June 5, 2018

220 years ago
1798

War
The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster was defeated in the Battle of New Ross.

130 years ago
1888

Politics and government
The U.S. Democratic National Convention opened at St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall.

Disasters
The Rio de la Plata earthquake took place, resulting in little damage in Brazil and Uruguay.

75 years ago
1943

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): I've Heard That Song Before--Harry James and his Music Makers with Helen Forrest (13th week at #1)

War
Chinese forces recaptured Kungan, the Japanese base 67 miles south of Ichang, killing more than half of the defending troops.

Politics and government
General Arturo Rawson assumed the presidency of Argentina as head of a military government after Ramon Castillo, deposed in a coup the previous day, surrendered to Gen. Diego Mason at the La Plata naval base.

General Charles Nogues resigned as resident general of French Morocco.

Crime
U.S. Federal Judge Arthur Tuttle imposed the death sentence for the third time on Max Stephan, convicted of aiding an escaped German flier.

Scandal
A U.S. federal grand jury in London, Kentucky indicted 99 people on charges of conspiracy and corruption in the November 1942 election of U.S. Senator Albert "Happy" Chandler (Democrat).

Superior Court Judge James C. Donnelly quashed indictments charging Boston Police Commissioner Joseph Timilty and six other police officials with conspiracy to permit gambling.

Labour
Vichy French Prime Minister Pierre Laval, broadcasting from Paris, said that 200,000 Frenchmen must go to work in Germany by July 1.

Track and field
U.S. Navy Ensign Hugh Cannon set a world record for the discus throw of 174 feet 10 1/8 inches in the Metropolitan Amateur Athletic Union senior championships in New York.

Horse racing
Count Fleet, ridden by Johnny Longden, won the sixth Triple Crown--and the fourth in nine years--by defeating Fairy Manhurst by 25 lengths in the 75th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in New York. Deseronto finished third in the three-horse field. Count Fleet's time for the mile and a half was 2:28 1/5, the best since the Belmont Stakes had gone to that distance in 1926.



70 years ago
1948

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard) (Best Seller): Nature Boy--King Cole (4th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Nature Boy--King Cole (2nd week at #1)
--Frank Sinatra
--Dick Haymes with the Song Spinners
--The Sportsmen
2 Little White Lies--Dick Haymes
--Dinah Shore
3 Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)--The Andrews Sisters
--Vaughn Horton and the Polka Debs
--The Sportsmen
4 Sabre Dance--Woody Herman and his Orchestra
--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
5 The Dickey-Bird Song--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
6 Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)--Bing Crosby
--Gracie Fields
--Margaret Whiting
--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra
--Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
7 St. Louis Blues March--Tex Beneke and his Orchestra
8 Because--Perry Como
9 Baby Face--Art Mooney and his Orchestra
--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Jack Smith and the Clark Sisters
10 You Can't Be True, Dear--Ken Griffin
--Vera Lynn
--Dick Haymes with the Song Spinners
--The Sportsmen

Singles entering the chart were the versions of Nature Boy by Dick Haymes with the Song Spinners; and The Sportsmen; A Fella with an Umbrella by Frank Sinatra (#26); A Fella with an Umbrella (also #26, charting with the version by Frank Sinatra)/Blue Shadows on the Trail (#39) by Bing Crosby (#26); Confess, with versions by Doris Day and Buddy Clark; and Patti Page (#27); Fool that I Am by the Ravens (#32); What Do I Have to Do (To Make You Love Me), with versions by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra; and Dick Haymes (#33); and Blue Shadows on the Trail by Buddy Clark (#39, charting with the version by Bing Crosby). The version of Nature Boy by the Sportsmen was the other side of Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka).

Politics and government
French Indochina High Commissioner Emile Bollaert and conservative Vietnamese political leader Nguyen Van Xuan signed the Bay of Along agreement, establishing a provisional Vietnamese government in Tonkin, Annam and Cochin, China. France retained control over the new state's foreign and military affairs.

The Massachusetts Democratic Party convention gave 36 delegate votes at the party's national convention to U.S. President Harry Truman.

Labour
The United Packinghouse Workers ended their 82-day strike against Wilson and Co., where a standard meatpacking contract went into effect.

Horse racing
My Love, with William Johnstone up, won the 169th running of the English Derby at Epsom Downs.

60 years ago
1958

Theatre
Ulysses in Nighttown, starring Zero Mostel, Carroll O'Connor, John Astin, and Anne Meara, opened at the Rooftop Theatre off-Broadway in New York City.

Space
Walter Dornberger, Bell Aircraft Corporation technical aide and former head of Germany's V-2 rocket program, denounced moon shots and other space exploration projects as "stunts" that should be subordinated to weapons development.

War
Rejecting French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle's appeal for an end to the four-year Algerian revolt, the FLN Committee of Coordination and Execution in Cairo said that his proposals were a "perpetuation of the colonial policies of France."

50 years ago
1968

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): Young Girl--The Union Gap (3rd week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Honey--Bobby Goldsboro (4th week at #1)
2 The Unicorn--The Irish Rovers
3 Young Girl--The Union Gap
4 Congratulations--Cliff Richard
5 If I Only Had Time--John Rowles
6 Delilah--Tom Jones
7 Lady Madonna/The Inner Light--The Beatles
8 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly--Hugo Montenegro, his Orchestra and Chorus
9 The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp--O.C. Smith
10 Valleri/Tapioca Tundra--The Monkees

Singles entering the chart were Do You Know the Way to San Jose by Dionne Warwick (#27); Love Machine by Pastoral Symphony (#31); Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel (#33); and Cuddly Toy (EP) by the Monkees (#38).

At the movies
For Singles Only, co-written and directed by Arthur Dreifuss, and starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Lana Wood, Mark Richman, and Milton Berle, opened in theatres.



