September 15, 2014

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Don Percy!

225 years ago
1789

Born on this date
James Fenimore Cooper. U.S. author. Mr. Cooper was best known for his novels The Last of the Mohicans (1826); The Pathfinder (1840); and The Deerslayer (1841). He died on September 14, 1851, the day before his 62nd birthday.

Politics and government
The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to the Department of State.

140 years ago
1874

Diplomacy
At Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan, Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine and other Indian tribes signed Treaty #4 with representatives of Queen Victoria. The Indians received 120,054 square kilometres and a payment of $12 per Indian, as well as schools, farm instruction, and acreages.

130 years ago
1884

War
Frederick Charles Denison sailed from Quebec City for Egypt with 386 Canadian Voyageurs to help Lord Kitchener ascend the Nile, mount a resistance to Sudan revolutionary leader Mahdi, and rescue British General Charles Gordon, besieged in Khartoum. The boatmen, many of them recruited from the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company, were organized by Garnet Wolseley, who had commanded the Red River Expedition in 1870. They were Canada's first official participants in an overseas war; 16 died.

Baseball
Zero fans showed up at Wilmington Grounds to watch the Wilmington Quicksteps play their Union Association game against the Kansas City Unions. Quicksteps’ manager Joe Simmons elected to forfeit the game rather than play, and the Quicksteps disbanded. Their record of 2-16 produced the worst winning percentage (.111) of any major league team.

125 years ago
1889

Born on this date
Robert Benchley. U.S. humourist. Mr. Benchley was known for his articles in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and his starring roles in short films in the 1930s and 1940s. His best known movies were How to Sleep (1935) and A Night at the Movies (1937). Mr. Benchley drank himself to death at the age of 56 on November 21, 1945.

Baseball
In the Western Association, Sioux City swept a double doubleheader from visiting St. Joseph, winning 6-1 and 12-7 in 5-inning games in the morning, and 12-5 in 5 innings and 5-4 in 7 innings in the afternoon. The scheduling allowed St. Joseph to catch their train to Milwaukee.

120 years ago
1894

Born on this date
Robert Williams. U.S. actor. A stage actor on Broadway in the 1920s, Mr. Williams went to Hollywood in 1931, and appeared in supporting roles in several films before being cast as the male lead opposite Jean Harlow and Loretta Young in Platinum Blonde (1931), directed by Frank Capra. Mr. Williams projected definite star power, but he died of peritonitis on November 3, 1931 at the age of 37, just three days after the movie's release, shortly after falling ill while rehearsing for his next picture, Lady with a Past (1932); he was replaced in the latter picture by Ben Lyon.

Chic Harley. U.S. football player. Mr. Harley was a star halfback with Ohio State University in 1916-1917 and 1919, and was the team's first big star, scoring 23 touchdowns and 201 points in 24 games. He interrupted his career in 1918 to serve in World War I. Mr. Harley was about to turn professional with the Chicago Staleys of the American Professional Football Association (now the NFL) in 1921, but he was diagnosed with dementia praecox, apparently originating from his war service. Mr. Harley spent most of the rest of his life in a veterans' hospital in Danville, Illinois. He died on April 21, 1974 at the age of 79.

Jean Renoir. French-born film director. Mr. Renoir, a son of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, directed more than 40 movies from the 1920s through the 1960s, but had his greatest success in the 1930s with films such as La Grande illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939). He fled to the United States after the German occupation of France in 1940 and became an American citizen several years later, but his Hollywood movies were less successful than his earlier films. Mr. Renoir died of a heart attack on February 12, 1979 at the age of 84.

War
Japan defeated China in the Battle of Pyongyang in the first Sino-Japanese War.

100 years ago
1914

Born on this date
Orhan Kemal. Turkish author. Mr. Kemal, whose real name was Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü, was known for his realist novels describing the lives of ordinary working people trying to hold on to their dignity in conditions of poverty or deprivation. He was accused of Communist sympathies, and was imprisoned from 1938-1943. Mr. Kemal died of an intracranial hemorrhage on June 2, 1970 at the age of 55.

Creighton Abrams. U.S. military officer. General Abrams commanded U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-1972 and served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972-1974. He died on September 4, 1974, 11 days before his 60th birthday.

