November 27, 2016

270 years ago
1746

Born on this date
Increase Sumner. U.S. politician and judge. Mr. Sumner served in the provisional government of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War, and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782. He was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1782-1797) before resigning from the bench to run as a Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Sumner was elected in 1797, and served as Governor until his death from angina pectoris on June 7, 1799 at the age of 52; he was succeeded as Governor by Moses Gill.

R.R. Livingston. U.S. politician. Mr. Livingston, leader in the American Revolution, represented Provincial Congress of New York at the Continental Congress in 1776. He helped to draft the Declaration of Independence, but returned to New York before he could sign it. Mr. Livingston was the U.S. secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation from 1781-1783, and was Chancellor of New York (a Federalist delegate to the Constitution ratification convention) from 1777-1801. He died on February 26, 1813 at the age of 66.

120 years ago
1896

Music
The tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss received its premiere performance in Frankfurt, Germany.



Politics and government
Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier put Interior Minister Clifford Sifton, the Member of Parliament for Brandon, in charge of immigration; he started a hard-sell promotion to lure settlers to the Prairie provinces from the United States and Europe.

100 years ago
1916

Born on this date
Chick Hearn. U.S. sportscaster. Francis Dayle Hearn was best known as the play-by-play broadcaster for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1961-2002, calling 3,338 consecutive games from 1965-2001. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. Mr. Hearn died at the age of 85 on August 5, 2002, three days after suffering serious head injuries in a fall at his home.

90 years ago
1926

Football
Canadian university
Final
Queen's 0 @ Toronto 8

A Varsity Stadium record crowd of 20,000 saw the University of Toronto shut out the Tricolor to advance to the Grey Cup against the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union champion Ottawa Senators one week hence.

AFL
New York (8-5) 6 @ Philadelphia (8-2) 13

80 years ago
1936

Died on this date
Basil Zaharoff, 87. Ottoman-born industrialist. Sir Basil, born Basileios Zacharias Zacharoff, was the world's most prominent arms dealer from the 1880s through World War I, and was known as the "merchant of death."

75 years ago
1941

Movies
Boston banned the showing of Two-Faced Woman (1941), two days after Providence, Rhode Island had done the same, 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
The Royal Canadian Air Force's 417 Fighter Squadron was formed at Charmy Down, England. The British command announced that New Zealand forces in Libya had joined with U.K. troops from Tobruk at El Duda after recpturing Razegh. Berlin spokesmen claimed that German forces had broken through Soviet lines in the Tula-Stalinogorsk sector south of Moscow. Gondar in northern Ethiopia, the last outpost of Italy's East African Empire, surrendered at 2 P.M. after 7½ months of siege. Thai Prime Minister Bipul Songgram said that Japan had given assurances that its troop concentrations in Indochina did not indicate an imminent attack on Thailand.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferred at the White House with Japanese Ambassador to the United States Kichisaburō Nomura and envoy Saburō Kurusu.

U.S. President Roosevelt nominated George S. Messersmith to succeed Josephus Daniels as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.

Politics and government
Three Senators and nine Deputies lost their parliamentary seats in France because of a Vichy decree barring Jews from elective assemblies.

Economics and finance
Argentine Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guinazu and U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Norman Armour reached an agreement in Buenos Aires under which the U.S. Metals Reserve Company would buy all of Argentina's production of tungsten for three years.

U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary John A. Sullivan announced that the Treasury did not "intend to suggest to the Congress any further taxes on income earned during the calendar year 1941."

Labour
U.S. President Roosevelt rejected the resignations of Congress of Industrial Organizations President Philip Murray from the National Defense Mediation Board.

National Association of Manufacturers President Charles Hook, testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives Labor Committee, opposed compulsory arbitration of defense strikes.

70 years ago
1946

War
The U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. signed an interim agreement permitting the repatriation of 25,000 Japanese prisoners now in Soviet-held territory.

Politics and government
Prime Minister Peter Fraser led his governing Labour Party to victory in the New Zealand general election, but with a reduced majority in Parliament. Labour took 42 of 80 seats, a decrease of 3 from their total going in the election. The National Party, led by Sidney Holland, won the remainin 38 seats, an increase of 4.

The Council of Foreign Ministers reached an agreement on Trieste after three weeks of negotiation, providing for a governor appointed by the Security Council; reduction of Allied troops; and election of a local assembly.

The U.S.A., U.K., and France advised Berlin's City Assembly to elect 16 aldermen despite Soviet insistence that each candidate have prior Allied approval.

World events
Azerbaijan Province threatened to declare independence as Iranian troops entered the area to supervise upcoming elections.

Braziliana
The Brazilian government completed plans for transferring the nation's capital to a specially-designed city in the central plateau.

Literature
A special sessions court in New York ruled 2-1 that Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson was obscene, and fined the publisher, Doubleday, $1,000. The book had been published in March 1946, and approximately 60,000 copies had been sold.

