November 3, 2017

525 years ago
1492

War
The Peace of Étaples between King Henry VII of England and King Charles VIII of France was signed in Étaples in northern France, ending an English invasion of France that was in response to France's support for Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne.

425 years ago
1592

Mexicana
The city of San Luis Potosí was founded.

200 years ago
1817

Economics and finance
The Bank of Montréal, chartered June 23, opened its first branch and traded its first shares; it's the oldest continuously operating bank in North America.

150 years ago
1867

War
General Giuseppe Garibaldi's forces were defeated by French and Papal troops in the Battle of Mentana in Italy.

125 years ago
1892

Transportation
The first Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C&ER) train arrived on the southern branch at Mekastoe (Macleod West).

100 years ago
1917

Died on this date
Léon Bloy, 71. French writer. Mr. Bloy wrote two novels, but was mainly known for his essays in defense of Roman Catholicism.

Football
Ottawa Patriotic Football League
Final
Ottawa Rough Riders 18 Civil Service 0

75 years ago
1942

War
British tanks in Egypt broke through Axis lines and swept into open country. Russian soldiers defending Stalingrad claimed to have thrown off two German attacks, killing 2,000 enemy troops. U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began the Koli Point action, an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial Japanese Army troops on Guadalcanal. Australian troops in New Guinea recaptured Kokoda, 60 miles from Port Moresby, and were driving Japanese forces south toward Oivi.

World events
The Inter-American Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense of the Continent, meeting in Montevideo, publicized evidence of a Chilean Nazi spy ring which had sent military and political data to Berlin.

Politics and government
The Republican Party made major gains in U.S. gubernatorial and Senatorial elections, but failed to gain control of either the Senate or House of Representatives. The Republicans gained 9 seats in the Senate--8 from the Democrats and the other from five-term independent George Norris in Nebraska--to reduce the Democratic lead in the upper house to 57-38, with 1 Progressive. In the House, the Republicans gained 47 seats, while the Democrats lost 45; the resulting totals were: Democrat, 222; Republican, 209; Progressive, 2; Farmer-Labor, 1; American Labor, 1. The Republicans led the Democrats by 3.9% in the popular vote for the House. Voter turnout was just 33.9%; no biennial U.S. election since then has produced a lower turnout. One of the Republican gains in gubernatorial elections took place in California, where Republican candidate Earl Warren unseated Democratic incumbent Culbert Olson.

Baseball
The Baseball Writers' Association of America named New York Yankees' second baseman Joe Gordon as the American League's Most Valuable Player for 1942. Mr. Gordon batted .322 with 18 home runs and 103 runs batted in in 147 games in helping the Yankees win the AL pennant.

Football
WSCFL
Finals
Bombers 20 RCAF 11 (Bombers won 2-game total points series 34-29)

Gerald “Red” O’Donohue, Wayne Sheley, and Ches McCance scored touchdowns for the Bombers as they won the league championship at Osborne Stadium. Mr. McCance, who converted all 3 touchdowns, scored the winning TD on a 60-yard pass from Mr. Sheley in the 4th quarter. Bob Fritz rushed 1 yard for a touchdown and Mr. Charlton rushed 6 yards for another TD as the Flyers jumped to an 11-0 lead in the 1st quarter. Johnny Lake converted 1 of the RCAF touchdowns. The Bombers scored a safety touch when RCAF running back Ken Charlton was tackled in his own end zone in the 2nd quarter; the Flyers went into the halftime break leading 11-2.

70 years ago
1947

Died on this date
Nelson McDowell, 77. U.S. actor. Dr. McDowell was a dentist and professor of orthodontics at the University of Illinois before moving to Hollywood and appearing in 176 movies, mainly Westerns, from 1917-1945. He committed suicide by shooting himself.

John G. Winant, 58. U.S. politician and diplomat. Mr. Winant, a Republican, was Governor of New Hampshire from 1925-1927 and 1931-1935. He chaired President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Social Security Board from 1935-1936 and 1936-1937, and was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1941-1946, developing close contacts with King George VI and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, and having an affair with Mr. Churchill's daughter Sarah. Mr. Winant had difficulty adjusting to a slower pace of life when he returned to New Hampshire after World War II, became estranged from his wife, and was deeply in debt. He fatally shot himself the day of the publication of his book Letter from Grosvenor Square.

War
A U.S. Court in Nuremberg handed down death sentences to four German SS leaders, including concentration camp administration chief Oswald Pohl, for war crimes during World War II.

Diplomacy
The United Nations General Assembly's Committee on Palestine considered transfer of power provisions, with the United States urging a direct transfer from British authority to the Jewish and Arab governments. The U.S.S.R. demanded a seven-month interim period of Security Council supervision following British withdrawal from Palestine.

World events
Polish Peasant Party leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk arrived in London from the British zone of Berlin as a political refugee.

Labour
The 6,000 Dominion Textile workers affiliated with the Confederation of Catholic Workers of Canada (CTCC) went on strike, just one year after the conflict that had pitted the company against its employees in Valleyfield and Montreal affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The conflict ended on November 13; wages were raised to 80c per hour.

