June 9, 2014

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sandie Topechka!

480 years ago
1534

Exploration
Jacques Cartier sailed into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River for the first time.

125 years ago
1889

Died on this date
Mike Burke, 35. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Burke was a utility player with the Cincinnati Reds in 1879, batting .222 with no home runs and 8 runs batted in in 28 games. He played with the Columbus Buckeyes (1877) and London Tecumsehs (1877-1878) in the International Association.

100 years ago
1914

Edmontonia
A north Edmonton branch of the Edmonton Public Library was under construction, to be completed by August 10 and open to borrowers by August 30.

80 years ago
1934

At the movies
The Wise Little Hen, the first cartoon in which Donald Duck appeared, opened in theatres.

Golf
Olin Dutra won the U.S. Open at the East Course of Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania with a 13-over-par score of 293. First prize money was $1,000.

70 years ago
1944

War
German Army officer Kurt Meyer withdrew his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, France, then threw his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey, but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drove him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars captured the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, 7 miles forward of Norrey. Attacked by 88s, they lost 19 of the Hussar Shermans in 15 minutes. The Queen's Own Rifles had 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executed 18 more Canadian prisoners of war at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's headquarters, on his orders. 99 civilians were hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. American troops captured Ste. Mere-Eglise and pushed to within 17 miles of Cherbourg. In their rapid advance above Rome, U.S. troops took Viterbo, Vetralla, and Tarquinia. Soviet forces invaded East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. Allied forces seized the northern end of the airstrip north of Myitkyina and occupied several more villages around Kamaing, Burma.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt disclosed that French General Charles de Gaulle had been invited to meet with him in Washington at Gen. de Gaulle's convenience.

Politics and government
Prince Humbert named Ivanoe Bonomi as head of a new Italian government after Prime Minister Marshal Pietro Badoglio declined an attempt to form a new government.

An estimated 30 leaders of the Democratic Party forces in six Southern U.S. states opposed to President Roosevelt's renomination met in Shreveport, Louisiana and named Eugene Germany as the leader of a coalition opposed to a fourth term for Mr. Roosevelt as President of the United States.

Crime
Hans Max Haupt, father of executed German saboteur Herbert Haupt, was convicted in Chicago a second time of treason.

Labour
The U.S. National War Labor Board said that its docket had been cleared of strike cases for the first time since its establishment in January 1942. The U.S. War Production Board announced an end to the importation of Mexican workers to relieve labour shortages in foundries and forge shops.

The North Carolina Board of Education voted to grant equal pay for Negro and white teachers.

60 years ago
1954

Politics and government
During the U.S. Senate-U.S. Army hearings over the accusations of Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) of Communist infiltration of the United States Army, Army counsel Joseph Welch responded to Sen. McCarthy's attack on Mr. Welch's law partner Frederick Fisher by saying, "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? '

50 years ago
1964

Died on this date
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, 85. Canadian-born U.K. newspaper magnate and politician. Mr. Aitken, a native of Maple, Ontario, grew up in Newcastle, New Brunswick, and founded businesses such as Calgary Power before moving to England in 1910. He became involved in politics and became a newspaper tycoon as owner of the Daily Express, Sunday Express, and London Evening Standard. He was granted a peerage in 1917 as Lord Beaverbrook and served as a cabinet minister in governments in both world wars, becoming one of the most influential people in Great Britain.

40 years ago
1974

Baseball
Former major league pitcher Stan Williams, now playing with and managing the Bristol Red Sox of the AA Eastern League, pitched a 7-inning no-hitter as the Red Sox blanked the Quebec City Carnivals 9-0.

30 years ago
1984

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Jump--Van Halen

#1 single in Flanders (VRT Top 30): I Want to Break Free--Queen (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): The Reflex--Duran Duran

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Wake Me Up Before You Go Go--Wham!

#1 single in the U.K.: The Reflex--Duran Duran (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Time After Time--Cyndi Lauper

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Time After Time--Cyndi Lauper
2 Let's Hear it for the Boy--Deniece Williams
3 The Reflex--Duran Duran
4 Oh Sherrie--Steve Perry
5 Hello--Lionel Richie
6 Sister Christian--Night Ranger
7 To All the Girls I've Loved Before--Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson
8 The Heart of Rock and Roll--Huey Lewis and the News
9 Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)--Phil Collins
10 Dancing in the Dark--Bruce Springsteen

Singles entering the chart were Sad Songs (Say So Much) by Elton John (#46); She Don't Know Me by Bon Jovi (#86); 10-9-8 by Face to Face (#88); and Strangers in a Strange World by Jenny Burton and Patrick Jude (#90).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 Time After Time--Cyndi Lauper
2 Hello--Lionel Richie
3 To All the Girls I've Loved Before--Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson
4 The Reflex--Duran Duran
5 Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)--Phil Collins
6 Let's Hear it for the Boy--Deniece Williams
7 They Don't Know--Tracey Ullman
8 Hold Me Now--Thompson Twins
9 Wouldn't it Be Good--Nik Kershaw
10 Breakdance--Irene Cara

Singles entering the chart were Sister Christian by Night Ranger (#45); Legs by ZZ Top (#47); Doctor! Doctor! by Thompson Twins (#48); and Magic by the Cars (#49).

Horse racing
Swale, with Lafitt Pincay, Jr. aboard, won the 116th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York in a time of 2:27 1/5. It was the second win in three Triple Crown races for Swale, who had won the Kentucky Derby but finished seventh in the Preakness Stakes. Pine Circle placed second.

Hockey
NHL
The Pittsburgh Penguins had the first pick in the league's annual entry draft and chose Mario Lemieux of the Laval Voisins.

25 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): The Look--Roxette (3rd week at #1)

At the movies
The Unspoken, directed by Bill Sorochan and starring Larry Musser, received its premiere screening at the Provincial Museum of Alberta in Edmonton.

Died on this date
George Wells Beadle, 85. U.S. geneticist. Dr. Beadle was awarded a share of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Lawrie Tatum "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events."

Defense
Jane Foster and Deanna Brasseur passed the course at Cold Lake, Alberta to become Canada's--and possibly the world's--first two female fighter pilots available for combat roles.

20 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): No Good (Start the Dance)--The Prodigy

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Riverdance--Bill Whelan (6th week at #1)

Died on this date
Jan Tinbergen, 91. Dutch economist. Dr. Tinbergen shared the first Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences in 1969 with Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes." He was one of the founding fathers of econometrics.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Vancouver 6 @ New York Rangers 3 (New York led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Dave Babych scored to break a 3-3 tie as the Canucks, after blowing a 3-0 lead in the 3rd period, rallied to defeat the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

10 years ago
2004

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Ottawa (1-1) 10 @ Montreal (1-1) 38