August 27, 2017

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Brenda Kiema!

140 years ago
1877

Born on this date
Charles Rolls. U.K. automobile executive and aviator. Mr. Rolls and Henry Royce co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited in 1906, two years after they began marketing cars under the name. Mr. Rolls made over 170 balloon ascents, and in 1908 became the second Englishman to fly in an airplane, in an aircraft piloted by Wilbur Wright. On June 2, 1910, Mr. Rolls became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane taking 95 minutes. On July 12, 1910, at the age of 32, he became the first Briton to be killed in an aviation accident with a powered aircraft when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display at Hengistbury Airfield, Southbourne, Bournemouth.

130 years ago
1887

Baseball
Mike Kelly and Ezra Sutton each scored 6 runs as the Boston Beaneaters beat the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 28-14 at South End Grounds in Boston.

125 years ago
1892

Disasters
Fire almost completely burned the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

100 years ago
1917

Born on this date
Peanuts Lowrey. U.S. baseball player and coach. Harold Lee Lowrey, nicknamed by an uncle because of his small size as a child, was an outfielder with the Chicago Cubs (1942-1943, 1945-1949); Cincinnati Reds (1949-1950); St. Louis Cardinals (1950-1954); and Philadelphia Phillies (1955), batting .273 with 37 home runs and 479 runs batted in in 1,401 games. He set a major league record in 1952 with 7 consecutive pinch hits, and led the majors with 21 pinch hits in 1953. Mr. Lowrey was a coach with five major league teams from 1960-1981; he died on July 2, 1986 at the age of 68.

80 years ago
1937

Labour
A strike ended at Dominion Textile plants in Sherbrooke, Québec.

Baseball
Fred Frankhouse of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitched a no-hitter for 7 2/3 innings, but rain ended the game at that point as the Dodgers blanked the Cincinnati Reds 5-0 in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The second game was cancelled.

Ed Brandt and Mace Brown combined for a 4-hit shutout as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the New York Giants 1-0 in the first game of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in New York. With 2 out and nobody on base in the top of the 7th, Paul Waner singled, Gus Suhr walked, and Al Todd singled home Mr. Waner with the only run off losing pitcher Cliff Melton. Burgess Whitehead tripled with 1 out in the bottom of the 7th and scored on a single by Dick Bartell to break a 2-2 tie as the Giants won the second game 3-2.

Clause Passeau and Bucky Walters were the respective winning pitchers as the Philadelphia Phillies swept a doubleheader from the St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 and 6-3 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia.

The Boston Red Sox allowed 4 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning, but came back with 2 runs in each of the 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th to defeat the Detroit Tigers 8-5 before 11,000 fans at Navin Field in Detroit.

Pete Appleton pitched a 3-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Bullfrog Bill Dietrich as the Washington Nationals shut out the Chicago White Sox 5-0 at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

Lou Gehrig batted 3 for 3 with a home run, double, 3 runs, and a run batted in, and was hit by a pitch, helping the New York Yankees edge the St. Louis Browns 4-3 before 2,309 fans at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Frank Crosetti also homered for the Yankees.

75 years ago
1942

War
The Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Oakville sank a German U-Boat in the Caribbean Sea as part of the fight to keep Venezuelan oil moving to Britain. A U-Boat sank two freighters off Newfoundland. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting on presidential warrants, arrested 100 German aliens in New Jersey.

Abominations
The Sarny Massacre began, in which 14,000-18,000 people, mostly Jews, were executed in Sarny in German-occupied Ukraine.

Defense
The 45,000-ton U.S. Navy battleship USS Iowa, the largest of its class ever built, was launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Medicine
Oxford University scientists announced the development of a new chemical known as penicillin, produced from cultures of common fungi, and more fatal to bacteria than sulfa drugs.

70 years ago
1947

At the movies
Kiss of Death, directed by Henry Hathaway, and starring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, and Richard Widmark, opened in theatres.





Labour
The Association of Colored Railway Trainmen and Locomotive Firemen filed suit in St. Louis against the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and four railroad workers' unions to annul a 1928 agreement barring Negroes from all jobs except train porters.

Football
CRU
IRFU-WIFU
Pre-season
Saskatchewan (0-2) 7 @ Montreal (1-0) 22

Tommy Manastersky scored 2 touchdowns and Tommy Cates and Virgil Wagner scored 1 each to help the Alouettes defeat the Roughriders before 15,500 fans at Delorimier Stadium. Roy Bell scored the Saskatchewan touchdown.

