September 5, 2015

1,425 years ago
590

Died on this date
Autari, 50 (?). King of the Lombards, 584-590. Autari, the son of King Cleph, was elected by the nobility following the decade-long interregnum known as the Rule of the Dukes. He spent his entire reign in wars with the Franks, the Byzantines, and Lombard rebels, while introducing policies that led to drastic changes, particularly in the treatment of the Romans and Christianity. King Auhari's death may have been from poisoning; he was succeeded on the throne by Agilulf, Duke of Turin.

850 years ago
1165

Died on this date
Nijō, 22. Emperor of Japan, 1158-1165. Nijō, born Morihito-shinnō, succeeded his father Emperor Go-Shirakawa. Emperor Nijō fell seriously ill, and died a month after abdicating the throne. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Rokujō.

425 years ago
1590

War
Alexander Farnese's army forced King Henri IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.

120 years ago
1895

Born on this date
Ted Jourdan. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Jourdan was a first baseman with the Chicago White Sox (1916-1918, 1920), batting .214 with no home runs and 11 runs batted in in 48 games. He was with the White Sox when they won the 1917 World Series. Mr. Jourdan played at least 1,445 games in 14 seasons in the minor leagues (1915-1931), hitting at least 58 homers. He worked as a bookkeeper after his baseball career, and died of a heart attack on September 23, 1961, 18 days after his 66th birthday.

110 years ago
1905

War
The Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, ending the Russo-Japanese War.

100 years ago
1915

Diplomacy
The Zimmerwald Conference opened in Zimmerwald, Switzerland. The conferees were socialists and anti-militarists from countries that were originally neutral during World War I.

80 years ago
1935

Baseball
Terry Moore batted 6 for 6 with a double as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Braves 15-3 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis in a game that was completed in 1 hour 43 minutes. Leo Durocher had a single, double, and triple, scoring 3 runs and driving in 4.

75 years ago
1940

War
Hungarian troops occupied the ceded portion of Transylvania in Romania. Italian planes bombed the Egyptian port of Suez. The British Ministry of Home Security reported that 1,075 deaths had been caused by German air raids in August. Sources in Hanoi reported that French and Japanese officials there had agreed on a pact permitting Japanese use of Indochina for transit of troops to China.

Defense
The United Kingdom and Thailand agreed to a non-aggression pact. The Chinese government warned the U.S. government that the situation was rapidly deteriorating and that further U.S. aid was imperative.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a new National Defense Research Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Vannevar Bush, to coordinate scientific research for the defense effort.

Politics and government
At a conference in Rushville, Indiana with U.S. Republican Party leaders from 21 states, Wendell Willkie formally opened his campaign as the party's candidate for President of the United States.

Transportation
U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Federal Highway Act, authorizing nearly $135 million for various highway projects through 1943.

Economics and finance
The New York Federal Reserve Bank announced that it was now handling the deposits of the British and French governments.

70 years ago
1945

World events
Cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected from the U.S.S.R.'s Canadian embassy in Ottawa with more than 100 secret documents under his coat, detailing the workings of a major Soviet spy ring in Canada, with tentacles reaching into the Department of External Affairs code room, the British High Commissioner's Office and the Chalk River, Oontario nuclear facility. The defection of Mr. Gouzenko is often cited as the beginning of the Cold War.

War
British Imperial forces went ashore at Singapore to reclaim the city and its naval base. Japanese Prime Minister Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni told the Diet that Japan was losing the war before the atomic bomb was dropped and the U.S.S.R. began hostilities. On the first day of the new session of the United States Congress, resolutions were introduced calling for a joint House of Representatives-Senate investigation of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime Japanese radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, was arrested in Yokohama.

Diplomacy
The U.S. State Department revealed that during World War II it had made 240 protests to Japan through the Swiss government concerning prisoners of war and civilian internees, but to no avail.

Defense
The U.S. Navy recommended that the U.S.A. keep 15 major bases in the Atlantic and Pacific to support its expanded fleet and keep aggressors from American shores.

The first flight of the Douglas C-74 Globemaster, the world's largest plane, with a speed of over 300 miles per hour and a maximum range of 7,800 miles, took place at Long Beach, California, with Ben O. Howard at the controls. The flight, conducted for the U.S. Army, lasted 79 minutes.

Politics and government
U.S. President Harry Truman recommended a 37% cut of $3.5 billion in congressional appropriations for 1946 to 28 war agencies.

