September 28, 2013

775 years ago
1238

War
Valencia, Spain, then under Muslim control, surrendered to the besieging King James I of Aragon, who shortly thereafter proclaimed himself King of Valencia.

475 years ago
1538

War
In the Ottoman–Venetian War, the Ottoman Navy scored a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza in northwestern Greece.

200 years ago
1813

War
In the War of 1812, U.S. forces defeated British forces in a naval battle in York Bay.

75 years ago
1938

Died on this date
Bill Rollinson, 82. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Rollinson, born William Winslow, was a catcher who played 1 game with the Washington Nationals of the Union Association in 1884, batting 0 for 3. He played a few games in each of several other independent leagues from 1879-1885.

Charles Duryea, 76. U.S. automobile executive. Mr. Duryea was the engineer of the first American gasoline-powered car that worked, which was given its first successful road test in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 20, 1893. He and his brother Frank founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in Springfield in 1896. The company ceased production in 1917.

Baseball
The Chicago Cubs were leading the Pittsburgh Pirates by 1/2 game as the teams played each other before 34,465 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The score was tied 5-5 with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning, and the umpires had made it clear that the game would be called because of darkness after 9 innings. Pittsburgh relief pitcher Mace Brown shook off a sign for a fastball and threw a curve, which Mr. Hartnett hit for a home run to give the Cubs a 6-5 win. The "Homer in the Gloamin'" was regarded as the deciding blow in the National League pennant race, which ended with the Cubs finishing 2 games ahead of the Pirates.

Don Padgett, Johnny Mize, and Jimmy Brown each had 3 hits for the St. Louis Cardinals as they edged the Cincinnati Reds 8-7 before 1,081 fans at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. The Reds had runners on first and third bases with 2 out in the 9th inning, but pinch hitter Dick West, making his major league debut, grounded into a force play at second base to end the game. Joe Cascarella, the third of four Cincinnati pitchers, allowed 3 hits and 1 run--earned--in 1 inning, with 1 strikeout and no bases on balls in the 143rd and last game of his 5-year major league career. Cincinnati pinch hitter Dusty Cooke was hit by a pitch in the 6th inning in the 608th and last game of his 8-year major league career.

Birdie Tebbetts batted 3 for 5 and hit his only home run of the season--a grand slam in the 6th inning--to help the Detroit Tigers rout the St. Louis Browns 12-0 before 5,000 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. George Gill pitched an 8-hit shutout to improve his 1938 record to 12-9. St. Louis shortstop Sig Gryska played his first major league game, batting 1 for 4, making 1 putout and 3 assists.

Thornton Lee allowed 16 hits and 11 earned runs, but managed a complete game victory to improve his record for the season to 13-11 as the Chicago White Sox beat the Clevland Indians 14-11 before 1,500 fans at League Park in Cleveland. The White Sox scored 5 runs in both the 1st and 5th innings, and every man in the Chicago lineup had at least 1 hit and scored at least 1 run, and every Chicago player except Luke Appling drove in at least 1 run. Oscar Grimes made his major league debut with the Indians, making an out as a pinch hitter in the 9th inning.

70 years ago
1943

Died on this date
Sam Ruben, 29. U.S. chemist. Dr. Ruben, born Charles Rubenstein, worked under Ernest O. Lawrence at the University of California. He was doing research on the poisonous gas phosgene during World War II, and died the day after being exposed to it during a laboratory accident.

War
Escaped prisoner of war and German U-boat ace Wolfgang Heyda was captured at Maisonnette Point, New Brunswick while attempting a rendezvous with German submarine U-536 in Chaleur Bay. Ernest F. Lehritz and Erwin H. De Spretter both received 30-year prison sentences in a U.S. federal court in Brooklyn for espionage on behalf of Germany. Allied forces broke through the German mountain defenses southeast of Naples, taking the naval bases of Castellemmare di Stabia.

60 years ago
1953

Died on this date
Edwin Hubble, 64. U.S. astronomer. Dr. Hubble showed that the velocity of a galaxy increases as it gets further away from earth, implying that the universe is expanding. He also provided evidence that many bodies previously believed to be nebulae were in fact galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The Hubble Space Telescope was named after him.

Football
WIFU
Saskatchewan (3-6) 2 @ Winnipeg (5-4) 19
Calgary (2-7) 12 @ Edmonton (8-1) 21

McGill University alumnus Geoff Crain played quarterback for the Blue Bombers, and he threw 2 touchdown pases to Bud Grant as they beat the Stampeders before 16,400 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Len Meltzer scored the other touchdown.

