October 19, 2013

1,020 years ago
993

Died on this date
Conrad I, 68 (?). King of Burgundy, 937-993. Conrad I succeeded his father Rudolph II, and was succeeded by his son Rudolph III.

125 years ago
1888

Baseball
World Series
New York Giants 6 St. Louis Browns 3 @ Brooklyn (New York led best-of-ten series 3-1)

The Giants scored a run in the top of the 1st inning and 4 in the 3rd to open up a 5-1 lead as they coasted to victory before 3,062 fans at Washington Park. Ed Crane won the pitching matchup over Elton Chamberlain.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Al Brazle. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Brazle played with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1943 and 1946-1954, compiling a record of 97 wins and 64 losses, with 60 saves. As a rookie, he went 8-2 with an earned run average of 1.53, starting and losing the third game of the World Series against the New York Yankees. In 1946, Mr. Brazle lost the fifth game of the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. He led the National League in saves with 16 in 1952 and 18 in 1953. Mr. Brazle died on October 24, 1973, five days after his 60th birthday.

Baseball
The New York Giants and Chicago White Sox continued their post-season exhibition tour, with the Giants winning 3-1 at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

90 years ago
1923

Baseball
Little World Series
Baltimore Orioles (IL) 2 @ Kansas City Blues (AA) 5 (Kansas City led best-of-nine series 3-1)

Ferdie Schupp struck out 10 men to win the pitching matchup over Lefty Grove and Jack Ogden as the Blues defeated the Orioles at Muehlebach Field.

70 years ago
1943

War
Soviet troops captured Pyatikhatka, 60 miles west of Dnepropetrovsk, cutting the Germans' main escape route from that city. U.S. Navy Secretary Frank Knox announced that American submarines had sunk 319 Japanese ships since the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The German-held cargo vessel MS Sinfra was attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk; as many as 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drowned.

Diplomacy
The Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference opened with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull , U.K. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and U.S.S.R. Vyacheslav Molotov discussing "frankly and freely what is one one another's minds."

Medicine
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

60 years ago
1953

Hockey
Gus Galbreath, 21, of South Porcupine, Ontario, had his left leg amputated, three days after breaking his thigh while playing with the Paisley Pirates of the Scottish Hockey League.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Halfback and punter Joe Krol, who had missed all but 2 of his team's first 10 games of 1953 because of injuries, announced his retirement from the Toronto Argonauts. The University of Western Ontario graduate had played with the Hamilton Flying Wildcats and Detroit Lions before joining the Argonauts in 1945 and starring with five Grey Cup championship teams from 1945-1952. His 30 points in Grey Cup competition was a career record at the time.

WIFU
Winnipeg (7-8) 18 @ Calgary (3-12) 6
Saskatchewan (8-7) 20 @ Edmonton (12-3) 19

Neill Armstrong caught 2 touchdown passes and Lorne Benson rushed for another TD, all of which were converted by Bud Korchak, as the Blue Bombers beat the Stampeders before 10,000 fans at Mewata Stadium. Al Endriss scored the Calgary touchdown.

Harry Lampman, Bill Todd, and Bobby Marlow scored touchdowns for the Roughriders as they edged the Eskimos before 15,000 fans at Clarke Stadium. Mr. Lampman's TD came on a halfback option pass from Mr. Todd. Former Eskimo head coach and quarterback Frank Filchock, now performing the same duties for the Roughriders, completed 9 of 11 passes. Rollie Miles scored 2 touchdowns for the Eskimos--one on a 91-yard rush--and Frank Anderson scored the other Edmonton TD, all of which were converted by Wilbur Snyder.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Blue Bayou/Mean Woman Blues--Roy Orbison

#1 single in France: Ma Guitare--Johnny Hallyday

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Se mi vuoi lasciare--Michele (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Vom Stadtpark die Laternen--Gitte and Rex Gildo (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Do You Love Me--Brian Poole and the Tremeloes (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Sugar Shack--Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Sugar Shack--Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs
2 Be My Baby--The Ronettes
3 Blue Velvet--Bobby Vinton
4 Cry Baby--Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters
5 Busted--Ray Charles
6 Donna the Prima Donna--Dion Di Muci
7 Washington Square--The Village Stompers
8 Mean Woman Blues--Roy Orbison
9 I Can't Stay Mad at You--Skeeter Davis
10 Honolulu Lulu--Jan & Dean

