March 27, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Beth Nyambura!

400 years ago
1613

Canadiana
The wife of Nicholas Guy gave birth in Cuper's Cove to the first English child born in Newfoundland.

200 years ago
1813

Born on this date
Nathaniel Currier. U.S. lithographer. Mr. Currier, with his partner James Ives, headed Currier & Ives, the most prominent lithographic printing firm in the United States in the mid-19th century. Mr. Currier died on November 20, 1888 at the age of 75.

130 years ago
1883

Canadiana
Pile-O'-Bones, later renamed Regina, was named capital of the Northwest Territories, which then included all of what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan, and most of Manitoba.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Theodor Dannecker. German SS officer. Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Dannecker oversaw the roundup and deportation of Jews from Paris to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, and was the highest German official in charge of the deportation of Jews from the Bulgarian-held territories of Greece and Yugoslavia to Auschwitz and Treblinka. He committed suicide on December 10, 1945 at the age of 32, several days after being arrested by the United States Army.

Edmontonia
400 members of the Al Azhar Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine arrived from Calgary for a Shriners' reception.

Journalism
The French language newspaper Le Droit was founded in Ottawa.

75 years ago
1938

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Quarter-finals
New York Americans 3 New York Rangers 2 (4OT) (Americans won best-of-three series 2-1)

Lorne Carr scored 40 seconds into the 4th overtime period to give the Americans the win over the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

70 years ago
1943

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): I've Heard That Song Before--Harry James and his Music Makers with Helen Forrest (4th week at #1)

At the movies
Hangmen Also Die!, directed by Fritz Lang, and starring Brian Donlevy, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, and Alexander Granach, received its premiere screening in Prague, Oklahoma.



War
The Battle of the Komandorski Islands began in the Aleutian Islands when United States Navy forces intercepted Japanese forces attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

60 years ago
1953

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): She Wears Red Feathers--Guy Mitchell (3rd week at #1)

On television tonight
Tales of Tomorrow, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Ghost Writer, starring Leslie Nielsen, Gaby Rodgers, and Murray Matheson



50 years ago
1963

Music
The Beach Boys' album Surfin' USA was released by Capitol Records.

Transportation
Richard Beeching, chairman of the British Transport Commission, issued a report calling for closure of 2,000 railway stations and the elimination of 250 routes in order to improve the financial situation of British Rail.

40 years ago
1973

War
White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler stated that U.S. bombing of Cambodia would continue until Communist forces stopped their military operations and agreed to a cease-fire. Mr. Ziegler stressed that the bombing was proceeding at the request of Cambodian President Lon Nol.

30 years ago
1983

Football
USFL
Chicago 20 Los Angeles 14

Defense
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov criticized U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, and said that any attempt to achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union would be futile.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): One Tree Hill--U2

World events
The Sandanista government of Nicaragua freed 100 prisoners as part of a truce agreed to with the opposition Contras four days earlier.

Three days after being convicted of espionage, transmission of information, and aiding the nation's enemies, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced by an Israeli court to 18 years in prison.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Cat's in the Cradle--Ugly Kid Joe

#1 single in Italy: La Solitudine--Laura Pausini (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): I Feel You--Depeche Mode

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): No Limit--2 Unlimited (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Alison--Jordy

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): No Limit--2 Unlimited (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Chart Information Network): Oh Carolina--Shaggy (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Informer--Snow (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Informer--Snow
2 Nothin' But a "G" Thang--Dr. Dre
3 I'm Every Woman--Whitney Houston
4 Ordinary World--Duran Duran
5 Bed of Roses--Bon Jovi
6 Don't Walk Away--Jade
7 A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)--Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle
8 I Have Nothing--Whitney Houston
9 That's What Love Can Do--Boy Krazy
10 Two Princes--Spin Doctors

Singles entering the chart were Looking Through Patient Eyes by PM Dawn (#67); Shoop Shoop (Never Stop Givin' You Love) by Michael Cooper (#71); Down with the King by Run-D.M.C. (#73); The Morning Papers by Prince and the New Power Generation (#82); and What You Won't Do for Love by Go West (#88).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Ordinary World--Duran Duran (4th week at #1)
2 Bed of Roses--Bon Jovi
3 I'm Every Woman--Whitney Houston
4 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You--Sting
5 Man on the Moon--R.E.M.
6 Hope of Deliverance--Paul McCartney
7 Two Princes--Spin Doctors
8 Angel--Jon Secada
9 That's What Love Can Do--Boy Krazy
10 Simple Life--Elton John

Singles entering the chart were The Crying Game by Boy George (#60); Living on a Memory by Alannah Myles (#70); Driven by You by Brian May (#85); You Bring on the Sun by Londonbeat (#88); Morning Papers by Poison (#96); Running on Faith by Eric Clapton (#97); Candy Everybody Wants by 10,000 Maniacs (#98); and Buddy X by Neneh Cherry (#99).

Died on this date
Clifford Jordan, 61. U.S. musician and bandleader. Mr. Jordan was a jazz saxophonist who performed with a number of bands, including those of Max Roach and Sonny Stitt.

Politics and government
Jiang Zemin was appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

15 political parties in Somalia reached a fragile accord on a transitional national council pending formation of a national government within two years.

Scandal
Former Italian Prime Minister and Christian Democratic party leader Giulio Andreotti was accused by a tribunal in Palermo of allegiance to the Mafia.

Hockey
NHL
Toronto 6 @ Edmonton 2

This game at Edmonton Coliseum was the last hockey game attended by this blogger to date.

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Paul Zindel, 66. U.S. writer. Mr. Zindel was best known for his play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1964), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 1971. He wrote 39 books, the best-known of which was his first, the novel The Pigman (1968).

Ricardo Munguía, 39. Salvadoran aid worker. Mr. Munguía was working with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan when he was fatally shot by gunmen, marking the first death of a foreign aid worker in Afghanistan in at least five years.

War
U.S. forces intensified their bombardment of Baghdad, targeting government buildings.