January 6, 2015

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes, Sheila Hellevang, and Johanna Wegner!

475 years ago
1540

Married on this date
King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

270 years ago
1745

Born on this date
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier. French inventor and aviator. Mr. Montgolfier and his brother Joseph-Michel co-invented the hot air balloon in 1782, and conducted the first powered ascent. They also invented a process to manufacture transparent paper. Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier died on August 2, 1799 at the age of 54. Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier died on August 2, 1799 at the age of 54.

100 years ago
1915

Born on this date
Alan Watts. U.K.-born U.S. philosopher. Mr. Watts moved to the United States at the age of 23 and became one of America's best-known promoters of Zen Buddhism, although he was an Episcopal priest from 1945-1950. He died in his sleep on November 16, 1973 at the age of 58.

War
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry went into action in France.

80 years ago
1935

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Louis Hector and Leigh Lovell, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: The Singular Affair of the Aluminum Crutch

Died on this date
Martin Archer-Shee, 61. U.K. military officer and politician. Sir Martin served with the Royal Navy (1886-1890) before becoming an officer in the British Army, winning the Distinguished Service Order in the Boer War and commanding three battalions in World War I, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. A Conservative, he represented Finsbury in the House of Commons (1910-1923). Sir Martin was the half-brother of George Archer-Shee, whose acquittal on a charge of theft provided the basis for Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy. Sir Martin died after a long illness.

75 years ago
1940

Born on this date
Van McCoy. U.S. musician. Mr. McCoy wrote songs and produced records for a number of artists in the 1960s and ‘70s, but is best remembered for his one big hit as an artist, The Hustle, one of 1975’s biggest hits. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1979 at the age of 38.

Diplomacy
The Dutch government of Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer announced that there could be no negotiation regarding the Netherlands' neutrality.

Cuban presidential candidate General Fulgencio Batista urged his nation to maintain strict neutrality in international affairs.

Addressing the National Conference of the United Palestine Appeal in Washington, New York, New York Governor Herbert Lehman said that Palestine must become a refuge for the estimated 3 million Jews in Poland.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that protectionist international trade tendencies would have to be abolished in the interest of postwar peace.

Japan was reportedly seeking a most-favored-nation treaty with the United State upon the expiration of the current trade pact on January 26, 1940.

Because of World War II, the New Zealand government of Prime Minister Michael Savage announced the postponement of a $25-million steel plant at Onekaka.

Business
The United States Justice Department granted the Bata Shoe Company a 20-day extension to terminate the employment of 62 Czech nationals illegally in the United States.

Scandal
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Meyer Ellenstein and six others were acquitted on charges of conspiracy in city purchases of meadowlands.

70 years ago
1945

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Don't Fence Me In--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra (Best Seller--3rd week at #1; Juke Box--4th week at #1)

Married on this date
Happy Anniversary, George and Barbara Bush! The future President of the United States married Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York, while he was home on leave from the United States Navy.

War
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his annual State of the Union address to Congress, in which he asked Congress for passage of a National Service Act to encure full production for the country's war effort. He also asked for legislation to make use of 4 million men who had been classified as 4-F by the Selective Service administration; an amendment to the Selective Service Act providing for the induction of nurses; and universal military training after the war to preserve peace. The U.S. Selective Service announced that men aged up to 38 who, without consent, left jobs for which they had been deferred, would be inducted into the armed services. U.S. forces extended the front line against the German bulge in Belgium to 25 miles. Hungarian sources reported that German troops had penetrated 12-15 miles into Soviet positions northwest of Budapest. ELAS forces in Greece had reportedly left Athens the previous day, and there was no fighting on this day.

Diplomacy
Egyptian officials reported that King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had agreed to participate with other Muslim states in a pan-Arab federation.

Business
U.S. Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion James Byrnes submitted an affidavit for the Chicago court fight over the U.S. Army's seizure of Montgomery Ward & Company in which he said that the firm's conduct, "if allowed to continue, will seriously interfere with the successful prosecution of the war." The Army had seized control of Montgomery Ward's Chicago and Detroit plants because of the company's refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders.

60 years ago
1955

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, on BBC
Tonight's episode: The Missing Three-Quarter

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): You're My World--Daryl Braithwaite

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Fuyu no Iro--Momoe Yamaguchi (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Todo El Tiempo Del Mundo--Manolo Otero (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Burton K. Wheeler, 92. U.S. politician. Mr. Wheeler, a Democrat, represented Montana in the United States Senate from 1923-1947, breaking with the Democratic Party briefly to run as the vice-presidential running mate of Senator Bob La Follette on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1924 U.S. presidential election. Sen. Wheeler supported the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt until 1937, when he opposed Mr. Roosevelt's plan to "pack" the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Wheeler was one of the most notable opponents of U.S. entry into World War II, but supported the war after the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Sen. Wheeler was defeated in the Montana Democratic primary in 1946, and retired from politics.

