July 13, 2013

370 years ago
1643

War
Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding English Royalist forces, heavily defeated the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller in the Battle of Roundway Down in the English Civil War.

220 years ago
1793

Died on this date
Jean-Paul Marat, 50. French physician, scientist, and journalist. Dr. Marat was a court physician to the aristocracy who became a scientist and later a journalist who wrote in support of the French Revolution. Dr. Marat was a Jacobin who supported the more radical aspects of the revolution, as opposed to the Girondins, who opposed the revolution's excesses. He was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer to whom he had granted an interview because she claimed to have information on the activities of Girnodins who had escaped to Normandy.

150 years ago
1863

Protest
Opponents of conscription began three days of rioting in New York City which still stands as the worst civil disturbance in United States history.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Dave Garroway. U.S. television personality. Mr. Garroway, one of the most popular figures of the early years of television, hosted the Today show on NBC from 1952-1961. He shot himself to death at his home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania on July 21, 1982 at the age of 69, shortly after undergoing heart surgery.

90 years ago
1923

Popular culture
The Hollywood Sign was officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally read "Hollywoodland," but the four last letters were dropped after renovation in 1949.

70 years ago
1943

War
U.K. troops in Sicily took the port of Augusta and pushed north toward Catania, while U.S. troops on the southern Sicilian coast took the Axis airfields at Comiso and Ponte Olivo. In the heaviest Allied air attack on any Italian town, a strong force of U.K. Royal Air Force bombers made a concentrated attack on the manufacturing centre of Turin. U.S. warships sank a Japanese light cruiser and three destroyers in the Kula Gulf, north of New Georgia Island.

Politics and government
The U.S. State Department announced that Admiral Georges Robert had terminated his regime in Martinique and that Henri-Etienne Hoppenot, representing the French Committee of National Liberation, had been recognized as Governor General.

The Argentine Interior Ministry ordered German culture and welfare organizations closed within 48 hours, and also banned Communist groups.

Medicine
The U.S. Navy announced that a "mist-like" inhalable serum had been developed at the University of California that was 90% effective in preventing influenza.

Baseball
Major League All-Star Game @ Shibe Park, Philadelphia
American League 5 National League 3

Bobby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox hit a 3-run home run off Mort Cooper of the St. Louis Cardinals in the bottom of the 2nd inning to give the AL a 3-1 lead, and that proved to be the big blow. Mr. Doerr also added a single. Vince DiMaggio of the Pittsburgh Pirates entered the game as a pinch hitter in the 4th inning and singled. He later tripled and scored, and hit a solo home run for the NL. Dutch Leonard of the Washington Nationals started on the mound for the AL and pitched the first 3 innings to get credit for the win. 31,938 attended the first All-Star Game to be played at night.





60 years ago
1953

Theatre
Alec Guinness starred in Shakespeare's Richard III to open the first season of the Stratford Festival, held in a tent in Stratford, Ontario.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Sukiyaki--Kyu Sakamoto

#1 single in France: Da Dou Ron Ron--Johnny Hallyday

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Quelli della mia eta--Françoise Hardy

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Barcarole in der Nacht--Connie Francis (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)--Frank Ifield

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Easier Said than Done--The Essex (2nd week at #1)

U.S. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Easier Said than Done--The Essex
2 So Much in Love--The Tymes
3 Surf City--Jan & Dean
4 Sukiyaki--Kyu Sakamoto
5 Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport--Rolf Harris
6 Blue on Blue--Bobby Vinton
7 Memphis--Lonnie Mack
8 Hello Stranger--Barbara Lewis
9 One Fine Day--The Chiffons
10 Fingertips - Part 2--Little Stevie Wonder

Singles entering the chart were Judy's Turn to Cry by Lesley Gore (#63); True Love Never Runs Smooth by Gene Pitney (#70); Mama Don't Allow by the Rooftop Singers (#72); Surf Party by Chubby Checker (#79); The Monkey Time by Major Lance (#81); Shake! Shake! Shake! by Jackie Wilson (#82); Daughter by the Blenders (#85); Land of 1000 Dances by Chris Kenner (#93); What Makes Little Girls Cry by the Victorians (#94); Dance, Dance, Dance by Joey Dee (#95); Sometimes You Gotta Cry a Little by Bobby Bland (#96); Make the World Go Away by Timi Yuro (#97); Groovy Baby by Billy Abbott and the Jewels (#99); Treat 'Em Tough by Jimmy Soul (#100); The Minute You're Gone by Sonny James (also #100); and Where is Johnny Now by the Sapphires (also #100). The Looking Ahead chart had From Me to You by the Beatles, on Vee-Jay Records 522, charting at #49, marking the first appearance by the Beatles on the Cash Box singles or Looking Ahead chart.

