November 1, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Maurice Pratt and Will Morrow!

325 years ago
1688

Britannica
William of Orange set out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.

220 years ago
1793

Died on this date
George Gordon, 41. U.K. military officer and politician. Lord Gordon, a member of a noble family in Scotland, represented Ludgershall in the House of Commons, and was known for his criticism of all political factions. He founded the Protestant Association in 1778 and led it in opposition to limited rights for Roman Catholics. On June 2, 1780, Lord Gordon led a crowd of 50,000 in London opposed to Catholic emancipation; their actions, initially peaceful, descended into anti-Catholic violence, and became known as the "Gordon riots." Lord Gordon was charged with high treason, but was acquitted in 1781 for lack of treasonable intent. He was excommunicated from the Church of England in 1786, and converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1787, the year he was convicted of defaming Marie Antoinette, French Ambassador to Great Britain Jean-Balthazar d'Adhémar, and the administration of justice in England. Lord Gordon died from typhoid fever in Newgate Prison.

200 years ago
1813

War
In the War of 1812, the American invasion of Lower Canada began as James Wilkinson set out with 8,000 men from Sacketts Harbor, New York to attack Canada down the St. Lawrence River, while Wade Hampton gathered 4,200 men at Lake Champlain to attack Montreal from the south.

120 years ago
1893

Literature
The second part of The Adventure of the Naval Treaty by A. Conan Doyle, eleventh in a series of short stories published in book form in 1894 as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, was published in the November 1893 issue of The Strand Magazine.

Canadiana
Prime Minister John Thompson unveiled a memorial statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Gore Park in Hamilton, before over 20,000 onlookers. Mr. Thompson pushed an electric button which released a veil covering the first statue in Canada honouring Mr. Macdonald; the crowds cheered as the 13th Battalion band played “Hail to the Chief”.

Politics and government
Charles Mackintosh was installed in Regina as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories.

100 years ago
1913

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (1-2) 11 @ Ottawa (3-0) 18
Hamilton (3-1) 12 @ Montreal (0-4) 2

ORFU
(Toronto) Parkdale Canoe Club (3-1) 33 @ Hamilton Rowing Club (0-2) 4

ARU
Final
Edmonton 10 Calgary 7 @ Red Deer

Canadian university
McGill 7 @ Queen's 12

Mr. Bailey scored a touchdown in the 1st quarter and Mr. Campbell scored a TD in the 2nd quarter as the Eskimos held on to defeat the Tigers before 1,000 fans in the neutral territory of Red Deer to advance to the Western Final for the first time.

U.S. college
Notre Dame 35 @ Army 12

The Fighting Irish, under coach Jesse Harper, amassed 243 yards passing and scored all 5 of their touchdowns through the air in a game that helped to increase the popularity of the forward pass.

Baseball
The New York Giants and Chicago White Sox continued their post-season exhibition tour, with the Giants winning 3-2 in Beaumont, Texas.

75 years ago
1938

Horse racing
Seabiscuit defeated 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, setting a track record time.



70 years ago
1943

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Brother's Footsteps

War
Soviet forces cut the last line of German retreat from Crimea by taking Perekop and Armyansk. In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines 3rd Marine Division landed on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces bombed the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.

Diplomacy
The Moscow Conference ended with the U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and China agreeing to collaborate more closely; achieve unconditional surrender; and establish a postwar organization to keep world peace. The U.S.A. and U.K. agreed to open a large second front in the summer of 1944. The Soviets stated that Poland's borders "are no more to be discussed than California's."

Scandal
A U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. voided the indictments of U.S. Representative James Curley (Democrat--Massachusetts) and five others on mail fraud charges because the grand jury was illegally summoned.