Personal
This blogger began his second semester of Grade 9 at Sir John Franklin Territorial High School in Yellowknife.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in France (SNEP): Besoin de rien, envie de toi--Peter and Sloane

#1 single in Switzerland: Do They Know It's Christmas?--Band Aid

Personal
This blogger was one of those in attendance at the CPR Stockholders of Edmonton Sherlock Holmes birthday dinner at 9th Street Cafe.

Football
NFL
AFC Championship
Pittsburgh 28 @ Miami 45

Miami quarterback Dan Marino completed 21 of 32 passes for 421 yards and 4 touchdowns in front of an Orange Bowl crowd of 76,029.

NFC Championship
Chicago 0 @ San Francisco 23





25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Love Shack--The B-52's (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Christmas Eve--Tatsuro Yamashita

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Lambada--Kaoma (15th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): That's What I Like--Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins

#1 single in France (SNEP): Hélène--Roch Voisine (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: Do They Know it's Christmas?--Band Aid II (3rd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 All Around the World--Lisa Stansfield
2 Homely Girl--UB40
3 Lily was Here--David A. Stewart and featuring Candy Dulfer
4 Dançando Lambada--Kaoma
5 Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins
6 Sit and Wait--Sydney Youngblood
7 Don't Know Much--Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville
8 Eleni--Cees Tol & Thomas Tol
9 Listen to Your Heart--Roxette
10 Got to Get--Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K

Singles entering the chart were Me So Horny by the 2 Live Crew (#22); Words by the Christians (#23); Everlasting Love by U2 (#26); and The Miracle by Queen (#30).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (4th week at #1)
2 Rhythm Nation--Janet Jackson
3 Don't Know Much--Linda Ronstadt (featuring Aaron Neville)
4 Pump Up the Jam--Technotronic featuring Felly
5 With Every Beat of My Heart--Taylor Dayne
6 How am I Supposed to Live Without You--Michael Bolton
7 This One's for the Children--New Kids on the Block
8 Just Like Jesse James--Cher
9 We Didn't Start the Fire--Billy Joel
10 Everything--Jody Watley

Singles entering the chart were All or Nothing by Milli Vanilli (#51); Going Home by Kenny G (#71); Sometimes She Cries by Warrant (#81); No Myth by Michael Penn (#85); and Black Velvet by Alannah Myles (#86).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Cash Box): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Canada (RPM): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (4th week at #1)

Died on this date
Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, 85. U.S.S.R. physicist. Dr. Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect."

Ian Charleson, 40. U.K. actor. Mr. Charleson was known for his co-starring roles in the movies Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982). He was a sodomite and died of AIDS.

Personal
This blogger was one of those in attendance at the CPR Stockholders of Edmonton Sherlock Holmes birthday dinner at the Faculty Club.

Diplomacy
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, visiting Romania, said that the U.S.S.R. would support any kind of political system that emerged in Romania.

Football
NFL
AFC Divisional Playoff
Buffalo 30 @ Cleveland 34



NFC Divisional Playoff
Minnesota 13 @ San Francisco 41



Hockey
NHL
Los Angeles 4 @ Toronto 7

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Stay Another Day--East 17

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Love Me for a Reason--Boyzone (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Joe Slovo, 68. Lithuanian-born South African politician. Mr. Slovo, who moved to South Africa with his family at the age of 8, was a Jewish atheist who joined the South African Communist Party in 1942, and was general secretary of the SACP from 1984-1991. He served as Minister of Housing in the government of President Nelson Mandela from April 1994 until his death.

Personal
This blogger was one of those in attendance at the CPR Stockholders of Edmonton Sherlock Holmes birthday dinner at Chandler's Tea Shoppe.

Terrorism
A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila led to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate was 5.4% in December 1994, down 0.2% from November, and the lowest level since July 1990. The economy had added 3.5 million jobs in 1994, 256,000 new jobs in December.

10 years ago
2005

Died on this date
Louis Robichaud, 79. Canadian politician. Mr. Robichaud, a Liberal, represented Kent in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1952-1971 and was Premier of New Brunswick from 1960-1970. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate as a Liberal by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1973 and sat there until his 75th birthday in 2000.

Lois Hole, 71. Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, 2000-2005. Mrs. Hole was a succesful gardener, who with her husband Ted ran a large and successful greenhouse store in St. Albert. She served as Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 2000 until her death from stomach cancer.

Crime
Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. He was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Environment
A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina released about 60 tons of chlorine gas.