October 1, 2017

150 years ago
1867

Disasters
A cyclone struck Hong Kong, wrecking several ships and causing $10 million damage on shore.

130 years ago
1887

War
British Empire forces conquered Balochistan.

100 years ago
1917

Died on this date
Philip Bent, 26. Canadian-born U.K. military officer. Lieutenant Colonel Bent, a native of Halifax, was killed while leading a successful counterattack during an enemy assault on the Allied-held Polygon Wood in Belgium. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

Society
The British Columbia Prohibition Act (1917) was declared; the prohibition of alcoholic beverages lasted until June 1921.

90 years ago
1927

At the movies
The Ring, written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson and Lillian Hall-Davis, opened in theatres in the United Kingdom.

Communications
The first official airmail service contract in Canada went into effect after experimental airmail trips between Montréal and Rimouski, Quebec to establish the feasibility of air service; the first official flight took place on October 4 in Manitoba.

Football
IRFU
Hamilton (1-0) 14 @ Montreal (0-1) 1
Toronto (0-0-1) 10 @ Ottawa (0-0-1) 10

ORFU
Hamilton (1-0) 4 Camp Borden (0-1) 3 @ Toronto

ORFU-Canadian university
Exhibition
McGill 4 @ Toronto Balmy Beach 12

Canadian university
Pre-season
Royal Military College 1 @ Toronto 37

Mr. Baker rushed for a touchdown and Pep Leadley kicked 2 field goals for the Tigers as they beat the Winged Wheelers at the MAAA Grounds.

Armour Munroe and Bill Miles scored unconverted touchdowns for the Argonauts in the 4th quarter as they rallied from a 10-0 deficit to tie the Senators at Lansdowne Park.

A rouge in the 4th quarter proved to be the deciding point as the ORFU Tigers edged Camp Borden at Varsity Stadium.

McGill University introduced the forward pass in their exhibition against Balmy Beach, completing 5 of 11. 4 passes were intercepted, with Scotty Cawkell returning one of the interceptions 50 yards for a touchdown. Balmy Beach completed 3 of 9 passes, with 5 interceptions.

75 years ago
1942

Died on this date
Ants Piip, 58. Prime Minister of Estonia, 1920; State Elder of Estonia, 1920-1921. Mr. Piip, a member of the Labour Party and later an independent politician, served as Prime Minister from October 26-December 20, 1920 and as State Elder from December 20, 1920-January 25, 1921. He held other cabinet posts during the 1920s, and was still an active politician when he was arrested by the U.S.S.R. secret police force NKVD. Mr. Piip died in a Soviet prison camp.

War
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Grouper torpedoed the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru, not knowing she was carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong. Over 800 PoWs were killed either in the attack or while trying to escape. Breaking a three-week lull, British Army forces in Egypt attacked the centre of the Axis line at El Alamein.

Technology
Brown Instrument Company publicly demonstrated its electronic flight recorder, used to measure temperature and pressure changes of military planes in flight.

Economics and finance
The U.S. War Production Board began a drive to gather scrap metal as part of a program to raise 17 million tons of iron and steel scrap by the end of the year.

Baseball
World Series
New York Yankees 3 @ St. Louis Cardinals 4 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

The Yankees scored 3 runs in the top of the 8th inning to tie the game, but Stan Musial singled home Enos Slaughter in the bottom of the 8th to provide the winning run before 34,255 fans at Sportsman's Park.



70 years ago
1947

Theatre
Command Decision, by William Wister Haines and based on his novel, opened at the Fulton Theatre on Broadway in New York.

War
Nationalist Chinese forces reported capturing the Communist-held port of Chefoo on theShantung Peninsula.

World events
Serbian Peasant party leader Dragoljub Yovanovich went on trial in Belgrade on charges of espionage and treason.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R.'s 21st and 22nd vetoes blocked the admission of Italy and Finland to the United Nations after the membership applications of Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria failed to gain a two-thirds majority in the Security Council. The U.S.A. resumed full relations with Bulgaria to "keep itself informed concerning developments there."