Transportation
The U.S. Office of Defense Transportation said that most passenger rail curbs would end by September 16, and promised increased train service.

Energy
Canada's first nuclear reactor, ZEEP--the Zero Energy Experimental Pile--went into operation at Chalk River, Ontario.

Economics and finance
Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis announced that his Union Nationale government was bringing in provincial family allowances.

Horse racing
Titan Hanover, driven by Harry Pownall, completed a trotting exhibition in Detroit in a world record time for 3-year-olds of 1 minute 58 seconds.

60 years ago
1955

Football
CRU
IRFU
Montreal (1-1) 16 @ Ottawa (1-1) 19
Toronto (1-1) 12 @ Hamilton (1-1) 37

WIFU
British Columbia (3-2) 24 @ Saskatchewan (3-2) 23
Winnipeg (0-5) 9 @ Calgary (2-3) 12

ORFU
Toronto (0-1) 12 @ Sarnia (2-1) 37

Tom Tracy rushed 75 yards for a touchdown, and Bob Simpson and Don Pinhey also scored touchdowns for the Rough Riders as they defeated the Alouettes before 16,000 fans at Lansdowne Park for their first win under head coach Chan Caldwell. Hal Patterson scored 2 Montreal touchdowns and Joey Pal scored the other.

Bucky McElroy scored 3 touchdowns as the Tiger-Cats beat the Argonauts before 18,628 fans at Civic Stadium. Toronto quarterback Tom Dublinski completed 27 of 47 passes, setting IRFU records in both categories.

Ken Carpenter scored 3 touchdowns, but it wasn't enough for the Roughriders as they were edged by the Lions before 16,052 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Vic Chapman's punt single in the 4th quarter provided the winning margin. Ken Swalwell scored a B.C. touchdown earlier in the 4th quarter when Harry Lunn fumbled a punt, and Mr. Swalwell recovered in the Saskatchewan end zone.

Willie Roberts and Don Klosterman scored touchdowns for the Stampeders in the 4th quarter as they edged the Blue Bombers at Mewata Stadium. Quarterback Buddy Leake accounted for all the Winnipeg scoring with a touchdown, convert, and field goal.

Corky Duchene scored 2 of Sarnia's 6 touchdowns as the Imperials beat Balmy Beach at Norm Perry Park. Bill Graham, Ross Dowswell, Eric McKeever, and Dick Dixon scored the other Sarnia TDs. Sarnia quarterback Gino Cappelletti added 3 converts and a single. Johnny Bell and Harvey Singleton scored Toronto touchdowns, both converted by Billy Bass.

50 years ago
1965

Football
CFL
Toronto (0-5) 21 @ Ottawa (4-1) 41

Jim Dillard scored 2 touchdowns and Bo Scott rushed 95 yards for a touchdown as the Rough Riders beat the Argonauts before 17,303 fans at Lansdowne Park. Whit Tucker caught a touchdown pass from Russ Jackson, while Don Gilbert and Bob O'Billovich added the other Ottawa TDs.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Paloma Blanca--George Baker Selection (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Paloma Blanca--George Baker Selection (13th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Torneró--I Santo California

Died on this date
Barbara Belford, 22. Canadian murder victim. Miss Belford grew up in Grande Prairie, Alberta. She was working as a nurse's aide in Edmonton when she decided to hitchhike from Edmonton to Grande Prairie. Miss Belford was seen at Centennial Mall in Edmonton getting into a red car driven by a young man, and was never seen alive again. Her body was found in Winterburn, just outside Edmonton; she had been raped and stabbed to death.

Crime
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a former member of mass-murderer Charles Manson's "family," attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in Sacramento.

Terrorism
Two people were killed and 63 injured as a suspected Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in central London.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
Canada's Top 30
1 We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)--Tina Turner
2 Summer of '69--Bryan Adams
3 The Power of Love--Huey Lewis and the News
4 St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)--John Parr
5 You're Only Human--Billy Joel
6 Crying Over You--Platinum Blonde
7 Head Over Heels--Tears for Fears
8 Freeway of Love--Aretha Franklin
9 Money for Nothing--Dire Straits
10 Don't Lose My Number--Phil Collins
11 Invincible--Phil Collins
12 Cry--Godley and Creme
13 Never Surrender--Corey Hart
14 People are People--Depeche Mode
15 Dress You Up--Madonna
16 Smokin' in the Boys Room--Motley Crue
17 Get it On (Bang a Gong)--Power Station
18 Hurts to Be in Love--Gino Vannelli
19 Freedom--Wham!
20 Lonely Ol' Night--John Cougar Mellencamp
21 Boy in the Box--Corey Hart
22 Mona with the Children--Doug Cameron
23 You Give Good Love--Whitney Houston
24 There Must be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)--Eurythmics
25 Pop Life--Prince
26 Shame--Motel
27 Life in One Day--Howard Jones
28 Cherish--Kool & The Gang
29 Take on Me--A-Ha
30 Who's Holding Donna Now?--DeBarge

