April 7, 2013

250 years ago
1763

Born on this date
Domenico Dragonetti. Italian-born U.K. musician. Mr. Dragonetti was a double bassist who moved to London in 1794 and remained there for the rest of his life. He wrote various works for double bass, and designed the Dragonetti bow. Mr. Dragonetti died on April 16, 1846, nine days after his 83rd birthday.

230 years ago
1783

Died on this date
Ignaz Holzbauer, 71. Austrian-born composer. Mr. Holzbauer was a kapellmeister at the Court Theatre of his native Vienna, and later in Stuttgart. He wrote 196 symphonies, almost 20 operas, and other orchestral works.

225 years ago
1788

Americana
Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.

120 years ago
1893

Born on this date
Allen Dulles. U.S. diplomat and spymaster. Mr. Dulles, the younger brother of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, held various diplomatic posts before joining the office of Strategic Services at the beginning of World War II. The OSS eventually became the Central Intelligence Agency, and Mr. Dulles served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1951-1953) and Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961). He and other CIA officials were forced to resign on November 29, 1961, amid increasing criticism of the agency's performance. Mr. Dulles served on the Warren Commission (1963-1964) that investigated the November 22, 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, and died of influenza and pneumonia on January 29, 1969 at the age of 75.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Charles Vanik. U.S. politician. Mr. Vanik, a Democrat, represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives from 1955-1981. He was known for co-sponsoring--with Senator Henry Jackson--the Jackson-Vanik amendment in 1974, which denied normal trade relations to certain countries with command economies that restricted freedom of emigration. The amendment was particularly aimed at the Soviet bloc in order to allow refugees, especially religious minorities, to escape. Mr. Vanik died on August 30, 2007 at the age of 94.

Protest
5,000 suffragettes seeking the right to vote for women marched to the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

80 years ago
1933

Society
Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the 21st amendment to the Constitution.

75 years ago
1938

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Chicago 2 @ Toronto 5 (Best-of-five series tied 1-1)

The Black Hawks, whose regular goaltender, Mike Karakas, was injured and unable to play, had planned on using substitute Paul Goodman in game 1, but when he couldn't be found, a minor leaguer named Alfie Moore was located. He was sensational in a 3-1 win, but was ruled ineligible just two hours before the start of game 2 at Maple Leaf Gardens. Mr. Goodman, thinking that Mr. Moore was going to play, had disappeared, and was finally found in a movie theatre. He didn't have as much success as Mr. Moore.

70 years ago
1943

Died on this date
Alexandre Millerand, 84. Prime Minister of France, 1920; President of France, 1920-1924. Mr. Millerand, a Socialist, was Prime Minister of France from January-September 1920 after being appointed to the position by President Paul Deschanel. When Mr. Deschanel was forced to resign, Mr. Millerand was elevated to the presidency as a compromise candidate.

Abominations
In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans ordered 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they were shot dead and buried in ditches.

Politics and government
Ioannis Rallis succeeded Konstantinos Logothetopoulos as collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Detroit 4 @ Boston 0 (Detroit led best-of-seven series 3-0)

Football
NFL
The National Football League made the wearing of helmets by players mandatory for the 1943 season.

60 years ago
1953

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Minneapolis 90 @ New York 75 (Minneapolis led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Baseball
The Milwaukee Braves, whose franchise shift from Boston had occurred when the team was in Florida for sring training, arrived in their new home town, and were greeted by 12,000 people at the train station.

50 years ago
1963

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Semi-Finals
Chicago 4 @ Detroit 7 (Detroit won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Alex Faulkner scored the winning goal for the Red Wings as they defeated the Black Hawks at Olympia Stadium and advanced to the finals against the defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs.

WHL
Quarter-Finals
Edmonton 2 @ Seattle 3 (OT) (Seattle won best-of-three series 2-1)

Bob Barlow scored the winning goal as the Totems eliminated the Flyers at Washington State Coliseum. Doug Messier and Mr. Elik scored for Edmonton. The game was the last for the Flyers after 23 years of operation, the last 12 in the Western Hockey League as the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings.

