May 25, 2018

280 years ago
1738

War
King George II negotiated a cease-fire between Pennsylvania and Maryland, ending the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners. Hostilities between the two British colonies had begun in 1730.

220 years ago
1798

War
The Battle of Carlow began in the Irish Rebellion of 1798; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green took place.

170 years ago
1848

Politics and government
The U.S. Democratic National Convention concluded at the Universalist Church in Baltimore. U.S. Senator Lewis Cass (Michigan) was elected on the fourth ballot as the party's U.S. presidential nominee, while former Representative William O. Butler was elected on the second ballot as the vice presidential nominee.

100 years ago
1868

Canadiana
The capital of the United Colony of British Columbia was moved from New Westminster to Victoria.

140 years ago
1878

Born on this date
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. U.S. dancer and actor. Mr. Robinson was the best-known and highest-paid Negro entertainer in the first half of the 20th century, with a career spanning almost 50 years, beginning in minstrel shows and ending on television. He revolutionized tap dancing by dancing on his toes rather than his heels. Mr. Robinson is perhaps best known for appearing in four movies with Shirley Temple in the 1930s and starring in the movie Stormy Weather (1943). He died on November 25, 1949 at the age of 71.

Opera
H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan opened at the Opera Comique in London.

Canadiana
Albert James Smith of Dorchester became the first native-born New Brunswicker to be knighted by a British monarch.

130 years ago
1888

Born on this date
Miles Malleson. U.K. actor and screenwriter. Mr. Malleson was a character actor in movies for more than 30 years, appearing in supporting roles in films such as The Sign of Four (1932); Stage Fright (1950); and Scrooge (1951). He also wrote screenplays for movies such as The Thief of Bagdad (1940). Mr. Malleson died on March 15, 1969 at the age of 80, after surgery for cataracts.

125 years ago
1893

Born on this date
Ernest Stoneman. U.S. musician. Mr. Stoneman was a country singer and songwriter who, with his family members, had a recording career spanning more than 40 years. He died on June 14, 1968, 20 days after his 75th birthday. Mr. Stoneman was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

120 years ago
1898

Born on this date
Bennett Cerf. U.S. publisher and television personality. Mr. Cerf co-founded the Random House publishing firm in 1927. He compiled books of jokes and puns, and became a celebrity as a regular panelist on the television quiz show What's My Line? from 1951 until his death, from natural causes, on August 27, 1971 at the age of 73.

90 years ago
1928

Died on this date
H.C. Doyle, 35. U.S. aviator and radio manufacturer. Mr. Doyle was killed in a plane crash near Mineola, New York.

Aviation
Captain Emilio Carranza completed the third-longest nonstop solo flight to date, from San Diego, California to Mexico City, covering the 1,575 miles in 18 1/2 hours.

Law
The United States House of Representatives passed the bill to build Hoover Dam, and sustained President Calvin Coolidge’s veto of the bill providing for post roads through Indian lands in 11 states.

Scandal
Graft disclosures in the New York City Street Cleaning Department led Mayor Jimmy Walker to summon all department and bureau heads to City Hall and tell them to root out grafters or quit.

It was reported that the United States had collected over $2 million to date in back revenue taxes revealed by Teapot Dome and Continental Trading testimony.

Disasters
The Italian dirigible Italia, on its way back to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway from a visit to the North Pole, fell 1,500 feet in fog and crashed on an ice pack which tore away and crushed the cabin, killing the chief mechanic, Pommela, and injuring the engineer, Ceccioni, meteorologist Malmgren, and commander General Umberto Nobile. The balloon then reascended, carrying away six men, who were never heard from again. Mr. Malmgren died from exposure.

Eight men died in a gas explosion in a hard coal mine in North Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

80 years ago
1938

War
In the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Aviazione Legionaria bombed the city of Alicante, killing 313 civilians.

Politics and government
Union Nationale candidate Antonio Talbot won a by-election in the riding of Chicoutimi to succeed Unionist Arthur Larouche, who had resigned from the Quebec Legislative Assembly for health reasons.

75 years ago
1943

War
The Trident (Washington) Conference closed after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to fix the target date for a cross-English Channel invasion of Europe for May 1944. The two leaders held a press conference, where Mr. Churchill appealed to the Italian people to discard their leaders and thrown themselves upon the justice of the Allies. Because of Allied bombing, the Italian government announced that the Sardinian capital of Cagliari had been abandoned, and all war workers in Sicily and Sardinia were being placed under military control. Japanese forces in China took Changyang on the central Yangtze front.

