September 29, 2017

300 years ago
1717

Disasters
An earthquake struck Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.

125 years ago
1892

Politics and government
Stuart Knill, a Roman Catholic, was elected Lord Mayor of London.

Football
U.S. college
Wyoming Seminary 0 @ Mansfield Teachers College 0

In the first football game ever played at night, Wyoming Seminary, from Kingston, Pennsylvania, and Mansfield Teachers College played only one half of football at Mansfield Fair. The half took 70 minutes to play, and took place under 20 2,000-candlepower electric lights, powered by a Thompson and Huston Dynamo Machine.

110 years ago
1907

Americana
The cornerstone was laid at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

100 years ago
1917

Football
Winnipeg Patriotic Rugby Football League
Arenas (1-0) 25 Granites (0-1) 3

Bob Ulrich scored 4 touchdowns for the Arenas as they beat the Granites before 1,000 fans in the first game of the league, on the field of Wesley College (today the University of Winnipeg). The field, including the end zones, was only 100 yards long--60 yards shorter than the regulation Canadian field--so the games were played under American rules, with 11 players per team and no single points.

Baseball
Junior World Series
Toronto Maple Leafs 3 @ Indianapolis Indians 5 (Indianapolis led best-of-seven series 3-1)

90 years ago
1927

Died on this date
Willem Einthoven, 67. Dutch physiologist and physician. Dr. Einthoven was awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram."

80 years ago
1937

Baseball
The New York Yankees scored 4 runs in each of the 1st, 7th, and 8th innings as they beat the Philadelphia Athlietcis 15-4 in the first game of a doubleheader before 4,425 fans at Yankee Stadium. New York second baseman Tony Lazzeri played a practical joke on Philadelphia left fielder Bob Johnson by substituting a baseball during one of Mr. Johnson's plate appearances. Mr. Lazzeri had been pounding and soaking the ball for weeks, and gave it to pitcher Kemp Wicker to use on Mr. Johnson. Mr. Wicker threw the ball in the strike zone and Mr. Johnson took a mighty swing, and the ball went "thud" instead of "crack," and into foul territory. Home plate umpire Johnny Quinn immediately nullified the pitch. George Turbeville, the second of three Philadelphia pitchers, allowed 1 hit and 2 runs--earned--in 2+ innings, walking 5 batters and striking out none in the 62nd and last game of his 3-year major league career. Eddie Smith allowed just 1 hit in 7 innings to improve his 1937 record to 6-16, winning the pitchers' duel over Ivy Andrews, who dropped to 6-6, as the Athletics won 3-0 in the second game, which was called after 7 innings because of darkness.

Frankie Pytlak doubled home Bruce Campbell with 1 out in the top of the 10th inning to break a 4-4 tie as the Cleveland Indians edged the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in the first game of a doubleheader at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Bill Cox pitched a 3-hitter for his first major league win as the White Sox won 1-0 in the second game, which was called afer 4 1/2 innings. Whit Wyatt allowed 5 hits and 1 earned run in 4 innings to drop to 2-3 for the season.

Rube Melton pitched a 9-hit complete game to improve his 1937 record to 20-9 as the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 in the first game of a doubleheader at Baker Bowl in Philadelphia. Philadelphia starter Hugh "Losing Pitcher" Mulcahy allowed 11 hits and 6 earned runs in 6 1/3 innings before being relieved by Orville Jorgens, who allowed 1 hit in 2 2/3 innings in the 144th and last game of his 3-year major league career. Bucky Walters hit a grand slam in the 1st inning and singled in another run in the 5th as the Phillies took a 6-0 lead in the second game. The Giants rallied for 5 runs in the top of the 8th, but the game was called after the third out was made, leaving the Phillies 6-5 winners.

75 years ago
1942

Americana
U.S. Navy Lieutenant John F. Kennedy wrote to playwright Clare Booth Luce to thank her for a good luck coin that she'd sent him.

War
Allied troops captured Ioribaiwa Ridge in the Owen Stanley Mountains in New Guinea, forcing a Japanese retreat. British troops landed at Tulear on the southwest coast of Madagascar without opposition.

Diplomacy
The Argentine Chamber of Deputies voted 67-64 in favour of a resolution urging a break in diplomatic relations with the Axis.

Baseball
The Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League defeated the Homestead Grays of the Negro National League to win the Negro World Series.

