October 31, 2014

800 years ago
1214

Died on this date
Eleanor of England, 52. Queen of Castile and Toledo, 1177-1214. Eleanor, the sixth child and second daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was queen consort of King Alfonso VIII of Castile. Eleanor died just 26 days after her husband, her death perhaps hastened by grief over his passing.

320 years ago
1694

Born on this date
Yeongjo. King of Korea, 1724-1776. Yeongjo, the 21st King of the Joseon dynasty, was the second son of King Sukjong, and acceded to the throne upon the death of his elder brother Gyeongjong. King Yeongjo was a Confucian monarch who opposed Roman Catholic missionary efforts in Korea. He took political and economic measures to reduce factional strife in the country. King Yeongjo died on April 22, 1776 at the age of 81, and was succeeded on the throne by his grandson Jeongjo.

180 years ago
1834

Died on this date
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, 63. French-born chemist. Mr. du Pont and his father Pierre supported the Jacobins in the French Revolution, but aided in the escape of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette when the Tuileries Palace was stormed in August 1792. They emigrated to Rhode Island in 1800, eventually settling in Wilmington, Delaware, where Éleuthère Irénée du Pont founded the gunpowder firm E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1802. He died of unspecified causes.

150 years ago
1864

Americana
Nevada entered the Union as the 36th state.

100 years ago
1914

Died on this date
George Archer-Shee, 19. U.K. military officer. Lieutenant Archer-Shee, the younger half-brother of British Army officer and politician Martin Archer-Shee, was a 13-year-old naval cadet when he was falsely accused of stealing a postal order; his acquittal inspired Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy. Lt. Archer-Shee served with the British Army in World War I, and was killed in the First Battle of Ypres.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Montreal (2-2) 2 @ Hamilton (3-1) 22
Ottawa (0-4) 2 @ Toronto (3-1) 30

ORFU
Ottawa (0-3) 11 @ Toronto (1-1) 38

Canadian university
Toronto (2-1) 25 @ Queen's (0-3) 17

WCRFU
Final
Regina 20 @ Winnipeg Rowing Club 12

ECFL
University of Alberta (2-1) 6 Edmonton Civics (1-2) 3

The Roughriders defeated the Rowing Club at River Park.

1,500 were in attendance at Diamond Park to see U of A defeat the Civics in the final regular season game to clinch their first city championship. Mr. Fitzgerald scored the game's only touchdown in the 2nd quarter on a 5-yard rush, following a 35-yard U of A return of a Civic fumble.

80 years ago
1934

Boxing
Joe Louis (9-0) knocked out Jack O'Dowd (23-9-2) in the 2nd round of a heavyweight bout at Arena Gardens in Detroit.

75 years ago
1939

Died on this date
Otto Rank, 55. Austrian psychologist. Dr. Rank was the leading disciple of Sigmund Freud in the field of psychoanalysis, but eventually parted company with his mentor, emphasizing emotional relationships in the "here and now" in his practice. His best-known book was Das Trauma der Geburt (The Trauma of Birth) (1924), in which he argued that birth was an interruption of life in the uterus from which people spent their lives trying to recover. Dr. Rank's work influenced the fields of existential, humanistic, and gestalt psychology. He died in New York City from a kidney infection.

70 years ago
1944

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Pistol Packin' Mama--Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters (1st month at #1)

War
The Allies reported that 637,544 German prisoners had been taken on the western front since June 6. Soviet troops in Hungary seized more than 200 towns as they advanced to within 44 miles of Budapest. After taking the Japanese stronghold of Jaro in the centre of Leyte Island in the Philippines, U.S. forces pushed a spearhead across the northern end of the island. Three Japanese colums moved to within 6 miles of Kweilin in the Chinese province of Kweisan.

60 years ago
1954

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Wodka-Fox--Hans-Arno Simon (2nd month at #1)

Football
CRU
ORFU
Sarnia (7-4-1) 36 @ Toronto (1-11) 27

50 years ago
1964

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Have I the Right?--The Honeycombs (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France: Le Pénitencier--Johnny Hallyday (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): In ginocchio da te--Gianni Morandi (16th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Memphis--Johnny Rivers; Bernd Spier (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me--Sandie Shaw

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Baby Love--The Supremes

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 We'll Sing in the Sunshine--Gale Garnett
2 Last Kiss--J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
3 Do Wah Diddy Diddy--Manfred Mann
4 Baby Love--The Supremes
5 Oh, Pretty Woman--Roy Orbison
6 Dancing in the Street--Martha and the Vandellas
7 Chug-A-Lug--Roger Miller
8 Have I the Right?--The Honeycombs
9 Let it Be Me--Betty Everett & Jerry Butler
10 Little Honda--The Hondells

Singles entering the chart were Slaughter on Tenth Avenue by the Ventures (#68); Ringo by Lorne Greene (#70); Mr. Lonely by Bobby Vinton (#74); Right or Wrong by Ronnie Dove (#76); You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me by the Dixie Cups (#77); Walking in the Rain by the Ronettes (#80); Sidewalk Surfin' by Jan & Dean (#81); Mountain of Love by Johnny Rivers (#82); Oh No Not My Baby by Maxine Brown (#83); My Love, Forgive Me (Amore, Scusami) by Robert Goulet (#84); Gone, Gone, Gone by the Everly Brothers (#85); Ain't it the Truth by Mary Wells (#89); She Understands Me by Johnny Tillotson (#90); Four Strong Winds by Bobby Bare (#92); As Tears Go By by Marianne Faithfull (#96); Endless Sleep by Hank Williams, Jr. (#99); and We Could by Al Martino (#100).

