October 16, 2014

225 years ago
1789

Born on this date
William Burton. U.S. politician. Dr. Burton, a physician and a member of the Democratic Party, was Governor of Delaware from 1859-1863. He died on August 5, 1866 at the age of 76.

200 years ago
1814

Disasters
Eight people drowned or were fatally injured in London when vats at the Meux and Company Brewery exploded and tons of beer flooded the streets.

75 years ago
1939

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: The Speckled Band

War
The Royal Air Force's No. 603 Squadron intercepted the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain during World War II.

70 years ago
1944

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Missing Treaty

War
Despite five German attacks outside the city of Aachen, U.S. forces completed their encirclement of the city. British forces landed on Lemnos Island, which guarded the entrance to the Dardanelles. U.S. planes blasted Formosa (Taiwan), concentrating on Okayama and Heito on the west coast.

Politics and government
New York Governor and 1944 Republican Party U.S. presidential candidate Thomas Dewey charged that President Franklin D. Roosevelt planned to keep men in the armed services because he did not have peacetime jobs for them.

60 years ago
1954

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): The Little Shoemaker--The Gaylords; Petula Clark (2nd week at #1)

#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Hey There--Rosemary Clooney (Best Seller--4th week at #1; Disc Jockey--2nd week at #1; Jukebox--1st week at #1)

U.S. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Hey There--Rosemary Clooney (4th week at #1)
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
2 Skokiaan--Ralph Marterie and his Orchestra
--Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band
--The Four Lads
3 Sh-Boom--The Crew-Cuts
--The Chords
4 If I Give My Heart to You--Doris Day
--Denise Lor
--Connee Boswell
--Dinah Shore
5 This Ole House--Rosemary Clooney
6 I Need You Now--Eddie Fisher
7 The High and the Mighty--Les Baxter and his Orchestra
--LeRoy Holmes and his Orchestra
--Victor Young and his Orchestra
--Johnny Desmond
8 The Little Shoemaker--The Gaylords
--Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra
9 Shake, Rattle and Roll--Bill Haley and his Comets
10 They Were Doin' the Mambo--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were It's a Woman's World by the Four Aces (#20); Sisters by Rosemary and Betty Clooney (#24); In a Little Spanish Town by David Carroll and his Orchestra (#27, charting with the version by Russ Carlyle and his Orchestra); The Touch (Le Grisbi) by the Three Suns (#40); Drink, Drink, Drink by Mario Lanza (#41); We'll Be Together Again by Rosemary Clooney (#43); The Mama Doll Song by Patti Page (#44); and Mambo in the Moonlight by Gary Crosby and the Cheer Leaders (#47). Drink, Drink, Drink was from the movie The Student Prince (1954).

Football
CRU
IRFU
Hamilton (6-4) 11 @ Montreal (9-1) 46
Toronto (4-6) 27 @ Ottawa (1-9) 11

WIFU
Calgary (7-8) 8 @ Saskatchewan (9-3-2) 19
British Columbia (1-12) 3 @ Edmonton (8-5) 31

ORFU
Toronto (0-9) 18 @ Sarnia (6-3) 28

Montreal quarterback Sam "The Rifle" Etcheverry set a Canadian football single-game record with 586 yards passing as the Alouettes routed the Tiger-Cats at Molson Stadium. Mr. Etcheverry threw 5 touchdown passes. Montreal halfback Hal Patterson returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown.

Ken Carpenter and Frank Tripucka scored touchdowns for the Roughriders as they beat the Stampeders before 14,000 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Joe Aguirre kicked 2 field goals for Saskatchewan, giving him a record total of 16 for the season. Calgary quarterback Eddie LeBaron scored a touchdown and a single.

Rollie Miles and Jackie Parker each scored 2 touchdowns and Glenn Lippman scored another TD as the Eskimos routed the Lions at Clarke Stadium. Bob Dean added 5 converts and a single.