70 years ago
1947

Hit parade
U.S. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)--Tex Williams and his Western Caravan (4th week at #1)
--Phil Harris and his Orchestra
2 When You were Sweet Sixteen--Perry Como and the Satisfiers
3 Near You--Francis Craig and his Orchestra
--The Andrews Sisters
--Larry Green and his Orchestra
--Alvino Rey and his Orchestra
--Elliot Lawrence and his Orchestra
4 Feudin' and Fightin'--Dorothy Shay
--Jo Stafford
--Bing Crosby and the Jesters
5 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now--Ted Weems and his Orchestra with Perry Como
--Perry Como
6 Peg o' My Heart--The Harmonicats
--Three Suns
--Art Lund
--Buddy Clark
--Clark Dennis
7 That's My Desire--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Frankie Laine and Mannie Klein's All-Stars
8 I Have But One Heart (O Marinariello)--Vic Damone
9 I Wish I Didn't Love You So--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
--Betty Hutton
--Dinah Shore
10 Tallahassee--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters

Singles entering the chart were Rhumba at the Waldorf by Don Jose and his Orchestra (#23); Do You Feel that Way, Too? by the Ink Spots (#37); and --And Mimi, with versions by Art Lund, and Dick Haymes (#40).

Terrorism
An Irgun Zvai Leumi squad bombed the Haifa police station in retaliation for the deportation of the immigrant ship Exodus 1947 refugees, causing 10 deaths and 46 injuries.

World events
The Cuban government announced the suppression of a revolutionary plot on Cuban soil against Dominican Republic President Raphael Trujillo.

Politics and government
U.K. Prime Minister Clement Attlee created a Ministry of Economic Affairs and appointed Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps to direct it as minister without portfolio.

U.S. President Harry Truman appointed former President Herbert Hoover as chairman of a 12-man board assigned to study simplification and economy in the federal government.

Society
The musical play Annie Get Your Gun was banned in Memphis, Tennessee because of its use of a racially-integrated cast.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Truman and cabinet members conferred with congressional leaders in the White House, urging approval of a $580-million emergency aid grant for France and Italy to prevent imminent economic collapse and a possible Communist takeover in either of the two countries. Mr. Truman asked the congressional Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees to meet as soon as possible and consider the aid request.

Scandal
The Nationalist Chinese government filed embezzlement charges in Shanghai against 13 officials of the Chinese National Relief Administration.

Disasters
Fire destroyed the $5-million Grace Lines Pier 57 in New York, injuring 144 firemen.

Football
WIFU
Calgary (1-3) 0 @ Winnipeg (3-0) 16

Bob Sandberg rushed 15 yards for a touchdown and Don Hiney rushed 3 yards for another TD as the Blue Bombers shut out the Stampeders before 5,000 fans at Osborne Stadium in a game postponed from a week earlier because of heavy rain.

60 years ago
1957

Environment
20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material was released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

Politics and government
National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples chief counsel Thurgood Marshall predicted that many Negro voters in the United States would switch from the Democratic to the Republican Party because of the attempts of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to prevent the integration of public schools in Little Rock, and the U.S. Senate votes on the recent civil rights bill.

Economics and finance
Canadian officials at the Ottawa conference of Commonwealth finance ministers rejected British proposals for linking the sterling and dollar blocs as "politically and economically impossible."

Labour
William Lee, seventh Vice President of the Teamsters union and President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, announced that he would run for the Teamsters presidency with the aim of cleaning up the union and avoiding expulsion from the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Disasters
Nearly 300 passengers were killed, many buried alive, when a Krachi-bound express train crashed into a standing oil train at Gambar, West Pakistan.

44 passengers were killed when a train travelling from Lagos to Kano plunged over an embankment into flood waters near Ibadan, Nigeria.

Baseball
Bob Friend pitched a 6-hitter and batted 3 for 4 with a run and 2 runs batted in, finishing 1957 with a record of 14-18, to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the New York Giants 9-1 before 11,606 fans at the Polo Grounds in New York in the last game the Giants played before moving to San Francisco. Johnny Antonelli allowed 7 hits and 4 runs--all earned--in 2 innings to finish at 12-18. Pittsburgh right fielder John Powers, who hit just 6 home runs in his major league career, hit one over the roof in the 9th inning. The last three New York Giant batters, retired in order, were Don Mueller, Willie Mays, and Dusty Rhodes. Wes Westrum caught the first 8 innings for New York, batting 0 for 2 and making 3 putouts in the 919th and last game of his 11-year major league career.