Calgary's top 10
1 Sukiyaki--Kyu Sakamoto (4th week at #1)
2 Six Days on the Road--Dave Dudley
3 Easier Said than Done--The Essex
4 Wipe Out--The Surfaris
5 Da Doo Ron Ron--The Crystals
6 Green, Green--The New Christy Minstrels
7 Blue on Blue--Bobby Vinton
8 It's My Party--Lesley Gore
9 How Do You Do It--Gerry and the Pacemakers
10 Memphis--Lonnie Mack
Pick hit of the week: Needles and Pins--Jackie DeShannon

Baseball
Early Wynn, starting on the mound for the Cleveland Indians in the second game of a doubleheader against the Kansas City Athletics at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, left with the lead after giving up 4 runs in 5 innings. Jerry Walker pitched 4 scoreless innings of relief to save Mr. Wynn's 300th and last career major league win. It took Mr. Wynn 8 tries to get his last win.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (7th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Get Down--Gilbert O'Sullivan (10th week at #1)

Died on this date
Willy Fritsch, 72. German actor. Mr. Fritsch was a leading man and character actor in more than 120 movies from 1921-1964. He mainly appeared in comic roles, but also appeared in dramas such as Spione (Spies) (1928) and Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) (1929). Mr. Fritsch died of a heart attack.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Saskatchewan (1-2) 13 @ Toronto (1-1) 25

Baseball
Hal Breeden of the Montreal Expos tied a major league record established 30 years earlier by Joe Cronin when he came up as a pinch hitter in both games of a doubleheader and hit home runs each time. The Expos beat the Atlanta Braves 11-7 in the first game at Atlanta Stadium, while the Braves won the second game 15-6. Jim Lyttle also came to bat as a pinch hitter for the Expos and hit a home run.

Bobby Murcer hit 3 home runs and drove in all the runs as the New York Yankees blanked the Kansas City Royals 5-0. Mel Stottlemyre pitched a 6-hitter for his 39th career major league shutout.

30 years ago
1983

Died on this date
Gabrielle Roy, 74. Canadian authoress. Miss Roy, a native of St. Boniface, Manitoba, won the Governor General's Award for Fiction three times. She first won the award for her novel Bonheur d'occasion (1945), translated into English as The Tin Flute (1947), which has been credited as helping lay the foundation for Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1960s.

Defense
Vice President George Bush cast the deciding vote as the United States Senate voted 50-49 to authorize production of nerve gas weapons, consisting of two comparatively harmless chemicals placed in separate compartments of a bomb or shell that combined to form nerve gas when the weapon was exploded. Chemical weapons had been banned in the U.S. since 1969, but the administration of President Ronald Reagan had promoted their revival in the belief that the U.S.S.R. had improved upon its arsenal of similar weapons.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Den jeg elsker--Sanne Salomonsen (2nd week at #1)

Politics and government
The Mexican Federal Election Commission announced that Carlos Salinas de Cortari, presidential candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), had won the July 6 election with 50% of the vote to 31% for Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the National Democratic Front and 17% for Manuel Clouthier of the National Action Party. Mr. Salinas' share was far below the usual total for PRI presidential candidates. The PRI also lost ground in the national Chamber of Deputies, retaining a bare majority. In the Senate, the PRI lost four seats, an unprecedented result. Opposition parties denounced the election as fraudulent.

Baseball
The Boston Red Sox, in fourth place in the American League East Division with a record of 43-42, fired manager John McNamara and replaced him with third base coach Joe Morgan.

20 years ago
1993

Died on this date
Davey Allison, 32. U.S. auto racing driver. Mr. Allison was a stock car driver on the NASCAR circuit who won 19 Winston Cup races from 1985-1993, including the 1992 Daytona 500. He was killed when he crashed while attempting to land his helicopter at Talladega Superspeedway in Birmingham, Alabama.

Defense
Germans held a farewell ceremony in Lahr for Canadian troops, who were leaving after 42 years of North Atlantic Treaty Organization service.

Environment
U.S. and Florida officials announced an agreement with agricultural interests on a $465-million plan to clean up the Everglades.

Baseball
Major League All-Star Game @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore
American League 9 National League 3

The AL scored 3 runs in each of the 5th and 6th innings as they beat the NL before 48,147 fans. Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins, who hit a solo home run in the 2nd inning and doubled in a run in the 5th, was voted the game's Most Valuable Player. Mark Langston of the Seattle Mariners was the starting pitcher for the AL, and he gave up a 2-run homer to Gary Sheffield of the San Diego Padres. Jack McDowell of the Chicago White Sox, who pitched the 5th inning, was the winning pitcher. Terry Mulholland of the Philadelphia Phillies started on the mound for the NL. John Burkett of the San Francisco Giants, who started the 5th inning but was unable to get the final out, was the losing pitcher. Roberto Alomar of the Toronto Blue Jays also homered for the AL. The win was the AL's 6th straight.



10 years ago
2003

Politics and government
Iraq's 25-person interim governing council (including 2 women) was inaugurated and met in Baghdad for the first time. It was granted authority to operate government ministries, name diplomats, approve a budget, and create a commission to draft a new constitution. Among their first decisions was one to abolish six holidays celebrated under the regime of deposed President Saddam Hussein and to create a committee to set up a criminal court for trying top officials in Mr. Hussein's government for war crimes.