1904
Hockey
Stanley Cup
Brandon 3 @ Ottawa Silver Seven 6 (First game of 2-game, total goals challenge series)
A week earlier, the Silver Seven had accepted a challenge from the Montreal Wanderers and the teams had played to a 5-5 tie in Montreal. A new 2-game series was ordered to be played in Ottawa, but the Wanderers demanded that the tie game be replayed in Montreal. When no agreement could be reached, the series was abandoned, and Ottawa accepted a challenge from Brandon.
80 years ago
1934
Born on this date
Yuri Gagarin. U.S.S.R. cosmonaut. Mr. Gagarin became the first man in space, orbiting Earth once in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. He was killed in a plane crash on March 27, 1968 at the age of 34.
75 years ago
1939
Died on this date
Gladys Frazin, 38. U.S. actress. Miss Frazin appeared in plays and in nine movies from 1924-1931. She suffered from depression, and committed suicide by throwing herself out of her apartment window.
70 years ago
1944
War
U.S. Marines cut the Willaumez Peninsula of New Britain Island in taking the village of Talasea. Japanese troops counter-attacked American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days. On the third Ukrainian front, Soviet troops advanced 18-38 miles along a 105-mile front southwest of Krivoi Rog. Soviet Army planes bombed Tallinn, Estonia. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said that units of the Italian fleet would operate for the present "where they now operate," and that Italian ships were unsuitable for Russia's northern waters.
Diplomacy
King Peter II of Yugoslavia arrived in London for talks with British leaders on differences between his government-in-exile and the partisan Yugoslavian regime of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
World events
American Zionist Emergency Council co-chairmen Drs. Stephen Wise and Abba Silver announced after a visit to the White House that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported the establishment of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Economics and finance
Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho put all railroads under government control and curtailed the power of railroad unions.
60 years ago
1954
On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Before the Act, starring Jeffrey Lynn and Jo Van Fleet
See it Now, hosted by Edward R. Murrow, on CBS
Tonight's program: A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy
The broadcast was an attack on the U.S. Senator from Wisconsin who had been fighting the influence of Communism in the United States government for four years. There were some anti-McCarthy liberals in the press who thought that Mr. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly, in editing film clips of Mr. McCarthy to make him look foolish, were guilty of what they were accusing Mr. McCarthy of.
50 years ago
1964
Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): If I Had a Hammer--Trini Lopez (6th week at #1)
On television tonight
The Outer Limits, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Moonstone, starring Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Tim O'Connor, Curt Conway, and Hari Rhodes
Law
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in The New York Times Company v. L.B. Sullivan that the press had a right to criticize public officials. The ruling established the malice standard for defamation and libel.
40 years ago
1974
Hit parade
#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): Dynamite--Mud (3rd week at #1)
#1 single in the U.K.: Jealous Mind--Alvin Stardust
Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Sorrow--David Bowie (3rd week at #1)
2 My Coo Ca Choo--Alvin Stardust
3 Farewell Aunty Jack--Grahame Bond
4 48 Crash--Suzi Quatro
5 I Love You Love Me Love--Gary Glitter
6 The Lord's Prayer--Sister Janet Mead
7 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road--Elton John
8 Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally--Tony Orlando & Dawn
9 Paper Roses--Marie Osmond
10 The Ballroom Blitz--The Sweet
Singles entering the chart were Puppy Song/Day Dreamer by David Cassidy (#35); Do You Wanna Dance? by Barry Blue (#36); Be by Neil Diamond (#38); and Our Day Will Come by Linda George (#39).
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Seasons in the Sun--Terry Jacks (2nd week at #1)
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Seasons in the Sun--Terry Jacks (2nd week at #1)
2 Boogie Down--Eddie Kendricks
3 Spiders & Snakes--Jim Stafford
4 Dark Lady--Cher
5 Rock On--David Essex
6 Sunshine on My Shoulders--John Denver
7 Jet--Paul McCartney & Wings
8 Mockingbird--Carly Simon and James Taylor
9 Last Time I Saw Him--Diana Ross
10 Love Song--Anne Murray
Singles entering the chart were Keep on Singing by Helen Reddy (#70); The Loco-Motion by Grand Funk (#80); Heavenly by the Temptations (#83); Dancing Machine by the Jackson 5 (#84); The Payback (Part 1) by James Brown (#85); Would You Lay with Me (In A Field Of Stone) by Tanya Tucker (#86); Happiness is Me and You by Gilbert O'Sullivan (#92); Loving You by Johnny Nash (#93); Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Muldaur (#96); Keep it in the Family by Leon Haywood (#97); Power of Love by Martha Reeves (#98); She by Southcote (#99); and Newsy Neighbors by First Choice (#100).
Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Spiders & Snakes--Jim Stafford
2 Love's Theme--The Love Unlimited Orchestra
3 Seasons in the Sun--Terry Jacks
4 Love Song--Anne Murray
5 Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)--Rolling Stones
6 Dark Lady--Cher
7 I Thought of You Again--Susan Jacks
8 Rock On--David Essex
9 The Way We Were--Barbra Streisand
10 Jet--Paul McCartney & Wings
Singles entering the chart were I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song by Jim Croce (#88); Oh My My by Ringo Starr (#92); We're Getting Careless with Our Love by Johnnie Taylor (#94); Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (#95); Help Me by Joni Mitchell (#97); She's Gone by Daryl Hall & John Oates (#98); Mr. Natural by the Bee Gees (#99); and Music Eyes by Heartsfield (#100).