Basketball
PBLA
Kansas City (0-3) 34 @ St. Joseph (1-3) 42
Chicago (4-0) 74 @ Omaha (0-2) 54
New Orleans (3-1) 58 @ Waterloo (0-3) 53
St. Paul (2-1) 57 @ Springfield (1-2) 42

60 years ago
1957

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Silent Witness, starring Don Taylor, Delores Hart, and Pat Hitchcock

Died on this date
Wilhelm Reich, 60. Austrian-born U.S. psychotherapist. Dr. Reich was a psychoanalyst and Communist who promoted and coined the phrase "The Sexual Revolution." He studied under Sigmund Freud and began his career in Vienna before moving to Berlin, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, finally fleeing to the United States in 1939 after the Nazi occupation of Austria. Dr. Reich claimed to have discovered a biological or cosmic energy that he called orgone; he built boxes--"orgone accumulators"--in which patients were supposed to sit naked while the orgone accumulated. Dr. Reich's claims on behalf of orgone eventually led to his running afoul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; he was convicted of contempt of court in 1956 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Dr. Reich died of a heart attack in his sleep in his cell at United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, several days before he was to attend a parole hearing. Dr. Reich's books included Charakteranalyse (Character Analysis) (1933); Massenpsychologie des Faschismus (The Mass Psychology of Fascism) (1933); and Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf (The Sexual Revolution) (1936).

Space
The U.S.S.R. launched the satellite Sputnik 2 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite carried a female dog named Laika, the first living creature to go into space, who died a few hours after launch.



Politics and government
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union issued a statement charging ousted Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov with promoting his own "cult of personality" in the Red Army, and with trying to eliminate "their leadership and control of the party over the...over the Army and Navy."

Defense
U.S.S.R. Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contended that Western military bases had been outdated by Soviet missiles capable of carrying "hydrogen bomb warheads to any point on the Earth."

Energy
The Canadian National Research Unit nuclear reactor started operation at Chalk River, Ontario. One of the world's most advanced nuclear reactors, it was to be used for research into power generation, production of plutonium, and manufacture of radioactive isotopes for use in medicine, industry and food preservation.

Economics and finance
Security-First National Bank, the fifth-largest U.S. bank, began operations in Los Angeles.

Auto racing
Phil Hill and Peter Collins, driving a Ferrari 4100, won the 600-mile Venezuelan Grand Prix in Caracas.

50 years ago
1967

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Itchycoo Park--Small Faces (2nd week at #1)

Edmonton's top 10 (CJCA)
1 I Can See for Miles--The Who
2 The Letter--The Box Tops
3 The Rain, the Park and Other Things--The Cowsills
4 To Sir with Love--Lulu
5 Let it All Hang Out--The Hombres
6 Sunshine Games--The Music Explosion
7 Love is Strange--Peaches and Herb
8 Gimme Little Sign--Brenton Wood
9 Holiday--The Bee Gees
10 Beg, Borrow and Steal--Ohio Express
Pick hit of the week: Hush--Billy Joe Royal
New this week: Boppa Do Down Down--The Third Rail
Beautiful People--Bobby Vee and the Strangers
Chattanooga Choo Choo--Harpers Bizarre
Daydream Believer--The Monkees
In and Out of Love--Diana Ross and the Supremes

War
The Battle of Dak To began in South Vietnam.

Disasters
A Sadia Airlines plane crashed near Curitiba, Brazil, killing 20 people and injuring 6.

40 years ago
1977

On television tonight
James at 15, starring Lance Kerwin, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Girl with the Bad Rep



Diplomacy
In a move that angered the Canadian government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing hosted Quebec Premier Rene Levesque and expressed support for Quebec's right to self-determination. Mr. Giscard's statement came after he had taken the unusual step of making Mr. Levesque a grand officer of the Legion of Honour.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Labor Department reported that wholesale prices had risen 0.8% in October, the largest gain in six months.

30 years ago
1987

Died on this date
Mary Shane, 42. U.S. sportscaster and sportswriter. Mrs. Shane was working at radio station WRIT in Milwaukee when she was invited to join the broadcast crew of the Chicago White Sox for several games during the Chicago club's visits to County Stadium. In 1977 she became a regular member of the crew broadcasting White Sox games on radio station WMAQ and television station WSNS, but the experiment didn't go over well with many people, and led to her being dropped from the broadcasts before the end of the season. Miss Shane later worked as a sportswriter with the Worcester Telegram in Worcester, Massachusetts, but she developed heart troubles and died of a heart attack.

25 years ago
1992

Politics and government
Democratic Party candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected President and Vice-President, respectively, of the United States of America, defeating the incumbent Republican Party ticket of President George Bush and Vice-President Dan Quayle. Mr. Clinton captured 370 electoral votes to 168 for Mr. Bush. Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot attracted more than 19 million votes—almost 19% of the popular vote—but no electoral votes. In other elections, Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first Negro woman to be elected to the United States Senate, winning in Illinois.