Defense
The North American F-86 Sabre made its first flight, while the 45,000-ton U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea was commissioned at Portsmouth, Virginia.

Politics and government
The office of the Governor-General of Canada became independent and was given authority to exercise all Royal powers and executive authority of the Crown in relation to Canada.

General Nguyen Van Xuan became Prime Minister of the Republic of Cochin-China following the resignation of Le Van Hoach.

Labour
The West Coast Waterfront Employers Association closed the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in a dispute over union recognition with the Congress of Industrial Organizations International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

Baseball
World Series
Brooklyn Dodgers 3 @ New York Yankees10 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Johnny Lindell drove in 2 runs, and every other Yankee except Joe DiMaggio each had a run batted in as the Yankees beat the Dodgers before 69,865 fans at Yankee Stadium.

60 years ago
1957

Americana
In God we trust first appeared on U.S. paper currency.

Defense
U.S. Strategic Air Command aircraft and crews went on a 15-minute alert basis to fly nuclear bombing missions against Soviet targets if necessary.

Diplomacy
The United Nations General Assembly, voting to fill three non-permanent Security Council seats, elected Japan to take the vacancy formerly reserved for eastern Europe. The U.S.S.R. protested the move as a violation of a 1946 "gentleman's agreement."

Politics and government
Anti-Communist members of the outgoing Grand and General Council in San Marino established a provisional government, which was immediately recognized by Italy.

Algerian nationalist leaders called for talks with France, Morocco, and Tunisia on a settlement of the Algerian conflict, dropping their previous demands for French recognition of Algerian independence prior to negotiations.

Law
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower rejected a plan presented by four southern governors for withdrawing federal troops from Little Rock, charging that Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had failed to honour a commitment "to use his full powers as governor to prevent the obstruction" of federal court orders for the racial integration of Central High School.

Health
A vaccine against the Asian Flu currently sweeping the world was made available to the British public.

50 years ago
1967

Football
CFL
Ottawa (5-4) 17 @ Hamilton (6-2) 8
British Columbia (2-7-1) 8 @ Winnipeg (4-7) 19

Bo Scott rushed 16 times for 72 yards and 2 touchdowns to help the Rough Riders beat the Tiger-Cats before 27,125 fans at Civic Stadium. The only Hamilton touchdown came on an option pass from Willie Bethea to Garney Henley.

Ed Ulmer returned a short Neal Beaumont punt 25 yards for a touchdown early in the 4th quarter and Ron Kirkland rushed 1 yard for a TD in the final seconds as the Blue Bombers outscored the Lions 16-0 in the 4th quarter to defeat them before 13,170 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Winnipeg defensive lineman Charlie Brandon played his first CFL game, and didn't play another CFL game until 1972, when he was with the Ottawa Rough Riders.

Baseball
The Boston Red Sox, trailing 2-0, scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 6th inning and held on to defeat the Minnesota Twins 5-3 before 35,770 fans at Fenway Park in Boston, winning their first American League pennant since 1946. Boston left fielder Carl Yastrzemski batted 4 for 4 with a double and a run, and singled home the first 2 Boston runs. Jim Lonborg pitched a 7-hit complete game and started the 6th-inning rally with a bunt single, finishing the season at 22-9. Dean Chance allowed 8 hits and 5 earned runs in 5+ innings, finishing at 20-14. The Twins finished 1 game behind the Red Sox, tied with the Detroit Tigers for second place.

