April 11, 2013

300 years ago
1713

War
The Treaty of Utrecht was concluded, ending the War of the Spanish Succession. Signatories represented King Louis XIV of France; King Philip V of Spain; Queen Anne of Great Britain; King John V of Portugal; Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy; and the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The result was the defeat of French ambitions and preservation of the European balance of power.

120 years ago
1893

Born on this date
Dean Acheson. U.S. diplomat and politician. Mr. Acheson, a Democrat, was Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Congressional Relations and International Conferences (1944-1945); Undersecretary of State (1945-1947); and Secretary of State (1949-1953). He played key roles in the design and implementation of the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine, and persuaded President Harry Truman to intervene in the Korean War in 1950. Mr. Acheson was an anti-Communist, but his pursuit of the policy of "containment" of Communism led to accusations that he was "soft" on Communism, particularly after the fall of China to Communist forces in 1949. Mr. Acheson served as an unofficial adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson during the 1960s, and died of a stroke on October 12, 1971 at the age of 78.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Oleg Cassini. French-born U.S. fashion designer. Mr. Cassini designed costumes for movies and movie stars, but was best known for his fashion designs for U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960s. He died on March 17, 2006 at the age of 92.

Abominations
The Nevill Ground's pavilion at Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England was destroyed in a suffragette arson attack, becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.

80 years ago
1933

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
New York Rangers 2 @ Toronto 3 (New York led best-of-five series 2-1)

60 years ago
1953

Hit Parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Went to Your Wedding--Patti Page; Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra (3rd week at #1)

#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): The Doggie in the Window--Patti Page (Best seller--4th week at #1; Disc Jockey--3rd week at #1; Jukebox--2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 The Doggie in the Window--Patti Page (4th week at #1)
2 Till I Waltz Again with You--Teresa Brewer
3 I Believe--Frankie Laine
--[Jane Froman]
4 Tell Me a Story--Jimmy Boyd and Frankie Laine
5 Tell Me You're Mine--The Gaylords
6 Pretend--Nat "King" Cole
7 Wild Horses--Perry Como
8 I'm Sitting on Top of the World--Les Paul and Mary Ford
9 Your Cheatin' Heart--Joni James
10 Gomen-Nasai (Forgive Me)--Columbia Tokyo Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were Ruby by Richard Hayman and his Orchestra (#25) and Mexico by Ken Remo (#37). Ruby was a version of the theme from the movie Ruby Gentry (1952).

Died on this date
Kid Nichols, 83. U.S. baseball pitcher. A native of Madison, Wisconsin but a graduate of Queen Elizabeth High School in Surrey, British Columbia, Charles Augustus Nichols pitched with the Boston Beaneaters (1890-1901); St. Louis Cardinals (1904-1905); and Philadelphia Phillies (1905-1906), winning 361 games and losing 208, with an earned run average of 2.95. He won 20 or more games in a season 11 times, with 7 seasons of 30 or more wins, and played for five National League championship teams. Mr. Nichols was the youngest pitcher to win 300 games (at age 30). He was a switch-hitter who batted .226 with 16 home runs and 278 runs batted in. Mr. Nichols managed the Cardinals to a 75-79 record in 1904, but was fired after a 5-9 start in 1905 after a dispute with team co-owner Stanley Robison. His 361 wins rank seventh on the major league career list, and his 5,056 1/3 innings pitched rank eleventh. Mr. Nichols was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Boston 4 @ Montreal 1 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Sugar Jim Henry started in goal for the Bruins, but injured an ankle when he caught a skate in a crack, and was replaced by Gordon "Red" Henry, who completed the victory over the Canadiens at the Montreal Forum. Jacques Plante was in goal for Montreal.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): How Do You Do It--Gerry and the Pacemakers

On television tonight
Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville, starring Albert Salmi, Julie Newmar, and John Anderson

Music
From Me to You/Thank You Girl by the Beatles was released as a single in the United Kingdom on Parlophone Records.

Religion
Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) , the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Roman Catholics alone.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
finals
Detroit 2 @ Toronto 4 (Toronto led best-of-seven series 2-0)

40 years ago
1973

Environment
William Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, granted U.S. auto makers until 1976 to meet 1975 standards from reducing automotive emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide.

Disasters
Flooding in the Mississippi-Missouri River Valley resulting from severe storms reached its peak when five Mississippi counties were flooded and the river reached 50.3 feet, the highest level in 30 years. Losses in cotton crops in the state were estimated at $100 million.