Technology
Allen Dumont Laboratories in Washington demonstrated a new method of transmitting pictures and sound by light beams instead of radio.

Economics and finance
Wartime controld on wages and salaries were removed in Canada, but price controls were retained.

Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan General Douglas MacArthur ordered the freezing of all assets of Japan's 10 wealthiest families, which would be placed under the supervision of the Holding Company Liquidation Commission.

Argentine President Juan Peron told a meeting of industrial leaders, "You must either accept a system of state intervention and controls, or lose everything by way of Communism."

60 years ago
1956

Olympics
Donald Arnold, Ignace d'Hondt, Lorne Loomer and Archie MacKinnon won a rowing gold medal for Canada in Coxless Fours (four-oared shell without coxswain) at the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. Bobby Morrow, a 21-year-old student from Abilene Christian College in Texas, won the gold medal in the men's 200-metre run before a crowd of 110,000. Three days earlier, he had won the 100-meter gold, becoming the first Olympian to win both sprints since Jesse Owens in 1936.

50 years ago
1966

Football
Continental Football League
Eastern Division Final
Philadelphia 31 @ Toronto 14



40 years ago
1976

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Pooh--Linda

#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): Money, Money, Money--ABBA

#1 single in the U.K (New Musical Express).: If You Leave Me Now--Chicago (4th week at #1)

Rhodesia's Top 10 (Lyons Maid)
1 Don't Go Breaking My Heart--Elton John and Kiki Dee (7th week at #1)
2 Arms of Mary--Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
3 In Zaire--Johnny Wakelin
4 Heart on My Sleeve--Gallagher & Lyle
5 (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty--K C & the Sunshine Band
6 Why Did You Do It--Stretch
7 (What a) Wonderful World--Johnny Nash
8 The First Cut is the Deepest--Rod Stewart
9 Wish I was a Blue Job--John Edmond
10 You Should Be Dancing--Bee Gees

Singles entering the chart were You to Me are Everything by the Real Thing (#16); Dancing Queen by ABBA (#18); and January by David Cassidy (#19).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)--Rod Stewart (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)--Rod Stewart (2nd week at #1)
2 Muskrat Love--Captain and Tennille
3 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald--Gordon Lightfoot
4 More than a Feeling--Boston
5 Love So Right--Bee Gees
6 Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless)--Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
7 The Rubberband Man--The Spinners
8 You are the Woman--Firefall
9 Rock'n Me--Steve Miller Band
10 I Never Cry--Alice Cooper

Singles entering the chart were Saturday Nite by Earth, Wind & Fire (#77); Yesterday's Hero by the Bay City Rollers (#81); Lucky Man by Starbuck (#91); What Can I Say by Boz Scaggs (#92); If Not You by Dr. Hook (#97); Man Smart, Woman Smarter by Robert Palmer (#98); Do it to My Mind by Johnny Bristol (#99); and (She’s Just A) Fallen Angel by Starz (#100).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)--Rod Stewart
2 Love So Right--Bee Gees
3 Muskrat Love--Captain and Tennille
4 More than a Feeling--Boston
5 Beth--Kiss
6 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald--Gordon Lightfoot
7 You are the Woman--Firefall
8 Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless)--Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
9 Rock'n Me--Steve Miller Band
10 Disco Duck (Part 1)--Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots

Singles entering the chart were Ruby Baby by Wednesday (#80); Walk This Way by Aerosmith (#94); Car Wash by Rose Royce (#95); Lost Without Your Love by Bread (#96); Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing by Donny and Marie (#97); Somebody to Love by Queen (#98); Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary MacGregor (#99); and Sixteen Reasons by Laverne & Shirley (#100).

Americana
Rebecca Reid, representing Dallas, was named Miss Teenage America 1977. This blogger watched the pageant on television, and picked her as the winner at the beginning.

Hockey
NHL
Chicago 2 @ Vancouver 4

WHA
San Diego 2 Calgary 0

Football
NCAA
Navy 38 Army 10 @ Philadelphia
Notre Dame 13 @ Southern California 17

30 years ago
1986

Politics and government
Iona Campagnolo retired after four years as President of the Liberal Party of Canada.

25 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Black or White--Michael Jackson (2nd week at #1)

War
The United Nations Security Council adopted Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.

20 years ago
1996

War
A United Nations court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. It was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.

Politics and government
Pat Binns was sworn in as Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Keith Milligan. Mr. Binns had led the Progressive Conservative Party to victory in the recent provincial election, ending 10 years of Liberal government.

10 years ago
2006

Politics and government
The Canadian House of Commons voted 222-16 in an informal motion to recognize the Québécois as a nation within a united Canada. In federal by-elections, Glen Pearson held onto London North Centre for the Liberals, and Raymond Gravel retained Repentigny for the Bloc Québécois.