October 9, 2017

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sarah Son!

150 years ago
1867

War
The Italian "Party of Action" was defeated near Montali Vieta.

Disasters
30 vessels and 40 lives were lost when a gale struck the coast of Labrador. William Jackman, captain of a Bowrings sealing steamer, swam through the surf to rescue 11 men from the wooden fishing vessel Sea Clipper, wrecked on a rocky reef at Spotted Island. Then with the help of others and a rope, Mr. Jackman swam out to the reef 16 more times to save the remaining men and women.

140 years ago
1877

Transportation
Contractor Joseph Whitehead brought the Countess of Dufferin railway engine up the Red River to St. Boniface, Manitoba on a barge towed by the steamer Selkirk to build the Canadian government's Selkirk-Emerson line Pembina Branch; it was the first locomotive in Manitoba and in western Canada. Meanwhile, the first Northern Colonization Railway train left Montréal for St-Jérôme, Québec.

125 years ago
1892

Born on this date
Ivo Andrić. Austro-Hungarian born Yugoslav author and poet. Mr. Andrić wrote novels, short stories, and poems, mainly about life in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia under Ottoman rule. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country." Mr. Andrić died on March 13, 1975 at the age of 82.

120 years ago
1897

Died on this date
Jan Heemskerk, 79. Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1874-1877, 1883-1888. Mr. Heemskerk, a liberal and then a conservative, held various cabinet posts from 1866-1888. His son Theo was Prime Minister from 1908-1913.

Football
CRU
ORFU
Round 1
Toronto Athletic Club-Lornes 23 @ University of Toronto 11 (First game of 2-game total points series)

110 years ago
1907

Born on this date
Horst Wessel. German SA officer. Mr. Wessel, the son of a Lutheran minister, was a member of several paramilitary nationalist groups in the mid-1920s before joining the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Detachment" or SA) in December 1926. He rose up the ranks of the SA, speaking at rallies and advocating violence against Communists. Mr. Wessel was shot in the head by Communist Albrecht Höhler on January 14, 1930; Mr. Wessel recovered somewhat, but died of blood poisoning on February 23, 1930 at the age of 22, and was regarded as a martyr for the Nazi cause. He wrote lyrics to the song Die Fahne hoch (The Flag High), which became known as Horst-Wessel-Lied (Horst-Wessel Song), and was adopted as a second national anthem for Germany during the Nazi regime (1933-1945).

Law
The Supreme Court of Saskatchewan opened its first session in Regina.

Baseball
World Series
Detroit Tigers 1 @ Chicago Cubs 3 (Chicago led best-of-seven series 1-0-1)

The Cubs scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 4th inning to break a 1-1 tie as they defeated the Tigers before 21,901 fans at West Side Park. Winning pitcher Jack Pfiester allowed 10 hits, but the Chicago defense turned 2 double plays, and catcher Johnny Kling threw out 3 Detroit runners attempting to steal bases.

80 years ago
1937

Died on this date
Ernest Louis, 58. Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, 1892-1918. Ernest Louis, the elder son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and a grandson of Queen Victoria, succeeded his father as Grand Duke and served at Kaiser Wilhelm II's headquarters during World War I, but refused to abdicate during the revolution of 1918, and was deposed on November 9, 1918, the same day Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated. Ernest Louis died after a long illness.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Ottawa (0-1) 7 @ Montreal (1-0) 16
Toronto (1-0) 17 @ Hamilton (0-1) 16

Northwestern Rugby League
Edmonton Athletic Club 12 @ University of Alberta 0

Harold Sutton scored a touchdown, convert, field goal, and single for E.A.C. as they beat the Golden Bears at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton.

Baseball
Bill McKechnie, who had managed the Boston Braves and Bees since 1929, signed a 2-year contract to manage the Cincinnati Reds.

World Series
New York Yankees 3 @ New York Giants 7 (Yankees led best-of-seven series 3-1)

The Giants erupted for 6 runs in the 2nd inning off Yankee pitchers Bump Hadley and Ivy Andrews as they avoided elimination before 44,293 fans at the Polo Grounds. Carl Hubbell pitched a complete game for the win.

75 years ago
1942

Died on this date
Ernest Loewenstein, 73. German jurist. Dr. Loewenstein was a prominent figure in Germany before the Nazis came to power. He died after being hit by a truck in New York.