Ed Bouchee hit a 2-run home run with 1 out in the bottom of the 6th inning to enable the Philadelphia Phillies to edge the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1 before 9,886 fans at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia in the last game the Dodgers played before moving to Los Angeles. Seth Morehead pitched a 4-hitter and didn't allow an earned run to get his first major league win, evening his 1957 record at 1-1, while Roger Craig allowed 4 hits and 2 earned runs in 7 innings to finish at 6-9. Sandy Koufax pitched the 8th inning, becoming the last Brooklyn Dodger to take the mound. Roy Campanella flied out as a pinch hitter for the Dodgers in the 8th in the 1,215th and last game of his 10-year major league career. The last three Brooklyn Dodger batters, retired in order, were Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, and Bob Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy, the left fielder, batted 0 for 4 and making 2 putouts in the 1,484th and last game of his 16-year major league career.



Red Schoendienst and Felix Mantilla hit consecutive run-scoring singles in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Milwaukee Braves a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Redlegs before 45,000 fans at County Stadium in Milwaukee. The Redlegs had scored all their runs in the top of the 9th to take a 3-2 lead. Jay Hook started on the mound for Cincinnati and pitched 5 hitless innings before being relieved by Dave Skaugstad, who allowed 1 hit and 1 run--earned--in 1 2/3 innings, walking 3 batters and striking out none, in his second and last major league game. Losing pitcher Bill Kennedy allowed 4 hits and 2 runs--earned--in 2/3 inning, striking out 1 batter and walking none, finishing 1957 with a 0-2 record in the 172nd and last game of his 8-year major league career.

The Baltimore Orioles scored 4 runs in the top of the 10th inning to break a 3-3 tie and defeat the Washington Senators 7-3 before 2,668 fans at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Chuck Stobbs, the second of three Washington pitchers, allowed 4 hits and 3 runs--earned--in 3 1/3 innings to take the loss, finishing the season with a record of 8-20. Jerry Schoonmaker played the first 6 innings in center field for the Senators, batting 0 for 1 with a base on balls and a run, and making 2 putouts in the 50th and last game of his 2-year major league career.

Harvey Kuenn hit a 2-run home run to climax a 3-run 6th inning as the Detroit Tigers came back from a 4-2 deficit to defeat the Kansas City Athletics 7-4 before 6,917 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Jim Bunning, the second of three Detroit pitchers, allowed 2 hits and no runs in 3 2/3 innings and was credited with the win, finishing the season with a record of 20-8. He also singled and scored a run in the 4th.

50 years ago
1967

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)--Scott McKenzie (2nd week at #1)

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 The Letter--The Box Tops
2 To Sir with Love--Lulu
3 Ode to Billie Joe--Bobbie Gentry
4 I Dig Rock and Roll Music--Peter, Paul and Mary
5 Kitty Doyle--Dino, Desi and Billy
6 San Franciscan Nights--Eric Burdon & the Animals
7 Never My Love--The Association
8 Brown Eyed Girl--Van Morrison
9 Dandelion--The Rolling Stones
10 Twelve Thirty--The Mamas and the Papas
Pick hit of the week: Lightning's Girl--Nancy Sinatra
New this week: Honey and Wine--Glenn Yarbrough
Desiree--The Left Banke
King Midas in Reverse--The Hollies
People are Strange--The Doors
Incense and Peppermints--The Strawberry Alarm Clock

Died on this date
Carson McCullers, 50. U.S. authoress. Miss McCullers, born Lula Carson Smith, was a Southern Gothic writer, known for the novels The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940); Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941); and The Member of the Wedding (1946). She died of a stroke after years of declining health.

Boxing
Emile Griffith (53-8) regained the world middleweight title with a 15-round majority decision over Nino Benvenuti (72-2) at Shea Stadium in New York. Mr. Benvenuti had won the title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Mr. Griffith on April 17, 1967.



40 years ago
1977

Boxing
Muhammad Ali (55-2) retained his world heavyweight title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Earnie Shavers (54-6-1) at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was Mr. Ali's last successful title defense.



30 years ago
1987

Died on this date
Henry Ford II, 70. U.S. automobile executive. Mr. Ford, the grandson of Henry Ford and son of Edsel Ford, was president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945-1960 and chairman and chief executive officer from 1960-1979. He died 25 days after his 70th birthday.

Baseball
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 before 34,314 fans at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, while the Detroit Tigers whipped the Baltimore Orioles 10-1 before 16,882 fans at Tiger Stadium, leaving the Blue Jays 1 1/2 games ahead of the Tigers in the race for the American League East Division pennant. The Blue Jays had 4 games remaining, the Tigers 5.

Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees set a major league record with his 6th grand slam of the season--the last one off Bruce Hurst--as the Yankees blanked the Boston Red Sox 6-0 before 20,204 fans at Yankee Stadium. Mr. Mattingly's homer opened the scoring in a 5-run 3rd inning. Charles Hudson pitched a 4-hit shutout to improve his 1987 record to 11-6.