Canadian university
Toronto (0-1-1) 0 @ Queen's (2-0) 20
McGill (0-2) 6 @ Western Ontario (1-0-1) 25

50 years ago
1964

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): I'm Into Something Good--Herman's Hermits

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Last Kiss--J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers (2nd week at #1)
2 Las Vegas Scene--Wes Dakus
3 Pretty Woman--Roy Orbison
4 Do Wah Diddy Diddy--Manfred Mann
5 Have I the Right?--The Honeycombs
6 I'm Into Something Good--Herman's Hermits
7 Let it Be Me--Betty Everett & Jerry Butler
8 Haunted House--Jumpin' Gene Simmons
9 Little Honda--The Hondells
10 Ride the Wild Surf--Jan & Dean
Pick hit of the week: Is it True--Brenda Lee
New this week: I'm Gonna Be Strong--Gene Pitney
Don't Ever Leave Me--Connie Francis
Walking in the Rain--The Ronettes
Sweet and Lovely--Frankie Lymon
Cindy Go Home--Paul Anka
That's the Way it Goes--The Shadows

That's the Way it Goes and its B-side, Don't it Make You Feel Good, were rare vocal performances by the Shadows, who were normally an instrumental group.

Defense
China detonated its first atomic bomb.

Politics and government
Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin were inaugurated as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Premier, respectively, and the collective leadership was established.

Olympics
Don Schollander, 18, of the United States became the first swimmer to win four gold medals in an Olympic games when he won the men's 100-metre and 400-metre freestyles (the latter in a world record of 4 minutes 12.2 seconds) and anchored the 4x100-metre and 4x200-metre relays at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Mr. Schollander was also the first American to win four gold medals since Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Peter Snell of New Zealand won the gold medal in the men's 800-metre run, with Bill Crothers of Canada winning the silver medal.

40 years ago
1974

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Rock Your Baby--George McCrae (6th week at #1)

On television tonight
Sons and Daughters, on CBS
Tonight's episode: The Rejection

The day this episode aired, CBS announced that it was cancelling the series because of low ratings. The ninth and final episode aired on November 6, 1974.

Politics and government
William Hawrelak, who had been forced out of office because of financial scandals in 1959 and 1965, was elected Mayor of Edmonton yet again, defeating incumbent Ivor Dent. Rod Sykes won a third term as Mayor of Calgary, defeating challenger Ross Alger by 3,000 votes, a margin considerably less than in the previous election; Peter Petrasuk finished further behind.

Protest
A riot at Long Kesh Maze Prison in Northern Ireland resulted in the prison being set afire, with injuries to 130 prisoners.

Hockey
NHL
The Toronto Maple Leafs traded left wing Garry Monahan and defenseman John Grisdale to the Vancouver Canucks for defenseman Dave Dunn. None of the players had yet scored any points in 1974-75, with Mr. Monahan playing 1 game with Toronto and Mr. Grisdale 2 games. Mr. Dunn had played 1 game with Vancouver and had picked up 11 minutes in penalties.

Football
WFL
Shreveport (5-10-1) 30 @ Philadelphia (6-10) 25
Chicago (7-9) 0 @ Charlotte (10-6) 27
Florida (11-5) 15 @ Memphis (14-2) 25
Hawaii (6-10) 0 @ Portland (5-10-1) 3
Birmingham (12-4) 25 @ Southern California (12-4) 29

Baseball
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers 2 @ Oakland Athletics 5 (Oakland led best-of-seven series 3-1)

Pinch hitter Jim Holt singled in 2 runs during a 4-run 6th inning as the Athletics defeated the Dodgers before 49,347 fans at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Ken Holtzman allowed 6 hits and 2 earned runs in 7 2/3 innings to earn the win, and opened the scoring with a home run in the bottom of the 3rd inning. Rollie Fingers pitched 1 1/3 innings to get the save. Andy Messersmith allowed 5 runs--all earned--in 6 innings in taking his second loss of the Series.





Nippon Series
Lotte Orions 4 @ Chunichi Dragons 5 (Chunichi led best-of-seven series 1-0)

The Orions scored a run in the top of the 9th inning to break a 3-3 tie, but the Dragons scored 2 in the bottom of the 9th to win the game before 22,148 fans at Nagoya Stadium.

30 years ago
1984

Diplomacy
South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced that industrial production had edged downward in September by 0.6%, its first decline since November 1982. Leading banks lowered their prime lending rate by ¼ percentage point to 12.5%, another sign of a cooling economy.

Baseball
Gene Mauch, who had retired from the California Angels after the 1982 season, was rehired as their manager.