On television tonight
The Outer Limits, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Invisible Enemy, starring Adam West, Rudy Solari, Peter Marko, and Robert DoQui

Died on this date
Ted Freeman, 34. U.S. astronaut. Captain Freeman, a test pilot with the United States Air Force, was selected by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the third group of astronauts in October 1963. While returning to Houston from St. Louis, a goose flew into a window of his T-38 jet, causing immediate engine failure when bits of Plexiglas were sucked into the engine. Mr. Freeman ejected, but he was too close to the ground for his parachute to open, and he was killed instantly upon impact, becoming the first astronaut to die. Fellow astronaut Jim Lovell led the investigation into the cause of the crash.

Horse racing
Kelso won the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York, covering the 2-mile distance in a record time of 3:19 1/5. Kelso's purse for the race was $70,590, making him the sport's greatest money-winner ever, with total purses of $1,803,362, breaking the record previously held by Round Table.

Football
CFL
Toronto (4-10) 0 @ Ottawa (8-5-1) 36
Edmonton (4-12) 20 @ Saskatchewan (9-7) 26

Dave Thelen rushed twice for 1-yard touchdowns and took a screen pass from Russ Jackson for a 76-yard TD as the Rough Riders routed the Argonauts before 17,701 fans at Lansdowne Park. Whit Tucker and Ron Stewart scored the other touchdowns.

George Reed scored 3 touchdowns and finished the season with 1,012 yards rushing--reaching the 1,000-yard mark for the first time in his CFL career--as the Roughriders beat the Eskimos before 10,300 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Bill Tobin and Bill Redell scored the Edmonton touchdowns; Bill Mitchell added a convert, 2 field goals, and a single. Among the Eskimos whose careers ended with this game was fullback Johnny Bright, who retired as the CFL's career leader in yards rushing.

Canadian university
Saskatchewan (1-4) 13 @ Calgary (1-4) 23
Manitoba (3-2) 6 @ Alberta at Edmonton (5-0) 16

Kris Schmidt scored 2 touchdowns for the Dinaosaurs as they overcame an early 6-0 deficit to defeat the Huskies at McMahon Stadium for their first win ever.

Dmetro Rosiewich rushed 10 yards for a touchdown in the 3rd quarter and 3 yards for a TD in the 4th quarter, both converted by Ron Marteniuk, to help the Bears come from behind to clinch their third straight WCUAA title with their win over the Bisons at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton. Ken Rekrutiak scored a touchdown in the 3rd quarter to give Manitoba a 6-2 lead, after Alberta had taken a halftime lead on a pair of punt singles by Maury Van Vliet, Jr.

40 years ago
1974

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Everything I Own--Ken Boothe

At the movies
The Four Musketeers opened in theatres in West Germany.

Football
WFL
Memphis (15-3) 33 @ Hawaii (7-11) 31

30 years ago
1984

Died on this date
Indira Gandhi, 66. Prime Minister of India, 1966-1977, 1980-1984. Mrs. Gandhi, the daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was a member of the Indian National Congress Party, and held various cabinet posts before being chosen to succeed the late Lal Shastri as Prime Minister. She was known for her willingness to centralize power, and instituted a state of emergency from 1975-1977, ruling be decree. The India National Congress was defeated in the 1977 elections, but returned to power in 1980. Mrs. Gandhi was shot to death by two of her bodyguards, reported to be Sikhs, as she walked from her residence through a garden to an interview with actor Peter Ustinov (see also here). She was succeeded as Prime Minister by her 40-year-old son Rajiv.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that the nation’s trade deficit had grown to $12.6 billion in September, the second-largest monthly total on record.

25 years ago
1989

On television tonight
The Wonder Years, on ABC
Tonight’s episode: Mom Wars

Diplomacy
U.S. President George Bush said that he and U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev would hold an informal summit on ships in the Mediterranean Sea on December 2-3.

Politics and government
The Hungarian National Assembly voted to conduct a national referendum on how to choose a president.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that its leading economic indicators had risen 0.2% in September.

20 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex (4th week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 All I Wanna Do--Sheryl Crow (4th week at #1)
2 I'll Make Love to You--Boyz II Men
3 Circle of Life--Elton John
4 Jane--Barenaked Ladies
5 Could I Be Your Girl--Jann Arden
6 What's the Frequency, Kenneth--R.E.M.
7 Endless Love--Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey
8 Out of Tears--Rolling Stones
9 Secret--Madonna
10 Lucky One--Amy Grant

Singles entering the chart were Zombie by the Cranberries (#71); Blind Man by Aerosmith (#79); You Don't Know How it Feels by Tom Petty (#85); You Want This by Janet Jackson (#86); Once in a Lifetime by Michael Bolton (#87); Young Heart Forever by Steve Perry (#89); I'm the Only One by Melissa Etheridge (#90); The Color of Night by Lauren Christy (#91); At Your Best (You are Loved) by Aaliyah (#92); and Fade Into You by Mazzy Star (#95). Once in a Lifetime was from the movie Only You (1994). The Color of Night was from the movie Color of Night (1994).

Crime
Mario Aburto Martinez, a 23-year-old factory worker, was convicted and sentenced to 42 years in prison for the March 23 assassination in Tijuana of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate for President of Mexico.

Disasters
All 64 passengers and 4 crew members aboard a twin-engine ATR 72-212 commuter plane en route from Indianapolis to Chicago were killed when it crashed in a soybean field 30 miles south of Gary, Indiana. American Eagle Flight 4184 had been in a holding pattern in a heavy rainstorm waiting to land at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport when it disappeared from air traffic radar at 4:15 P.M.