August 27, 2018

425 years ago
1593

World events
Pierre Barrière failed in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France. Mr. Barrière was denounced by a Dominican priest to whom he had confessed the crime, and was executed four days later by breaking on the wheel and dismemberment.

260 years ago
1758

War
U.K. forces commanded by Colonel John Bradstreet captured Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario. The British had only two wounded and not a single man killed, while French Commandant Pierre de Noyan capitulated in face of the British artillery after a token resistance of two days. He had only 120 French Regulars, 40 Acadians and Indians, with their women and children.

225 years ago
1793

World events
The city of Toulon revolted against the French Republic and admitted the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

Canadiana
John Graves Simcoe named the capital of the new Province of Upper Canada York, after the Duke of York.

220 years ago
1798

War
Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clashed with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.

190 years ago
1828

Diplomacy
Brazil and Argentina, in the Treaty of Montevideo, recognized the sovereignty of Uruguay.

110 years ago
1908

Born on this date
Lyndon Johnson. 36th President of the United States of America, 1963-1969; Vice-President of the United States of America, 1961-1963. Mr. Johnson, a Democrat, represented Texas' 10th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937-1949 and represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1949-1961, serving as Minority Leader from 1953-1955 and Majority Leader from 1955-1961. He was Vice President under John F. Kennedy, and acceded to the office of the presidency upon the assassination of Mr. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, winning a landslide election in his own right in 1964. Mr. Johnson was known for his "Great Society" social programs, and for escalating U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the latter of which resulted in his increasing unpopularity within and outside his party. Mr. Johnson declined to run for re-election in 1968 and retired to his ranch at Stonewall, Texas, where he died of a heart attack on January 22, 1973 at the age of 64, after several years of declining health. His political career and presidency continue to be the subjects of debate.

Football
ARU
The Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organized as the Calgary Tigers and adopted yellow and black as the team colours.

100 years ago
1918

Born on this date
Jelle Zijlstra. Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1966-1967. Dr. Zijlstra, an economist, was a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party, which merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal in 1977. Dr. Zijlstra served as Minister of Economic Affairs (1952-1959), and Minister of Finance (1958-1963), and led the Anti-Revolutionary Party briefly in 1956 and 1958-1959. He sat in the Senate from 1963-1966, resigning to assume the offices of Prime Minister and Minister of Finance until a new cabinet was formed in April 1967. Dr. Zijlstra left politics in 1967 and served as president of De Nederlandsche Bank from 1967-1982. He died on December 23, 2001 at the age of 83.

War
The 22nd and 24th (Quebec) Infantry Battalions and 26th (New Brunswick) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, captured the French village of Chérisy as part of the Battle of the Scarpe. Major Georges Vanier of the Royal 22e Régiment, the highest-ranking surviving officer of the battle, organized the defense of Chérisy and was wounded, leading to the amputation of a leg.

U.S. Army forces skirmished against Mexican Carrancistas in the Battle of Ambos Nogales on the border between Mexico and Arizona, resulting in a fence being erected to separate Nogales, Mexico from Nogales, Arizona.

90 years ago
1928

Died on this date
M.M. Merrill; Edwin Ronne. U.S. aviation executives. Mr. Merrill, head of the Curtiss Flying Service, and Mr. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo airport, left Buffalo for Mineola, New York. Their plane, the Falcon, which had been built for Colonel Charles Lindbergh, was discovered as a charred wreck in Pike County, Pennsylvania, near Port Jervis, New York, with the bodies of the men nearby.

Diplomacy
Representatives of 15 nations, including, the U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Canada signed the Pact of Paris, better known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of national policy.

80 years ago
1938

Football
WIFU
Pre-season
Calgary 35 @ Edmonton (0-1) 1

The Bronks routed the Eskimos in the first game ever played at Clarke Stadium and the Eskimos' first appearance in senior football since 1932.

Baseball
Monte Pearson pitched a no-hitter and Tommy Henrich and Joe Gordon each hit 2 home runs as the New York Yankees routed the Cleveland Indians 13-0 to complete a sweep of their doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. In the first game, the Indians scored 4 runs in the top of the 9th to take a 7-5 lead, only to have Joe DiMaggio triple home 2 runs with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th to climax a 3-run rally as the Yankees won 8-7.

Johnny Peacock batted 4 for 5 with a sacrifice, 3 runs, and 5 runs batted in to help the Boston Red Sox rout the Chicago White Sox 19-6 in the first game of a doubleheader before 18,000 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Every man in the Boston lineup had at least 2 hits and scored at least 1 run. Gene Ford pitched the last 3 innings for the White Sox, allowing 10 hits and 9 runs--all earned--while walking 4 batters, striking out 2, throwing 2 wild pitches, and batting 0 for 2 in the 5th and last game of his 2-year major league career. Bill Harris pitched an 8-hitter and drove in Ben Chapman with a sacrifice bunt in the 7th inning for the game's only run as the Red Sox won the second game 1-0 to complete the sweep. Losing pitcher Thornton Lee allowed just 5 hits and 1 earned run in a complete game.

