September 22, 2012

Born on this date
Happy birthday, Julie!

220 years ago
1792

World events
The day after the monarchy had been abolished by the National Convention, the French Republic was proclaimed.

150 years ago
1862

Law
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all slaves in rebellious states effective January 1, 1863 if those states didn't return to the Union.

130 years ago
1882

Canadiana
James Cox Aikins was named Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.

Baseball
In a special meeting, the National League dropped the Troy Trojans and Worcester Brown Stockings from the league--effective at season's end--to be replaced with teams from Philadelphia and New York.

The Louisville Eclipse scored in every inning of a 20-6 win over the Pittsburgh Alleghenys.

80 years ago
1932

Scandal
University of Manitoba bursar John Machray pled guilty to embezzling from the university and the Anglican Church, among other victims.

Baseball
The New York Yankees came from behind to defeat the Philadelphia Athletics 8-7 in 10 innings. Jimmie Foxx hit his 55th and 56th home runs of the season for the Athletics, while Lou Gehrig hit his 33rd of the season for the Yankees.

70 years ago
1942

Football
CRU
Winnipeg City Rugby Football League
RCAF (1-0-1) 11 Bombers (0-1-1) 11

Sammy Lavitt and Wally “Chick” Chikowski scored touchdowns for RCAF, one of which was converted by Mr. Lavitt. Ches McCance scored 2 touchdowns and a convert for the Bombers. The game was played at Osborne Stadium.

60 years ago
1952

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Flight Thirteen, starring Alan Bunce and Josephine Hull

Football
CRU
WIFU
Saskatchewan (2-7) 6 @ Winnipeg (8-2-1) 35
Edmonton (5-3-1) 10 @ Calgary (4-5) 9

Jack Jacobs completed 21 of 31 passes for 320 yards and 4 touchdowns to lead the Blue Bombers over the Roughriders before 9,600 fans at Osborne Stadium. Tom Casey scored 2 Winnipeg touchdowns, with other Blue Bomber TDs coming from Gerry Palmer, Ralph McAllister, Mel Embree, and Bud Korchak. The Roughriders broke up the shutout after the final Winnipeg touchdown when Mike Maruska returned Mr. Korchak's kickoff 89 yards for the major score.

Rod Pantages punted for a single late in the game to give the Eskimos their win over the Stampeders before 12,000 fans at Mewata Stadium. Calgary held quarter leads of 7-0, 7-3, and 9-3. Pete Thodos scored the Stampeders' touchdown, and Jim Chambers replied for the Eskimos.

50 years ago
1962

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: Cuando calienta el sol--Hermanos Rigual (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): She's Not You--Elvis Presley (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Sherry--The 4 Seasons (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Sherry--The 4 Seasons (3rd week at #1)
2 Ramblin' Rose--Nat King Cole
3 Green Onions--Booker T. and the M.G.'s
4 Sheila--Tommy Roe
5 The Loco-Motion--Little Eva
6 Patches--Dickey Lee
7 You Belong to Me--The Duprees
8 Monster Mash--Bobby (Boris) Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
9 You Beat Me to the Punch--Mary Wells
10 Let's Dance--Chris Montez

Singles entering the chart were What Time is It? by the Jive Five (#88); Twistin' with Linda by the Isley Brothers (#90); Ol' Man River, with versions by Johnny Nash; and Jimmy Smith (#91); The Things We Did Last Summer by Shelley Fabares (#95); Handful of Memories by Baby Washington (#97); Gina by Johnny Mathis (#98); Second Fiddle Girl by Barbara Lynn (#99); and Desafinado by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (#100).

Canada's Top 20
1 Sherry--The 4 Seasons
2 Sheila--Tommy Roe
3 The Loco-Motion--Little Eva
4 Green Onions--Booker T. and the M.G.'s
5 Ramblin' Rose--Nat King Cole
6 She's Not You--Elvis Presley
7 Party Lights--Claudine Clark
8 You Belong to Me--The Duprees
9 Teen Age Idol--Rick Nelson
10 Patches--Dickey Lee
11 Swingin' Safari--Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra
12 Rinky Dink--Dave "Baby" Cortez
13 Alley Cat--Bent Fabric
14 You Beat Me to the Punch--Mary Wells
15 Breaking Up is Hard to Do--Neil Sedaka
16 Lie to Me--Brook Benton
17 Let's Dance--Chris Montez
18 You Don't Know Me--Ray Charles
19 Devil Woman--Marty Robbins
20 Beechwood 4-5789--The Marvelettes

