September 3, 2012

100 years ago
1912

Edmontonia
Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, officially opened the Alberta Legislature building.

90 years ago
1922

At the movies
The Light in the Dark, co-written and directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Lon Chaney and Hope Hampton, received its premiere screening at the Strand Theatre in Niagara Falls, New York. It was later re-edited into a shorter version and retitled The Light of Faith, which is the only version available today.



80 years ago
1932

Baseball
Jimmie Foxx hit his 50th and 51st home runs of the season as the Philadelphia Athletics came from behind to edge the Boston Red Sox 5-4.

70 years ago
1942

At the movies
The World at War, a documentary produced by the U.S. Office of War Information, began a pre-release run in New York City.



War
Actor James Cagney visited Libertyville, Illinois and made a speech at Cook Memorial Library before a crowd of 4,000 in an appeal for people to buy war bonds. The appeal raised nearly $111,000 in pledges, and Libertyville was rewarded a week later by hosting the world premiere screening at the Liberty Theatre of Desperate Journey, starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. The Royal Canadian Navy ships HMCS Shawinigan and HMCS Trail together picked up 17 survivors from the Canadian merchant ship Donald Stewart that had been torpedoed and sunk northeast of Cape Whittle, Quebec in the Gulf of St.Lawrence at position 50°32'N, 58°46'W by German U-boat U-517.

Protest
In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn led an uprising against occupying SS forces in the Ghetto of Lakhva, Poland (present-day Belarus).

60 years ago
1952

On the radio
I Was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews
Tonight’s episode: Squeeze Play

On television tonight
The Unexpected, hosted by Herbert Marshall, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Mask, starring John Hudson

50 years ago
1962

Died on this date
E.E. Cummings, 67. U.S. poet. Edward Estlin Cummings, who preferred to use lower-case letters, wrote 2,900 poems, and was associated with modernist free-form poetry. He died of a stroke.

Track and field
Just 9 days after tying the world record for the 100-yard dash in his home city, Vancouver's Harry Jerome did it again, running 100 yards in 9.2 seconds at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in a meet associated with the National Fitness Festival.

Football
CFL
Montreal (1-2-1) 25 @ Hamilton (3-0-1) 25
Winnipeg (4-1) 30 @ Saskatchewan (2-3-1) 7
Edmonton (3-3) 17 @ Calgary (2-4-1) 49

The Tiger-Cats rallied from a 15-3 halftime deficit and narrowly managed to preserve a tie against the Alouettes before 26,411 fans at Civic Stadium. George Dixon, Sandy Stephens, and Bobby Lee Thompson scored Montreal touchdowns. Tommy Grant scored Hamilton's first touchdown when he returned the 2nd half kickoff 104 yards. Hal Patterson and Garney Henley scored Tiger-Cat touchdowns later in the 3rd quarter, and Hamilton led 25-22. Bobby-Jack Oliver's 13-yard field goal at 1:04 of the 4th quarter tied the game, and it seemed that the game would end that way, but with 22 seconds remaining, Montreal's Ed Nickla intercepted a Frank Cosentino pass on the Hamilton 35-yard line and returned it to the 19. Former Hamilton punter Cam Fraser, recently acquired by Montreal, punted into the end zone in an attempt to win the game with a single point on the last play. Ron Howell caught the ball and kicked it back out. The Tiger-Cats were penalized for no yards when Mr. Fraser caught the ball, and the Alouettes were given another play. Mr. Fraser punted into the Hamilton end zone again; Mr. Howell punted the ball back to the Hamilton 42-yard line, and the Alouettes were unable to punt it back.

Hal Ledyard threw touchdown passes to Bob Deegan and Henry Janzen, and Gord Rowland returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown as the Blue Bombers scored 21 points in the 4th quarter to beat the Roughriders before 16,663 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Saskatchewan's touchdown came on an 85-yard pass from Bob Ptacek to Bill Gray. The Winnipeg defense restricted Saskatchewan to 2 yards rushing. Among the Winnipeg defenders was end Bill Whisler, playing his first CFL game.

