August 10, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Grant Devitt!

510 years ago
1503

Exploration
The 21-island archipelago now known as Fernando de Noronha was discovered off the coast of Brazil by a Portuguese expedition organized and financed by a private commercial consortium headed by Lisbon merchant Fernão de Loronha.

220 years ago
1793

Art
The Musée du Louvre was officially opened in Paris.

200 years ago
1813

Education
Instituto Nacional, Chile's oldest and most prestigious school, was founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera.

100 years ago
1913

War
Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War.

70 years ago
1943

Literature
The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan was published in New York.

War
U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Quebec City for a series of conferences with the Allied High Command and later with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. For the second time in a week, U.S. Army Lieutenant General George Patton struck an American soldier being treated for shell shock; he subsequently apologized after being reprimanded by his superiors. U.K. forces took Guardia on the eastern coast of Sicily and were within sight of the Italian mainland. Moving forward toward Kharkov, the Soviet Red Army claimed the capture of another 70 villages. U.S. troops reached the Bairoke River, 2 miles south of Bairoke Harbor, New Georgia Island.

Politics and government
The Yugoslavian cabinet-in-exile in London resigned over Croat-Serb disputes on postwar policy; a new government, headed by Dr. Bojidar Purich, was formed immediately.

Economics and finance
The Chinese executive cabinet approved the drafting of legislation for the protection of foreign capital in China after World War II.

60 years ago
1953

Politics and government
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent led his governing Liberal Party to another majority government in the Canadian federal election, taking 48.8% of the popular vote and 171 of 265 seats in the House of Commons, down from the party's record of 193 in the 1949 election. The Progressive Conservatives, led by George Drew, won just 51 seats, which was still 10 more than in 1949. 23 seats were won by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; 15 by Social Credit; and 5 by others.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Surf City--Jan & Dean

#1 single in France: Pauvre Petite Fille Riche--Claude François (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Cuore--Rita Pavone (6th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Ich will 'nen Cowboy als Mann--Gitte (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Sweets for My Sweet--The Searchers (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Fingertips - Part 2--Little Stevie Wonder

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Fingertips - Part 2--Little Stevie Wonder (2nd week at #1)
2 So Much in Love--The Tymes
3 Surf City--Jan & Dean
4 (You're the) Devil in Disguise--Elvis Presley
5 Blowin' in the Wind--Peter, Paul and Mary
6 Judy's Turn to Cry--Lesley Gore
7 Wipe Out--The Surfaris
8 Easier Said than Done--The Essex
9 Candy Girl--The 4 Seasons
10 Just One Look--Doris Troy

Singles entering the chart were You Can Never Stop Me Loving You by Johnny Tillotson (#73); Hey There Lonely Boy by Ruby and the Romantics (#79); Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard by Diane Ray (#82); The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget by the Raindrops (#83); A Breath Taking Guy by the Supremes (#87); What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous) by Little Eva (#94); Your Baby's Gone Surfin' by Duane Eddy and the Rebelettes (#95); Straighten Up Your Heart by Barbara Lewis (#97); The Happy Puppy by Bent Fabric (#100); Hear the Bells by the Tokens (also #100); and Lucky Lips by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (also #100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (The Music Reporter)
1 Fingertips--Little Stevie Wonder
2 (You're the) Devil in Disguise--Elvis Presley
3 Judy's Turn to Cry--Lesley Gore
4 Just One Look--Doris Troy
5 Blowin' in the Wind--Peter, Paul and Mary
6 Candy Girl--Four Seasons
7 Hopeless--Andy Williams
8 Detroit City--Bobby Bare
9 My Whole World is Falling Down--Brenda Lee
10 I Wonder--Brenda Lee

Singles entering the chart were Marlena by the Four Seasons (#37); Man's Temptation by Gene Chandler (#65); It's Too Late by Wilson Pickett (#77); Straighten Up Your Heart by Barbara Lewis (#78); It Won't Be This Way (Always) by the King Pins (#84); Chinese Checkers by Booker T. & the M.G.'s (#86); Little Deuce Coupe by the Beach Boys (#91); A Breath Taking Guy by the Supremes (#92); At the Shore by Johnny Caswell (#93); Tell Me the Truth by Nancy Wilson (#94); Gone by the Rip Chords (#96); I've Got a Right to Cry by Fats Domino (#97); Something Old, Something New by Paul and Paula (#98); and Organ Shout by Dave "Baby" Cortez (#100). I've Got a Right to Cry was the B-side of When I'm Walking (Let Me Walk), which was not on the chart.