Football
CFL
Edmonton (3-5-1) 18 @ Montreal (2-4-2) 18
British Columbia (3-6) 14 @ Saskatchewan (4-4-1) 26

In the game's final seconds, Edmonton punter Vic Chapman came up short on an attempt for a single point that would have won the game for the Eskimos before 19,129 fans at Molson Stadium. His punt fromt he Montreal 30-yard line was fielded by Larry Hickman 3 yards in front of the dead ball line, and he kicked the ball to the Montreal 22. No yards was called against the Alouettes, allowing the Eskimos to scrimmage from the 11. Mr. Chapman punted again, and his kick was fielded 1 yard short of the dead ball line by Paul Fedor, who kicked it weakly to the 12-yard line. Edmonton's Mike Lashuk picked up the ball and tried to run it into the end zone, but was stopped at the 8. The Eskimos led 4-1 at halftime, but the Alouettes took a 15-4 lead in the 3rd quarter on 2 touchdowns by quarterback Sandy Stephens. In the 4th quarter, Roy Stevenson blocked a punt, and Pat Dye returned it 12 yards for the first Edmonton touchdown. The Eskimos took an 18-15 lead when Don Getty connected with Jim Letcavits for a 32-yard touchdown, converted by Tommy-Joe Coffey. Montreal tied the game on a field goal by Bobby-Jack Oliver with 4 minutes remaining. Mr. Hickman, playing his first game with the Alouettes since being acquired from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, rushed 16 times for 89 yards. Teammate George Dixon rushed 16 times for 79 yards and caught 5 passes or 46. Johnny Bright led the Eskimos with 60 yards on 14 carries. The game was the final one for Mr. Chapman in an Edmonton uniform; he was dealt to the Alouettes several days later.

Ray Purdin scored 2 touchdowns in the 1st quarter and Bob Ptacek completed a 27-yard touchdown pass to Bill gray in the 3rd quarter as the Roughriders defeated the Lions before 12,283 fans on a windy Saturday night at Taylor Field in Regina. Joe Kapp threw a pass to Mack Burton for the first B.C. touchdown in the 1st quarter, and Nub Beamer rushed for the Lions' other TD in the 2nd quarter to tie the game 14-14 at halftime.

40 years ago
1972

Space
The United States launched the satellite Explorer 47, the ninth satellite in a series called Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP). It carried 13 sets of instruments to survey the turbulent zone of “wind” from the sun, radiation, and magnetic forces between Earth and the moon.

Hockey
Canada (NHL)-U.S.S.R. series
Game 5 @ Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow
Canada 4 U.S.S.R. 5 (U.S.S.R. led series 3-1-1)

Team Canada led 3-0 after 2 periods and 4-1 in the 3rd period, but the Soviets scored 5 goals in an 11-minute span in the 3rd period to win the game before a sellout crowd of 14,000 that included Communist Party general secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, and President Nikolai Podgorny. Jean-Paul Parise scored the only goal of the 1st period, and Bobby Clarke and Paul Henderson scored to make it 3-0. Yuri Blinov scored in the 4th minute of the 3rd period to spoil Tony Esposito's shutout, but Mr. Henderson scored his second goal of the game to make it 4-1. Vyacheslav Anisin and Vladimir Sadrin scored 8 seconds apart to make it 4-3 before Aleksandr Gusev scored in the 12th minute to tie the score. Vladimir Vikulov gave the Soviets a 5-4 lead three minutes later, and the lead held up. Canadian captain Phil Esposito provided a comical moment in the pre-game introductions; the stem of a flower that he had been holding had broken off and fallen on the ice, and he accidentally stepped on it and fell down. That was the only photo of the last four games of the series that was shown in Sports Illustrated.



Baseball
Pete Rose and Johnny Bench hit home runs as the Cincinnati Reds edged the Houston Astros 4-3 to clinch the National League West Division pennant.

30 years ago
1982

Labour
The United States Congress passed, and President Ronald Reagan signed, legislation to order 26,000 locomotive engineers to end their railroad strike, accept a new contract, and return to work. The strike had lasted four days and had affected most of the nation’s rail system. Mr. Reagan had requested the legislation because it was estimated that the strike had put nearly half a million people out of work and could cost the economy nearly $1 billion per day. The engineers were required to accept the recommendation of an emergency fact-finding board, including a substantial pay increase but not their principal demand of a guaranteed 15% pay differential over other rail unions.

Baseball
Chris Speier batted 3 for 5 with 8 runs batted in to lead the Montreal Expos over the Philadelphia Phillies 11-4.