Inuit residents of the eastern Canadian Arctic approved the land claim settlement required for the creation of the new territory of Nunavut. Title of 350,000 square kilometres of land would be given to residents as part of the 2.2-million-square-kilometre territory, along with $1.5 billion over the next 14 years, and the right to hunt, fish, and trap in all of the territory.

Health
The Canadian Hemophilia Society published two documents showing that hundreds of hemophiliacs had been infected in Canada from 1984-1987 using blood products infected with the AIDS virus. The Canadian Red Cross Society recognized that untreated coagulation factors had been circulating for several months in 1984 and 1985, and also recognized that these could be dangerous. In Quebec, 220 out of 500 hemophiliacs contacted HIV by receiving tainted blood derivatives.

20 years ago
1997

Hit parade
Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 Fly--Sugar Ray (3rd week at #1)
2 Tubthumping--Chumbawumba
3 Walkin' on the Sun--Smash Mouth
4 The Sound Of--Jann Arden
5 I Don't Want to Wait--Paula Cole
6 Anybody Seen My Baby?--The Rolling Stones
7 Foolish Games--Jewel
8 Show Me Love--Robyn
9 On My Own--Peach Union
10 Push--Matchbox 20

Singles entering the chart were I Do by Lisa Loeb (#48); Super Bad Girls by Ivan (#56); Butterfly by Mariah Carey (#57); The Oaf by Big Wreck (#58); Phenomenon by LL Cool J (#62); Home by Sheryl Crow (#63); I Will Come to You by Hanson (#70); and Tell Him by Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand (#96).

Diplomacy
The United States of America imposed economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.

Defense
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams pushed a button to destroy the last landmines in the Canadian Armed Forces arsenal, at a weapons range in Kanata, Ontario.

Labour
Striking French truck drivers created roadblocks throughout the country; the strike was over pay and working conditions.

10 years ago
2007

Died on this date
Ryan Shay, 28. U.S. runner. Mr. Shay was a long-distance runner who won several American professional titles from 2003-2005. He was competing in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials when he collapsed after 5 1⁄2 miles, and was pronounced dead at the hospital 40 minutes later. Death was said to be the result of a previously enlarged heart condition.

Football
CFL
Toronto (11-7) 41 @ Saskatchewan (12-6) 13
Edmonton (5-12-1) 19 @ Hamilton (3-15) 21
Calgary (7-10-1) 24 @ British Columbia (14-3-1) 25

Michael Bishop threw 3 touchdown passes to lead the Argonauts over the Roughriders before 28,800 fans at Mosaic Stadium in Regina. It was the Argonauts' seventh straight win, clinching first place in the East Division. It was the first game of the season and the first in a Saskatchewan uniform for running back Josh Ranek, who carried twice for 6 yards and scored the Roughriders' only touchdown.

Jo Jo Walker returned a punt 71 yards for a touchdown less than 4 minutes into the 3rd quarter, providing the winning margin as the Tiger-Cats defeated the Eskimos before 20,411 fans at Ivor Wynne Stadium. Nick Setta converted the touchdown and kicked 4 field goals. The only Edmonton touchdown was scored by starting quarterback Stefan LeFors, who rushed 8 yards for the major score in the 2nd quarter. Warren Kean, playing his first CFL game and his only game in an Edmonton uniform, converted and was successful on 3 of 4 field goal attempt. Mr. Kean's only miss was from over 50 yards in the final seconds; it went for a single, but would have tied the game if successful. The Eskimos didn't allow a point after Mr. Setta's convert, but were unable to overcome the deficit. The Edmonton defense limited the Hamilton offense to 10 first downs and 232 yards net offense. It was one of the rare Canadian Football League games between teams that had both been eliminated from playoff contention, and the game ended numerous careers. Edmonton punter Sean Fleming, playing the last game of his 16-year career, averaged 37.5 yards on 8 punts and 42.5 yards on 2 kickoffs. It was the last game for Edmonton safety Rob Hitchcock, who played all but the last 3 games of his 13-year, 203-game career with the Tiger-Cats. It was the only CFL game for Edmonton defensive end Zach Anderson and the last in an Edmonton uniform for Mr. LeFors, who completed 15 of 22 passes for 182 yards and an interception, and rushed 8 times for 39 yards. The Tiger-Cats ended a five-game losing streak with the win, while the Eskimos lost their sixth straight game and finished the season with their worst record in 43 years.

Sandro DeAngelis's 52-yard field goal attempt on the last play of the game hit the upright and stayed out, allowing the Lions to escape with a victory over the Stampeders before 34,242 fans at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver. The Stampeders had scored a touchdown a few minutes earlier, but for the second straight game, Calgary head coach Tom Higgins opted for a 1-point convert instead of a 2-point convert attempt, and his team lost by one point. The game was marred by a dirty play by B.C. offensive tackle Jason Jimenez, who broke the leg of Calgary defensive end Anthony Gargiulo on the last play of the 1st half, ending Mr. Gargiulo's career. Mr. Jimenez was immediately disqualified from the game for deliberate attempt to injure; he was suspended for one game, but successfully appealed, and never was penalized further.