Floyd Bannister allowed 4 hits in 7 innings to improve his record for the season to 15-11, winning the pitchers' duel over Mike Witt, as the Chicago White Sox edged the California Angels 1-0 before 7,554 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Mr. Witt allowed 7 hits in pitching a complete game and falling to 16-13, with the only run scoring in the 5th inning when Ken Williams singled with 2 out, advanced to second base on a wild pitch, and scored on a double by Steve Lyons.

Don Carman pitched a 1-hitter, facing just 1 batter over the minimum, to improve his 1987 record to 13-11 as he led the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-0 win over the New York Mets before 30,799 fans at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Mookie Wilson's infield single leading off the 4th inning was the only blemish on Mr. Carman's performance.

Buddy Bell singled home Paul O'Neill with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 win over the Atlanta Braves before 8,725 fans at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.

Joe Magrane pitched a 3-hitter and Greg Mathews allowed 3 hits and no runs in 6 innings to get the win as the St. Louis Cardinals swept a doubleheader from the Montreal Expos 1-0 and 3-0 before 48,142 fans at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, leaving the third-place Expos 5 games behind the National League East Division-leading Cardinals with 5 games remaining for both teams.



25 years ago
1992

Politics and government
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted overwhelmingly to suspend President Fernando Collor de Mello for 180 days, pending his trial in the Senate on corruption charges. Vice-President Itamar Franco would become acting President, and would fill Mr. Collor’s term, due to expire in 1985, if Mr. Collor were convicted.

Economics and finance
Statistics Canada reported that 500 full time jobs per day had disappeared during the recession of thepast three years; 11 businesses and 73 people per day went broke.

Disasters
A Canadian helicopter and an American sightseeing helicopter collided in the sky near Horseshoe Falls, Ontario; the Canadian helicopter made a successful emergency landing, but the American helicopter crashed, killing the pilot and three passengers.

20 years ago
1997

Hit parade
Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Building a Mystery--Sarah McLachlan (7th week at #1)
2 Foolish Games--Jewel
3 Fly--Sugar Ray
4 Honey--Mariah Carey
5 Semi-Charmed Life--Third Eye Blind
6 Anybody Seen My Baby?--The Rolling Stones
7 The Sound Of--Jann Arden
8 Invisible Man--98 Degrees
9 If You Could Only See--Tonic
10 I Don't Want to Wait--Paula Cole

Singles entering the chart were Automatic Flowers by Our Lady Peace (#29); Something About the Way You Look Tonight by Elton John (#35); Last of the Big Game Hunters by Barstool Prophets (#44); Heavy by Zucherbaby (#45); Pearly White by Junkhouse (#47); Show Me Love by Robyn (#49); and Blame by Collective Soul (#54).

Died on this date
Roy Lichtenstein, 73. U.S. artist. Mr. Lichtenstein was a leading figure in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, with paintings inspired by comic strip art. He died of pneumonia.

Medicine
British scientists claimed to have found a connection between Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD), a brain disease found in humans, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), better known as mad cow disease.

10 years ago
2007

Died on this date
Lois Maxwell, 80. Canadian-born actress. Miss Maxwell, born Lois Hooker in Kitchener, Ontario, was best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies from 1962-1985. She also co-starred in the Canadian television series Adventures in Rainbow Country (1970-1971).

Energy
Calder Hall in Cumbria, England, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, was demolished in a controlled explosion, 51 years after its opening.

Football
CFL
Montreal (6-7) 22 @ Saskatchewan (8-5) 33
Hamilton (2-11) 19 @ Winnipeg (8-4-1) 21
Calgary (6-6-1) 9 @ British Columbia (9-3-1) 42

Kerry Joseph passed for 355 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Roughriders over the Alouettes before 28,800 fans at Mosaic Stadium in Regina.

Charles Roberts rushed 1 yard for a touchdown and Troy Westwood converted and kicked a 14-yard field goal as the Blue Bombers scored 10 points in the 4th quarter to defeat the Tiger-Cats before 27,102 fans at Canad Inns Stadium. The teams combined for 8 turnovers.

Jarious Jackson passed for 307 yards and 3 touchdowns and Joe Smith rushed for 109 yards and a touchdown to help the Lions rout the Stampeders before 32,263 fans at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.

CIS
Alberta (2-3) 17 @ Calgary (1-3) 9
Regina (3-1) 37 @ Simon Fraser (0-5) 24
Saskatchewan (4-1) 19 @ British Columbia (2-3) 16