Golf
Jack Nicklaus won the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia for the first time.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K.: Get Down--Gilbert O'Sullivan

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 You're So Vain--Carly Simon (5th week at #1)
2 I'd Love You to Want Me--Lobo
3 Crocodile Rock--Elton John
4 Funny Face--Donna Fargo
5 Dueling Banjos--Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell
6 Killing Me Softly with His Song--Roberta Flack
7 Separate Ways--Elvis Presley
8 Top of the World--Carpenters
9 Your Mama Don't Dance--The Bootleg Family
10 I Am Woman--Helen Reddy

Singles entering the chart were Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend by Lobo (#36); Wintersong by Country Radio (#38); and City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie (#40).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia--Vicki Lawrence

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)--Gladys Knight and the Pips
2 Love Train--O'Jays
3 Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)--Four Tops
4 Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)--Deodato
5 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia--Vicki Lawrence
6 Killing Me Softly with His Song--Roberta Flack
7 Sing--Carpenters
8 Danny's Song--Anne Murray
9 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
10 Call Me (Come Back Home)--Al Green

Singles entering the chart were Daniel by Elton John (#74); It Sure Took a Long, Long Time by Lobo (#77); No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper (#82); Everything's Been Changed by the 5th Dimension (#83); Fencewalk by Mandrill (#84); Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest (#85); I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby by Barry White (#91); The Lord Knows I'm Drinking by Cal Smith (#92); Natural High by Bloodstone (#95); Breakaway by Millie Jackson (#96); People are Changin' by Timmy Thomas (#97); And I Love You So by Perry Como (#98); Working Class Hero by Tommy Roe (#99); and Let Me Down Easy by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (#100).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Killing Me Softly with His Song--Roberta Flack (2nd week at #1)
2 The Cover of "Rolling Stone"--Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
3 Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)--Deodato
4 Dueling Banjos--Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell
5 Daddy's Home--Jermaine Jackson
6 Danny's Song--Anne Murray
7 Control of Me--Les Emmerson
8 Touch of Magic--James Leroy
9 Sing--Carpenters
10 You Don't Know What Love Is--Susan Jacks

Singles entering the chart were The Cisco Kid by War (#72); Orly by the Guess Who (#79); Can't Depend on Love by Gordon Lightfoot (#81); Gudbuy T' Jane by Slade (#83); Mama was a Rock and Roll Singer by Sonny and Cher (#84); Hearts of Stone by the Blue Ridge Rangers (#86); Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) by Gladys Knight and the Pips (#88); Superman by Donna Fargo (#90); He was Me He was You by the Bells (#94); Reeling in the Years by Steely Dan (#95); Thinking of You by Loggins and Messina (#96); I Knew Jesus by Glen Campbell (#97); Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group (#98); Who Was It? by Hurricane Smith (#99); and Call Me by Al Green (#100).

Calgary’s Top 10
1 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia--Vicki Lawrence
2 Little Willy--The Sweet
3 You Don't Know What Love Is--Susan Jacks
4 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
5 Killing Me Softly with His Song--Roberta Flack
6 The Cover of "Rolling Stone"--Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
7 Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)--Deodato
8 Dead Skunk--Loudon Wainwright III
9 Sing--Carpenters
10 Wildflower--Skylark
Pick hit of the week: Walk on the Wild Side--Lou Reed

World events
Nine people aboard an international peacekeeping helicopter were killed when the helicopter was shot down by a Communist missile in South Vietnam's northern Quangtri province. Th dead included four members of the International Commission for Control and Supervision, three crewmen, and two Viet Cong liaison officers. Another helicopter, hit by small arms fire, made a safe landing.

Indian troops took over Gangtok, capital of the protectorate of Sikkim, as 15,000-20,000 demonstrators entered the city.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Richard Nixon sent General Alexander Haig to Indochina to study the deteriorating military situation, citing "developments" and concern over the continued presence of North Vietnamese forces in Cambodia; the level of violence in Cambodia; and continued cease-fire violations in South Vietnam. White House press secretary Ron Ziegler asserted that the move did not indicate that Mr. Nixon was considering deployment of American ground troops in Cambodia.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Quarter-Finals
Montreal 5 @ Buffalo 2 (Montreal led best-of-seven series 3-0)
Boston 4 @ New York Rangers 2 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-1)
Chicago 5 @ St. Louis 2 (Chicago led best-of-seven series 3-0)
Philadelphia 0 @ Minnesota 5 (Minnesota led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Ed Johnston was in goal for the Bruins as they beat the Rangers at Madison Square Garden. Jacques Plante had played the first two games for Boston, but coach Bep Guidolin opted to use Mr. Johnston for the third game, with 35-year-old rookie Ross Brooks dressing as the backup.

Cesare Maniago earned his second shutout of the series as the North Stars blanked the Flyers at Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington.