War
The Canadian merchant ship Carolus was sunk, with 11 of her 30 crew lost, in the Atlantic Ocean by the German submarine U-69, commanded by Ulrich Graf. U.S. Army headquarters in London reported that 115 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, accompanied by 500 Allied fighters, bombed German-held industrial plants in Lille, France in the greatest raid on German-occupied territory in the war to date. German Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler began a three-day inspection tour of "German services" in Rome, Milan, Turin, Genoa, and Naples, conferring with Italian Duce Benito Mussolini. American forces defeated the Japanese in the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, avenging the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier. Three U.S. Navy cruisers--Quincy, Vincennes, and Astoria--were sunk by a Japanese naval force in the Solomon Islands. Allied bombers carried out their biggest raid on Rapaul, New Britain, dropping 60 tons of bombs.

Diplomacy
U.S. envoy Wendell Willkie left Chengtu, China for the United States, completing his special tour on behalf of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The U.S.A. and U.K. announced their willingness to begin negotiating immediately with China for an end to their extraterritorial rights, dating to the 19th century.

Transportation
U.S. President Roosevelt said that the St. Lawrence Seaway Project would be delayed until after World War II because of a shortage of materials.

Crime
Seven convicts serving life sentences, including Roger Touhy and Basil "The Owl" Banghart, both former members of the notorious Touhy gang, escaped from Stateville Prison near Joliet, Illinois.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Senate approved a 5% "Victory Tax" on gross incomes over $12 per week commencing January 1, 1943. The U.S. Office of Price Administration announced a new pricing formula for 11 groups of food products under which wholesalers and retailers could raise prices by 15%.

Labour
Roane Waring, newly-elected national commander of the American Legion, said at an American Federation of Labor convention in Toronto that he would shoot strikers in war industries if he had the power.

Football
CRU
Winnipeg City Rugby Football League
University of Manitoba (0-3) 0 @ Bombers (2-1-1) 31

Ken Preston scored 3 touchdowns for the Bombers. Ches McCance scored a touchdown and 2 converts, Hymie Mander scored a touchdown, and Frank Mathers added a field goal and convert in the rout of the Bisons at Osborne Stadium.

70 years ago
1947

At the movies
Nightmare Alley, directed by Edmund Goulding, and starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker, received its premiere screening in New York City (see video).

Key Witness, directed by D. Ross Lederman, and starring John Beal, Trudy Marshall, and Jimmy Lloyd, opened in theatres.



Theatre
The musical High Button Shoes, starring Phil Silvers, Joey Faye, and Nanette Fabray, opened at the New Century Theatre on Broadway in New York.

Defense
The Arab League Council, meeting in Lebanon, urged member states to station troops on Palestine's borders, to be used against Jews in the event of a Jewish-Arab conflict after termination of the British mandate.

Politics and government
The Romanian Socialist Party congress in Bucharest unanimously approved a merger with the Communists to form a single working-class party.

Law
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur approved a 25% increase in the size of the Japanese police force, but forbade a centralized police administration.

Agriculture
Experts from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslvakia, Hungary, and Romania conferred in Belgrade on coordinating eastern European wheat production.

Oil
U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal appeared before the Senate Small Business Committee and testified that development of Saudi Arabian oil and pipeline facilities was in the U.S. national interest and should be given priority over construction of facilities in the United States or the Western Hemisphere.

Energy
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission tightened controls on the export of nuclear research equipment.

60 years ago
1957

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Music Vendor)
1 Honeycomb--Jimmie Rodgers
2 Chances Are--Johnny Mathis
3 Diana--Paul Anka
4 Wake Up Little Susie--The Everly Brothers
5 That'll Be the Day--The Crickets
--Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes
6 Tammy--Debbie Reynolds
--The Ames Brothers
7 Mr. Lee--The Bobbettes
8 Fascination--Jane Morgan
--Dick Jacobs and his Chorus and Orchestra
9 Jailhouse Rock--Elvis Presley
10 Lotta Lovin'--Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps

The version of That'll Be the Day by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes was recorded in 1956 for Decca Records, but wasn't released until after the version by the Crickets, on Brunswick Records, had become a hit.

Space
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower congratulated Soviet scientists on the launch of Sputnik 1, but asserted that the U.S. satellite program had never been conducted as a race against other nations, noting that "Project Vanguard has not had equal priority with that accorded our ballistic missile work."