At the movies
My American Cousin, directed by Sandy Wilson and starring Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, and Richard Donat, received its premiere screening.



25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): U Can't Touch This--MC Hammer (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Ivan Mihailov, 94. Bulgarian revolutionist. Mr. Mihaillov was Secretary General (1897-1924) and President (1924-1934) of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) in Macedonia. He identified the IMRO with Bulgarian nationalism, cooperating with regimes such as those of Benito Mussolini in Italy and Adolf Hitler in Germany. Mr. Mihailov led the IMRO in terrorist attacks against Yugoslavian officials, most notoriously the assassination of King Alexander I in 1934. During World War II, he was unable to obtain enough support to create a pro-Nazi puppet state in Macedonia in 1944, and was forced to flee to Italy. Mr. Mihailov was a Bulgarian nationalist rather than a Macedonian nationalist; his rejection of Macedonian national separatism led him to be regarded as a Bulgarophile traitor in North Macedonia. Mr. Mihailov died in Rome, 10 days after his 94th birthday.

Abominations
Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughtered 158 Tamil civilians who had taken refuge at the campus of Eastern University near the city of Batticalo.

Protest
The Mercier Bridge through the Kanawake reserve in Quebec reopened after a 55-day standoff between Mohawk Indians and Quebec police.

Scandal
Donald Cormie was charged in Calgary by the Alberta Securities Commission with stock manipulation for driving up shares in Matrix Investments Ltd., controlled by his Principal Group.

Economics and finance
The Soviet government newspaper Isvestia published details of the "Shatalin plan," named after Stanislav Shatalin, an aide to U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev. The plan, on which Mr. Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin had been working, was based on the 500-day plan already adopted by the Russian Republic. It would dismantle most central economic planning and stress private property and economic freedom.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: Hideaway--De'Lacy

Died on this date
Salil Chowdhury, 72. Indian composer and songwriter. Mr. Chowdhury was best known for composing scores for almost 150 films from 1949 until his death.

Jean-Luc Pépin, 70. Canadian politician. Mr. Pépin, a Liberal, sat in the House of Commons from 1963-1972 and 1979-1984, and held numerous cabinet posts in the governments of Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau from 1965-1972 and 1980-1984.

Benyamin Sueb, 56. Indonesian entertainer. Mr. Sueb was a comedian, actor, and singer who recorded 46 albums and appeared in 53 movies from the 1950s until his death from a heart attack after playing soccer.

10 years ago
2005

Football
CFL
Edmonton (7-3) 25 @ Calgary (4-6) 23
Toronto (6-4) 30 @ Hamilton (2-8) 33

Cedric Scott sacked quarterback Henry Burris on a 2-point convert attempt with 41 seconds remaining in regulation time to enable the Eskimos to escape with a win over the Stampeders before 35,652 fans at McMahon Stadium. Ricky Ray completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to Trevor Gaylor in the 2nd quarter, and Mike Bradley recovered a blocked punt in the Calgary end zone for another Edmonton TD, as the Eskimos took a 20-1 halftime lead, extending it to 25-1 in the 3rd quarter. Mr. Burris and the Stampeders then mounted a furious comeback: Mr. Burris rushed 1 yard for a touchdown in the 3rd quarter and completed a 61-yard TD pass to Brett Ralph in the 4th quarter, both converted by Sandro DeAngelis. Mr. Burris rushed 1 yard for his second touchdown of the game with 41 seconds left, but Mr. Scott prevented him from passing to the end zone for the 2-point convert that would have tied the game.



Jamie Boreham kicked a 43-yard field goal with 1:54 remaining in regulation time to give the Tiger-Cats their win over the Argonauts before 32,274 fans at Ivor Wynne Stadium.