Politics and government
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Marcantonio bill to outlaw the levying of a poll tax by any state as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections.

Protest
Alabama Governor Chauncey Sparks ordered State Guardsmen to patrol Mobile after race riots at the Alabama Drydock & Shipbuilding Company, in which eight men were injured.

Business
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice Department asked the U.S. District Court in New York for a summary judgement against Associated Press as a news monopoly.

Disasters
The Mississippi River burst its levees on the Illinois shore from Columbia to Gale, a distance of 90 miles, putting more than three million acres in six states under water.

70 years ago
1948

On the radio
The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Elliott Lewis, on MBS
Tonight's episode: Aunt Bessie

Literature
The Stilwell Papers, the World War II memoirs of U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell, were published in New York by Sloane.

Diplomacy
Israeli President Chaim Weizmann visited U.S. President Harry Truman at the White House, and later expressed hope that the U.S. would lift its arms embargo and grant Israel a loan of $90-100 million.

Politics and government
Chinese Communists reported the establishment of a unified "administrative region" in the "North China Liberated Area," with a population of 40 million.

The Texas Democratic convention directed its national convention delegates to fight President Harry Truman's civil rights program, but pledged its 23 presidential electors to vote for the party nominee. The Texas Republican convention resulted in a victory for U.S. Senator Robert Taft (Ohio), who gained 30 delegates to the national presidential nominating convention. Minnesota Governor and candidate for the Republican Party U.S. presidential nomination Harold Stassen declared that three-quarters of Oregon delegates chosen in the state's presidential primary were his supporters, despite his second-place showing in the popular vote.

Labour
General Motors averted a threatened strike of United Auto Workers of America members by granting workers an 11c hourly wage increase in a contract providing for an automatic cost-of-living increase, the first such provision in the automobile industry.

Golf
Ben Hogan won the PGA Championship at Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis, defeating Mike Turnesa 7 and 6 in the match play final round. First prize money was $3,500.

Boxing
World bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz (80-15-3) won a 10-round split decision over Henry Davis (14-2-5) in a non-title bout at Honolulu Stadium.

60 years ago
1958

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents on CBS
Tonight's episode: The Crocodile Case, starring Pat Hitchcock, Hazel Court, and Denholm Elliott

War
5 French soldiers and 300 Tunisians were killed when Algerian-based French planes bombed and strafed Tunisian troops and civilians fighting French forces near Remada. The Tunisian government proclaimed a state of national emergency.

Politics and government
A centrist coalition led by the Christian Democrats retained power in the Italian general election. The Christian Democrats, led by Amintore Fanfane, took 273 of 596 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 123 of the 246 seats in the Senate.

Protest
A week of rioting against the government of Panamanian President Ernesto de la Guardia ended with eight people dead and 60 wounded in clashes with police.

Politics and government
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor party convention in Rochester, Minnesota endorsed U.S. Representative Eugene McCarthy (Democrat--Minnesota) for the 1958 U.S. senatorial nomination over former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Eugenie Anderson.

Communications
Toronto received Canada's first direct distance dialing (DDD) telephone system.

50 years ago
1968

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Honey--Bobby Goldsboro (4th week at #1)

#1 single in France: My Year is a Day--Les Irrésistibles (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): La bambola--Patty Pravo (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Delilah--Tom Jones (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): A Man Without Love (Quando M’innamoro)--Engelbert Humperdinck (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): What a Wonderful World--Louis Armstrong (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Tighten Up--Archie Bell & the Drells (2nd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Lazy Sunday--Small Faces
2 Congratulations--Cliff Richard
3 Jumbo/The Singer Sang His Song--The Bee Gees
4 Il Est Cinq Heures, Paris S'éveille--Jacques Dutronc
5 If I Only Had Time--John Rowles
6 Delilah--Tom Jones
7 Wonder Boy--The Kinks
8 A Man Without Love (Quando M'innamoro)--Engelbert Humperdinck
9 La Felicidad/Pa Wil Niet in Bad (La Felicidad)/Felicidad, de Roddel Van de Stad--Digno Garcia
--Johnny & Rijk
--Eddie Becker
10 Take Time to Know Her--Percy Sledge

Singles entering the chart were Man's Life by the Shoes (#28); I Can't Let Maggie Go by the Honeybus (#32); Ich Bau' dir ein Schloss by Heintje (#34); and Young Girl by the Union Gap (#36).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Mrs. Robinson--Simon and Garfunkel
2 Tighten Up--Archie Bell & the Drells
3 A Beautiful Morning--The Rascals
4 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Hugo Montenegro, his Orchestra and Chorus
5 Cowboys to Girls--The Intruders
6 Mony Mony--Tommy James and the Shondells
7 Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day--Stevie Wonder
8 Honey--Bobby Goldsboro
9 The Unicorn--The Irish Rovers
10 Do You Know the Way to San Jose--Dionne Warwick