IRFU-ORFU
Pre-season
Toronto Balmy Beach (0-1) 0 @ Hamilton Tigers (1-0) 32

Frank Filchock quarterbacked the Tigers to 3 touchdowns in the 1st half as they routed Balmy Beach before 8,000 fans at Civic Stadium.

60 years ago
1957

At the movies
The Long Haul, written and directed by Ken Hughes, and starring Victor Mature and Diana Dors, opened in theatres in the United Kingdom.





50 years ago
1967

Died on this date
Brian Epstein, 32. U.K. businessman and music executive. Mr. Epstein managed his family's North End Music Store in Liverpool, and discovered the Beatles during a performance at the Cavern Club there in 1961. He began managing the group in 1962, and was largely responsible for refining their stage appearance. Mr. Epstein also managed other artists, such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas. When the Beatles stopped touring after the summer of 1966, Mr. Epstein's importance to the group seemed to diminish, and his consumption of barbiturates increased. He reportedly took pills on the basis of what they looked like rather than on what they contained, and died of an overdose of the barbiturate Carbitral, combined with alcohol. Mr. Epstein's death, 23 days before his 33rd birthday, was likely accidental.

Music
The Monkees performed at Spokane Coliseum, the last of three concerts that provided the material for the album Live 1967, released in 1987. It was also the last concert of a very successful tour of the U.K. and U.S.A.

Football
CFL
Calgary (4-1) 16 @ British Columbia (0-5) 7

40 years ago
1977

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Ti Amo'--Umberto Tozzi (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Yes Sir, I Can Boogie--Baccara (8th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): Cokane in My Brain--Dillinger (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: Angelo--The Brotherhood of Man

#1 single in the U.K (BMRB): Float On--The Floaters

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Best of My Love--Emotions (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Best of My Love--Emotions (2nd week at #1)
2 I Just Want to Be Your Everything--Andy Gibb
3 (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher--Rita Coolidge
4 Easy--Commodores
5 Handy Man--James Taylor
6 Float On--The Floaters
7 You Made Me Believe in Magic--Bay City Rollers
8 Just a Song Before I Go--Crosby, Stills & Nash
9 Don't Stop--Fleetwood Mac
10 Barracuda--Heart

Singles entering the chart were Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) by Peter Frampton (#61); She Did It by Eric Carmen (#74); Another Star by Stevie Wonder (#75); Brick House by the Commodores (#77); You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone (#79); I Go Crazy by Paul Davis (#84); Surfin' USA by Leif Garrett (#88); Hold On by Wild Cherry (#89); Does She Do it Like She Dances by the Addrisi Brothers (#92); Too Hot to Handle by UFO (#97); and C'est la Vie by Greg Lake (#99). You Light Up My Life was the title song of the movie, and went on to win the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Whatcha Gonna Do?--Pablo Cruise
2 (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher--Rita Coolidge
3 I Just Want to Be Your Everything--Andy Gibb
4 My Heart Belongs to Me--Barbra Streisand
5 You and Me--Alice Cooper
6 Don't Stop--Fleetwood Mac
7 You Made Me Believe in Magic--Bay City Rollers
8 Barracuda--Heart
9 Handy Man--James Taylor
10 Give a Little Bit--Supertramp

Singles entering the chart were I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You by Alan Parsons (#93); The Two of Us by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. (#95); Dog Days by Atlanta Rhythm Section (#96); Seen You When I Git There by Lou Rawls (#97); O-H-I-O by Ohio Players (#98); Can't You See by the Marshall Tucker Band (#99); and Just Remember I Love You by Firefall (#100).

Baseball
John Fenwick's grand slam climaxed a 7-run 1st inning and started the Great Falls Giants to a 21-4 rout of the Calgary Cardinals in a Pioneer League game before 610 fans at Foothills Park in Calgary. Great Falls first baseman Glenn Goya batted 4 for 7 with a triple, double, run, and 6 runs batted in, while designated hitter Alfonso Rosario batted 4 for 6 with a 3-run homer, 4 runs, and 5 RBIs. The Cardinals scored all their runs in the 4th inning against Scott Budner (8-3), who allowed 6 hits and 3 earned runs in 8 innings. Steve Brown (3-3) started on the mound for Calgary, allowing 7 hits and 10 runs--7 earned--in 2 innings. The game was broadcast in Calgary on CFAC radio.