Defense
The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force issued directives ordering all officers to refrain from making public statements on missile or Earth satellite matters.

Politics and government
Centrist leader Rene Pleven abandoned his attempt to form a new government in France.

Neil McElroy succeeded Charles Wilson as U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Education
The Florida state legislature voted quick approval to a bill requiring the automatic closing of any school to which federal troops were sent to enforce racial integration.

Baseball
World Series
Milwaukee Braves 2 @ New York Yankees 3 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)

Hank Bauer's solo home run with 1 out in the bottom of the 7th inning broke a 2-2 tie as the Yankees edged the Braves before 61,408 fans at Yankee Stadium.





50 years ago
1967

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): All You Need is Love--The Beatles (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Joseph Pilates, 83. German-born U.S. fitness trainer. Mr. Pilates moved to England in 1912 and to the United States in the 1920s. He soon developed the fitness program that bears his name, which he called "Contrology."

Cyril Hinshelwood, 70. U.K. chemist. Sir Cyril shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Nikolay N. Semenov "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions."

Che Guevara, 39. Argentine-born revolutionist. Ernesto Guevara was a Marxist who was involved in revolutionary activities in various countries, most notably Cuba, where he assisted Fidel Castro in the overthrow of the regime of President Fulgencio Batista in 1959, and held several cabinet posts in Mr. Castro's government, including Finance Minister. More notably, Mr. Guevara acted as Mr. Castro's chief executioner. He was fomenting revolution in Bolivia when he was arrested, and executed by Army Sergeant Mario Terán the following day. Mr. Guevara remains a charismatic symbol of revolution.

Football
CFL
Montreal (2-7) 6 @ Ottawa (6-3) 40
Hamilton (6-4) 21 @ Saskatchewan (10-2) 22

Russ Jackson passed for 2 touchdowns, rushed for 2 more, and handed off to Bo Scott for another as the Rough Riders routed the Alouettes before 21,078 fans at Lansdowne Park. Montreal quarterback Carroll Williams completed 7 of 16 passes for 116 yards, and was sacked 11 times.

Bruce Bennett made 2 interceptions within the span of six plays--the last coming in the Saskatchewan end of the field with 40 seconds remaining in the game--to preserve the Roughriders' win over the Tiger-Cats before 21,405 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Saskatchewan fullback George Reed rushed for 182 yards, the league's best total for a single game in 1967.

Baseball
World Series
Boston Red Sox 3 @ St. Louis Cardinals 1 (St. Louis led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Jim Lonborg pitched a 3-hitter for his second win of the series as the Red Sox defeated the Cardinals before a capacity crowd of 54,575 at Busch Memorial Stadium. The Red Sox scored a run in the 4th inning and 2 more in the 9th, but Roger Maris ruined Mr. Lonborg's bid for a shutout by hitting a home run with 2 out in the 9th. Orlando Cepeda then grounded out to end the game.







40 years ago
1977

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Telephone Line--Electric Light Orchestra (3rd week at #1)

Music
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians performed at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton; ticket prices ranged from $4.50-$6.50. Mr. Lombardo died 27 days later at the age of 75.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (7-6) 18 @ Montreal (9-4) 20

Rookie Mark Jackson made his first start at quarterback for the Alouettes and rushed for his first CFL touchdown as he directed them to victory before 50,540 fans on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Olympic Stadium. The Roughriders scored 2 touchdowns late in the 4th quarter and almost came back to win.



Calgary 14 @ Alberta (4-1-1) 0

The Dinosaurs outrushed the Golden Bears 266-99 at Varsity Stadium in Edmonton as Alberta suffered its first shutout in 11 years. Calgary quarterback Darrell Moir completed a 63-yard touchdown pass to Grant Newell in the 4th quarter to ensure the victory.

Baseball
American League Championship Series
New York 5 @ Kansas City 3 (New York won best-of-five series 3-2)

The Yankees scored a run in the 8th inning and 3 in the 9th to overcome a 3-1 deficit and defeat the Royals before 41,133 fans at Royals Stadium.



30 years ago
1987

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Never Gonna Give You Up--Rick Astley (2nd week at #1)

At the movies
Stacking, starring Megan Follows, Ray Baker, Christine Lahti, and Frederic Forrest, opened in theatres in limited release.