Singles entering the chart were Misery by the Dynamics (#72); I Adore Him by the Angels (#78); Young Wings Can Fly (Higher than You Know) by Ruby and the Romantics (#79); Can I Get a Witness by Marvin Gaye (#85); Witchcraft by Elvis Presley (#87); Gotta Travel On by Timi Yuro (#91); Hey Little Girl by Major Lance (#92); Signed, Sealed, and Delivered by James Brown and the Famous Flames (#93); The Matador by Johnny Cash (#95); Hurry Up and Tell Me by Paul Anka (#97); Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name) by Jimmie Rodgers (#98); Dear Abby by the Hearts (#99); and Any Other Way by Chuck Jackson (#100). Witchcraft was the B-side of Bossa Nova Baby, which charted at #50.

Football
CFL
Montreal (6-6) 21 @ Ottawa (8-4) 27
Calgary (8-4-2) 33 @ Saskatchewan (6-6-2) 33
Edmonton (2-12) 6 @ British Columbia (11-3) 32

Russ Jackson threw 4 touchdown passes, including a 24-yard strike to Whit Tucker for the winning score with less than 2 minutes remaining, as the Rough Riders defeated the Alouettes before a record Lansdowne Park crowd of 22,763.

Reg Whitehouse's late field goal gave the Roughriders their tie with the Stampeders before 12,600 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Saskatchewan quarterbacks Ron Lancaster and Frank Tripucka combined for 361 yards passing, to 246 for Calgary quarterback Eagle Day.

Joe Kapp directed an effective offense and Peter Kempf set a CFL record with his 22nd field goal of the season as the Lions routed the Eskimos before 29,133 fans at Empire Stadium in Vancouver to clinch first place in the Western Football Conference for the first time in their 10-year history.

Canadian university
Manitoba (1-2) 37 @ Saskatchewan (0-4) 7
Alberta (4-0) 44 @ British Columbia (2-1) 33

The Bisons scored 2 touchdowns in each of the last 3 quarters as they routed the Huskies at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon. Mr. Falk scored 2 of the Manitoba touchdowns.

Ken Nielsen and Clarence Kachman each returned a kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown for the Golden Bears as they erupted for a 26-6 lead in the 1st quarter and held on to defeat the Thunderbirds at Varsity Stadium in Vancouver.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Take Me To The Mardi Gras--Paul Simon

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): The Ballroom Blitz--The Sweet

At the movies
The Way We Were, starring Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, opened in theatres.



Charley Varrick, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker, and John Vernon, opened in theatres.





Terrorism
The siege of the Bank of America in Beirut that had begun the previous day when five Arab guerrillas had seized control of the bank and taken 40 bank employees hostage ended after 25 hours when policemen and army commandos fought their way into the bank. One hostage, an American, and two guerrillas were killed in the gun battle.

Scandal
John Dean, former counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice in plotting to cover up the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. In a bargain with special prosecutor Archibald Cox, Mr. Dean agreed to testify for the prosecution in future proceedings against alleged cover-up participants in exchange for immunity from prosecution for any Watergate-related crime. According to the plea bargain, Mr. Dean could be prosecuted only for future perjury. He faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. That night, Mr. Nixon announced that he would not appeal the order of federal district court judge John Sirica to turn over tapes of White House conversations, but would personally edit a summary of Watergate-related information on the tapes. Mr. Nixon explained that his compromise, which involved a "breach in confidentiality that is so necessary to the conduct of the presidency," would "assure unity of purpose at home and end the temptation abroad to test our resolve." He also ordered Mr. Cox to drop his demands for other tapes, notes, and memoranda of presidential conversations.

Disasters
8 people were killed and 12 injured in the flaming crash of a tractor-trailer, a bus, and a car on the New Jersey Turnpike.

30 years ago
1983

World events
Several thousand supporters of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop rallied at his home and freed him after six days of house arrest. As he led the crowd through the streets of the capital city of St. George's to army headquarters, he and several of his cabinet ministers were apparently separated from the crowd by soldiers and shot to death.

