May 25, 2013

300 years ago
1713

Born on this date
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish nobleman and politician. Lord Mount Stuart, a Tory, succeeded Thomas Pelham-Holles as Prime Minister of Great Britain and leader of the House of Lords from May 26, 1762-April 8, 1763. He was succeeded as Prime Minister by George Grenville.

275 years ago
1738

War
King George II negotiated a cease-fire between Pennsylvania and Maryland, ending the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners. Hostilities between the two British colonies had begun in 1730.

180 years ago
1833

Law
The Chilean Constitution of 1833 was promulgated.

125 years ago
1888

Born on this date
Miles Malleson. U.K. actor and screenwriter. Mr. Malleson was a character actor in movies for more than 30 years, appearing in supporting roles in films such as The Sign of Four (1932); Stage Fright (1950); and Scrooge (1951). He also wrote screenplays for movies such as The Thief of Bagdad (1940). Mr. Malleson died on March 15, 1969 at the age of 80, after surgery for cataracts.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Richard Dimbleby. U.K. journalist. Mr. Dimbleby was a reporter with the British Broadcasting Corporation on radio and television from 1936-1965. He was the BBC's first war correspondent, and covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funerals of King George VI and Sir Winston Churchill. Mr. Dimbleby died of testicular cancer on December 22, 1965 at the age of 52.

80 years ago
1933

At the movies
La Llorona (The Crying Woman), directed by Ramón Peón, and starring Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar, and Alberto Martí, opened in theatres in Mexico.



75 years ago
1938

War
In the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Aviazione Legionaria bombed the city of Alicante, killing 313 civilians.

60 years ago
1953

Television
The first public television station in the United States officially began broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.

Politics and government
Alexander Matheson took office as Premier of Prince Edward Island, leading a Liberal government.

Defense
At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Will Follow Him--Little Peggy March

#1 single in France: Dis-Lui--Claude François (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Come te non c'è nessuno--Rita Pavone (10th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Wini-Wini--Die Tahiti-Tamourés (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): From Me to You--The Beatles (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): If You Wanna Be Happy--Jimmy Soul (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 If You Wanna Be Happy--Jimmy Soul
2 I Will Follow Him--Little Peggy March
3 Surfin' U.S.A.--Beach Boys
4 Puff the Magic Dragon--Peter, Paul and Mary
5 It's My Party--Lesley Gore
6 Foolish Little Girl--The Shirelles
7 Two Faces Have I--Lou Christie
8 I Love You Because--Al Martino
9 Reverend Mr. Black--The Kingston Trio
10 Da Doo Ron Ron--The Crystals

Singles entering the chart were Old Smokey Locomotion by Little Eva (#73); Shake a Hand by Jackie Wilson and Linda Hopkins (#74); There Goes (My Heart Again) by Fats Domino (#77); Every Step of the Way by Johnny Mathis (#86); Shake a Tail Feather by the Five Du-Tones (#87); Hobo Flats (Part 1) by Jimmy Smith (#89); Forever by the Marvelettes (#94); Swinging on a Star by Big Dee Irwin with Little Eva (#97); Got You on My Mind by Cookie and the Cupcakes (#99); and Jack the Ripper by Link Wray and the Ray Men (#100).

Diplomacy
Leaders of 32 African nations met in Addis Ababa and founded the Organisation of African Unity.

Boxing
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (16-3) won a 10-round split decision over George Benton (47-8-1) in a middleweight bout at Madison Square Garden in New York.



Football
CFL
The Edmonton Eskimos announced that Jack Jacobs had joined their coaching staff as an offensive assistant to head coach Eagle Keys. "Indian Jack" had been a quarterback, punter, defensive back, and kicker with the Cleveland Rams (1942, 1945), Washington Redskins (1946), and Green Bay Packers (1947-1949) of the National Football League before joining the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, with whom he set numerous passing records from 1950-1954. He coached the London Lords of the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1956-1957, finishing his playing career in 1956, before serving as an assistant coach with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1958-1960 and Montreal Alouettes in 1961-1962.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Killing Me Softly with His Song--Roberta Flack (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Get Down--Gilbert O'Sullivan (3rd week at #1)

Space
The Skylab 1 crew of Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida atop a Saturn 1B rocket, docked with, and boarded the Skylab space station, which had been launched on May 14.

Politics and government
Dr. Hector Campora was inaugurated as President of Argentina. He proclaimed a moderately leftist and nationalist program, with pledges to respect all constitutional liberties including freedom of the press. Later in the evening, Dr. Campora declared an amnesty for 500 political prisoners.

