September 13, 2014

200 years ago
1814

War
In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British failed to capture Baltimore.

175 years ago
1839

Protest
Republican rebels burned the Anglican church in Chippewa, Upper Canada.

140 years ago
1874

Born n this date
Arnold Schoenberg. Austrian-born U.S. composer. Mr. Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique of composition, and was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, although people who like beautiful melodies find his music unlistenable. Mr. Schoenberg fled to the United States after the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, and became an American citizen in 1941, living in Los Angeles until his death from apoplexy, perhaps hastened by his triskaidekaphobia. He died 15 minutes before midnight on Friday the 13th of July, 1951 at the age of 76.

120 years ago
1894

Born on this date
J. B. Priestley. U.K. author and playwright. Mr. Priestley was known for novels such as Benighted (1928) and The Good Companions (1929) and plays such as Dangerous Corner (1932) and An Inspector Calls (1945). He died on August 14, 1984, 30 days before his 90th birthday.

Died on this date
Emmanuel Chabrier, 53. French composer. Mr. Chabrier was known mainly for his orchestral works España and Joyeuse marche. He died after a long battle with syphilis.

100 years ago
1914

Born on this date
Leonard Feather. U.K.-born U.S. musician and journalist. Mr. Feather played piano and clarinet, and wrote songs--including How Blue Can You Get? and Blowtop Blues--but was best known for writing about jazz, including liner notes for hundreds of albums. He died on September 22, 1994, nine days after his 80th birthday.

War
The First Battle of the Aisne began between Germany and the Allied forces of the U.K. and France. South African troops opened hostilities in the German colony of South-West Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

80 years ago
1934

Radio
Baseball Commissioner K.M. Landis sold the broadcast rights to the World Series to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.

Baseball
The St. Louis Cardinals reduced the New York Giants’ National League lead to 4½ games over the Cardinals with a 2-0 win over the Giants in 12 innings at the Polo Grounds in New York. Paul Dean pitched 12 scoreless innings, while Freddie Fitzsimmons of the Giants pitched 11 scoreless innings before taking the loss.

70 years ago
1944

Hit parade
Variety reported the most popular songs as:
1 I'll Walk Alone
2 Swingin' on a Star
3 I'll Be Seeing You

War
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that the aim of the current Quebec Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King was to bring maximum effort to all war theatres and coordinate Allied war efforts. Canadian troops in Italy captured Coriano Ridge in fierce fighting south of Rimini. After seizing Rotgen, U.S. forces in Germany dug into the heights above Aachen. Allied troops in Italy reached the vicinity of two passes above Florence leading through the Apennines to the Po River Valley. Soviet forces broke through the German defenses on a 35-mile front in southern Poland and reached the Czech border at Ciechania, 80 miles southeast of Krakow. The U.S.S.R. announced the the terms of its armistice with Romania, which included a $300-million war reparation; the ceding of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the U.S.S.R.; the the return of Transylvania to Romania.

Defense
The United States Senate approved a House of Representatives bill permitting Waves to be sent to U.S. stations outside continental America.

Disasters
80-100 people were reported killed in a Mexican cyclone and cloudburst covering nine states a week earlier.

60 years ago
1954

Boxing
European heavyweight champion Heinz Neuhaus (31-2-4) won a 10-round decision over Dan Bucceroni (47-5) at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, West Germany.

Football
CRU
WIFU
British Columbia (0-6) 17 @ Winnipeg (4-2-1) 22
Edmonton (2-3) 6 @ Calgary (4-3) 20

Calgary quarterback Eddie LeBaron handed off to Howard Waugh for 2 touchdowns and rushed for another of his own as the Stampeders defeated the Eskimos before 15,000 fans at Mewata Stadium. Bob Dean kicked 2 field goals for the Eskimos.

50 years ago
1964

Space
The U.S.S.R. launched the satellite Cosmos 45.

World events
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức failed in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (2-5) 22 @ Toronto (2-4) 35

Don Fuell quarterbacked the Argonauts to victory over the Eskimos before 21,797 fans at CNE Stadium. Larry Ferguson, who had scored a touchdown for the Eskimos in his first CFL game two days earlier, scored all 3 Edmonton touchdowns, while split end Tommy-Joe Coffey caught 10 passes for 113 yards in a losing cause.

40 years ago
1974

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: The Night Chicago Died--Paper Lace (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Rock Your Baby--George McCrae (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Ed McKeever, 64. U.S. football coach. Mr. McKeever was head coach at University of Notre Dame (1944); Cornell University (1945-1946); and University of San Francisco (1947), compiling a record of 25-12-1. He was head coach of the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference in 1948, posting a 1-13 record. Mr. McKeever was general manager of the Boston Patriots of the American Football League when that league began operation in 1960.