25 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Right Here Waiting--Richard Marx (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Lambada--Kaoma (9th week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Cherish--Madonna (2nd week at #1)
2 Mixed Emotions--Rolling Stones
3 Girl I'm Gonna Miss You--Milli Vanilli
4 If I Could Turn Back Time--Cher
5 Heaven--Warrant
6 Miss You Much--Janet Jackson
7 Sowing the Seeds of Love--Tears for Fears
8 Healing Hands--Elton John
9 18 and Life--Skid Row
10 Love Song--The Cure

Singles entering the chart were Hey Men by Men Without Hats (#72); House of Dreams by Blue Rodeo (#75); We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel (#79); Don't Know Much by Linda Ronstadt (featuring Aaron Neville) (#81); Holding on to You by Peter Frampton (#84); Poison by Alice Cooper (#87); Blame it on the Rain by Milli Vanilli (#90); and You've Got It by Simply Red (#92).

Died on this date
Cornel Wilde, 77. Austro-Hungarian-born U.S. actor. Mr. Wilde, born Kornél Lajos Weisz in what is now Slovakia, moved with his family to New York in 1920. His movies included Leave Her to Heaven (1945); A Song to Remember (1945); Forever Amber (1947); Shockproof (1949); and The Big Combo (1955). Mr. Wilde died of leukemia three days after his 77th birthday.

Walter Farley, 74. U.S. author. Mr. Farley was known for his novel The Black Stallion (1941) and numerous sequels.

Politics and government
History was made in Alberta when Reform Party candidate Stan Waters won easily over Bill Code of the Liberals, Bert Brown of the Progressive Conservatives, and two independents to become the first person ever to be elected to the Canadian Senate. The election took place in conjunction with civic elections; Jan Reimer won the Edmonton mayoral election, easily defeating incumbent Terry Cavanagh and five other candidates.

20 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Endless Love--Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): I Swear--All-4-One (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: I Swear--All-4-One (12th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Chart Information Network): Sure--Take That (2nd week at #1)

Politics and government
The governing coalition led by Chancellor Helmot Kohl's Christian Democratic Party retained a majority of seats in the Bundestag in the German federal election, but saw its majority reduced from 134 seats to 10. The Christian Democrats captured 48.4% of the popular vote to 48.1% for the opposition coalition led by the Social Democrats.

Football
CFL
Sacramento (7-7-1) 12 @ Shreveport (1-14) 24
Toronto (6-9) 24 @ Ottawa (4-11) 22
Calgary (12-3) 24 @ Hamilton (4-11) 27



Baltimore (10-5) 24 @ Edmonton (11-4) 31

10 years ago
2004

Died on this date
Pierre Salinger, 79. U.S. journalist and politician. Mr. Salinger was press secretary for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961-1964, when he resigned in order to run for the Democratic Party nomination for a seat in the United States Senate from California. He won a primary and was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the July 30, 1964 death of retiring Senator Clair Engle. Mr. Salinger served in the Senate from August 4-December 31, 1964. He returned to journalism after leaving office, and spent his later years in France.

War
Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip, ending a 17-day offensive to stop Palestinians from firing rockets into Israeli settlements. 109 Palestinians had been killed in the fighting.

Baseball
National League Championship Series
St. Louis 2 @ Houston 5 (St. Louis led best-of-seven series 2-1)

American League Championship Series
New York 19 @ Boston 8 (New York led best-of-seven series 3-0)

Lance Berkman singled home the first run of the game and hit a home run to close the scoring as the Astros beat the Cardinals before 42,896 fans at Minute Maid Park. Jeff Kent followed Mr. Berkman's 1st-inning single with a 2-run home run, and Carlos Beltran homered to lead off the 8th for Houston. Roger Clemens pitched 7 innings to get the win over Jeff Suppan, who pitched 6 innings.

Hideki Matsui batted 5 for 6 with 2 doubles, 2 home runs, 5 runs, and 5 runs batted in as the Yankees set a major league record for runs in a post-season game in their rout of the Red Sox before 35,126 fans at Fenway Park. The game was tied 6-6 after 3 innings before New York scored 5 runs in the 4th inning and 2 in the 5th. Javier Vasquez, who relieved starting pitcher Kevin Brown to start the 3rd inning, allowed 7 hits and 4 runs--all earned--in 4 1/3 innings, but was credited with the win. Ramiro Mendoza, who pitched 1+ innings and allowed the go-ahead run in the 4th, was charged with the loss.