Earl Lunsford rushed 22 times for 103 yards and 5 touchdowns, and Eagle Day completed 24 of 32 passes for 355 yards as the Stampeders routed the Eskimos at McMahon Stadium. Pete Manning caught 10 of Mr. Day's passes for 118 yards, and Ed Buchanan took one of Mr. Day's passes and went 56 yards for a touchdown. Mr. Day also rushed for a touchdown. Edmonton quarterback Don Getty completed touchdown passes of 32 yards to Jim Letcavits and 59 yards to Tommy-Joe Coffey. Jackie Parker started at halfback for the Eskimos but broke his collarbone early in the game while attempting to catch a pass, and missed the rest of the game and the next 5 games after that. More than any other game, this defeat finished the Eskimos as a great team for the rest of the decade.

Baseball
Jack Sanford picked up his 20th win of the season and 14th straight as the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 at Dodger Stadium.

40 years ago
1972

Olympics
Lasse Viren of Finland won the gold medal in the men's 10,000 metre run in Munich.

30 years ago
1982

Died on this date
Frederic Dannay, 76. U.S. author. Frederic Dannay was the pseudonym of Daniel Nathan, who, with his cousin Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee, combined to create the pseudonym and fictional detective Ellery Queen.

Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, 61. Italian police official. General Dalla Chiesa, his wife, and a police escort were gunned down in central Palermo, Sicily. Gen. Dalla Chiesa was a leader in the Carabinieri, the national military police force, and had been named on May 1 as prefect of Palermo, with the assignment of taking charge of the fight against the Sicilian Mafia and eradicating the heroin trade located there.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate had remained unchanged at 9.8% in August. This was the highest rate since 1941, and 10,805,000 people were without jobs.

Football
CFL
British Columbia (5-3) 45 @ Ottawa (1-7) 13

Roy Dewalt rushed for a touchdown and completed 15 of 19 passes for 232 yards and touchdowns of 52 and 5 yards to Ricky Ellis as the Lions routed the Rough Riders before 20,609 fans at Lansdowne Park. Larry Key rushed 6 yards for a B.C. touchdown and scored another on a 15-yard pass from Joe Paopao. The Rough Riders’ only touchdown came on a 19-yard pass from Chris Isaac to Bruce Walker with 10 seconds remaining in the game.

20 years ago
1992

World events
Relief flights to Sarajevo were suspended after an Italian relief plane was shot down on its way to the Yugoslavian city and all four crew members were killed.

Politics and government
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced that a national referendum would be held on October 26 on the constitutional accord between the federal and provincial governments that had been agreed upon on August 28.

Diplomacy
Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Palestinians began a new round of peace talks.

Economics and finance
The United States Census Bureau put the number of people living in families with incomes below the poverty line at 35.7 million in 1991, the highest total since 1964. The poverty rate in 1991 of 14.2% was the highest since 1983. The bureau also said that the average median family income had declined for the second straight year in 1991.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (4-5) 27 @ British Columbia (1-8) 33

Jon Volpe rushed 6 yards for a touchdown with 40 seconds remaining in regulation time to put the Lions ahead, and after Donovan Wright recovered Ken Hailey’s fumble on the subsequent kickoff, Lui Passaglia kicked a 39-yard field goal with 7 seconds remaining. Mr. Volpe and Ryan Hanson caught touchdown passes from Danny Barrett as B.C. took a 20-10 halftime led before 20,997 fans at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver. Tom Burgess threw second-half touchdown passes to Jock Climie and Stephen Jones, and Terry Baker added 2 converts and his fourth field goal of the game to give the Rough Riders a 27-20 lead. Darren Joseph of the Rough Riders rushed 20 times for 171 yards, while B.C.’s Mike Trevathan led all receivers with 123 yards on 6 receptions.



Baseball
Major league owners voted 18-9 with 1 abstention to call for the resignation of Commissioner Fay Vincent.

10 years ago
2002

Baseball
Andy Van Hekken of the Detroit Tigers pitched a shutout in his major league debut as the Tigers blanked the Cleveland Indians 4-0.