November 25, 2016

525 years ago
1491

War
The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ended with the Treaty of Granada.

170 years ago
1846

Born on this date
Carrie Nation. U.S. social activist. Mrs. Nation, the wife of a minister, founded a local branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Medicine Lodge, Kansas after the couple moved there in 1889. She, often accompanied by several followers, was arrested more than 30 times in the first decade of the 20th century for invading saloons in the Midwestern United States and using a hatchet to smash liquor bottles and bar fixtures. Mrs. Nation died at the age of 64 on June 9, 1911, shortly after collapsing while delivering a speech.

120 years ago
1896

Born on this date
Virgil Thomson. U.S. composer. Mr. Thomson's works included scores for the films The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936); The River (1938); and Louisiana Story (1948), the last of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1949. He died on September 30, 1989 at the age of 92.

90 years ago
1926

Football
AFL
Philadelphia (7-2) 13 @ New York (8-4) 10
Los Angeles (5-6-2) 0 @ Chicago (5-3-3) 0

80 years ago
1936

Defense
In Berlin, Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.

75 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Pedro Aguirre Cerda, 62. President of Chile, 1938-1941. Mr. Cerda, a member of the Radical Party, held several cabinet posts before being elected President in 1938. He initiated economic and industrial reforms, but died from tuberculosis, shortly after announcing that Interior Minister Jerَnimo Méndez would assume the duties of acting President.

Movies
Providence, Rhode Island banned the showing of Two-Faced Woman (1941) after the Catholic Legion of Decency gave the film a "C" rating for "condemned," citing its "immoral and un-Christian attitude toward marriage and its obligations: impudently suggestive scenes, dialogue, and situations: suggestive costumes."

War
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's war council met in Washington. According to the notes of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, "The question was how we should maneuver them (the Japanese) into ... firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves." The British Royal Navy battleship HMS Barham was sunk by a German torpedo off the coast of Egypt, with the loss of 862 crewmen, approximately two-thirds of her crew.

Diplomacy
Representatives of 12 nations signed a protocol in Berlin renewing the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1938 for five years.

U.S. President Roosevelt announced that he was sending William C. Bullitt to the Near East as his special representative.

Disasters
An earthquake described by the director of the Lisbon Observatory as "the most violent recorded since 1755" rocked the Portuguese and Spanish coasts and Madeira and the Azores.

Baseball
The Cleveland Indians signed Lou Boudreau, 24, to a two-year contract as playing manager. He had been the team's shortstop since 1938, and had batted .257 with 10 home runs, 56 runs batted in, and an American League-leading 45 doubles in 148 games in 1941. He replaced Roger Peckinpaugh as manager, who had led the Indians to a 75-79 record, tied for fourth in the AL with the Detroit Tigers, 26 games behind the pennant-winning New York Yankees. Oddly, Mr. Peckinpaugh, as a 23-year-old shortstop, had become the youngest manager in major league history when he had managed the Yankees for the last 20 games of the 1914 season, leading them to a 10-10 record.

70 years ago
1946

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Rumors are Flying--Frankie Carle and his Orchestra (5th week at #1)
--The Andrews Sisters with Les Paul
--Betty Rhodes
--Tony Martin
2 Ole Buttermilk Sky--Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
--Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers
--Paul Weston and his Orchestra with Matt Dennis
--Hoagy Carmichael
3 Five Minutes More--Frank Sinatra
--Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
--The Three Suns
4 To Each His Own--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra with Eddy Howard and Trio
--The Ink Spots
--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra with Stuart Wade
--Tony Martin
--The Modernaires with Paula Kelly
5 South America, Take it Away--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
--Xavier Cugat and the Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
6 This is Always--Harry James and his Orchestra
--Jo Stafford
7 The Things We Did Last Summer--Frank Sinatra
--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
8 The Old Lamp-Lighter--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
--Hal Derwin
9 Passe--Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
--Margaret Whiting
10 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons--King Cole Trio
--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were You Broke the Only Heart that Ever Loved You by Elliot Lawrence and his Orchestra (#20); September Song, with versions by Frank Sinatra, and the Dardanelle Trio (#21); My Blue Heaven by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (#23); and There is No Breeze (To Cool The Flame Of Love), with versions by Gene Krupa and his Orchestra, and Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (#34).

On the radio
The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Elliott Lewis and Howard McNear, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The White Masters

This is the latest episode for which a recording is available.

War
The United Kingdom agreed to release 45,000 Italians remaining in British prison camps by the end of January 1947.

Politics and government
U.S. President Harry Truman set up a Temporary Commission on Employe Loyalty to study ways of barring "disloyal or subversive" persons, particularly Communists, from the government payroll.

Law
The U.S. Supreme Court supported a claim by the Tillamook Indians of Oregon for payment for lands taken fromthem by the United States.

Business
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a clause of the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act that called for the dissolution of holding companies whose existence "unduly" complicated a corporate structure or caused unfair distribution of voting power among security holders.