Defense
A 10-ship U.S. Navy task force left Norfolk, Virginia, bound for Lebanon.

Abominations
The United States Senate voted 78–22 in favour of a bill making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday a public holiday.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Hand in Hand--Koreana (3rd week at #1)

Disasters
At least 164 people were killed in two plane crashed in India; 130 of the deaths occurred when an airliner descending near Ahmadabad struck a tree.

Journalism
The British government imposed a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and 11 Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.

Baseball
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers 4 @ Oakland Athletics 3 (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 3-1)

The teams combined to score 3 unearned runs--2 by the Athletics before 49,317 fans at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The deciding run was scored in the top of the 7th inning when Alfredo Griffin drew a base on balls with 1 out and moved to third base on a single by Steve Sax. Pinch hitter Tracy Woodson then hit a grounder to Oakland shortstop Walt Weiss for what would have been a double play, but Mr. Sax, who was running on the pitch, beat the throw to second baseman Glenn Hubbard, whose relay to first baseman Mark McGwire was only the second out, with Mr. Griffin scoring on the play to give the Dodgers a 4-2 lead. The Athletics scored a run in the bottom of the 7th and loaded the bases with 2 out, but Mr. McGwire popped out to Mr. Woodson, now playing first base, to end the threat. Tim Belcher started on the mound for Los Angeles and gave up 7 hits and 3 runs--2 earned--in 6 2/3 innings to get the win, while Jay Howell pitched 2 1/3 innings for the save. Oakland starter Dave Stewart gave up 6 hits and 4 runs--2 earned--in 6 1/3 innings in taking the loss.

20 years ago
1993

Diplomacy
Nine American and Canadian warships put into effect a United Nations naval blockade of Haiti, while a UN arms and oil embargo of Haiti, approved earlier, was instituted in an attempt to restore recently exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

Announcing that he was committed to pursuing negotiations aimed at finding a political solution to problems in Somalia, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced that 750 U.S. Army Rangers would be withdrawn from the country immediately.

Israel began a week-long period of freeing 600 Palestinians from Israeli jails.

Politics and government
Benazir Bhutto, who had been removed from power in 1990 for alleged corruption and incompetence, was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan again by a parliamentary vote of 121-72. Ms. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party had led in voting in parliamentary elections earlier in the month, but no majority had resulted, necessitating a coalition.

Monique Gagnon-Tremblay was named as Quebec's first female Finance Minister, replacing Gérard D. Lévesque on an interim basis in the Liberal government of Premier Robert Bourassa. Mr. Lévesque, who had been a member of the National Assembly for 37 years, was terminally ill, and died on November 17.

Energy
The United States House of Representatives voted 242-143 to order to order Senate and House conferees working on the appropriations bill for energy projects to cancel the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC), four years after authorizing it, because the estimated total cost of the project had risen from $4.4 billion to $11 billion. THe SSC, which had been under construction near Waxahachie, Texas, would have permitted scientists to study collision of atomic particles at high speeds in an attempt to better understand the nature of matter.

Baseball
World Series
Toronto Blue Jays 10 @ Philadelphia Phillies 3 (Toronto led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Paul Molitor hit a single, triple, and home run and batted in 3 runs, and Roberto Alomar made 4 hits to lead the Blue Jays over the Phillies before 62,689 fans at Veterans Stadium. Toronto starter Pat Hentgen pitched 6 innings to get the win, while Philadelphia starting pitcher Danny Jackson pitched 5 innings and took the loss.



10 years ago
2003

Religion
Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square in Rome.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (10-7) 34 @ Calgary (5-12) 6

Baseball
World Series
Florida Marlins 1 @ New York Yankees 6 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Hideki Matsui hit a 3-run home run in the bottom of the 1st inning and Alfonso Soriano added a 2-run homer in the 4th, while Andy Pettitte came within 1 out of a complete game victory before 55,750 fans at Yankee Stadium. Mr. Pettitte gave up just 6 hits, the last a single by Derrek Lee with 2 out in the 9th, driving in Luis Castillo with an unearned run. Jose Contreras relieved Mr. Pettitte and retired Mike Lowell on a force play for the final out. Mark Redman started on the mound for Florida and gave up 5 hits and 4 runs--all earned--in taking the loss.