June 7, 2013

225 years ago
1788

Protest
Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.

175 years ago
1838

War
A group of 200 rebel refugees marched through Lewiston, New York, on their way to Clark's Point, intending to cross the Niagara River to attack Queenston, Upper Canada, which was defended by a small company of the First Frontier Light Infantry under Captain Lewis Palmer. Rumours flew that U.S. soldiers were on the way to intercept them, and on the order to embark, only 23 men obeyed, but then they dispersed before making the crossing.

150 years ago
1863

Born on this date
Bones Ely. U.S. baseball player. William Frederick Ely was a shortstop with the Buffalo Bisons (1884); Louisville Colonels (1886); Syracuse Stars (1890); Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1891); St. Louis Browns (1893-1895); Pittsburgh Pirates (1896-1901); Philadelphia Athletics (1901); and Washington Senators (1902), batting .258 with 24 home runs and 657 runs batted in in 1,343 games. His best season was 1894, when he hit .306 with 12 home runs and 89 RBIs. Mr. Ely died on January 10, 1952 at the age of 88.

War
During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City was captured by French troops.

120 years ago
1893

Born on this date
Herbert Feis. U.S. historian. Mr. Feis won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (1960). He died on March 2, 1972 at the age of 86.

80 years ago
1933

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Jewish Breastplate

This was an adaptation of The Jew's Breast-Plate, a story by A. Conan Doyle originally published in the February 1899 issue of The Strand Magazine as the ninth of a series of stories titled Round the Fire. These stories did not involve Sherlock Holmes.

75 years ago
1938

Aviation
The Douglas DC-4E made its first test flight.

Disasters
The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dikes holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000 people.

75 years ago
1943

Politics and government
Unable to form a new cabinet, General Arturo Rawson resigned as President of Argentina and turned over the governent to Gen. Pablo Ramirez.

The Chilean cabinet resigned after attacks by Radical Party members upon Interior Minister Dr. Raul Morales Beltrami.

The French Committee for National Liberation in Algiers appointed a cabinet of 14 to govern the French Empire, with Generals Charles de Gaulle and H.H. Giraud as co-chairman.

Religion
The Christian Science board of directors announced that Mrs. Daisette McKenzie had been elected president of the Mother Church, First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Lucky Lips--Cliff Richard and the Shadows

Died on this date
ZaSu Pitts, 69. U.S. actress. Miss Pitts was mainly known for comic performances in a career that began in silent movies in 1917. Her movies included Greed (1924); Casey at the Bat (1927); The Locked Door (1929); No, No, Nanette (1930); Monte Carlo (1930); Destry Rides Again (1932); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); No, No, Nanette (1940); and Life with Father (1947).

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Daisy a Day--Danny Doyle

Space
Skylab 1 astronauts Pete Conrad and Joe Kerwin made a spacewalk in which they performed a major repair of the Skylab space station, removing an aluminum strap which had jammed a set of solar power panels, robbing Skylab of nearly half its potential power.

30 years ago
1983

Diplomacy
The day after the Sandanista government of Nicaragua had expelled three U.S. diplomats while accusing them of plotting to poison Nicaragua's foreign minister, the U.S. State Department ordered Nicaragua to close its six consulates in the United States, and gave 21 Nicaraguan diplomats 1-3 days to leave the country. One of the diplomats requested political asylum in the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted 20-14 to end covert aid to Contra rebels fighting inside Nicaragua against the Sandanista regime.

25 years ago
1988

Died on this date
Martin Sommer, 73. German war criminal. SS Hauptscharführer Sommer was a guard at the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps and was known as the "Hangman of Buchenwald" for acts such as crucifying priests upside down. Even the SS regarded Hauptscharführer Sommer as being too cruel, and he was demoted and sent to the eastern front, where he lost his right arm and leg, and was held as a prisoner of war by the Soviets until 1950. He was then upgraded to war criminal, and transferred to West German custody in 1955. Mr. Sommer was finally convicted of war crimes in 1958, and spent the rest of his life in prison.

Space
The U.S.S.R. mission Soyuz TM-5, with a crew of Commander Anatoly Solovyev, Flight Engineeer Viktor Savinykh, and Research Cosmonaut Aleksandr Aleksandrov, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked with space station Mir for a three-month stay.

Diplomacy
Three days of talks began between the Sandanista government of Nicaragua and Contra rebels.

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Detroit 105 @ Los Angeles Lakers 93 (Detroit led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Adrian Dantley scored 34 points and Isiah Thomas added 19 to lead the Pistons over the Lakers before a capacity crowd of 17,505 at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Magic Johnson led Los Angeles with 28 points, and Byron Scott added 25.



20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Informer--Snow (6th week at #1)

Died on this date
Dražen Petrović, 28. Croatian basketball player. Mr. Petrović was a guard with the Yugoslavian national team that won the bronze medal in the 1984 Summer Olympic games and the silver medal in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. He played for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association from 1989-1991 and the New Jersey Nets from 1991-1993. Mr. Petrović was killed in a car accident in Germany. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

Law
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously that religious bodies must have the same access to the use of public school buildings as community groups.

Popular culture
A New York judge awarded actress Mia Farrow custody of three children whose father was movie director Woody Allen, Miss Farrow's former lover. The judge called Mr. Allen "untrustworthy."

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Montreal 3 @ Los Angeles 2 (OT) (Montreal led best-of-seven series 3-1)

John LeClair became the first Montreal player since Rocket Richard in 1951 to score overtime goals in two consecutive playoff games, banking a shot off the leg of sliding Los Angeles defenseman Darryl Sydor at 14:37 of overtime to give the Canadiens the win over the Kings at Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Montreal took an early 2-0 lead, but the Kings tied the game in the 2nd period on goals by Mike Donnelly and Marty McSorley. Mr. McSorley's goal came on a power play with 4 seconds remaining in the period.



10 years ago
2003

Terrorism
A suicide bomber struck a military bus in Afghanistan, killing 4 German peacekeepers and wounding 30 others. Al-Qaeda was suspected of being behind the attack.

Abominations
Rev. Vicky Gene Robinson was elected the first openly sodomite U.S. Episcopalian bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.

Horse racing
Empire Maker, with Jerry Bailey aboard, won the 135th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, New York, in a time of 2:28.26, ruining Funny Cide's bid to win the Triple Crown. Ten Most Wanted placed second, with Funny Cide third, 5 lengths behind Empire Maker.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Ottawa (1-1) 23 Montreal (1-1) 54 @ Ste. Foy, Quebec

The game was played at PEPS Stadium on the campus of Universite Laval. The Alouettes were designated as the home team.