March 3, 2017

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sherry and Irishka!

160 years ago
1857

War
In the Second Opium War, France and the United Kingdom declared war on China.

130 years ago
1887

Education
Anne Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Captain and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of their blind and deaf 6-year-old daughter Helen.

90 years ago
1927

Boxing
Jack Sharkey (26-6) scored a technical knockout of former world light heavyweight champion Mike McTigue (101-30-9) at 1:29 of the 12th round of a heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden in New York.



75 years ago
1942

War
10 Japanese warplanes raided Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.

70 years ago
1947

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons--King Cole Trio (3rd week at #1)
--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra
--Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
--Dinah Shore
2 Anniversary Song--Al Jolson
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
--Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra
--Dinah Shore
3 Open the Door, Richard!--Count Basie and his Orchestra
--The Three Flames
--"Dusty Fletcher
--Jack McVea and the All-Stars
--Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five
4 Managua, Nicaragua--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
--Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
5 The Old Lamp-Lighter--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
--Hal Derwin
6 A Gal in Calico--Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra
--Bing Crosby with the Calico Kids
--Johnny Mercer
7 Huggin' and Chalkin'--Hoagy Carmichael
--Johnny Mercer
--Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
8 Guilty--Margaret Whiting
9 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers
10 Sonata--Perry Como
Jo Stafford

Singles entering the chart were the version of Open the Door, Richard! by Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five; How are Things in Glocca Morra, with versions by Dick Haymes; Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra; and Buddy Clark (#13); How are Things in Glocca Morra (#13)/Connecticut (#23) by Martha Tilton; Connecticut by Bing Crosby and Judy Garland (#23, charting with the version by Martha Tilton); and Beware My Heart, with versions by Margaret Whiting, and Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra (#24).

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Queue for Murder

The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Elliott Lewis and Howard McNear, on MBS
Tonight`s episode: The Blackmail Gang

60 years ago
1957

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: One for the Road, starring John Baragrey, Georgann Johnson, and Louise Platt

50 years ago
1967

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: I'm a Believer--The Monkees (2nd week at #1)

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Ruby Tuesday--The Rolling Stones (3rd week at #1)
2 Summer Wine--Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazlewood
3 Kind of a Drag--The Buckinghams
4 Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever--The Beatles
5 Green, Green Grass of Home--Tom Jones
6 Pushin' Too Hard--The Seeds
7 The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)--Harpers Bizarre
8 Canada--The Young Canada Singers
9 There's a Kind of Hush--Herman's Hermits
10 The Return of the Red Baron--The Royal Guardsmen
Pick hit of the week: Who Do You You Love--The Woolies
New this week: Western Union--The Five Americans
Tell Me to My Face--Keith
Half Past Midnight--The Staccatos
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow--Bobby Vinton
Nashville Cats--Homer and Jethro

At the movies
C'mon, Let's Live a Little, starring Bobby Vee, Jackie DeShannon, Eddie Hodges, and others, opened in theatres.



40 years ago
1977

Died on this date
Brian Faulkner, 56. Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1971-1972; Chief Executive of Northern Ireland, 1974. Mr. Faulkner was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party who was first elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1949, and held various cabinet posts before succeeding James Chichester-Clark as Prime Minister on March 23, 1971. Mr. Faulkner put several Roman Catholics into his government, but relations worsened when he imposed a policy of internment on August 9 in response to decreasing security. The fatal shooting of 14 unarmed civilians by British soldiers during a protest march in Londonderry on January 30, 1972--popularly known as "Bloody Sunday"--effectively finished Mr. Faulkner's government. The Parliament was prorogued, and the British government of Prime Minister Edward Heath introduced direct rule. Elections for held for a new devolved Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973, leading to the creation of the Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. Mr. Faulker served as Chief Executive from January 1 until May 28, when the N.I. Executive collapsed. Mr. Faulkner was ousted as UUP leader and formed the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, but he was the only UPNI candidate elected in 1975. He quit active politics in 1976 and was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick on February 9, 1977, but was killed in an accident, 13 days after his 56th birthday, when he was thrown from his horse while hunting in County Down.

30 years ago
1987

Died on this date
Danny Kaye, 76. U.S. entertainer. Born David Daniel Kaminsky, Mr. Kaye was a man of many talents. His movies included Wonder Man (1945); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Inspector General (1949); On the Riviera (1951); Hans Christian Andersen (1952); Knock on Wood (1954); White Christmas (1954); and The Court Jester (1956). He was one of the original owners of the Seattle Mariners baseball club from 1977-1981.

Crime
A United States federal grand jury indicted Israeli air force officer Aviel Sella and said that he and three other Israelis had conspired with convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to obtain secret military data from the United States. Mr. Sella said he could not be arrested unless he came to the U.S.A. voluntarily, and the U.S. officially protested Mr. Sella’s new assignment as commander of Israel’s second-largest air force base.

25 years ago
1992

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that the index of leading economic indicators had risen 0.9% in January, the biggest increase in six months.

20 years ago
1997

Hit parade
Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 A Long December--Counting Crows (2nd week at #1)
2 Every Day is a Winding Road--Sheryl Crow
3 Don't Speak--No Doubt
4 Just Another Day--John Mellencamp
5 Discotheque--U2
6 Un-Break My Heart--Toni Braxton
7 Dark Horse--Amanda Marshall
8 One Headlight--The Wallflowers
9 Through Your Hands--Don Henley
10 Wannabe--Spice Girls

Singles entering the chart were Step by Step by Whitney Houston (#89); Say You'll Be There by the Spice Girls (#90); Emotional Love by John Mellencamp (#91); Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison (#92); Better When You're Not Alone by the Black Crowes (#93); Under the Water by Merril Bainbridge (#94); and North Dakota by Thrush Hermit (#95). Step by Step was from the movie The Preacher's Wife (1996).

New Zealandiana
The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, opened after two-and-a-half years of construction. It stands 1,076 feet (328 metres).

Hockey
NHL
Toronto 4 Boston 2