25 years ago
1987

Died on this date
Norman Luboff, 70. U.S. composer and choir director. Mr. Luboff was best known as the founder and director of the Norman Luboff Choir, who recorded more than 75 albums from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Dan Rowan, 65. U.S. comedian. Mr. Rowan was the straight man in the Rowan & Martin comedy team with Dick Martin. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was one of the most popular shows on Ameican television from 1968-1973.

Economics and finance
The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 2,568.05 after a record one-day gain of 75.23 points.

Labour
For the second time in five years, National Football League players went on strike, this time over the issue of free agency.

Baseball
Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox tied an American League record by getting 200 hits in 5 consecutive seasons as he batted 2 for 4 in an 8-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers.

The Chicago Cubs traded pitcher Dickie Noles to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later, who turned out, a month later, to be Mr. Noles himself.

20 years ago
1992

Diplomacy
The United Nations General Assembly voted 127-6 with 26 abstentions to declare Yugoslavia’s seat vacant, in effect expelling Yugoslavia from the UN. Before the vote, Yugoslavian Premier Milan Panic had argued that expulsion would just strengthen the hand of “militant nationalists” in Belgrade. He condemned the “ethnic cleansing” policy practiced by Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that housing starts had risen 10.4% in August.

Scandal
University of Manitoba athletic director Mike Moore and head football coach Scott Spurgeon were fired, and the Bisons football team forfeited two victories in the 1992 season, for using ineligible players. Slotback Tim Moore, defensive back Chris Becker, and a third ineligible player discovered shortly afterward had not completed a prescribed number of summer credit hours to remain academically ineligible to play football for the university. In March 1992 the U of M Department of Athletics had been fined $1,000 for using Football Manitoba funds to allegedly pay first-year football players in 1991. Former Bisons’ quarterback Duane Hysop was named head coach in place of Mr. Spurgeon, while Joyce Fromson was named acting athletic director. The forfeited victories were against Alberta and Saskatchewan, and each of those teams was credited with a win. Mr. Spurgeon had been named the Canada West University Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 1991.

Disasters
At least 32 people died as a result of torrential rains and violent windstorms in southern France.

10 years ago
2002

Football
CFL
Calgary (4-9-0-2) 26 @ Ottawa (3-10-0-2) 22 (OT)
Hamilton (6-7) 21 @ Toronto (5-8) 28

Marcus Crandell completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to Kamau Peterson on the second possession of overtime to give the Stampeders their win over the Renegades before 23,136 fans at Frank Clair Stadium. Lawrence Tynes had kicked his 4th field goal of the game on the Renegades’ second overtime possession, and Mr. Crandell responded by immediately going for the game-winning touchdown. The Stampeders had opened the scoring just 1:22 into the game on a 35-yard pass from Mr. Crandell to Don Blair. Josh Ranek scored the Renegades’ only touchdown on a 1-yard rush in the 4th quarter.

Jim Ballard completed 23 of 31 passes for 328 yards and touchdowns of 35 yards to Mookie Mitchell in the 2nd quarter and 51 yards to Demetris Bendross in the 4th quarter to lead the Argonauts over the Tiger-Cats before 18,932 fans at SkyDome. Robert Drummond rushed for the first 2 Toronto touchdowns as the Argonauts scored 3 TDs in the 2nd quarter. Paul Osbaldiston kicked 4 field goals and 2 singles for the Tiger-Cats, whose only touchdown was scored by Jarret Smith on a 1-yard rush with just 21 seconds remaining in regulation time. The win marked the return of Mike “Pinball” Clemons as head coach of the Argonauts; he had coached the team in 2000 and 2001, but had stepped down in favour of Gary Etcheverry. When the Argonauts won only 4 of their first 12 games in 2002, Mr. Etcheverry was fired, and Mr. Clemons returned to the sidelines.

Baseball
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 in the last game at Cinergy Field in Cincinnati, which had been known as Riverfront Stadium from 1970-1996.

Johnny Damon hit 2 home runs and Trot Nixon hit a grand slam as the Boston Red Sox routed the Baltimore Orioles 13-2. Pedro Martinez gave up 2 runs in the 1st inning but settled down and coasted to his 20th win of the season.

Fred McGriff of the Chicago Cubs hit his 30th home run of the season in a 5-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, becoming the first major league player to hit 30 or more homers ina season with five different teams. PNC Park was the 42nd major league ballpark in which Mr. McGriff had hit a home run, breaking the record formerly held by Ellis Burks.