Hockey
WHA
Avco World Trophy
East Division Semi-Finals
Cleveland 6 @ Philadelphia 2 (Cleveland won best-of-seven series 4-0)

West Division Semi-Finals
Winnipeg 3 @ Minnesota 2 (OT) (Winnipeg led best-of-seven series 3-1)

The Crusaders' win at Philadelphia Civic Center was the last World Hockey Association game played in Philadelphia. The Blazers moved to Vancouver after the season to become the Vancouver Blazers.

Norm Beaudin scored 3:12 into overtime to give the Jets their win over the Fighting Saints at St. Paul Civic Center.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Billie Jean--Michael Jackson

Died on this date
Dolores del Rio, 77. Mexican actress. The "female Valentino," Miss del Rio was the first Mexican movie actress to have international appeal. She moved to Hollywood with her screen writer husband, and made her movie debut in Joanna, released in 1925. Her Hollywood movies included Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Journey Into Fear (1943). Her marriage broke up after she had an affair with Orson Welles, and she made her way back to Mexico, where she became a huge star filming in Spanish for the first time. Miss del Rio won Ariels (Mexican Academy Awards) for three movies: Les Abandonadas (1945); Doña Perfecta (1951); and El niño y la niebla (1953).

Movies
The Academy Awards were presented for 1982. Gandhi took the Oscars for Best Picture; Best Director (Richard Attenborough); and Best Actor (Ben Kingsley). Other winners included: Actress--Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice); Supporting Actor--Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman); Supporting Actress--Jessica Lange (Tootsie); and Song--Up Where We Belong (An Officer and a Gentleman).

Defense
A commission appointed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced its proposals for production and basing of the MX missile. The commission, headed by Brebt Scowcroft, proposed that 100 MX missiles be built and deployed in existing Minuteman silos in Nebraska and Wyoming. Furthermore, newer and smaller ICBMs that could be launched from silos or trucks would also be built. Each MX missile would carry 10 nuclear warheads, and each smaller missile would carry one warhead. The commission estimated the cost of the proposal at about $20 billion, compared with $28 billion for the "dense pack" MX basing plan that Congress had rejected the previous December. The commission admitted that MX missiles in silos might be vulnerable in a nuclear attack.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): I Should Be So Lucky--Kylie Minogue (5th week at #1)

Died on this date
Jeff Donnell, 66. U.S. actress. Jean Marie Donnell appeared in supporting roles in movies in the 1940s and '50s, and in television from the 1950s onward. She played Stella Fields in the soap opera General Hospital from 1979 until her death from a heart attack.

Movies
The Academy Awards for 1987 were presented at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Last Emperor won Best Picture, with Bernardo Bertolucci taking Best Director honours for that film. Best Actor winner was Michael Douglas for Wall Street, although he should have been nominated for Fatal Attraction. Moonstruck won two acting Oscars--Cher (Actress) and Olympia Dukakis (Supporting Actress). Sean Connery won for Supporting Actor for his performance in The Untouchables. The Best Song winner was (I've Had) The Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing.

Terrorism
A second hostage aboard a Kuwait Airways jet that had been hijacked on April 5 was killed by the hijackers; the first had been killed on April 9. The hijackers were demanding that Kuwait release 17 Shiite prisoners; Kuwait refused to do so. The plane was now on the ground at Larnaca, Cyprus.

World events
Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador, denied amnesty for three leftists charged, but not yet tried, in the 1985 killings of four U.S. Marines and nine civilians. Mr. Duarte's decision overruled an appeals court decision that the accused men should be freed under the nation's new amnesty law. Mr. Duarte argued that the three had violated international law protecting the lives of diplomats.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Give in to Me--Michael Jackson

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): All that She Wants--Ace of Base (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: No Limit--2 Unlimited (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Young at Heart--The Bluebells

Protest
450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

Golf
Bernhard Langer won the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia for the second time, with an 11-under-par score of 277, 4 strokes ahead of Chip Beck. First prize money was $306,000.

Hockey
NHL
Winnipeg 7 Edmonton 5
Vancouver 6 Calgary 3
Toronto 4 Hartford 2

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Cecil Green, 102. U.K.-born geophysicist and businessman. Mr. Green, a native of England, moved to Toronto and then to San Francisco with his family when he was a child. He studied at the University of British Columbia and then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. In 1941, Mr. Green and three partners bought Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics. The company was reorganized as Texas Instruments in 1951, with Mr. Green serving as a vice president and director.

War
U.S. Special Forces captured Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city. Kurds in northern Iraq captured the city of Kirkuk; U.S. forces assumed control of the city as parts of efforts to allay Turkish fears of a Kurdish independence movement spreading to within its borders. U.S. military officials issued a "deck of cards," a list of 55 prominent figures in the Iraqi regime of President Saddam Hussein who were being sought. Each was identified as a card in the deck, with Mr. Hussein as the ace of spades.