Labour
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes to take over operation of the nation's 3,000 coal mines in 26 states in the name of the government as an estimated 530,000 miners refused to work without a contract.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Blue Bayou--Roy Orbison

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 It's All in the Game--Cliff Richard
2 Bossa Nova Baby--Elvis Presley
3 Sugar Shack--Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs
4 She's a Fool--Lesley Gore
5 Four Strong Winds--The Brothers Four
6 Three Rows Over--Bobby Curtola
7 Blue Bayou--Roy Orbison
8 Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa--Gene Pitney
9 I'm the Same Old Me--Lorne Greene
10 Witchcraft--Elvis Presley

On television tonight
Twilight Zone, hosted by Rod Serling, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Living Doll, starring Telly Savalas

Music
The single I'll Keep You Satisfied/I Know by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas was released in the United Kingdom on Parlophone Records. I'll Keep You Satisfied was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Space
The U.S.S.R. launched Polyot 1, a satellite whose mission was that of space maneuvers.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): My Friend Stan--Slade (3rd week at #1)

Politics and government
U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that he would nominate William Saxbe as the new U.S. Attorney General, replacing acting Attorney General Robert Bork, who had replaced Elliott Richardson when Mr. Richardson had resigned on October 20 after refusing to fire Archibald Cox as special prosecutor investigating the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and the subsequent cover-up. Mr. Bork announced that, with Mr. Nixon's approval, he had nominated Leon Jaworski as new Special Watergate Prosecutor, with the understanding that Mr. Jaworski would have "complete freedom" to investigate administration wrongdoing, with no restrictions on his freedom of action should he disagree with decisions of the Nixon administration on the release of presidential documents.

Scandal
A U.S. federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted 20 former executives and employees of Equity Funding Corporation of America and two of the company's former auditors in an alleged swindle involving $120 million in bogus assets and 60,000 fictitious life insurance policies. Heading the list in the 105-count indictment were Equity's former president and chairman Stanley Goldbaum and former executive vice-presidents Fred Levin and Samuel Lowell. All defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud; filing false documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission; bank fraud; interstate transportation of counterfeit securities; and electronic eavesdropping.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Moonlight Shadow--Mike Oldfield (6th week at #1)

Politics and government
Grenadian Governor General Sir Paul Scoon signed a proclamation asserting his right to govern in the name of Queen Elizabeth II, and ended diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. and Libya. He ordered all Cuban diplomatic personnel to leave the island, but Cuba refused until all Cuban dead and wounded in the recent war against invading U.S. troops had been returned to Cuba.

War
Scientists from the U.S.A., U.S.S.R., and other nations concluded the two-day "The World After Nuclear War" conference in Washington, D.C. The findings included an estimated death toll of 1.1 billion in a nuclear war, with another 1.1 billion likely to be injured. Based on a computer study, five U.S. scientists concluded that dense clouds of dust and soot sent aloft by the explosions would obscure the sun and plunge the northern hemisphere into subzero (Fahrenheit) temperatures for six months.

Economics and finance
The Japanese government announced that it would extend voluntary curbs on the number of cars it would export to the United States.

25 years ago
1988

Health
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse was founded in Ottawa.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that the index of leading economic indicators had declined 0.1% in September.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Go West--Pet Shop Boys

Died on this date
Severo Ochoa, 88. Spanish-born U.S. biochemist. Dr. Ochoa left Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and lived in several European countries before finally settling in the United States. He shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid."

Diplomacy
The European Community's Treaty on European Union, which had been approved by 12 nations in Maastricht, Netherlands in December 1991, went into effect, two months after Germany had become the last nation to ratify the treaty.

Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the United Nations that North Korea was still not co-operating with his agency's efforts to inspect its nuclear installations. He said that the IAEA was losing its capacity to monitor declared sites because cameras were running out of film and inspectors were not allowed access. Mr. Blix also said that North Korea had also denied inspectors access to undeclared nuclear sites.

Israeli delegates at peace talks with Palestinians proposed an Israeli troop withdrawal from Palestinian urban areas and refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, but with the redeployment of troops near three Israeli settlements.

Scandal
The United States Senate began debating whether to support its Ethics Committee, which had asked Senator Bob Packwood (Republican--Oregon) to surrender all his personal diaries. The diaries were of interest because of sexual harassment complaints against Sen. Packwood, and also as possible evidence of criminal acts by the senator.

Baseball
Nippon Series
Yakult Swallows 4 @ Seibu Lions 2 (Yakult won best-of-seven series 4-3)