Harlond Clift hit 2 home runs and George McQuinn added another homer to help the St. Louis Browns beat the Philadelphia Athletics 8-3 in the first game of a doubleheader at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. In the second game, pinch hitter Mel Mazzera led off the top of the 9th inning with a single and Mel Almada followed with a home run to enable the Browns to win 6-5, coming back from a 4-0 deficit to complete the sweep.

Hank Greenberg hit his 44th home run of the season and Tony Piet drove in 4 runs to help the Detroit Tigers edge the Washington Nationals 12-11 before 7,000 fans at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Washington first baseman Zeke Bonura hit a grand slam and 3 singles.

Vince DiMaggio hit a home run and Tony Cuccinello had 3 hits to help the Boston Bees defeat the Cincinnati Reds 8-4 before 4,059 fans at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

Joe Medwick drove in 4 runs with a double and triple and Johnny Mize drove in 3 with a single and home run to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Giants 12-3 before 4,387 fans at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.

75 years ago
1943

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Cardboard Box

War
Soviet troops continued their advance on the Kharkov front in Ukraine. Aerial bombardment by the German Luftwaffe razed to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete. Japanese forces evacuated New Georgia Island.

Diplomacy
China, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Peru granted recognition to the French Committee of National Liberation.

Politics and government
The cabinet of Bolivian President Enrique Penaranda del Castillo resigned in protest against attacks on Labour Minister Juan Manuel Balcazar and Interior Minister Pedro Zilveti Arce by the Chamber of Deputies for suppressing strikes at the Catavi tin mines.

Law
The American Bar Association acknowledged that it had acted on membership applications of two Negroes, accepting James S. Watson and rejecting Francis S. Rivers.

Oil
American Insitute of Chemists President Dr. Gustav Egloff announced that Triptane, a "supergas" 50% more powerful than high octane fuel, was now being produced in mass volume for use in military planes.

Boxing
Sugar Ray Robinson (45-1) won a 10-round unanimous decision over former world welterweight champion Henry Armstrong (135-18-7) at Madison Square Garden in New York.

70 years ago
1948

Died on this date
Charles Evans Hughes, 86. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1930-1941; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1910-1916. Mr. Hughes, a Republican, switched back and forth between politics and jurisprudence, and was known as a "swing" vote as a Supreme Court Justice. He was Governor of New York from 1906-1910, and was first appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President William Howard Taft. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court to accept the Republican Party's 1916 nomination for President of the United States, but lost a lose election to Democratic Party candidate Woodrow Wilson. He served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921-1925, and was appointed as Chief Justice by President Herbert Hoover, succeeding Mr. Taft, who had first appointed him to the Court. Justice Hughes voted with liberal justices on some cases and with conservative justices on others, and helped to oppose President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937.

Science
The Soviet Academy of Sciences dismissed biologists L.A. Orbeli and I.I. Schmalhausen, promising to correct "mistakes" in its work that clashed with the officially accepted environmental genetics of T.D. Lysenko.

Politics and government
The U.S. State Department issued a statement which "strongly favors" French proposals for the creation of a European parliament.

In secret testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, Time editor Whittaker Chambers named Noel Field, a former official in the State Department's Western Europe Division, as a member of a Communist cell attempting to infiltrate the federal government during the 1930s.

Society
The International Congress on Population and World Resources in Relation to the Family, meeting in Cheltenham, England, established a four-nation committee (with U.S., U.K., and Swedish representation) to promote birth control in all countries.

Golf
Howard Wheeler won the U.S. National Negro Golf Title in Indianapolis.

60 years ago
1958

Died on this date
Ernest O. Lawrence, 57. U.S. physicist. Dr. Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements." He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II and became a leading advocate of "Big Science," involving big machines and laboratories, with big money from government. Dr. Lawrence was in Geneva in August 1958 to help negotiate a Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the U.S.S.R. when his chronic ulcerative colitis made it impossible to continue; he was flown back to Stanford University, where he died, 19 days after his 57th birthday. The element lawrencium (atomic number 103) was named in his honour in 1961.

Politics and government
Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo lifted a nine-year state of siege and restored constitutional guarantees in 11 of 16 provinces.

Law
U.S. Attorney General William Rogers told the American Bar Association that the federal government was prepared to take steps necessary to "vindicate the [Supreme] Court's authority" should there be "concerted and substantial interference" with efforts to comply with court decisions.