Rollie Miles scored 3 touchdowns to lead the Eskimos to victory over the Stampeders before 12,400 fans at Clarke Stadium in a game that wasn't as close as the score indicated. John Henry Johnson returned the 2nd half kickoff 105 yards for one Calgary touchdown, and Bill Pullar returned a fumble for the other Stampeder TD.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Bombora--The Atlantics (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France: C'est ma Fête--Richard Anthony

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Quelli della mia eta--Françoise Hardy (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Ich will 'nen Cowboy als Mann--Gitte (9th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): She Loves You--The Beatles (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Blue Velvet--Bobby Vinton (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Blue Velvet--Bobby Vinton (2nd week at #1)
2 My Boyfriend's Back--The Angels
3 Sally, Go 'Round the Roses--The Jaynetts
4 Be My Baby--The Ronettes
5 Surfer Girl--The Beach Boys
6 Then He Kissed Me--The Crystals
7 Heat Wave--Martha and the Vandellas
8 If I Had a Hammer--Trini Lopez
9 Mickey's Monkey--The Miracles
10 Cry Baby--Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters

Singles entering the chart were The Grass is Greener by Brenda Lee (#64); Washington Square by the Village Stompers (#67); She's a Fool by Lesley Gore (#73); Baby Get It (And Don’t Quit It) by Jackie Wilson (#84); Misty by Lloyd Price (#86); Little Eeefin Annie by Joe Perkins (#87); Eefananny by the Ardells (#89); Cry to Me by Betty Harris (#90); Let's Make Love Tonight by Bobby Rydell (#93); Everybody Go Home by Eydie Gorme (#96); Wild! by Dee Dee Sharp (#97); Reach Out for Me by Lou Johnson (#98); Making Believe by Ray Charles (#99); and Strange Feeling by Billy Stewart (#100). Making Believe was the B-side of Busted, which charted at #12.

Calgary's Top 10
1 Blue Velvet--Bobby Vinton (3rd week at #1)
2 My Boyfriend's Back--The Angels
3 Martian Hop--The Ran-dells
4 Make the World Go Away--Timi Yuro
5 Then He Kissed Me--The Crystals
6 Lucky Lips--Cliff Richard and the Shadows
7 Sally, Go 'Round the Roses--The Jaynetts
8 I'm Coming Back to You--Julie London
9 If I Had a Hammer--Trini Lopez
10 Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard--Diane Ray
Pick hit of the week: Blue Bayou--Roy Orbison

Art
Roy Lichtenstein's painting Whaam! debuted at an exhibition that lasted until at October 24 at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.

Football
CFL
Toronto (2-7) 12 @ Ottawa (5-3) 30
Winnipeg (6-5) 38 @ Edmonton (2-8) 30

Dave Thelen rushed for 2 touchdowns and Russ Jackson and Ron Stewart rushed for 1 each as the Rough Riders easily beat the Argonauts at Lansdowne Park. Toronto quarterback Sandy Stephens threw touchdown passes to Dick Shatto and Jackie Parker. Mr. Parker, who had moved to halfback from quarterback two weeks earlier, caught 10 passes.

George Fleming returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown and added 2 converts, 3 field goals, and 2 singles as the Blue Bombers defeated the Eskimos at Clarke Stadium. Jim Thomas scored 2 touchdowns for the Eskimos, while new quarterback Lynn Amedee scored the other Edmonton TD. It was the final CFL game for Edmonton lineman Don Duncalfe, who was in his sixth year with the team.

Canadian university
British Columbia (1-0) 15 @ Saskatchewan (0-1) 1
Manitoba (0-1) 8 @ Alberta (1-0) 28

Jim Friend returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown in the 2nd quarter to provide the necessary scoring for the Thunderbirds as they defeated the Huskies before 2,000 fans at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon. B.C. halfback Bob Sweet rushed 12 times for 119 yards, including a 60-yard TD in the 3rd quarter.

Dmetro Rosiewich scored 2 touchdowns and Rennie Bradley scored another as the Golden Bears beat the Bisons before 5,000 fans at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton. Gary White scored the Manitoba touchdown.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Delta Dawn--Helen Reddy (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Can the Can--Suzi Quatro (8th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top Ten (Radio & Records)
1 Half Breed--Cher
2 Ramblin' Man--The Allman Brothers
3 Angie--The Rolling Stones
4 Let's Get it On--Marvin Gaye
5 Delta Dawn--Helen Reddy
6 We're an American Band--Grand Funk
7 Loves Me Like a Rock--Paul Simon with the Dixie Hummingbirds
8 Higher Ground--Stevie Wonder
9 My Maria--B.W. Stevenson
10 Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat--The DeFranco Family

Although Radio & Records didn't publish its first issue until October 5, 1973, chart numbers were compiled for this week. Click on the link above to see the entire chart of 20 singles.

Terrorism
Two armed Arab guerrillas took three Soviet Jews and an Austrian customs official hostage in a raid on a train bound from Moscow to Vienna. The train was carrying 40 Jewish emigrants. The terrorists were demanding that Austria suspend group transit of Israel-bound Soviet Jews through Austria, and that the Schoenau Castle transit facility be closed.

The International Telephone and Telegraph Building in New York City was bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile that had deposed President Salvador Allende.

Economics and finance
Following weeks of protest shutdowns by filling stations, the U.S. Cost of Living Council announced that it would permit increases of up to 2½¢ per gallon in the retail price of gasoline. The council also authorized a 1¢-2¢ per gallon increase in the price of heating oil. The decision retracted U.S. President Richard Nixon's June 13 directive that the wage-price control program stabilize gasoline prices at local service stations.

