December 27, 2016

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Marilyn Draper!

130 years ago
1886

Born on this date
John Kelburne Lawson. Canadian military officer. Brigadier Lawson was commander of the West Brigade on the island of Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion; with his headquarters surrounded, he went out to meet the enemy with a pistol, and was fatally shot on December 19, 1941, eight days before his 55th birthday, becoming the highest-ranking Canadian soldier killed during World War II.

90 years ago
1926

Football
AFL
Exhibition
New York Yankees 20 Los Angeles 14 @ San Antonio

75 years ago
1941

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Chattanooga Choo Choo--Glenn Miller and his Orchestra (Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and the Four Modernaires) (4th week at #1)

War
Japanese planes bombed the undefended open city of Manila for 40 minutes in the morning and 3 hours 22 minutes in the afternoon, starting huge fires. The U.S.S.R. announced the capture of Likhvin, Vysokinichi, Novosil, and Tim on the front southwest of Moscow.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, continuing their talks in Washington, assured representatives of Axis-occupied countries that the United States and United Kingdom would do everything possible to restore their independence after World War II. Mr. Roosevelt announced that "excellent progress" had been made during the conferences of 26 Allied governments in Washington to prosecute the war on a worldwide scale.

Society
U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle issued an order requiring all Japanese, German, and Italian aliens in seven Pacific Coast states to surrender their shortwave radio sets and cameras to local police.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Office of Production Management issued an order, effective immediately, restricting the manufacture of new farm machinery in the 12-month period beginning November 1, 1941 to 83% of 1940 production.

Labour
Federal spokesmen announced that the American Federation of Labor Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes had agreed to end the six-day strike by 1,500 Greyhound drivers and submit the dispute to arbitration.

Disasters
Lisbon was rocked by a severe earthquake at 6:25 P.M.

Football
NCAA
Blue-Gray Game @ Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama
Blue 16 Gray 0

75 years ago
1946

War
Fighting between French forces and Vietnamese nationalists spread to Cochin, China, where 24 civilians were killed.

Economics and finance
Albania and Yugoslavia ratified a pact providing for economic collaboration.

The U.S. State Department announced that it would release $19.3 million in Polish assets frozen in the United States and $27.5 million in gold to the current Polish government.

U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation Director George Allen resigned after urging that the agency be reduced to a lending institution for banks and small businesses.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission authorized a 10% rate increase by Western Union Telegraph Company.

Cuba's cabinet raised the wages of all public employees $5-$10 monthly.

Tennis
With Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder winning the men's doubles event in Melbourne, the United States won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1938.

60 years ago
1956

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): La Corrida--Gilbert Bécaud

50 years ago
1966

On television tonight
Quentin Durgens, M.P., on CBC
Tonight's episode: Hold High the Mirror

The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Evil Men Do, with guest stars James Daly and Elizabeth Allen

Diplomacy
Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr. succeeded Foy D. Kohler as U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.

40 years ago
1976

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): If You Leave Me Now--Chicago

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Kita no Yadokara--Harumi Miyako (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Libertad Sin Ira--Jarcha (3rd week at #1)

Hockey
WHA
International Series (exhibition)
U.S.S.R. (0-1) 2 @ New England 5

Football
NCAA
Gator Bowl
Notre Dame 20 Penn State 9

30 years ago
1986

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: The Final Countdown--Europe (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Walk Like an Egyptian--Bangles

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Walk Like an Egyptian--Bangles (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Caravan of Love--The Housemartins (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Caravan of Love--The Housemartins (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Walk Like an Egyptian--Bangles (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Everybody Have Fun Tonight--Wang Chung
2 Walk Like an Egyptian--Bangles
3 The Way it Is--Bruce Hornsby and the Range
4 Notorious--Duran Duran
5 Shake You Down--Gregory Abbott
6 You Give Love a Bad Name--Bon Jovi
7 Control--Janet Jackson
8 C'est la Vie--Robbie Nevil
9 War--Bruce Springsteen
10 Stand by Me--Ben E. King

The only single entering the chart was Without Your Love by Toto (#78).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 The Way it Is--Bruce Hornsby and the Range
2 You Give Love a Bad Name--Bon Jovi
3 Stand by Me--Ben E. King
4 Everybody Have Fun Tonight--Wang Chung
5 The Lady in Red--Chris de Burgh
6 The Next Time I Fall--Peter Cetera with Amy Grant
7 Walk Like an Egyptian--Bangles
8 The Rain--Oran "Juice" Jones
9 Two of Hearts--Stacey Q
10 Can't Help Falling in Love--Corey Hart

Singles entering the chart were At This Moment by Billy Vera and the Beaters (#89); Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi (#91); Montego Bay by Amazulu (#93); The Best Man in the World by Ann Wilson (#94); and Flying on Your Own by Rita MacNeil (#95).

20 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Breathe--The Prodigy (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): 2 Become 1--Spice Girls (2nd week at #1)

War
Taliban forces in Afghanistan recaptured the strategic Bagram Airfield, which solidified their buffer zone around Kabul.