30 years ago
1987

Politics and government
Robert Maclennan was named as the new leader of Britain's Social Democratic Party, succeeding David Owen, who had recently resigned.

Labour
20,000 black South African gold and coal miners were fired, 18 days into a strike by 250,000 miners.

Baseball
The Kansas City Royals, fourth in the American League West Division with a record of 62-64, just 3½ games behind the first-place Minnesota Twins, fired manager Billy Gardner, who had replaced ailing Dick Howser in spring training. John Wathan, manager of the Royals' AAA farm team in Omaha, was named to succeed Mr. Gardner, and the Royals won their first game for him, as George Brett's home run with 2 out in the 10th inning gave the Royals a 3-2 win over the Texas Rangers before 28,044 fans at Royals Stadium.

George Bell doubled in a run in the 1st inning and hit a grand slam in the 5th to help the Toronto Blue Jays come back from an early 4-0 deficit to defeat the Oakland Athletics 9-4 before 38,026 fans at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Carney Lansford's 3-run homer climaxed a 4-run 1st inning for Oakland.

Bryn Smith and three relief pitchers combined to pitch a 6-hit shutout as the Montreal Expos blanked the San Diego Padres 3-0 before 8,446 fans at Jack Murphy-San Diego Stadium.

25 years ago
1992

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Rhythm is a Dancer--Snap! (3rd week at #1)

War
The principals in the Yugoslavian civil war, meeting in London, agreed to a peace accord. The terms included a cessation of violence in Bosnia and the release of all people held in detention camps. It was agreed that no territory gained by force would be recognized by the international community. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic supported the accord but claimed that Serbia had no control over camps in Bosnia.

World events
A “no-fly” zone, proposed by the United States and supported by Great Britain and France, went into effect, covering about 1/3 of Iraq. 200 U.S. aircraft bore the burden, which resulted from accusations of genocide on the part of the Iraqi regime of President Saddam Hussein against the country’s Shiite Muslim minority population.

Law
The Supreme Court of Canada voted 4-3 to acquit Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel of charges that he had violated section 181 the Canadian Criminal Code pertaining to freedom of speech for publishing his treatise Did Six Million Really Die?. The Court declared the law unconstitutional because it violated the guarantee of freedom of expression contained in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Football
CFL
The Canadian Football League took over operation of the British Columbia Lions franchise, most recently owned by Murray Pezim, until new ownership could be found.

Hamilton (5-3) 37 @ Winnipeg (4-4) 35 (OT)

Paul Osbaldiston’s 20-yard field goal with 1 second remaining in the 2nd overtime period gave the Tiger-Cats their win over the Blue Bombers before 26,215 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Mr. Osbaldiston kicked 5 field goals, including 3 in overtime. Larry Thompson of the Blue Bombers caught 9 passes for 154 yards and 3 touchdowns, including one in the 1st overtime period. Hamilton quarterback Damon Allen completed touchdown passes to Nick Mazzoli and Earl Winfield, and Hamilton linebacker Lance Trumble scored his only CFL touchdown when he recovered a fumble in the Winnipeg end zone when a kick returner attempted to run a missed field goal attempt back. Warren Hudson scored the other Winnipeg touchdown on a 3-yard rush in the 1st quarter. Michael Richardson, playing his first CFL game, rushed 22 times for 197 yards for the Blue Bombers, but also fumbled 3 times. The Blue Bombers fumbled 8 times, and lost 5, while Winnipeg quarterback Matt Dunigan also gave up 4 interceptions.

Baseball
David Cone, who had led National League pitchers in strikeouts in 1990 and 1991 and was leading again in 1992, was traded by the New York Mets to the Toronto Blue Jays, currently leading the American League East Division, for infielder Jeff Kent and outfielder Ryan Thompson. Mr. Cone was 13-7 with an earned run average of 2.88 in 27 games with the Mets in 1992. Mr. Kent was batting .240 with 8 home runs and 35 runs batted in in 65 games with Toronto, while Mr. Thompson was batting .282 with 14 home runs and 46 runs batted in in 112 games with the Syracuse Chiefs of the AAA International League.

20 years ago
1997

Died on this date
Sally Blane, 87. U.S. actress. Miss Blane, born Elizabeth Jane Young, was the sisters of Polly Ann, Loretta, and Georgina Young. She appeared in more than 100 movies, almost all in the 1920s and '30s, including Annabelle's Affairs (1931); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); and Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939). Miss Blane died of cancer.