Calgary's Top 10
1 The Way We Were--Barbra Streisand (4th week at #1)
2 Dark Lady--Cher
3 Love's Theme--The Love Unlimited Orchestra
4 I Love--Tom T. Hall
5 You're Sixteen--Ringo Starr
6 I Fell in Love with You Sometime--Gary & Dave
7 Sunshine on My Shoulders--John Denver
8 The Lord's Prayer--Sister Janet Mead
9 This is Your Song--Don Goodwin
10 Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up--Barry White
Pick hit of the week: Jungle Boogie--Kool & The Gang
Died on this date
Earl Sutherland, 58. U.S. pharmacologist and biochemist. Dr. Sutherland won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones."
Crime
After a lapse in communication, a taped message from newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was released in which she said that not enough was being done to ensure her release. She had been kidnapped from her Berkeley, California apartment on February 4 by a terrorist organization called the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Scandal
The seven former members of the U.S. administration of President Richard Nixon who had been charged eight days earlier in the conspiracy 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. all pled not guilty. The accused were:
H.R. Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff: conspiracy; obstruction of justice; three counts of perjury;
John Mitchell, former U.S. Attorney General: conspiracy, obstruction of justice; false statements to the FBI; false statements to a grand jury;
John Ehrlichman, former Presidential Assistant for Domestic Affairs: conspiracy; obstruction of justice; false statements to the FBI; false statements to a grand jury;
Charles Colson, former special Presidential counsel: conspiracy; obstruction of justice;
Robert Mardian, former presidential election campaign aide: conspiracy;
Kenneth Parkinson, former attorney for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP): conspiracy, obstruction of justice;
Gordon Strachan, former aide to Mr. Haldeman: conspiracy; obstruction of justice; false statements to a grand jury.
Baseball
The California Angels scored 2 runs in each of the 4th and 8th innings as they defeated the defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics 5-1 in a spring training game before 3,091 fans at Angel Stadium in Palm Springs, California. Each team scored a run in the 1st inning. Bobby Valentine, playing his first game since breaking his leg on May 17, 1973, played the first 7 innings in left field for California and batted 3 for 3. Rudy May relieved starting pitcher Bill Singer and pitched the 3rd and 4th innings, getting the win over Blue Moon Odom, who pitched 2 innings in relief of Oakland starter Vida Blue.
30 years ago
1984
Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Maggie--Foster and Allen (4th week at #1)
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Relax--Frankie Goes to Hollywood (3rd week at #1)
At the movies
Splash, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, and John Candy, opened in theatres.
Defense
Opponents of the proposal by the U.S. administration of President Ronald Reagan to sell 1,600 antiaircraft missiles to Jordan had drafted legislation in both houses of Congress to prevent it.
Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate had declined to 7.7% in February.
25 years ago
1989
Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Finnish Singles Chart): Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart--Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Too Many Broken Hearts--Jason Donovan
Died on this date
Robert Mapplethorpe, 42. U.S. photographer. Mr. Mapplethorpe was a sodomite whose most infamous work celebrated sodomy and sparked debate over public funding of the arts. He died of AIDS.
Politics and government
The United States Senate voted 53-47 to reject former Senator John Tower as President George Bush's nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense. It was only the ninth time--and the first time in 30 years--that a cabinet nominee had been rejected. The main objection to Mr. Tower had been his history of drinking. All but three Democratic Senators voted against Mr. Tower, while Nancy Kassebaum (Kansas) was the only Republican Senator to vote against him.
World events
The U.S.S.R. officially submitted to the jurisdiction of the World Court.
Protest
The Chinese government ordered all tourists out of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, two days after imposing martial law to curb several days of protests led by Buddhist monks and nuns in support of Tibetan independence. Officially, 16 people were killed in the clashes, but Tibetans told Westerners that the death toll could be as high as 100.
Scandal
Charles Gardner, a former vice president of Unisys Corporation, a major contractor with the United States Defense Department, pled guilty in a U.S. federal court in Alexandria, Virginia to tax evasion, bribing a federal official, and making false statements.
Law
The California state Senate passed a bill barring the sale, possession, or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons. The bill was a reaction to the killing of five California schoolchildren in January.
Business
Eastern Airlines filed for bankruptcy, five days after the airline's machinists had gone on strike, supported by pilots and flight attendants.
20 years ago
1994
Died on this date
Maurice Purtill, 77. U.S. musician. Mr. Purtill was a drummer who was best known for his time with the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1939-1942.
Fernando Rey, 76. Spanish actor. Mr. Rey appeared in more than 150 movies, including The Immortal Story (1968); The French Connection (1971); The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972); French Connection II (1975); and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
Charles Bukowski, 73. German-born U.S. poet and author. Mr. Bukowski, who moved to the United States with his parents at the age of 2, was a drunk and a lowlife whose writing celebrated the lowlife experience--the sort of thing that's popular with people in Hollywood, but turns off normal people.
Eddie "The Brain" Creatchman, 68. Canadian wrestler and manager. Mr. Creatchman, a native of Montreal, was a professional wrestler and referee, but was better known as a manager in the Quebec circuit, managing wrestlers such as The Sheik, Abdullah the Butcher, and Steve Strong.
Politics and government
Lester Bird took office as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, replacing his father Sir Vere Bird, who had been Prime Minister since the nation had secured its independence from Great Britain in 1981. The Birds led the Antigua Labour Party, which had held power in Parliament for 38 of the previous 43 years.
Terrorism
The Irish Republican Army launched five mortar bombs onto the runway at Heathrow Airport in London, but they failed to explode.
10 years ago
2004
Crime
John Allen Muhammad, 43, was sentenced to death for the sniper killings of at least 10 people in the Washington, D.C. area in October 2002.
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