75 years ago
1939

Economics and finance
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Mackenzie King created the Foreign Exchange Control Board. The board administered a 10% War Exchange Tax on non-British Empire imports.

Boxing
Tony Galento (77-24-5) scored a technical knockout of Lou Nova (22-2-3) at 2:44 of the 14th round of a heavyweight bout at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia. Mr. Galento reportedly thumbed Mr. Nova repeatedly in the right eye, and won the fight when Mr. Nova was fouled for the last time. The December 1997 issue of The Ring ranked this as the third-dirtiest fight in history.





Football
CRU
WIFU
Calgary (1-3) 18 @ Winnipeg (4-0) 19
Edmonton (1-3) 5 @ Regina (2-2) 18

Greg Kabat's 25-yard field goal in the last minute of the game gave the Blue Bombers their win over the Bronks before a capacity crowd of 5,000 at Osborne Stadium.

Howard Cleveland scored a touchdown and convert, and Morris Williams returned a fumble 50 yards for a touchdown on the last play of the game, as the Roughriders beat the Eskimos at Park de Young. Bill Matheny scored a touchdown for the Eskimos.

Baseball
The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers 10-3 before 10,538 fans at Yankee Stadium to clinch the American League pennant for the fourth straight season. Winning pitcher Steve Sundra improved his record for the season to 10-0, pitching a complete game and batting 2 for 4 with a single, double, base on balls, and 3 runs batted in.

70 years ago
1944

War
U.S. troops in Germany breached the Siegfried Line at its strongest point east of Aachen and moved eastward toward Cologne. Soviet artillery hit Warsaw steadily, while U.S.S.R. infantrymen drove German troops back toward the Vistula River on a 14-mile front north of captured Praga. British commando troops began landing on the Greek island of Cythera. U.S. troops commanded by General Douglas MacArthur invaded Morotai Island, northernmost of the Halmahera group.

World events
French Justice Commissioner Francois de Menthon ordered the arrest of Marshal Henri-Phillippe Petain and all members of Vichy France's cabinet.

Labour
The U.S. United Mine Workers convention adopted a resolution condemning U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for regimenting the U.S. labour movement.

Disasters
An earthquake destroyed the Ecuadorean village of Pastocalle and shook five nearby towns.

60 years ago
1954

At the movies
Los Fernández de Peralvillo, directed by Alejandro Galindo, and starring David Silva, Víctor Parra, Sara García, Irma Torres, and Alicia Caro, opened in theatres in Mexico.



50 years ago
1964

On television tonight
The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Man in a Chariot, with guest stars Kathleen McGuire, Robert Drivas, and Ed Begley

This was the first episode of the season.

At the movies
Fail Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, and Fritz Weaver, received its premiere screening at the New York Film Festival.





Journalism
The London newspaper The Sun began publication, replacing the Daily Herald.

Football
CFL
Calgary (6-3) 20 @ Hamilton (3-3) 18

Calgary fullback Lovell Coleman set a Western Football Conference record for a single game with 238 yards rushing as the Stampeders edged the Tiger-Cats before 25,000 fans at Civic Stadium. Mr. Coleman rushed 85 yards for a touchdown and had another run of 50 yards to set up a 2-yard touchdown rush by quarterback Eagle Day.

40 years ago
1974

Died on this date
Ralph "Pest" Welch, 67. U.S. football coach. Mr. Welch was an assistant coach under Jimmy Phelan with the University of Washington from 1930-1937 and 1939-1941, and head coach of the Huskies from 1942-1947, compiling a record of 27-20-3. The 1943 Huskies went to the Rose Bowl, where they lost 29-0 to the University of Southern California Trojans on January 1, 1944.

Terrorism
Air Vietnam Flight 706 was hijacked, then crashed while attempting to land near a provincial airfield on the South Vietnamese coast, killing all 75 on board.

Protest
Soviet vigilantes, using bulldozers and dump trucks, broke up an outdoor exhibition of nonconformist Soviet art as it ws being set up on a vacant lot in Moscow and seized some of the paintings. Two water trucks chased a fleeing crowd of 100 people, including artists, Western journalists, and diplomats, striking three American journalists. The 13 organizers of the exhibit claimed that Moscow authorities had told them the lot was available, and sent a written complaint to the Communist Party Politburo, protesting lawlessness, arbitrary misuse of force, and violation of their constitutional rights.

