October 29, 2017

550 years ago
1467

War
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, led his forces to victory over those of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in the Battle of Brustem in what is now Belgium.

230 years ago
1787

Opera
Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart received its premiere performance at the National Theater in Prague.

225 years ago
1792

Americana
Mount Hood in Oregon was named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, by Lieutenant William E. Broughton, who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

150 years ago
1867

Disasters
The San Narciso hurricane struck Sankt Thomas in the Danish Virgin Islands, killing 1,014 people, sinking or driving ashore 85 ships, and causing $8 million damage to property on land.

140 years ago
1877

Died on this date
Nathan Bedford Forrest, 56. C.S. military officer. Lieutenant General Forrest served with the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, where he earned a reputation as a brilliant strategist, but was regarded by Union forces as a war criminal for the massacre of Negro and Loyalist troops who had already surrendered in the Battle of Fort Pillow in 1864. He was one of the early founders of the Ku Klux Klan, and became its first Grand Wizard in 1867. Lt. Gen. Forrest officially dissolved the KKK in January 1869 and withdrew from participation in the organization. He died, reportedly from the effects of diabetes.

130 years ago
1887

Football
ORFU
Final
Ottawa College 15 @ Hamilton 0

125 years ago
1892

Football
ORFU
Round 3
Hamilton 5 @ Toronto 1
Ottawa 29 @ Queen’s University 9

120 years ago
1897

Politics and government
Henry Emmerson was sworn in as Premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Mitchell.

100 years ago
1917

Born on this date
Eddie Constantine. U.S.-born French actor. Mr. Constantine, born Edward Constantinowsky, settled in Europe in the 1950s, where he made his name playing secret agent Lemmy Caution in a series of French films. Perhaps his best-known performance was in Alphaville (1965). Mr. Constantine died on February 25, 1993 at the age of 75.

Lisl Handl, aka Poldi Dur. Austrian-born U.S. actress. Miss Handl, a native of Vienna, was a dancer and appeared in minor roles in several Austrian films before emigrating to the United States in 1937 and adopting her stage name. She appeared in several anti-Nazi propaganda movies, including They Came to Blow Up America (1943); Margin for Error (1943); and The Hitler Gang (1944). Miss Handl died on March 17, 1996 at the age of 78.

Politics and government
The Canadian House of Commons passed the Immigration and Settlement Office Act, elevating the former Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior into a completely independent department. The measure occurred in a very particular context, since in the event of an early end to World War I, the Union government headed by Prime Minister Robert Borden anticipated an increase in immigration.

90 years ago
1927

Football
IRFU
Montreal (1-4) 3 @ Ottawa (3-1-1) 6
Toronto (0-3-1) 6 @ Hamilton (4-0) 21

ORFU
Camp Borden (1-4) 15 @ University of Toronto II (2-2) 7

Canadian university
Queen's (2-1) 12 @ Toronto (0-3) 6
Manitoba 14 Alberta 0

ORFU-university
Exhibition
Toronto Balmy Beach 14 @ McGill University 11

MRU
Final
Winnipeg Tammany Tigers 10 Winnipeg Victorias 1

BCRU
University of British Columbia 21 Victoria 1
Vancouver 31 New Westminster 6

Mr. Baker scored 2 touchdowns and Mr. McKelvey added another as the Tigers scored 3 touchdowns and a field goal in the 1st quarter to take an 18-2 lead and coast to victory over the Argonauts before 5,000 fans at the Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds.

The Senators scored 3 singles in the 3rd quarter and another in the 4th to defeat the Winged Wheelers at Lansdowne Park.

The Tricolor scored a touchdown on a return of a fumbled punt in the 4th quarter to defeat University of Toronto before 18,504 fans at Varsity Stadium, a then-record crowd for a football game in Canada. Mr. Harrison scored a touchdown and Mr. Sinclair added a single in the 1st quarter, giving Toronto a 6-0 lead that held at halftime. Harry Batstone kicked a field goal for Queen's in the 3rd quarter, and another in the 4th that tied the score. The team scored upon kicked off in those days, and Mr. Sinclair's kickoff was caught by Mr. Warren of Queen's, who punted back to Mr. Sinclair; the Toronto player fumbled, and the ball was recovered by Mr. Howard of Queen's, who was tackled by Mr. Trimble of Toronto, but lateralled to Mr. Walker, who ran the remaining 25 yards for the touchdown to give the Tricolor an 11-6 lead. The convert was unsuccessful, but Queen's later added a single.

Balmy Beach defeated McGill before a record crowd at Molson Stadium in Montreal in a game that featured a demonstration of the forward pass, which had yet to be legalized in Canadian football. Balmy Beach completed 2 of 5 passes and McGill 1 of 2, all in the 1st half. Balmy Beach star lineman Ted Reeve suffered a broken right leg in the 3rd quarter.