Singles entering the chart were Choo Choo Train by the Box Tops (#65); You Don't Know What You Mean to Me by Sam & Dave (#70); Indian Lake by the Cowsills (#76); Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me by Tiny Tim (#78); Here I Am Baby by the Marvelettes (#89); Anyone for Tennis (The Savage Seven Theme) by Cream (#93); Climb Every Mountain by the Hesitations (#97); Please Stay by the Dave Clark Five (#99); and Lover's Holiday by Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson (#100). Anyone for Tennis (The Savage Seven Theme) was a version of the theme from the movie; the song was written by Cream, but performed by the American Revolution in the film.

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Mrs. Robinson--Simon and Garfunkel (2nd week at #1)
2 A Beautiful Morning--The Rascals
3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Hugo Montenegro, his Orchestra and Chorus
4 Tighten Up--Archie Bell & the Drells
5 Honey--Bobby Goldsboro
6 Love is All Around--The Troggs
7 Cowboys to Girls--The Intruders
8 Master Jack--Four Jacks and a Jill
9 Do You Know the Way to San Jose--Dionne Warwick
10 U.S. Male--Elvis Presley

Singles entering the chart were United by Peaches and Herb (#77); Choo Choo Train by the Box Tops (#81); Sky Pilot (Part One) by Eric Burdon and the Animals (#82); Indian Lake by the Cowsills (#83); It's Over by Eddy Arnold (#85); I Got You Babe by Etta James (#87); I'll Never Do You Wrong by Joe Tex (#88); Licking Stick - Licking Stick (Part 1) by James Brown and the Famous Flames (#90); My Shy Violet by the Mills Brothers (#94); Helule Helule by the Tremeloes (#98); The Look of Love by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (#99); and Anyone for Tennis (The Savage Seven Theme) by Cream (#100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Louisiana Man--Bobbie Gentry
2 Angel of the Morning--Merrilee Rush
3 Master Jack--Four Jacks and a Jill
4 Delilah--Tom Jones
5 Mrs. Robinson--Simon and Garfunkel
6 If I were a Carpenter--Four Tops
7 Do You Know the Way to San Jose--Dionne Warwick
8 This Guy's in Love with You--Herb Alpert
9 Here's to You--Hamilton Camp
10 Red Red Wine--Neil Diamond

Singles entering the chart were MacArthur Park by Richard Harris (#24); I Wanna Live by Glen Campbell (#26); Think by Aretha Franklin (#28); and Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade) by the Lemon Pipers (#30).

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 Yummy, Yummy, Yummy--Ohio Express
2 Mrs. Robinson--Simon and Garfunkel
3 Blue Bonnie Blue--49th Parallel
4 Goin' Away--The Fireballs
5 I Love You--People
6 Harlem Lady--The Witness, Inc.
7 My Girl/Hey Girl--Bobby Vee
8 Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)--Johnny Farnham
9 A Question of Temperature--Balloon Farm
10 Master Jack--Four Jacks and a Jill
Pick hit of the week: Delilah--Tom Jones

Died on this date
Georg von Küchler, 86. German military officer. Generalfeldmarschall Küchler was from a noble family and joined the Imperial German Army in 1900, serving on the Western Front. He commanded troops in the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, but was removed from command for refusing to use his forces to kill Polish or Jewish civilians. Generalfeldmarschall Küchler did support Nazi racial policy and the war against the Soviet Union. He commanded forces during the invasion of Russia, maintaining the siege of Leningrad from December 1941 until he was relieved of command at the end of January 1944. Generalfeldmarschall Küchler was directly involved in the murder of 240 mental patients in the U.S.S.R. in December 1941. He was arrested by American authorities after the war, and was sentenced in 1948 to 20 years in a Soviet prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity because of his treatment of Soviet prisoners of war. The sentence was reduced to 12 years in 1951, and Generalfeldmarschall Küchler was released in February 1953. He returned to West Germany, and died five days before his 87th birthday.

Americana
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.

War
Viet Cong squads invaded Saigon in large numbers as Communist forces launched another attack on the South Vietnamese capital.

Protest
Three days of clashes between students and police in France concluded.

40 years ago
1978

On television tonight
Class of '65, starring Tony Bill, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Reunion in Terror

This was the 14th and last episode of the series.

