December 3, 2016

80 years ago
1936

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Louis Hector and Harry West, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 3

75 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Karl Decker, 73. U.S. journalist. Mr. Decker was a correspondent for Hearst newspapers during the Spanish-American War in 1898; he was widely acclaimed for escuing the daughter of a Cuban revolutionary leader.

War
The German command reported that the "bulk of a New Zealand division" encircled southeast of Tobruk in Libya had been partly destroyed and partly captured. German troops encircled the Russian city of Tula. Moscow radio reported that Russian forces had driven the Germans to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov.

Defense
The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee approved the $8,243,839,031 third supplemental defense appropriation bill for the current fiscal year.

Law
The Indian government announced in New Delhi that all civil disobedience prisoners "whose offenses have been formal or symbolic in character" would be freed immediately.

An extraordinary grand jury in Brooklyn, New York recommended the disbarment of Alfred E. Sith, Jr., son of former New York Governor Al Smith, on 11 charges of "professional misconduct, fraud, deceit, crime and misdemeanor."

Medicine
The Journal of the American Medical Association announced that a new method of treating infantile paralysis (polio) had been developed by Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny, consisting of massage, movement, and re-education of paralyzed muscles as soon as possible after the disease was discovered.

Dr. John C. Larkin reported that "encouraging results" had been achieved in the treament of cancer during the past three years through the use of neutron rays created in the University of California's cyclotron.

Business
The U.S. National Association of Manufacturers, meeting in New York, adopted resolutions pledging "its utmost energies to the production of defense materials" and urging anti-strike legislation.

Labour
The U.S. House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate in a record vote of 252-136 a defense anti-strike bill sponsored by Rep. Howard W. Smith (Democrat--Virginia), despite the opposition of leaders in the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Football
NCAA
The Lambert Trophy was awarded in New York to Fordham University as the outstanding team in the eastern United States.

70 years ago
1946

Politics and government
Socialist Vincent Auriol was elected President of the French National Assembly.

Argentine President Juan Peron named Jose Figuerola as administrator of his five-year social-military development program.

Republican Party members of the U.S. Senate War Investigating Committee published a report which criticized the U.S. military government in Germany for supporting Eastern European refugees who refused to return to their home countries, and alleged that migration of Jews from Poland to Western Europe was part of an "organized and well-financed plan." The United Jewish Appeal ended a four-day conference in Atlantic City after hearing U.S. War Secretary Robert Patterson urge that the U.S. admit European refugees and approving a fund-raising goal of $170 million for refugee aid in 1947.

Society
An all-white jury in Atlanta acquitted Roswell Biggers of holding five Negroes in involuntary servitude.

Labour
Oakland, California was tied up by a general strike of more than 100,000 union members protesting police action in breaking up a picket line of department store clerks.

In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court Judge Alan Goldsborough convicted Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis of civil and criminal contempt of court for violating an order to revoke the union's notice of contract termination. Mr. Lewis admitted the violation, but condemned the order for forcing miners into "involuntary servitude."

Football
AAFC
Cleveland (11-2) 34 @ Miami (2-10) 0

NCAA
Associated Press sportswriters named the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish as the best college team in the United States for 1946, while the United States Military Academy received the Lambert Trophy as the best eastern team.

60 years ago
1956

Communications
The Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation introduced international Telex to Canada in Montreal.

Basketball
NCAA
Northwestern 69 @ Kansas 87

Wilt Chamberlain made his debut with the University of Kansas by scoring a school-record 52 points to lead the Jayhawks over the Wildcats in Lawrence.

50 years ago
1966

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): No Milk Today--Herman's Hermits

#1 single in France: Les Playboys--Jacques Dutronc

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Bang Bang--Equipe 84 (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Bend It--Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): No Milk Today--Herman's Hermits (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Green, Green Grass of Home--Tom Jones

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Winchester Cathedral--The New Vaudeville Band

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 You Keep Me Hangin' On--The Supremes
2 Good Vibrations--The Beach Boys
3 Winchester Cathedral--The New Vaudeville Band
4 Devil with a Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly--Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
5 Poor Side of Town--Johnny Rivers
6 I'm Your Puppet--James and Bobby Purify
7 Mellow Yellow--Donovan
8 Lady Godiva--Peter and Gordon
9 Born Free--Roger Williams
10 Stop Stop Stop--The Hollies

Singles entering the chart were Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding (#71); Good Thing by Paul Revere & the Raiders (#72); I Fooled You This Time by Gene Chandler (#81); I'm a Believer by the Monkees (#82); Words of Love (#83)/Dancing in the Street (#89) by the Mamas and the Papas; 98.6 by Keith (#85); Going Nowhere by Los Bravos (#87); Alvin's Boo-Ga-Loo by Alvin Cash and the Registers (#88); If You Go Away by Damita Jo (#96); Living for You by Sonny and Cher (#98); Wedding Bell Blues by Laura Nyro (#99); Just One Smile by Gene Pitney (#100); and There's Something on Your Mind by Baby Ray (also #100).

Diplomacy
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz met in Mexico to celebrate joint U.S.-Mexican construction of the Amistad Dam on the Rio Grande.

Basketball
NCAA
Southern California 90 @ California at Los Angeles 105

Lew Alcindor, making his debut with UCLA, scored a school-record 56 points to lead the Bruins over the Trojans at Pauley Pavilion.

40 years ago
1976

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Howzat--Sherbet (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Jeans On--David Dundas

#1 single in Switzerland: Daddy Cool--Boney M (8th week at #1)

25 years ago
1991

Argentine President Juan Peron named Jose Figuerola as administrator of his five-year social-military development program.

Republican Party members of the U.S. Senate War Investigating Committee published a report which criticized the U.S. military government in Germany for supporting Eastern European refugees who refused to return to their home countries, and alleged that migration of Jews from Poland to Western Europe was part of an "organized and well-financed plan." The United Jewish Appeal ended a four-day conference in Atlantic City after hearing U.S. War Secretary Robert Patterson urge that the U.S. admit European refugees and approving a fund-raising goal of $170 million for refugee aid in 1947.

Politics and government
Canadian Auditor General Denis Desautels issued his first Annual Report; he criticized farm aid, Indian Affairs, and investment of government pension funds.

20 years ago
1996

Died on this date
Georges Duby, 77. French historian. Dr. Duby specialized in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He was a pioneer in studying not only what people of the past did, but their value systems and how they imagined their world. Dr. Duby wrote numerous books, articles and papers; his best-known work was probably La société aux XIe et XIIe siècles dans la région mâconnaise (Society in the 11th and 12th centuries in the Mâconnais region) (1953), the published version of his doctoral thesis.

Terrorism
A bomb detonated on the southbound tracks of the Port-Royal Réseau Express Régional (RER) station in Paris, killing four people, including Hélène Viel of Montréal. The Groupe Islamique Armé (Armed Islamic Group of Algeria) was suspected, but no group took resonsibility for the attack.

Scandal
Former National Hockey League Players Association executive director Alan Eagleson was charged by Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Toronto with fraud and theft; he had been indicted in 1994 for racketeering and fraud.