Calgary's Top 10
1 Surf City--Jan & Dean
2 Judy's Turn to Cry--Lesley Gore
3 Green, Green--The New Christy Minstrels
4 (You're the) Devil in Disguise--Elvis Presley
5 My Whole World is Falling Down--Brenda Lee
6 Easier Said than Done--The Essex
7 Blowin' in the Wind--Peter, Paul and Mary
9 Memphis--Lonnie Mack
8 Abilene--George Hamilton IV
10 One Fine Day--The Chiffons
Pick hit of the week: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)--Allan Sherman

Died on this date
Estes Kefauver, 60. U.S. politician. Mr. Kefauver, a Democrat, represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1939-1949 and in the Senate from 1949-1963. He's probably best remembered for the Kefauver Committee--officially titled the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce--that investigated organized crime in 1950-1951. The hearings were the first such hearings to be televised, and became one of the most notable events in the early years of television. Senator kefauver campaigned unsuccessfully for his party's U.S. presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956, but was chosen by Adlai Stevenson as his vice-presidential running mate in 1956. Senator Kefauver died of an aortic aneurysm two days after taking ill on the floor of the Senate.



Boxing
Dick Tiger (47-14-3) retained his World Boxing Association world middleweight title and became the World Boxing Council's first world middleweight champion with a 7-round technical knockout of former world champion Gene Fullmer (55-6-3) at Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, Nigeria. Mr. Fullmer's manager, Merv Jensen, asked referee Jack Hart to stop the bout after the 7th round. It was Mr. Fullmer's last fight.

WBA and WBC world welterweight champion Emile Griffith (37-4) won a unanimous 10-round decision over Holly Mims (60-25-6) in a non-title bout at the Convention Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Shambala--Three Dog Night

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Can the Can--Suzi Quatro

World events
Israel intercepted a Lebanese Middle east Airlines jetliner and forced the plane to land at a military airfield. The 81 people aboard were detained for two hours and then freed. Israeli military spokesmen later said they had seized the wrong plane; General Moshe Dayan announced the purpose of the mission had been to capture Dr. George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Superstitious--Europe

Died on this date
Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 86. President of Panamá, 1940-1941, 1949-1951, 1968. Dr. Arias was an American-trained physician who opposed excessive U.S. influence in Panama. He led a coup in 1931 that deposed President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena and installed Dr. Arias' brother Harmodio as President, with Arnulfo holding cabinet and diplomatic posts. Dr. Arias was twice elected President in the 1940s, but was twice deposed by coups, going into exile and eventually returning. He was elected President again in 1968 as the head of a five-party coalition; he took office on October 1, but was deposed by another coup on October 11, after just ten days in office. Dr. Arias ran for President again in 1984 at the age of 83, and exit polls showed him with a substantial lead, but Nicolás Ardito Barletta, the favoured candidate of military leader Manuel Noriega, was declared a close winner, beginning General Noriega's dictatorship. Dr. Arias fled into exile in Florida, where he died of a heart attack, five days before his 87th birthday.

Society
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

Environment
British scientists expressed fear that a disease--later named phocine distemper virus (PDV)--which had killed more than 6,000 seals in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea had now reached British waters.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (3-2) 10 @ Calgary (2-3) 48

20 years ago
1993

Law
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice. The first, Sandra Day O'Connor, had been named to the Court in 1981.

10 years ago
2003

World events
The United Nations suspended field work in southern Afghanistan after attacks on aid workers.

Weather
The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom--101.3 °F (38.5 °C)--was recorded in Kent, England. It was the first time the U.K. had recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).