Crime
U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Democrat--New York) concluded his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, after winning the California Democratic Party U.S. Presidential primary. He then took a shortcut through the kitchen, where he was shot in the head at 12:16 A.M. by Sirhan B. Sirhan, 24, a Jordanian Arab who had been living in the Los Angeles area for 11 years. Sen. Kennedy was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where surgeons removed bullet fragments from his brain; he remained in critical condition throughout the day.



Law
In the wake of the shooting of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered Secret Service protection for all major party U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates.

War
At the Paris peace talks, North Vietnam demanded an end to U.S. bombing, while U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman charged that 40,000 North Vietnamese troops were fighting in Laos in violation of the 1962 Geneva neutralization accord.

Politics and government
Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and his cabinet resigned, four days after the Unified Socialist Party pulled out of the coalition government.

40 years ago
1978

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Wuthering Heights--Kate Bush (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Darling--Kenji Sawada

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Stayin' Alive--Bee Gees (4th week at #1)

Law
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review, and so let stand, a decision that a New Hampshire statutory rape law was unconstitutional. The law, since replaced, had made it a crime for an adult to have sexual relations with an underage consenting female, but ignored relations with underage males.

Economics and finance
As the result of failure to negotiate a fishing treaty, Canada and the United States began excluding one another's commercial fishing vessels from their respective waters and the U.S.A. banned Canadian recreational fishing in American waters, while both sides were careful to avoid arrests or other confrontations.

30 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Don't Turn Around--Aswad

#1 single in Switzerland: Theme from S-Express--S-Express

Theatre
The Tony Awards for 1987-88 were presented at the Minkoff Theatre in New York. The Phantom of the Opera won seven awards, including Best Musical.

Politics and government
Candidates with the conservative coalition outpolled socialists in the first round of voting for Deputies in the French National Assembly.

25 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Informer--Snow

#1 single in Italy: All that She Wants--Ace of Base

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Nuestros Nombres--Héroes del Silencio

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): Informer--Snow (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Your Latest Trick--Dire Straits (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): What is Love?--Haddaway (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Chart Information Network): All that She Wants--Ace of Base (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Cash Box): That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson (3rd week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson
2 Come Undone--Duran Duran
3 Looking Through Patient Eyes--PM Dawn
4 The Crying Game--Boy George
5 Are You Gonna Go My Way--Lenny Kravitz
6 Can't Do a Thing (To Stop Me)--Chris Isaak
7 Have I Told You Lately--Rod Stewart
8 Sleeping Satellite--Tasmin Archer
9 Who is It--Michael Jackson
10 Lost in Your Eyes--The Jeff Healey Band

Singles entering the chart were Girl I've Been Hurt Before by Snow (#84); Captain Nemo by Sarah Brightman (#87); Here's Looking at You Kid by April Wine (#89); Unstoppable by the Kings (#91); Walking in My Shoes by Depeche Mode (#94); Moments of Love by Cathy Dennis (#95); What Time is It by the Spin Doctors (#98); and C'mon People by Paul McCartney (#99).

Died on this date
Conway Twitty, 59. U.S. musician. Mr. Twitty, born Harold Jenkins, was a rock and roll singer in the 1950s. His single It's Only Make Believe reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 siingles chart in 1958. Mr. Twitty then turned to country music, and released 55 number-one singles from 1965-1990. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

Prairie Bayou, 3. U.S. racehorse. Prairie Bayou, the winner of the 1993 Preakness Stakes three weeks earlier, broke down in the Belmont Stakes and had to be destroyed.

War
22 Pakistani soldiers were killed while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia.

Horse racing
Julie Krone, 29, became the first woman jockey to ride a winner in a Triple Crown race when she took Colonial Affair to a 2¼-length victory over Kissin Kris in the 125th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in New York in a time of 2:29 4/5. The race was marred by the fatal breakdown of Preakness Stakes winner Prairie Bayou.



Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Montreal 4 @ Los Angeles 3 (OT) (Montreal led best-of-seven series 2-1)

John LeClair scored 34 seconds into overtime to give the Canadiens the win over the Kings at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California, after the Kings had come back from a 3-0 deficit. Brian Bellows scored in the 1st period, and Gilbert Dionne and Mathieu Schneider scored early in the 2nd period for Montreal, but Los Angeles struck back to tie the game before the end of the period on goals by Luc Robitaille, Tony Granato, and Wayne Gretzky. With 12 seconds remaining in regulation time, Montreal centre Guy Carbonneau covered the puck in his goal crease, but it was erroneously ruled that the puck had been shot into him by a Los Angeles player. Otherwise, the Kings would have been awarded a penalty shot.



Basketball
NBA
Western Conference
Finals
Seattle 110 @ Phoenix 123 (Phoenix won best-of-seven series 4-3)

20 years ago
1998

Died on this date
Sam Yorty, 88. U.S. politician. Mr. Yorty, a Democrat until 1980, sat in the California State Assembly from 1937-1941 and 1949-1950, and represented California's 14th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1951-1953. He was Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961-1973, during which time Los Angeles grew as a major city, but Mayor Yorty's popularity gradually declined. He was defeated by Tom Bradley in 1973, and failed in later attempts to win office.

Jeanette Nolan, 86. U.S. actress. Miss Nolan appeared in numerous radio and television programs and in movies such as Macbeth (1948) and The Big Heat (1953). She was nominated for four Emmy Awards.

Labour
A strike began at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spread to five other assembly plants. The strike lasted seven weeks.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Western Conference
Finals
Dallas 0 @ Detroit 2 (Detroit won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Chicago 93 @ Utah 88 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)



10 years ago
2008

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Los Angeles Lakers 88 @ Boston 98 (Boston led best-of-seven series 1-0)