WHA
Avco World Trophy
East Division Semi-Finals
Philadelphia 1 @ Cleveland 7 (Cleveland led best-of-seven series 2-0)
Ottawa 3 @ New England 6 (New England led best-of-seven series 1-0)

West Division Semi-Finals
Los Angeles 4 @ Houston 2 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Basketball
NBA
Western Conference Semi-Finals
Golden State 102 Milwaukee 97 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

ABA
Eastern Division Semi-Finals
Kentucky 114 Virginia 103 (Kentucky won best-of-seven series 4-1)

Western Division Semi-Finals
Indiana 121 Denver 107 (Indiana won best-of-seven series 4-1)
Utah 97 San Diego 96 (Utah led best-of-seven series 3-0)

30 years ago
1983

Space
U.S. space shuttle Challengerastronauts Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson performed a 3 hour, 40 minute space walk to practice satellite repair work, after a communications satellite had been launched from the Challenger. It was the first space walk by Americans since the shuttle flights had begun in 1981.

Diplomacy
The Warsaw Pact foreign ministers, meeting in Prague, Czechoslovakia, proposed an East-West non-aggression pact and a halt to U.S. deployment of Pershing and Cruise missiles in Europe.

The Chinese government cancelled nine cultural exchange programs and participation in ten athletic events in the United States. China’s action applied only to events sponsored by the U.S. government, and was a response to the U.S. granting asylum to Chinese tennis star Hu Na three days earlier.

Defense
The United States Senate Budget Committee voted 17-4 to approve a 5% increase in defense spending for fiscal 1984, half of what had been requested by President Roald Reagan. Committee chairman Pete Domenici (Republican--New Mexico) rejected a greater increase in defense spending and said that a 5% increase was what teh country could afford.

Hockey
NHL
In Stanley Cup playoff action, the Edmonton Oilers took a 2-0 lead in their first round series against the Winnipeg Jets with a 4-3 win in Edmonton. The win was a controversial one, as Paul Coffey of the Oilers was credited with a goal on a shot that clearly hit the goal post and never entered the net. The Buffalo Sabres recorded their second straight shutout over the Montreal Canadiens with a 3-0 win in the second game of their series.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Always on My Mind--Pet Shop Boys (8th week at #1)

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): On kesäyö/Viimeinen laulu--Topi Sorsakoski & J. Karjalainen

Defense
The arrival of U.S. Marines in Panama concluded; a total of 1,300 assumed security duties at U.S. bases.

Terrorism
About half of the hostages aboard a Kuwait Airways jet that been hijacked to Mashhad, Iran two days earlier, were released. Kuwait rejected the hijackers' demands that 17 Shiite terrorists be freed. The plane took off, and after being refused the right to land in Beirut, landed in Larnaca, Cyprus.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Paul Simon announced the suspension of his campaign for the 1988 Democratic Party U.S. presidential nomination, two days after he received just 5% of the vote in the Wisconsin primary.

Protest
Students in Tegucigalpa, Honduras rioted in protest against the seizure by U.S. authorities of fugitive and suspected drug dealer Juan Ramon Matta two days earlier. Extradition was prohibited by the Honduran constitution. 2,000 people attacked and burned the U.S. embassy annex. Four students were shot to death, and a girl died in the fire. It wasn’t clear who fired the shots.

Hockey
Among the first round Stanley Cup playoff games played that night, the Edmonton Oilers edged the Winnipeg Jets 3-2; the St. Louis Blues defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2; and the Detroit Red Wings evened their series against the Toronto Maple Leafs at 1-1 with a 6-2 win at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): No Limit--2 Unlimited (7th week at #1)

10 years ago
2003

War
Organized Iraqi resistance to invading coalition forces had been wiped out, as British forces took control of Basra, the country's second-largest city. The Associated Press received a taped message reportedly by Al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, with the speaker calling for his Islamic supporters to seek martyrdom through suicide attacks on Americans and Britons.

Abominations
Cuban courts handed stiff sentences to advocates of democratic reform. Nearly 80 people, including journalists and librarians, faced up to 27 years in prison.

Basketball
NCAA
Men's championship @ New Orleans
Final
Syracuse 81 Kansas 78

Carmelo Anthony scored 20 points as the Orangemen defeated the Jayhawks at the Louisiana Superdome to win their first championship. Mr. Anthony scored 121 points in the Final Four tournament and was named the most outstanding player.