The Detroit Tigers beat the California Angels 6-4 in the first game of a doubleheader before 38,398 fans at Tiger Stadium, but the Angels won the second game 8-5 to eliminate the Tigers from American League pennant contention. The Tigers had runners on first and second bases with none out in the bottom of the 9th inning of the second game, but pinch hitter Jimmy Price flied out to left field and Dick McAuliffe, who hadn't grounded into a double play all year, did exactly that, ensuring the pennant for the Boston Red Sox, whose game was already over. Bill Skowron grounded out as a pinch hitter for the Angels in the 4th inning of the first game, which was the 1,658th and last game of his 14-year major league career. California pitcher Curt Simmons retired the only batter he faced in the second game, which was the 609th and last game of his 20-year major league career. Jerry Lumpe started at second base for Detroit in the second game and singled in his only plate appearance and making 1 assist in the 1,371st and last game of his 12-year major league career.

40 years ago
1977

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Ti Amo'--Umberto Tozzi (11th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Ti Amo'--Umberto Tozzi (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): I Remember Elvis Presley--Danny Mirror (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: Way Down--Elvis Presley (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K (BMRB): Way Down--Elvis Presley (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band--Meco

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band--Meco (2nd week at #1)
2 Don't Stop--Fleetwood Mac
3 Keep it Comin' Love--K.C. and the Sunshine Band
4 Nobody Does it Better--Carly Simon
5 On and On--Stephen Bishop
6 Telephone Line--Electric Light Orchestra
7 You Light Up My Life--Debby Boone
8 Float On--The Floaters
9 Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')--Johnny Rivers
10 I Just Want to Be Your Everything--Andy Gibb

Singles entering the chart were Your Smiling Face by James Taylor (#72); Daybreak by Barry Manilow (#73); Gone Too Far by England Dan & John Ford Coley (#79); Thunder in My Heart by Leo Sayer (#81); Isn't it Time by the Babys (#83); Silver Lady by David Soul (#84); She's Not There by Santana (#86); From Graceland to the Promised Land by Merle Haggard (#87); Baby Come Back by Player (#89); Ten to Eight by David Castle (#96); Stone Cold Sober by Crawler (#97); Avenging Annie by Roger Daltrey (#98); You've Got Me Dangling on a String by Donny Osmond (#99); and Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in its Spotlight) by Thin Lizzy (#100).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 Telephone Line--Electric Light Orchestra
2 Handy Man--James Taylor
3 Barracuda--Heart
4 Don't Stop--Fleetwood Mac
5 Float On--The Floaters
6 Best of My Love--Emotions
7 How Much Love--Leo Sayer
8 Strawberry Letter 23--The Brothers Johnson
9 On and On--Stephen Bishop
10 (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher--Rita Coolidge

Singles entering the chart were Baby, What a Big Surprise by Chicago (#93); How Deep is Your Love by the Bee Gees (#94); Love Gun by Kiss (#95); A Place in the Sun by Pablo Cruise (#97); Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by the Carpenters (#98); (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again by L.T.D. (#99); and Rollin' with the Flow by Charlie Rich (#100).

Died on this date
Pat Patterson, 80. U.S. baseball player. William Jennings Bryan Patterson was a third baseman and shortstop who played 23 games with the New York Giants in 1921, batting .400 with 1 home run and 5 runs batted in. He played at least 5 seasons in various minor leagues from 1915-1921, with statistics nowhere near as good as those he posted with the Giants.

Politics and government
General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan's military government, cancelled national elections scheduled for October 18 and extended martial law for an indefinite period, saying that elections would only be "an invitation to a new crisis." He also banned all political activity "to allow passions to cool down." He set no date for elections, but stated that the criminal cases pending against former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and some of his former aides should be resolved before the people voted.

Horse racing
Proud Bernie won the 5th running of the Marlboro Cup at Belmont Park, New York.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (5-6) 17 @ Ottawa (4-7) 34

Condredge Holloway relieved starting quarterback Tom Clements and threw 3 touchdown passes, 2 to Tony Gabriel, leading the Rough Riders over the Eskimos before 21,312 fans on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Lansdowne Park. Mr. Holloway also punted for a single. The Ottawa defense held the Edmonton offense without a touchdown.