Football
CFL
British Columbia (5-4) 12 @ Montreal (7-2) 31

Phil Price's 54-yard interception return for a touchdown with 1:26 remaining in the 3rd quarter began a rally which produced 24 unanswered points as the Alouettes came from behind to defeat the Lions before 17,926 fans at Autostade. Montreal quarterback Jimmy Jones passed for 254 yards and rushed for 69, including a 4-yard touchdown in the 2nd quarter. Montreal's Johnny Rodgers rushed 6 times for 76 yards and a touchdown, while adding 114 yards receiving. Peter Dalla Riva scored the other Montreal touchdown on a 17-yard pass from Mr. Jones with 1:26 remaining in the game. Slade Willis scored the only B.C. touchdown on a 22-yard pass from Don Moorhead with 4:25 remaining in the 3rd quarter, giving the Lions a 12-7 lead after Ivan MacMillan's convert. Mr. Willis also had a 70-yard punt single. Lou Harris led all B.C. rushers with 76 yards.

NFL
Miami (0-1) 24 @ New England (1-0) 34
Washington (1-0) 13 @ New York Giants (0-1) 10
Dallas (1-0) 24 @ Atlanta (0-1) 0
San Francisco (1-0) 17 @ New Orleans (0-1) 13
Cleveland (0-1) 7 @ Cincinnati (1-0) 33
Detroit (0-1) 9 @ Chicago (1-0) 17
Minnesota (1-0) 32 @ Green Bay (0-1) 17
Philadelphia (0-1) 3 @ St. Louis (1-0) 7
New York Jets (0-1) 16 @ Kansas City (1-0) 24
San Diego (0-1) 14 @ Houston (1-0) 21
Los Angeles (1-0) 17 @ Denver (0-1) 10

Baseball
International League
Governor's Cup
Syracuse 11 @ Rochester 5 (13 innings) (Syracuse led best-of-seven series 1-0)

The Chiefs erupted for 6 runs in the top of the 13th inning to break a 5-5 tie as they beat the Red Wings before 3,319 fans. A 2-run home run by M.L. Prince started the big inning for Syracuse. The game was a nightmare for Rochester third baseman Doug DeCinces, who made 4 errors, helping to produce 6 unearned runs for Syracuse. Steve Evenhus, who entered the game in the 8th inning, was the winning pitcher; Mike McQueen, who entered the game in the 13th, took the loss for Rochester.

30 years ago
1984

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Friends--Amii Stewart

#1 single in Flanders (VRT Top 30): I Just Called To Say I Love You--Stevie Wonder

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Careless Whisper--George Michael (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): I Just Called to Say I Love You--Stevie Wonder (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: I Just Called to Say I Love You--Stevie Wonder (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): What's Love Got to Do with It--Tina Turner (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Missing You--John Waite
2 What's Love Got to Do with It--Tina Turner
3 Let's Go Crazy--Prince and the Revolution
4 Stuck on You--Lionel Richie
5 She Bop--Cyndi Lauper
6 The Warrior--Scandal featuring Patty Smyth
7 If This is It--Huey Lewis and the News
8 Ghostbusters--Ray Parker, Jr.
9 Drive--The Cars
10 Rock Me Tonite--Billy Squier

Singles entering the chart were Blue Jean by David Bowie (#62); What About Me? by Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes and James Ingram (#68); Better be Good to Me by Tina Turner (#69); Body Rock by Maria Vidal (#85); and Sugar Don't Bite by Sam Harris (#90).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 What's Love Got to Do with It--Tina Turner (2nd week at #1)
2 Ghostbusters--Ray Parker, Jr.
3 Stuck on You--Lionel Richie
4 She Bop--Cyndi Lauper
5 Missing You--John Waite
6 If Ever You're in My Arms--Peabo Bryson
7 When Doves Cry--Prince
8 All of You--Julio Iglesias and Diana Ross
9 If This is It--Huey Lewis and the News
10 I Can Dream About You--Dan Hartman

Singles entering the chart were Making Contact by Bruce Cockburn (#91); You Take Me Up by Thompson Twins (#95); Shine Shine by Barry Gibb (#96); The Word is Out by Jermaine Stewart (#98); and Somebody Else's Guy by Jocelyn Brown (#99).