Labour
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough of the U.S. district court in Washington ordered United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis to stand trial on contempt of court charges for disobeying a court order to postpone termination of the coal industry contract.

Schools in St. Paul, Minnesota were closed as 1,160 teachers struck for yearly wages of $2,400-$3,600.

Football
AAFC
Los Angeles (6-4-1) 34 @ Miami (2-9) 21

60 years ago
1956

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Crack of Doom, starring Robert Horton and Robert Middleton

Football
NFL
Chicago Bears (7-1-1) 17 @ New York (6-2-1) 17
San Francisco (2-6-1) 10 @ Philadelphia (3-5-1) 10
Los Angeles (2-7) 21 @ Baltimore (4-4) 56
Washington (5-3) 20 @ Cleveland (3-6) 17
Pittsburgh (3-6) 27 @ Chicago Cardinals (6-3) 38

50 years ago
1966

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Lady Godiva--Peter and Gordon

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Winchester Cathedral--The New Vaudeville Band (4th week at #1)
2 Good Vibrations--The Beach Boys
3 If I Were a Carpenter--Bobby Darin
4 Lady Godiva--Peter and Gordon
5 Walk Away Renee--The Left Banke
6 Mellow Yellow--Donovan
7 Nineteen Days--The Dave Clark Five
8 Stop Stop Stop--The Hollies
9 Spin, Spin--Gordon Lightfoot
10 Coming on Strong--Brenda Lee
Pick hit of the week: Cry Baby--Lennie Richards and the Nomads
New this week: Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies--The Association
Going Nowhere--Los Bravos
Born Free--Matt Monro
A Symphony for Susan--The Arbors
I've Got the Feeling--Neil Diamond

Television
The first television link between Australia and the United Kingdom went into operation.

40 years ago
1976

Music
The Band performed their farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, backing guests Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Hawkins, and Canadians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. The event was filmed and made into the movie The Last Waltz (1978), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Politics and government
René Lévesque was sworn in as Premier of Québec, replacing Robert Bourassa, whose Liberal government had been in power since May 12, 1970. Mr. Lévesque's Parti Québecois government was the first openly separatist government in the province's history.

30 years ago
1986

Scandal
The Iran-Contra affair became public knowledge as U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan Contra rebels.

Transportation
The King Fahd Causeway, connecting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, was officially opened.

25 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Wild Heaven--TMN

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Black or White--Michael Jackson

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Let's Talk About Sex--Salt-N-Pepa (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Eleanor Audley, 86. U.S. actress. Miss Audley specialized in playing autocratic, often villainous, matrons in radio, films, and television. She played Eunice Douglas in the television comedy series Green Acres (1965-1969), and provided the voices for characters in the Walt Disney animated films Cinderella (1950) and Sleeping Beauty (1959). Miss Audley died from respiratory failure, six days after her 86th birthday.

Crime
Winston Silcott, sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for killing a police officer during a 1985 riot in Tottenham, north London, was cleared of the crime by a U.K. Appeal Court.

20 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Child--Mark Owen (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): I Can't Help Myself (I Love You, I Want You)--The Kelly Family (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)--Backstreet Boys (3rd week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Head Over Feet--Alanis Morissette (2nd week at #1)
2 He Liked to Feel It--Crash Test Dummies
3 Leave it Alone--Moist
4 If it Makes You Happy--Sheryl Crow
5 Beautiful Goodbye--Amanda Marshall
6 Everything You've Done Wrong--Sloan
7 What's Up with That--ZZ Top
8 It's All Coming Back to Me Now--Celine Dion
9 Let's Make a Night to Remember--Bryan Adams
10 Black Cloud Rain--Corey Hart

Singles entering the chart were Just Another Day by John Mellencamp (#92); Hurt by Love by the Bodeans (#94); You Won't Remember This by Kim Stockwood (#96); Have You Seen Mary by Sponge (#97); and Half the World by Hush (#98).

10 years ago
2006

War
Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian terrorists into Israel.

Politics and government
No candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round of balloting in the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership election to replace retiring Premier Ralph Klein. Jim Dinning led after the first ballot, followed by Ted Morton and Ed Stelmach.

Football
CIS
Vanier Cup @ Griffiths Stadium, Saskatoon
Laval 13 Saskatchewan 8

Guillaume Allard-Cameus rushed 1 yard for a touchdown with 1:11 remaining in the 1st half, and Cameron Takacs added a convert and 2 field goals as the Rouge et Or defeated the hometown Huskies before 12,567 fans in the first Vanier Cup played in western Canada. Tyler O'Gorman rushed 4 yards for the lone Saskatchewan touchdown with 10:50 remaining in regulation time to draw the Huskies to within 10-8, but a 2-point convert attempt was unsuccessful. Mr. Takacs' 14-yard field goal with 44 seconds remaining closed the scoring.