CIAU
St. Francis Xavier 11 Prince Edward Island 7
New Brunswick 25 Mount Allison 0
Acadia 17 St. Mary's 14
Bishop's 28 Quebec at Trois Rivieres 9
McGill 5 Queen's 4
Guelph 17 York 15
Waterloo 34 McMaster 0
Toronto 29 Windsor 7
Western Ontario @ Wilfrid Laurier (postponed, rain)
Alberta (4-0-1) 8 @ Saskatchewan (1-3) 3
Calgary (2-2) 14 @ British Columbia (1-2-1) 34

The Alberta defense intercepted 6 passes and stopped the Saskatchewan offense on third down at the Alberta 1-yard line as the Golden Bears beat the Huskies at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon. Joe Poplawski caught 7 passes for 89 yards and the game's only touchdown, which he converted, giving the Golden Bears a 7-3 halftime lead. Marco Cyncar punted 60 yards for a single in the 3rd quarter for the ony scoring of the 2nd half. Dave Osiowy accounted for the Saskatchewan scoring with a field goal in the 1st quarter.

Baseball
Eddie Murray hit 2 of the Baltimore Orioles' 6 home runs and singled home Mike Dimmel with the deciding run in the top of the 9th inning as the Orioles held on to defeat the Boston Red Sox 8-7 before 29,107 fans at Fenway Park in Boston in the NBC Game of the Week, eliminating the Red Sox from the American League East Division pennant race and ensuring the pennant for the New York Yankees. The Red Sox had edged the Orioles 11-10 the day before, eliminating Baltimore from pennant contention. The Red Sox rallied for 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th on a home run by Bernie Carbo with 1 out and Ted Cox singled with 2 out, but Jim Rice flied out to center field to end the game. Mr. Carbo was pinch hitting for second baseman Tommy Helms, who batted 1 for 3 with a run, and made 4 putouts and 3 assists in the 1,435th and last game of his 14-year major league career.

Jason Thompson batted 4 for 4 with a home run, triple, 3 runs, and 2 runs batted in to lead the Detroit Tigers over the New York Yankees 10-7 before 50,054 fans at Yankee Stadium. New York catcher Thurman Munson batted 3 for 3 with 2 doubles a run and 2 RBIs, while Elrod Hendricks, who relieved him in the 6th inning, hit a 2-run homer.

Pinch runner Lew Beasley scored on a squeeze bunt single by Bert Campaneris with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Texas Rangers a 6-5 win over the Oakland Athletics before 10,768 fans at Arlington Stadium. Mr. Beasley had entered the game to run for Willie Horton, who had led off the inning with a triple. Willie Crawford drew an intentional walk as a pinch hitter for Oakland in the 7th and was forced out at second base in the 1,210th and last game of his 24-year major league career.

The San Francisco Giants scored 8 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning and coasted to a 13-4 win over the San Diego Padres before 2,549 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

The Montreal Expos scored 3 runs in the top of the 12th inning and withstood a 2-run rally in the bottom of the inning to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 before 43,095 fans at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Mike Buskey, who entered the game in the 9th inning at shortstop with the Phillies, tripled home Jim Morrison with 1 out in the bottom of the 12th to make the score 6-5, but was stranded there when Barry Foote and Fred Andrews were retired to end the game. For Mr. Buskey, who batted 1 for 2 and made 2 putouts and 1 assist, it was his 6th and last major league game.

30 years ago
1987

Protest
Nine people were reported to have died when a crowd calling for Tibetan independence from China stoned and burned a police station in Lhasa.

Politics and government
Televangelist Pat Robertson announced that he would seek the 1988 Republican party nomination for President of the United States.

Disasters
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck southern California, causing 6 deaths, more than 100 injuries, and $59 million in damages. 15 aftershocks were felt in the next few hours in the strongest quake to hit the area since 1971. The city of Whittier was hardest hit.

