June 26, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Olga!

1,650 years ago
363

Died on this date
Julian, 31 or 32. Roman Emperor, 361-363. Julian the Apostate, who acquired his nickname from his desire to repudiate Christianity and return Rome to its pagan roots, succeeded Constantius II as emperor. Julian died as a result of being mortally wounded in battle against the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian was proclaimed his successor by troops on the battlefield.

770 years ago
1243

War
Mongols defeated the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.

290 years ago
1723

War
After a siege and bombardment by cannon, the Azerbaijanian city of Baku surrendered to the Russians.

170 years ago
1843

Britannica
The Treaty of Nanking went into effect, as Hong Kong Island was ceded to the United Kingdom "in perpetuity."

75 years ago
1938

Died on this date
Daria Pratt, 79. U.S. golfer. Miss Pratt won a bronze medal in the women's golf event at the 1900 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. She married Prince Alexis Karageorgevich, a claimant to the throne of Serbia, in 1913.

James Weldon Johnson, 67. U.S. writer and civil rights activist. Mr. Johnson was a major figure in the "Harlem Renaissance"-- a novelist, poet, songwriter, lawyer, and diplomat. He was involved with the National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People from 1916 through the 1930s.

70 years ago
1943

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Taking a Chance on Love--Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with Helen Forrest (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Karl Landsteiner, 75. Austro-Hungarian born U.S. biologist and physician. Dr. Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1930 "for his discovery of human blood groups." He also helped to discover the polio virus.

War
Three squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force bomber wing began operating from Tunisia. U.K. Royal Air Force bombers attacked the Ruhr coal and steel centres of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.

Politics and government
King Peter II announced in London that Miles Trifunovich would head the new cabinet of the Yugoslavian government-in-exile.

Labour
About 210,000 coal miners, most of them in Pennsylvania, remained on strike.

Tennis
NCAA championship
Francisco "Pancho" Segura of the University of Miami defeated Tom Brown, Jr. of the University of California in the men's singles final.

60 years ago
1953

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): I'm Walking Behind You--Eddie Fisher

World events
Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD (the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs), was arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.

50 years ago
1963

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Beth Stover!

Music
Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas were at Abbey Road studios in London to record the songs Bad to Me and I Call Your Name, both written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Diplomacy
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech to an audience of 120,000 in West Berlin.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye--Demis Roussos (3rd week at #1)

Disasters
At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 9 people were killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

At least 9 died and 31 were missing when an Indian merchantman-passenger vessel capsized and sank off Cape Guardafui in the Indian Ocean.

At least 20 drowned when a Philippine inter-island passenger ship sank about 12 miles south of Cebu.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Juliet--Robin Gibb (2nd week at #1)

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Winnipeg (0-4) 10 @ Saskatchewan (2-1) 33

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Blue Monday ‘88--New Order

#1 single in Switzerland: Im Nin'Alu--Ofra Haza

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Informer--Snow (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: What is Love?--Haddaway (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Five Live (EP)--George Michael and Queen with Lisa Stansfield

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): Ain't Nothing to It--Def Dames Dope

#1 single in France (SNEP): Your Latest Trick--Dire Straits (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): (I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You--UB40

#1 single in the U.K. (Chart Information Network): Dreams--Gabrielle

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson (7th week at #1)

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson (6th week at #1)
2 Have I Told You Lately--Rod Stewart
3 Weak--SWV
4 Knockin' Da Boots--H-Town
5 Come Undone--Duran Duran
6 Freak Me--Silk
7 Show Me Love--Robin S
8 Bad Boys--Inner Circle
9 Dre Day--Dr. Dre
10 I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)--Exposé

Singles entering the chart were Run to You by Whitney Houston (#44); One Last Cry by Brian McKnight (#46); Girl U for Me by Silk (#77); Plush by Stone Temple Pilots (#81); Almost Unreal by Roxette (#88); and Dur Dur d'être Bébé! by Jordy (#92).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson (4th week at #1)
2 Come Undone--Duran Duran
3 Have I Told You Lately--Rod Stewart
4 Fields of Gold--Sting
5 I Don't Wanna Fight--Tina Turner
6 In These Arms--Bon Jovi
7 Hero--David Crosby and Phil Collins
8 Can't Do a Thing (To Stop Me)--Chris Isaak
9 Love Don't Live Here Anymore--Sven Gali
10 Regret--New Order

Singles entering the chart were Runaway Train by Soul Asylum (#55); Eat the Rich by Aerosmith (#65); The Return of Pan by the Waterboys (#78); Calling My Personal Angel by Paul Janz (#81); You've Got to Know by the Boomers (#85); Sonny Say You Will by Alannah Myles (#86); Dark is the Night by A-Ha (#89); and Special Kind of Love by Dina Carroll (#92).

Died on this date
Roy Campanella, 71. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Campanella was a catcher who played in the Negro National League from 1937-1945 and in the Mexican League in 1942-1943. Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, he played for the Dodgers from 1948-1957, batting .276 with 242 home runs and 856 runs batted in in 1,215 games. Mr. Campanella was the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1951, 1953, and 1955. The Dodgers won 5 NL pennants during the time that Mr. Campanella was with them, and won the World Series in 1955. Mr. Campanella was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a car accident in January 1958, but he remained with the Dodgers (who moved to Los Angeles in 1958) in several capacities. Mr. Campanella was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 and the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.

Football
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame added builder Sam Berger and players Peter Dalla Riva, Herman Harrison, and Whit Tucker.

CFL
Pre-season
British Columbia (0-1) 20 @ Sacramento (2-0) 39

The Gold Miners' win over the Lions at Hornet Field was the first Canadian Football League game ever played in Sacramento.

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Strom Thurmond, 100. U.S. politician. Mr. Thurmond was Governor of South Carolina from 1947-1951 and then represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954-1956 and 1956-2003. Originally a Democrat, he switched to the Republican Party after 1964. Mr. Thurmond was the 1948 U.S. presidential candidate of the States Rights Democratic Party, popularly known as "Dixiecrats," a southern wing that had split with the national party over the issue of civil rights. Mr. Thurmond received 39 electoral votes. A longtime opponent of civil rights legislation, Mr. Thurmond fathered an illegitimate daughter at the age of 22 by his family's 16-year-old Negro maid, and paid for her education. This part of Mr. Thurmond's history wasn't revealed until six months after his death. Mr. Thurmond was the first active Senator to reach the age of 100.

Denis Thatcher, 88. U.K. industrialist. Sir Denis was a millionaire from his ownership of the family business, a paint company called Atlas Preservatives. He was best known as the husband of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979-1990.

Marc-Vivien Foé, 28. Cameroonian football player. Mr. Foé was a midfielder who played professionally in both France and England. While playing for Cameroon's national team in the semi-final of the Confederations Cup in Lyon, France, Mr. Foé collapsed on the field, and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. His death was attributed to a hereditary heart condition.

Abominations
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Lawrence v. Texas to overturn a Texas state law that forbade sodomy between persons of the same sex, although not persons of oppostie sexes. The ruling had the effect of invalidating similar laws in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, and anti-sodomy laws applying to both same-sex and opposite-sex partners in nine other states. The ruling overturned the Supreme Court's 1986 decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that upheld a Georgia law against sodomy.

Terrorism
Saudi officials announced the arrest of Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, aka Abu Bakr al-Azdi, suspected of overseeing bombings in Riyadh in May that had killed 34 people. Mr. Ghamdi was believed to be a senior figure in the al-Qaeda organization.

Football
CFL
Calgary (0-2) 24 @ Edmonton (1-1) 34