World events
12 leftist politicians in Peru, who had called for a general strike after elections were postponed, were expelled to Argentina. Other leftist leaders went underground to avoid arrest.

French paratroopers began to withdraw from the Zairian town of Kolwezi, five days after completing the rescue of 2,500 Europeans who had been trapped there when fighting broke out between government troops and secessionist rebels. The French left only a token force in place.

War
Iraq was reported to have threatened to break diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union if the Soviets helped the Ethiopians against the Eritreans, who were being supported by Iraq in their attempt to secede from Ethiopia. It was also reported that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was reluctant to commit Cuban troops to fight in Eritrea.

Diplomacy
French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing hinted to the United Nations General Assembly that France might not join the Geneva disarmament talks if those talks were not controlled by the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.

U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski returned to Washington from a 5-day tour of China, Japan, and South Korea. In South Korea that day, his visit did not calm Korean fears of U.S. troop withdrawals, despite his assurances of continued U.S. support.

Terrorism
The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonated at Northwestern University, resulting in minor injuries.

Scandal
Sanjay Gandhi, son of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was ordered to face trial for refusing to testify before the commission of inquiry investigating acts committed by him and his mother during Mrs. Gandhi’s emergency rule government in 1975.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Montreal 4 @ Boston 1 (Montreal won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Mario Tremblay scored goals in the 1st and 2nd periods, with his first goal, at 9:20 of the 1st period, proving to be the winner as the Canadiens overcame an early 1-0 deficit to defeat the Bruins at Boston Garden for their third consecutive Stanley Cup championship. The Bruins mustered just 16 shots on Montreal goalie Ken Dryden. It was the last game for Sam Pollock as general manager of the Canadiens, and his ninth Stanley Cup championship in that position.



Basketball
NBA
Finals
Seattle 98 @ Washington 106 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Bobby Dandridge scored 34 points to lead the Bullets over the SuperSonics before 19,035 fans at Capital Center in Landover, Maryland.

30 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Only One Woman--Alien

On television tonight
St. Elsewhere, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Last One

As the title suggests, this was the last episode of the series, which was in its sixth season.

Died on this date
Ernst Ruska, 81. German physicist. Dr. Ruska won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

Diplomacy
Panamanian dictator General Manuel Noriega rejected an American proposal to drop indictments against him in the United States on drug charges if he would leave Panama. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz was the chief advocate of dropping the indictments, arguing that the indictments were less important than getting Gen. Noriega out of Panama. The proposal drew criticism from ousted Panamanian President Eric Delvalle, as well as from people within the U.S. administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Basketball
NBA
Western Conference
Finals
Dallas 101 @ Los Angeles Lakers 123 (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 2-0)

25 years ago
1993

Politics and government
15 years of Progressive Conservative government ended when the Liberals, led by John Savage, won 40 of 52 seats in the House of Assembly in the Nova Scotia provincial election, an increase of 19 seats from before the election. The PCs, led by Premier Donald Cameron, dropped to 9 seats, while the New Democratic Party, led by Alexa McDonough, won the remaining 3 seats. Wayne Adams, a Liberal, was elected in Preston, becoming Nova Scotia's first Negro MLA.

Scandal
The U.S. administration reinstated five of the seven members of the White House travel staff who had been dismissed from their jobs six days earlier.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Finals
Los Angeles 2 @ Toronto 3 (OT) (Toronto led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Glenn Anderson scored with 40 seconds remaining in the 1st overtime period to give the Maple Leafs their win over the Kings at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Finals
Chicago 91 @ New York 96 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-0)

20 years ago
1998

Defense
Lieutenant Colonel Karen McCrimmon took command of a transport squadron at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ontario, becoming the first woman to lead a front-line operations unit in the Canadian military.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Eastern Conference
Finals
Buffalo 2 @ Washington 3 (OT) (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Todd Krygier scored at 3:01 of the 1st overtime period to give the Capitals their win over the Sabres at Verizon Center. Matthew Barnaby had tied the score for the Sabres with a powerplay goal with 57 seconds remaining in regulation time.

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Finals
Chicago 94 @ Indiana 96 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

10 years ago
2008

Space
NASA's Phoenix lander landed in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life. The lander featured a Canadian-built weather station.

Auto racing
Pole-sitter Scott Dixon won the Indianapolis 500, becoming the first driver from New Zealand to win the race. He completed the 200 laps in a time of 3:28:57.6792, an average speed of 143.567 miles per hour.



Basketball
NBA
Western Conference
Finals
Los Angeles Lakers 84 @ San Antonio 103 (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 2-1)