Baseball
The Detroit Tigers took advantage of 3 errors to score 5 unearned runs and defeat the Baltimore Orioles 9-5 before 19,749 fans at Tiger Stadium to move within 1 game of the idle first-place Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East Division pennant race. Both the Blue Jays and Tigers had 3 games remaining--against each other, in Detroit.

The St. Louis Cardinals scored 5 runs in the 7th inning as they beat the Montreal Expos 8-2 before 48,763 fans at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis to clinch the National League East Division pennant. Danny Cox pitched a 5-hit complete game victory to improve his 1987 record to 11-9.

25 years ago
1992

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Rhythm is a Dancer--Snap! (8th week at #1)

Television
The Cartoon Network began broadcasting.

World events
The Czechoslovakian parliament rejected the draft bill on division of the country, throwing the timetable for separation into chaos. The two republics were to separate on January 1, 1993, but no agreement could be reached on how to accomplish the change.

Defense
The United States Senate approved a treaty, signed in 1991, that would reduce the number of strategic (long-range) weapons held by the U.S.A. and four independent states that were formerly part of the U.S.S.R. Under its terms, the number of U.S. warheads would drop from 12,646 in 1990 to 8,556, and the number of Russian warheads would decline from 11,012 held by the Soviet Union in 1990 to 6,163. The former Soviet republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine would have no nuclear weapons. Only Kazakhstan of the four former Soviet republics had approved the treaty so far.

The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, while taking part in NATO exercises, accidentally fired two missiles that hit a Turkish destroyer, killing 5 and injuring 15.

Politics and government
The Ukrainian government was defeated 295-6 in a parliamentary non-confidence vote, the day after the resignation of Prime Minister Vitold Fokin.

After withdrawing from the race in July, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot announced that his withdrawal had been a mistake, and that he was back as an independent candidate for President of the United States.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau called for Canadians to vote “No” in the constitutional referendum on October 26.

Law
Mi'kmaq (Micmac) chief Reg Maloney was given the right to try some native court cases--mostly minor criminal cases--as a justice of the peace on his 1,200 member reserve at Indian Brook, Nova Scotia.

Abominations
The United States Senate voted 73-26 to overturn President George Bush’s veto of a bill that sought to overturn an administration regulation prohibiting abortion counselling at federally-financed family planning clinics.

Society
Statistics Canada reported that the average first-time bride was aged 26 in 1990, compared with 22.6 in 1971; the average first-time groom was 27.9 in 1990, compared to 24.9 in 1971; 77% of marriages in 1990 were first marriages, 90% in 1971; 7.1/1,000 people were married in 1990, compared with 7.9/1,000 in 1921.

Economics and finance
The Canadian dollar dropped to U.S. 80.06c, down from 80.24c the day before.

20 years ago
1997

Politics and government
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Québec's law limiting spending on referenda.

Law
Michel Bastarache was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada after the retirement of Gérard LaForest, becoming the first Acadian appointed to the Court.

Baseball
American League Division Series
Baltimore 9 @ Seattle 3 (Baltimore led best-of-five series 1-0)

National League Division Series
San Francisco 6 @ Florida 7 (Florida led best-of-five series 2-0)

Houston 3 @ Atlanta 13 (Atlanta led best-of-five series 2-0)

10 years ago
2007

Died on this date
Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79. U.K. composer and conductor. Mr. Hazlehurst joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1961 and beame the Light Entertainment Musical Director, composing theme music for numerous comedy television comedy series. He left the BBC in the 1990s, and died of a stroke.

Al Oerter, 71. U.S. discus thrower. Mr. Oerter won the gold medal in the men's discus event in four consecutive Summer Olympic Games from 1956-1968. He died of cardiovascular disease, 12 days after his 71st birthday.

Politics and government
Steven Point was installed as the first aboriginal Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, replacing Iona Campagnolo.

16 members of the Legislative Assembly were elected in the Northwest Territories territorial election.