Politics and government
U.S. President Richard Nixon's campaign finance aides revealed that campaign fundraisers had collected a record $60.2 million for his 1972 re-election campaign.

30 years ago
1983

Diplomacy
U.S.S.R. leader Yuri Andropov rejected U.S. President Ronald Reagan' proposal to reduce the number of intermediate-range missiles scheduled for deployment in Europe. Mr. Andropov blamed the U.S. for the loss of all 269 people aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 when it had been shot down over Soviet air space on September 1, saying that the commercial airliner had been sent on a spy mission.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): The Only Way Is Up--Yazz and the Plastic Population (2nd week at #1)

Baseball
With 2 out and nobody on base in the bottom of the 16th inning, Carmelo Martinez drew a base on balls and Mark Parent followed with a home run to give the San Diego Padres a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers before 22,596 fans at Jack Murphy-San Diego Stadium. Orel Hershiser started on the mound for Los Angeles and pitched 10 scoreless innings, allowing just 4 hits as he extended his scoreless inning streak to 59, 1/3 inning more than previous major league record holder Don Drysdale, who had accomplished the feat in 1968.

Dion James doubled with 1 out and nobody on base in the bottom of the 17th inning and pinch hitter Andres Thomas followed with a single to score Mr. James with the winning run as the Atlanta Braves edged the Houston Astros 4-3 before 2,822 fans at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. It was the last major league game for Houston pitcher Jeff Heathcock and pinch hitter Steve Henderson, and for Atlanta pinch runner Jerry Royster and pinch hitter Jim Morrison.

Jimmy Key pitched a 2-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Bruce Hurst as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Boston Red Sox 1-0 before 34,873 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. The only run, unearned, was scored in the top of the 8th inning when Rob Ducey led off with a base on balls, stole second base with 1 out and advanced to third base on a throwing error by Boston catcher Rich Gedman, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Kelly Gruber. Mr. Hurst pitched a 5-hit complete game.

Bob Milacki pitched a 3-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Lee Guetterman as the Baltimore Orioles shut out the New York Yankees 2-0 before 15,737 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

20 years ago
1993

Died on this date
Peter De Vries, 83. U.S. author. Mr. De Vries wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1944-1987. His novels, which combined comedy and tragedy and were influenced by his Calvinist upbringing, included The Tunnel of Love (1954); The Blood of the Lamb (1961); Reuben, Reuben (1964); and Witch's Milk (1968).

Alexander Drabik, 82. U.S. soldier. Sergeant Drabik was the first American soldier to cross the Rhine River into Germany on March 7, 1945. His unit had order to seize and the Ludendorff Bridge near Remagen, and Sgt. Drabik ran across the bridge while the German forces were attempting to detonate it. Sgt. Drabik was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his action.

Business
Bell Canada announced a major restructuring that was expected to cut 10% of its 46,000-member workforce.

Baseball
The Montreal Expos scored all their runs in the 4th inning as they held on to defeat the Florida Marlins 3-2 before 27,017 fans at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami. Dennis Martinez allowed 4 hits and 2 earned runs in 7 2/3 innings to improve his 1993 record to 15-9, becoming the second pitcher in major league history, after Jim Bunning, to win at least 100 games in each major league.

Kirby Puckett doubled home Chuck Knoblauch with 1 out and scored on a single by Dave Winfield with 2 out as the Minnesota Twins rallied for 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the California Angels 2-1 before 15,091 fans at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. Winning pitcher Kevin Tapani and losing pitcher Mark Langston each pitched complete games.

Mike Greenwell, John Valentin, and Jeff McNeely each had 3 hits to help the Boston Red Sox defeat the Detroit Tigers 11-6 in the first game of a doubleheader before 24,446 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Pinch hitter Skeeter Barnes singled home Alan Trammell with 2 out in the top of the 11th to break a 6-6 tie as the Tigers won the second game 7-6.

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Elia Kazan, 94. Turkish-born U.S. theater and movie director. Born Elias Kazantzoglou in Istanbul, Mr. Kazan acted in and directed plays with the New York-based Group Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954). His other movies included A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); East of Eden (1955); Baby Doll (1956); A Face in the Crowd (1957); Splendor in the Grass (1961); and America, America (1963).

Althea Gibson, 76. U.S. tennis player. Miss Gibson was the first Negro to achieve success in international tennis. She won 11 Grand Slam tournaments, including women's singles titles at the French Open in 1956 and Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals in 1957 and 1958. Miss Gibson also became the first Negro woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, playing in the LPGA from 1964-1978. Miss Gibson is a member of the Insternational Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.

Energy
A power blackout affected most of Italy; authorities blamed malfunctioning power lines from France.

Religion
Pope John Paul II announced the appointment of 31 new cardinals, to be installed in ceremonies on October 21. The additions increased to about 135 the number of cardinals who were under 80 years of age and thus eligible to vote for a new pope.

Football
CFL
Toronto (6-8) 24 @ Saskatchewan (8-7) 41