Died on this date
William P. Murphy, 95. U.S. physician. Dr. Murphy shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia."

Clare Boothe Luce, 84. U.S. playwright, politician, and diplomat. Mrs. Luce's best known play was The Women (1936), which featured an all-female cast. She married Time magazine publisher Henry Luce before entering politics. A Republican, she represented Connecticut's 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943-1947. Mrs. Luce was the U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1953-1956, becoming the first American woman to be appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. In 1959 she was appointed and confirmed as Ambassador to Brazil, but resigned after only three days in the position because of political difficulties with U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, who chaired the Senate Sub-Committee on Latin American Affairs. Mrs. Luce was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

Football
CFL
Toronto (8-5-1) 30 @ Ottawa (2-12) 22

Gill Fenerty rushed for 118 yards--98 in the 1st half--and Danny Barrett completed touchdown passes to Darrell Smith and Paul Pearson as the Argonauts beat the Rough Riders before 16,451 fans at Lansdowne Park. Mr. Barrett also rushed 7 times for 66 yards. Brad Taylor made his first CFL start at quarterback with the Rough Riders, but was ineffective and was relieved early in favour of Todd Dillon, who completed 22 of 35 passes for 299 yards and 2 touchdowns to Gerald Alphin, who caught 9 passes for 147 yards.

Baseball
National League Championship Series
St. Louis 6 @ San Francisco 5 (St. Louis led best-of-seven series 2-1)

The Cardinals came back from a 4-0 deficit with 2 runs in the 6th inning and 4 in the 7th to edge the Giants before 57,913 fans at Candlestick Park.



25 years ago
1992

Hit parade
#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Sweat (A La La La La Long)--Inner Circle (3rd week at #1)

Oil
Newfoundland Energy Minister Rex Gibbons announced that the Hibernia oil drilling project would resume; it had been put in mothballs on February 14, 1992 after Gulf Canada Resources had withdrawn.

Football
CIAU
Saskatchewan 30 @ Alberta 23

Baseball
National League Championship Series
Atlanta 2 @ Pittsburgh 3 (Atlanta led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Rookie knuckleballer Tim Wakefield gave up a home run to Ron Gant, but became the winning pitcher when Andy Van Slyke hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the winning run before 56,610 fans at Three Rivers Stadium.





20 years ago
1997

Hit parade
#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight--Elton John (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Kosketus--Klamydia

Law
The Supreme Court of Canada declared unconstitutional the section of Québec's separation referendum law dealing with the financing of third parties, saying that the ceiling on expenses restrained the free expression of certain individuals and groups. Regarding the section of the law forcing groups to join either a YES or NO committee, the Court suggested that these restrictions were a clear restraint on freedom of expression.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that provinces must provide sign language interpreters for the deaf when they receive medical treatment.

Business
Cascades and Domtar pulp and paper companies announced a merger in Montréal.

Basketball
NCAA
Dean Smith announced his retirement after 36 years as head coach of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels men's team. Mr. Smith retired after leading the Tar Heels to two national championships and a record 879 career victories. He was succeeded as head coach by Bill Guthridge, his assistant for the past 30 years.

Baseball
American League Championship Series
Cleveland 5 @ Baltimore 4 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Marquis Grissom hit a 3-run home run with 2 out in the 8th inning, enabling the Indians to defeat the Orioles before 49,131 fans at Oriole Park.



10 years ago
2007

Died on this date
Carol Bruce, 87. U.S. actress and singer. Miss Bruce, born Shirley Levy, sang with the bands of Larry Clinton in the 1930s and Ben Bernie in the early 1940s. She appeared in plays and films, but is perhaps best remembered for her recurring role as "Mama" Carlson in the television comedy series WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982).

Enrico Banducci, 85. U.S. impresario. Mr. Banducci owned and operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco from 1950-1967, and helped to launch the careers of entertainers such as Bill Cosby, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Jonathan Winters, the Vince Guaraldi Trio, and the Kingston Trio.

Politics and government
Danny Williams and his governing Progressive Conservatives won a landslide victory in the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election, capturing 44 of 48 seats in the House of Assembly. The PCs won 10 more seats than in the most recent election in 2003. The Liberals, led by Gerry Reid, won 3 seats--down from 12 in 2003, while New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael was the only member of her party elected. The NDP had won 2 seats in 2003.

Economics and finance
The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 14,164.53.