75 years ago
1942

War
German counterattacks upon Allied positions at El Alamein were repulsed, while Allied planes continued to assault enemy positions.

Protest
Leading British clergymen and politicians held a public meeting to protest the treatment of Jews in Germany by the Nazi regime.

Communications
Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho signed a decree establishing censorship over mail and telegrams, effective November 1.

Baseball
Branch Rickey, who had built the St. Louis Cardinals into a powerhouse, left the World Series champions to become president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He succeeded Larry MacPhail, who had joined the U.S. Army.

70 years ago
1947

Died on this date
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, 83. U.S. First Lady, 1886-1889, 1893-1897. Miss Folsom married President Grover Cleveland on June 2, 1886 when she was 21 and he was 49; she became the youngest First Lady in U.S. history. The couple had three sons and two daughters before Mr. Cleveland died in 1908. Mrs. Cleveland married archaeology professor Thomas Preston in 1913, and was still married to him when she died.

World events
Romanian National Peasant Party leader Juliu Maniu and 14 aides went on trial in Bucharest on charges of treason and espionage.

Society
The President's Committee on Civil Rights, headed by General Electric President Charles E. Wilson, submitted a 178-page report on racial discrimination in the United States to U.S. President Harry Truman. Among the report's recommendations were creation of special federal and state investigative units for civil rights cases; elimination of poll taxes; and specific laws against bias in housing, education, health, and public services.

Economics and finance
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg formally ratified the Benelux Customs Union, due to go into effect on January 1, 1948.

Basketball
PBLA
Tulsa (2-1) 46 @ St. Joseph (0-1) 41

Baseball
Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler suspended the Chicago White Sox and general manager Leslie O'Connor from professional baseball for refusing to pay a $500 fine for signing high school student George Zoeterman.

60 years ago
1957

Died on this date
Louis B. Mayer, 72. Russian-born U.S. movie producer. Mr. Mayer, born Lazar Meir, moved to Rhode Island with his family at the age of 13, and lived for a time in Saint John, New Brunswick. He moved to Boston, opening his first movie theatre in 1907. Mr. Mayer moved to Los Angeles in 1918 and founded Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation. In 1924 he and Marcus Loew combined to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which became Hollywood's most prestigious studio over the next two decades. The studio's profits declined in the late 1940s, and Mr. Mayer was forced into retirement in 1951. He died of leukemia.

War
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem estimated North Vietnamese Communist forces at 450,000-500,000 men, while listing his own government's troop strength at 150,000 men.

Crime
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and Transport Minister Moshe Carmel were slightly injured, and Rabbi Haim-Moshe Shapira of the National Religious Party was seriously injured when Moshe Dwek threw a grenade from the balcony in the Knesset. The grenade was apparently intended for Mr. Ben-Gurion and Mrs. Meir.

World events
The U.S. government filed suit before the World Court, seeking damages from the Bulgarian government for Israeli and American citizens killed in an Israeli airliner shot down over Bulgaria in 1955.

Politics and government
The French National Assembly rejected the attempt of Socialist leader Guy Mollet to form a new cabinet.

Society
In an address before the 62-tribe National Congress of American Indians, U.S. Indian Affairs Commissioner Glenn Emmons reported that the U.S. Indian population had increased from 200,000 in 1900 to 500,000, and had outgrown its economic base on reservations.

Football
ORFU
Kitchener-Waterloo (8-2-1) 49 @ Toronto (0-11) 4

Mike Norcia scored a touchdown, 6 converts and a single, and Buck McCoy scored 2 touchdowns as the Dutchmen routed Balmy Beach. Mr. Pagnan, Al Romine, Tex Robinson, and Don Loucks scored the other K-W touchdowns. George Ellis kicked a field goal and single for what turned out to be the last points ever scored by Balmy Beach in their 34-year history.

50 years ago
1967

Died on this date
Julien Duvivier, 71. French film director and screenwriter. Mr. Duvivier wrote and directed more than 60 movies and television programs in a career spanning more than 40 years, including several years in Hollywood during World War II. His films included La Bandera (1935); Pépé le Moko (1937); and Tales of Manhattan (1942). He died of a heart attack caused by a car accident, three weeks after his 71st birthday.

Canadiana
The Expo 67 world's fair closed after playing host to 40,300,000 visitors since April 28.

Football
CFL
Montreal (2-11) 4 @ Hamilton (9-4) 26
British Columbia (3-11-1) 14 @ Saskatchewan (11-4) 24

Bill Redell returned an interception for a touchdown, Dick Gibbs rushed for his only CFL touchdown, and Tommy-Joe Coffey caught a touchdown pass from Joe Zuger as the Tiger-Cats beat the Alouettes before 16,127 fans at Civic Stadium. Mr. Zuger completed 14 of 31 passes for 218 yards, while Montreal quarterback Carroll Williams completed 11 of 26 passes for 196 yards.