Protest
At least one person was reported killed and 20 wounded in clashes between security police and anti-military demonstrators in Argentina.

Captain Nicholas Pappas and 30 officers and enlisted men aboard the Greek destroyer HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, mutinied, anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy and refusing to return to Greece.

Disasters
A Soviet airliner carrying 40 people crashed, killing all aboard, in southern Siberia near the Chinese border durig a gunfight between a would-be hijacker and an armed guard.

Baseball
Bob Forsch pitched a no-hitter as the Tulsa Oilers blanked the Denver Bears 5-0 in an American Association game.

30 years ago
1983

Died on this date
Idris I, 94. King of Libya, 1951-1969. Idris of Libya was elected King of Libya by the National Congress, and took the throne when the United Kingdom of Libya was proclaimed as a sovereign state on December 24, 1951. While he was in Turkey for medical treatment, King Idris was deposed on September 1, 1969 by a military coup led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Idris went into exile in Egypt, and died in Cairo.

Jack Stewart, 66. Canadian hockey player. "Black Jack" was a defenseman with the Detroit Red Wings (1938-43; 1945-50) and Chicago Black Hawks (1950-52) who made the NHL's first all-star team three times and the second all-star team twice, and played for Stanley Cup championship teams in 1943 and 1950. He was inducted in to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1964.

Jean "Johnny" Rougeau, 54. Canadian wrestler and hockey coach. Mr. Rougeau began wrestling professionally in 1951, and founded All-Star Wrestling in 1967. He was a coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in the 1970s, and served as the league's president from 1981-1983.

Diplomacy
The United States Senate approved former Senator Richard Stone as the Reagan administration’s special envoy to Central America. That evening, Lt. Cdr. Albert Schaufelberger, deputy commander of the U.S. Military Group, became the first U.S. military adviser to die in El Salvador when he was shot and killed by gunmen who fired into his car while it was parked outside the University of Central America in San Salvador. The United States and El Salvador both began investigations.

Defense
The United States Senate voted 59-39 to free $625 million for development of the MX missile.

Disasters
A steamboat on the Nile River, near the Egyptian-Sudanese border, caught fire when a cooking gas cylinder exploded. 200 or more died.

Baseball
In a 6-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves‚ Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitchers Jim Bibby and Jim Winn combined to walk 7 consecutive batters in the 3rd inning‚ tying the major league record set by the Washington Nationals’ Dolly Gray in 1909.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Only One Woman--Alien

On television tonight
St. Elsewhere, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Last One

As the title suggests, this was the last episode of the series, which was in its sixth season.

Died on this date
Ernst Ruska, 81. German physicist. Dr. Ruska won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

Diplomacy
Panamanian dictator General Manuel Noriega rejected an American proposal to drop indictments against him in the United States on drug charges if he would leave Panama. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz was the chief advocate of dropping the indictments, arguing that the indictments were less important than getting Gen. Noriega out of Panama. The proposal drew criticism from ousted Panamanian President Eric Delvalle, as well as from people within the U.S. administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Basketball
NBA
Western Conference
Finals
Dallas 101 @ Los Angeles Lakers 123 (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 2-0)

20 years ago
1993

Politics and government
15 years of Progressive Conservative government ended when the Liberals, led by John Savage, won 40 of 52 seats in the House of Assembly in the Nova Scotia provincial election, an increase of 19 seats from before the election. The PCs, led by Premier Donald Cameron, dropped to 9 seats, while the New Democratic Party, led by Alexa McDonough, won the remaining 3 seats.

Scandal
The U.S. administration reinstated five of the seven members of the White House travel staff who had been dismissed from their jobs six days earlier.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Finals
Los Angeles 2 @ Toronto 3 (OT) (Toronto led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Glenn Anderson scored with 40 seconds remaining in the 1st overtime period to give the Maple Leafs their win over the Kings at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Finals
Chicago 91 @ New York 96 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-0)

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Sloan Wilson, 83. U.S. author. Mr. Wilson was best known for his novels The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1955) and A Summer Place (1958), both of which were made into popular movies. He died 17 days after his 83rd birthday.

Diplomacy
For the first time, the Israeli cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon officially accepted the Palestinian claim to eventual statehood, but with a long list of conditions.

Politics and government
Nestor Kirchner, Governor of the province of Santa Cruz and winner of the presidential election by default with the withdrawal of former President Carlos Menem from the campaign, was sworn in as President of Argentina.

Auto racing
Gil de Ferran won the Indianapolis 500, edging fellow Brazilian Helio Castroneves, the 2001 and 2002 winner, by 0.299 seconds.