestra
9 Blue Tango--Leroy Anderson and his "Pops" Concert Orchestra
--Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra
10 Maybe--Perry Como and Eddie Fisher

Singles entering the chart were Just One of Those Things by Peggy Lee and Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra (#23); Fool, Fool, Fool by Kay Starr (#26); Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me by Les Paul and Mary Ford (#27); You Belong to Me by Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and his Orchestra (#31); Blow Out the Candle by Toni and Jan Arden (#33); Have a Good Time by Tony Bennett (#35); and When I Fall in Love by Doris Day with Percy Faith and his Orchestra and the Norman Luboff Choir (#36). When I Fall in Love was originally an instrumental theme from the movie One Minute to Zero (1952).

50 years ago
1962

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): I Remember You--Frank Ifield (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Lowell Stockman, 61. U.S. politician. Mr. Stockman, a Republican, represented Oregon's 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1943-1953).

Football
CFL
Hamilton (1-0) 28 @ Ottawa (0-1) 16
Edmonton (1-0) 20 @ Winnipeg (0-1) 16
Saskatchewan (1-1) 7 @ British Columbia (1-0) 33

Garney Henley scored 2 touchdowns, rushing 5 times for 66 yards and catching 7 passes for 103, to lead the Tiger-Cats over the Rough Riders before 16,259 fans at Lansdowne Park. Bobby Kuntz scored the other Hamilton touchdown and added a single when he fumbled into the Ottawa end zone and the ball was recovered there by a Rough Rider, who failed to get out of the end zone. Ottawa quarterback Ron Lancaster completed touchdown passes of 20 yards to Millard Flemming and 67 yards to Ernie White. It was the first CFL game for Mr. Flemming.

Jackie Parker completed touchdown passes to Tommy-Joe Coffey and Bill McKenny to lead the Eskimos past the defending Grey Cup champion Blue Bombers before 16,865 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Mr. Coffey, who had sat out the 1961 season with a nagging wrist injury, added a convert, 2 field goals, and a single for a total of 14 points. It was the first CFL game for Mr. McKenny. Bobby Walden, who split the Edmonton punting duties with Vic Chapman, averaged 60.3 yards per punt. Gerry James rushed for 1 Winnipeg touchdown, and Kenny Ploen passed to Farrell Funston for the other.

Joe Kapp threw 4 touchdown passes--2 to Tom Larscheid and 1 each to Mack Burton and Sonny Homer--to lead the Lions to a rout of the Roughriders before 27,864 fans at Empire Stadium in Vancouver. It was the first CFL game for both Mr. Larscheid and Mr. Burton. The Roughriders scored their touchdown on the game's most exciting play when Gene Wlasiuk returned a punt 75 yards.

40 years ago
1972

Disasters
Two weeks of monsoon floods and landslides in Nepal had killed 105 people.

Football
CFL
Toronto (0-2) 6 @ Saskatchewan (1-2) 15

30 years ago
1982

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Ran (So Far Away)--A Flock of Seagulls (2nd week at #1)

War
Both Iran and Iraq announced that they had inflicted heavy losses on each other in fighting northeast of Basra, Iraq.

The government of El Salvador announced that 19 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilians had been killed during a siege of the town of Ciudad Barrios by leftists.

Terrorism
An attack on a kosher restaurant in Paris killed 6 people and wounded 22. Police said the attack was carefully planned and involved five or six assailants. One of them threw a grenade into the restaurant, and the rest opened fire with submachine guns. The attack was believed to be an anti-Semitic act by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and followed six bombings in Paris in July.

Economics and finance
The Vancouver Stock Exchange became the third exchange in the world—after Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange and the Montreal Stock Exchange—to offer gold options trading.

25 years ago
1987

Hit parade
#1 single in France: Joe le taxi--Vanessa Paradis (2nd week at #1)

Labour
More than 250,000 black South African gold and coal miners went on strike. They wanted a 30% pay increase, but mine owners refused to agree to increases beyond their offer of 15%-23%. White employees earned much more than blacks.

Football
CFL
Calgary (2-6) 39 @ Ottawa (2-4) 38

Ottawa kicker Dean Dorsey, who had kicked 3 field goals to set a CFL record for consecutive field goals to 23, missed his last 2 attempts, allowing the Stampeders to complete one of the greatest comebacks in CFL history and end a 6-game losing streak before 21,036 fans at Lansdowne Park. The Rough Riders led 37-11 after 3 quarters as Todd Dillon threw 2 touchdown passes to Larry Mohr and another to Gerald Alphin, and Cedric Minter rushed for another touchdown. Calgary scored first on a touchdown pass from Rick Johnson to Ron Wheeler, but didn’t score another major until the 4th quarter, when they scored 4, all on the ground—2 by Tim Petros and 1 each by Gary Allen and Mr. Johnson. Mr. Petros’s second touchdown, from 1 yard, came with 29 seconds remaining in regulation time, and came just 59 seconds after Mr. Dorsey had unbelievably missed a field goal attempt from just 14 yards. He got another chance in the final seconds from 45 yards, but missed that one too, and the Stampeders prevented a single point that would have sent the game into overtime. The comeback, ironically, marked the end of the line for Calgary Bob Vespaziani as head coach of the Stampeders; he was fired several days later and replaced by assistant coach Lary Kuharich.



10 years ago
2002

Football
CFL
British Columbia (2-5) 29 @ Winnipeg (4-3) 21

The Winnipeg defense appeared to have stopped B.C. running back Sean Millington short of the goal line on a third-down gamble, but it was ruled a touchdown, with Matt Kellett’s convert and single on the subsequent kickoff giving the Lions a 29-14 lead with 3:32 remaining in regulation time. The Blue Bombers struck back on a 9-yard pass from Khari Jones to Milt Stegall with 1:28 remaining and got the ball back in the final seconds, but Mr. Jones’ pass into the B.C. end zone on the last play was intercepted by Carl Kidd. Earlier, B.C. quarterback Damon Allen had completed touchdown passes of 19 yards to Ryan Thelwell in the 2nd quarter and 41 yards to Jason Clermont in the 3rd quarter. Just 40 seconds after Mr. Clermont’s major, Mr. Jones completed a 55-yard pass to Arland Bruce for the first Winnipeg touchdown. Charles Roberts of the Blue Bombers rushed 12 times for 85 yards and caught 5 passes for 45. Attendance at Winnipeg Stadium was 28,734.