George Reed rushed 32 times for 104 yards and a touchdown, and Gord Barwell and Henry Dorsch also scored touchdowns for the Roughriders as they beat the Lions before 13,936 fans at Taylor Field in Regina.

40 years ago
1977

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Tomorrow--Amanda Lear

#1 single in Switzerland: Ti Amo'--Umberto Tozzi (7th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): Do You Remember--Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: Silver Lady--David Soul (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K (BMRB): Yes Sir, I Can Boogie--Baccara

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): You Light Up My Life--Debby Boone (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 You Light Up My Life--Debby Boone (4th week at #1)
2 Nobody Does it Better--Carly Simon
3 Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band--Meco
4 Boogie Nights--Heatwave
5 That's Rock 'n' Roll--Shaun Cassidy
6 I Feel Love--Donna Summer
7 Brick House--Commodores
8 Keep it Comin' Love--K.C. and the Sunshine Band
9 Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue--Crystal Gayle
10 Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')--Johnny Rivers

Singles entering the chart were Gettin' Ready for Love by Diana Ross (#85); Closer to the Heart by Rush (#94); Don't Let the Flame Burn Out by Jackie DeShannon (#98); and Any Way You Want Me by the Sylvers (#100).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 That's Rock 'n' Roll--Shaun Cassidy
2 Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band--Meco
3 Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')--Johnny Rivers
4 Nobody Does it Better--Carly Simon
5 Boogie Nights--Heatwave
6 Keep it Comin' Love--K.C. and the Sunshine Band
7 I Feel Love--Donna Summer
8 It was Almost Like a Song--Ronnie Milsap
9 You Light Up My Life--Debby Boone
10 Cold as Ice--Foreigner

Singles entering the chart were You Make Lovin' Fun by Fleetwood Mac (#74); Draw the Line by Aerosmith (#76); Baby Come Back by Player (#78); Money, Money, Money by ABBA (#91); Swingtown by the Steve Miller Band (#92); Slip Slidin' Away by Paul Simon (#93); You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim) by Rod Stewart (#97); Hard Times by Boz Scaggs (#98); Goin' Places by the Jacksons (#99); and Second Thoughts by Frankie Valli (#100).

Hockey
NHL
Detroit 4 @ Toronto 7
Los Angeles 5 @ Montreal 3

Football
CFL
Hamilton (5-11) 11 @ Montreal (11-5) 18

Sonny Wade completed an 89-yard touchdown pass to Bob Gaddis to help the Alouettes defeat the Tiger-Cats at Olympic Stadium.

CIAU
St. Mary's 13 @ Acadia 47
Alberta (4-3-1) 21 @ Manitoba (4-4) 22

Les Oakes punted for a single with 41 seconds remaining in the game to give the Bisons their win at Pan-Am Stadium in Winnipeg, handing the Golden Bears their third straight loss and eliminating them from playoff contention. Alberta led 21-14 at halftime on touchdown passes from Dan McDermid to Pat Barry, Lee McFadden, and Joe Poplawski, all converted by Mr. Poplawski. Manitboa quarterback Bud Harden completed touchdown passes to Al Bowness and Mike Kashty in the 1st half. The Bisons scored a touchdown late in the 3rd quarter, but Mr. Oakes' convert attempt was blocked, leaving Alberta ahead 21-20 after 3 quarters. Mr. Oakes punted for the tying single in the 4th quarter and then punted for the winner. Among those playing their last game of unversity football were Manitoba offensive tackle Ted Milian and Alberta defensive tackle Leon Lyszkiewicz, as well as Mr. Poplawski.

30 years ago
1987

Died on this date
Woody Herman, 74. U.S. musician. Mr. Herman was a jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and vocalist who led various bands known as "The Herd." Mr. Herman's bands were known for performing experimental music, including blues and progressive jazz, recording numerous hit singles from the late 1930s through the late '40s, with their biggest hit being Blues in the Night, which reached #1 on the Billboard chart in January 1942. Mr. Herman continued to record and perform with new versions of his band until his death.

War
Nicaraguan Sandanista leaders reaffirmed their commitment not to discuss a cease-fire with leaders of the opposition Contras.

Law
Six days after the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States had been rejected by the Senate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. Mr. Reagan described Judge Ginsburg, 41, as a law-and-order judge who believed in judicial restraint.

Politics and government
Roland Morin was elected leader of the Quebec New Democratic Party.

25 years ago
1992

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Sleeping Satellite--Tasmin Archer (3rd week at #1)

20 years ago
1997

Died on this date
Anton LaVey, 67. U.S. Satanist. Mr. LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey, founded the Church of Satan in 1966 and published The Satanic Bible in 1969. He was mainly a showman, and often seemed to do things in order to generate publicity. Many aspects of his biography that he claimed for himself appear to be untrue.