Religion
Pope John Paul II continued his Canadian tour in Ontario. He celebrated Mass before a crowd of 500,000 at Downsview Airport and later consecrated the Slovak Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Unionville, built by Denison Mines magnate Steve Roman. One of the things he did that day was to give a blessing to Brian Mulroney, two days before Mr. Mulroney took office as Prime Minister. John Paul II’s papal blessing may have had a positive effect on Mr. Mulroney, but the result was disastrous for Canada.

Politics and government
The latest public opinion surveys of potential voters in the United States showed President Ronald Reagan leading Democratic challenger Walter Mondale by 15-18 percentage points. An Associated Press survey put Mr. Reagan ahead in 41 states with 420 electoral votes, 150 more than the number required for victory.

Football
CFL
British Columbia (8-2) 17 @ Montreal (4-6) 33



Hamilton (2-8-1) 16 @ Winnipeg (9-2) 48

Willard Reaves rushed for 4 touchdowns to lead the Blue Bombers to their rout of the Tiger-Cats at Winnipeg Stadium.

25 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Swing the Mood--Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers (3rd week at #1)

Austria's top 10 (Ö3)
1 Swing the Mood--Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
2 Flamenco Turistico--Stefanie Werger
3 A Cry in the Night--Lory "Bonnie" Bianco
4 Das Omen (Teil 1)--Mysterious Art
5 Sealed with a Kiss--Jason Donovan
6 The Best--Tina Turner
7 Love is Free--Bilgeri
8 Lullaby--The Cure
9 Blame it on the Rain--Milli Vanilli
10 Dressed for Success--Roxette

Singles entering the chart were The Best; Dressed for Success; Tell it Like it Is by Don Johnson (#15); and Me Myself and I by De La Soul (#21).

Died on this date
Robert Penn Warren, 84. U.S. novelist and poet. Mr. Warren was best known for his novel All the King’s Men (1946), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1947. He also won Pulitzer Prizes for poetry in 1958 and 1979. In 1986 Mr. Warren was named the first Poet Laureate of the United States.

Environment
As winter approached in Alaska, Exxon Corporation halted its cleanup of the 11 million-gallon oil spill from the tanker Exxon Valdez, which had occurred in March. Exxon said the cost of the cleanup was approaching $2 billion. Although the company said that 1,100 miles of the shoreline had been made "environmentally stable," Alaska Governor Steve Cowper said "plenty more" had to be done, and that Alaska would bill Exxon for the cleanup being continued by the state.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that the index of producer prices for finished goods had fallen 0.4% in August.

Football
CFL
Toronto (4-7) 16 @ Calgary (6-5) 36

20 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Love Is All Around--Wet Wet Wet

Politics and government
Representing Quebec, Lise Bacon was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister Paul Martin.

10 years ago
2004

Died on this date
Mike Yastrzemski, 43. U.S. baseball player. Carl Michael Yastrzemski, Jr., the son of Hall of Fame Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski, was an outfielder who spent five years (1984-1988) in the minor league farm systems of the Atlanta Braves and Chicago White Sox, rising to the AAA level, batting .273 with 40 home runs and 260 runs batted in. He died from a blood clot, following hip surgery. Mr. Yastrzemski's son Mike is an outfielder who began playing in the Baltimore Orioles' organization in 2013.

War
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that the U.S. war in Iraq was illegal and violated the UN charter. Meanwhile, a U.S. official said that a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for U.S. President George W. Bush and released in July predicted a bleak future for Iraq.

Economics and finance
The U.S. administration of President George W. Bush requested that the Senate divert $3.4 billion of the $18.4 billion Iraq reconstruction budget to improving security in Iraq.

Labour
National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of players until a new contract could be negotiated, putting the 2004-05 season in jeopardy.

Protest
Thousands of members of England's rural aristocracy went to London to protest a vote in Parliament to ban foxhunting. Five protesters broke into the House of Commons.