Terrorism
Three armed members of the Japanese Red Army organization seized part of the French embassy in The Hague, taking nine hostages, including Jacques Senard, French Ambassador to the Netherlands. The terrorists threatened to kill the hostages one by one unless a comrade identified as Yutaka Furuya were freed from prison in France. Mr. Furuya was immediately flown to The Hague, but negotiations with the terrorists stalled.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (6-2) 24 @ Saskatchewan (5-4) 18

Edmonton quarterback Tom Wilkinson passed 15 yards to Garry Lefebvre for a touchdown with 1:15 remaining in the 1st half and handed off to Roy Bell and Calvin Harrell for touchdowns in the 3rd quarter to give the Eskimos a 24-4 lead over the Roughriders before 21,826 fans at Taylor Field in Regina, but Saskatchewan rookie backup quarterback Randy Mattingly completed touchdown passes to Leif Pettersen and Bobby Thompson in the 4th quarter and appeared to be driving the team for the winning touchdown, but Edmonton defensive back John Beaton intercepted a pass to quell the threat. Ron Lancaster started at quarterback for the Roughriders and completed 21 of 34 passes but 266 yards, but failed to produce a touchdown.

Baseball
International League
Playoffs
Semi-Finals
Rochester 2 @ Memphis 0 (Rochester led best-of-seven series 3-2)
Syracuse 8 @ Richmond 2 (Syracuse won best-of-seven series 4-1)

Dyar Miller pitched a 5-hit shoutout, striking out 11 batters and walking just 1, leading the Red Wings as they blanked the Blues before 1,170 fans. Bob Bailor had 3 singles for Rochester, and scored both runs, in the 3rd and 5th innings. Brian Abraham started on the mound for Memphis and took the loss.

Rick Sawyer pitched a 7-hit complete game as the Chiefs eliminated the Braves before 1,272 fans. Rick Bladt drove in the 3 runs with a ground out in the 1st inning, a single in the 3rd, and a home run in the 5th. Mr. Bladt also had a double. The Braves scored both their runs in the 4th inning on a home run by Greg Foreman, a triple by John Fuller, and a single by Alan Gallagher. Barry Lersch, the first of 5 Richmond pitchers, took the loss, as the Chiefs amassed 17 hits.

30 years ago
1984

Hit parade
Edmonton's top 17 (CHED)
1 Let's Go Crazy--Prince and the Revolution
2 What's Love Got to Do with It--Tina Turner
3 Drive--The Cars
4 She Bop--Cyndi Lauper
5 If This is It--Huey Lewis and the News
6 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes--Ultravox
7 Lights Out--Peter Wolf
8 The Warrior--Scandal
9 Missing You--John Waite
10 Cover Me--Bruce Springsteen
11 Message to My Girl--Split Enz
12 If Ever You're in My Arms Again--Peabo Bryson
13 Go for Soda--Kim Mitchell
14 Stuck on You--Lionel Richie
15 Only When You Leave--Spandau Ballet
16 Two Tribes--Frankie Goes to Hollywood
17 Torture--Jacksons

Religion
Pope John Paul II visited New Brunswick as part of his Canadian tour.

Environment
The United States government halted all shipments of citrus from Florida because of the citrus canker, a bacterium harmless to humans and animals, but deadly to citrus trees.

25 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Ehtaa tavaraa (80-luvun tykki)--Bat & Ryyd (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Licence to Kill--Gladys Knight (8th week at #1)

Diplomacy
U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev met with government and party leaders of the Baltic republics in Moscow. He reportedly opposed separatist movements in the Baltic regions, but was also reported to have been conciliatory.

Protest
Reverend Desmond Tutu led the largest anti-Apartheid march in South African history.

Baseball
Fay Vincent was elected baseball commissioner, replacing the late Bart Giamatti, whom Mr. Vincent had served as deputy commissioner.

20 years ago
1994

Died on this date
Arthur Siegel, 70. U.S. songwriter. Mr. Siegel wrote such songs as Monotonous; Penny Candy; and Love is a Simple Thing. He provided the voice of Charlie Brown, with Kaye Ballard as Lucy Van Pelt, for the album Peanuts (1962), which consisted of dialogue from the comic strip, accompanied by jazz music. Mr. Siegel died of heart failure.

Space
The probe Ulysses, a joint venture of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency, passed the Sun's south pole. Ulysses had been launched on October 6, 1990 on a mission to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes.

Society
The Third United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, meeting in Cairo, approved a document declaring that the use of contraceptives as well as "gender equity and the empowerment of women" were the primary means of controlling population. The text on abortion, whose draft had been criticized by the Vatican, was revised, and included the statement, "In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning." All 179 delegations present endorsed the draft plan by consensus, although the Vatican and 20 other countries declared their reservations.

Politics and government
Disgraced former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry won the Democratic Party mayoral nomination, while incumbent Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly finished third. Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun, a Democrat, was defeated for renomination. U.S. Representative David Levy (Republican--New York) lost his bid for renomination in a primary. Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson, whose renomination bid had been rejected by the Republican state convention in favour of Allen Quist, a conservative, won the Republican Party primary.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that consumer prices had increased 0.3% in August.

10 years ago
2004

Died on this date
Luis E. Miramontes, 79. Mexican chemist. Mr. Miramontes was best known for his synthesis, in 1951, of the progestin norethindrone used in one of the first three oral contraceptives, making him the co-inventor of the birth control pill.

Politics and government
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for drastic changes in his country's government, prompting international criticism that the broad overhaul was a consolidation of power in Mr. Putin's hands that would roll back democracy.

Law
A United States law banning 19 types of semiautomatic weapons lapsed.