Hockey
NHL
The Toronto Maple Leafs signed goaltender Johnny Bower, who had spent the previous season with the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League and had been named to the AHL's first All-Star team. Mr. Bower was expected to provide relief for Toronto starting goalie Ed Chadwick.

50 years ago
1968

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade): Heavenly Club--Les Sauterelles (5th week at #1)

Died on this date
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent, 61. U.K. Royal Family member. Princess Marina, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and granddaughter of King George I, married Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1932. She was widowed when he was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Royal Air Force in 1942 during World War II. Princess Marina remained an active member of the Royal Family until her death from a brain tumour.

World events
Czechoslovakian Communist Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek and President Ludvik Svoboda returned to Prague from Moscow and urged their people to remain calm in the face of Soviet demands for the reversal of the regime's liberalization of Communism.

Boxing
Manuel Ramos (21-7-2) scored a technical knockout of Marty Franklin (10-10-2) in the 4th round of a heavyweight bout at Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio.

40 years ago
1978

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Rivers of Babylon--Boney M. (8th week at #1)

Politics and government
Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlevi appointed Jaffar Sharif Emami, a man of religious background with links to Muslim clergy, as Prime Minister of a reconciliation government.

Protest
Nicaraguan businessmen voted to support a nationwide strike aimed at forcing Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle to resign.

Economics and finance
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 10.6 points, its biggest loss in two months, closing at 884.88.

Golf
Tom Watson won the Hall of Fame Classic in Pinehurst, North Carolina with a total score of 277. First prize money was $50,000.

Football
CFL
Toronto (3-4) 10 @ Saskatchewan (1-6) 31

Bob Macoritti set a league record for a single game with 7 field goals to help the Roughriders beat the Argonauts at Taylor Field in Regina. Mike Strickland rushed for over 100 yards for Saskatchewan, while fellow Roughrider running back Ron Jamerson played his second and last regular season game in the Canadian Football League. It was the last game in a Toronto uniform for defensive tackle Granville Liggins, who had been obtained by the Argonauts in a trade with the Calgary Stampeders in 1973.

Baseball
Dave Kingman drove in 4 runs with a 3-run home run and a ground out to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 7-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds before 40,014 fans at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Joe Morgan hit his 200th career major league home run for the Reds in the 3rd inning, becoming the first major league player to hit 200 home runs and steal 500 bases. Mike Krukow pitched a 4-hit complete game victory and hit a double.

The St. Louis Cardinals scored 3 runs in each of the 3rd through the 6th innings as they routed the Atlanta Braves 14-3 before 9,309 fans at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

Chris Speier reached second base on an error by center fielder Larry Herndon and scored on a single by Dave Cash in the top of the 10th inning to break a 1-1 tie as the Montreal Expos edged the San Francisco Giants 2-1 in the first game of a doubleheader before 28,633 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Ross Grimsley pitched a 4-hit complete game victory to improve his 1978 record to 16-9, winning the pitchers' duel over Vida Blue, who allowed 4 hits and 1 earned run in 9 1/3 innings to drop to 16-7. The Giants scored 7 runs in the 6th inning as they won the second game 11-2.

Eric Rasmussen pitched a 6-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Nino Espinosa as the San Diego Padres shut out the New York Mets 3-0 before 16,503 fans at San Diego Stadium.

Chris Chambliss and Graig Nettles each hit 2 home runs to help the New York Yankees defeat the Oakland Athletics 6-2 before 40,628 fans at Yankee Stadium. Winning pitcher Catfish Hunter allowed 5 hits and 2 earned runs in 7 innings to improve his 1978 record to 9-4, winning his sixth straight decision.

The Boston Red Sox allowed a run in the top of the 12th inning, but scored 2 unearned runs in the bottom of the 12th to defeat the California Angels 4-3 before 34,216 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. California third baseman Carney Lansford made an error on a ground ball by George Scott for what should have been the last out of the game, allowing Jerry Remy to score the tying run, and Butch Hobson followed with a single to score Fred Lynn with the winning run.

Eddie Murray hit a 2-run home run with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Baltimore Orioles a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners before 7,260 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

Butch Wynegar led off the top of the 11th inning with a double, and pinch runner Rob Wilfong scored on a single by Willie Norwood to break a 2-2 tie as the Minnesota Twins edged the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 before 22,023 fans at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. John Mayberry doubled to lead off the bottom of the 11th, but winning pitcher Mike Marshall retired the last 3 batters.

Ross Baumgarten pitched a 5-hitter for his first major league shutout to win the pitching matchup over Paul Reuschel as the Chicago White Sox blanked the Cleveland Indians 6-0 before 13,008 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

30 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Tell Me--Nick Kamen (9th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Tribute (Right On)--The Pasadenas

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Tribute (Right On)--The Pasadenas (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Nuit de folie--Début de Soirée (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): The Only Way is Up--Yazz and the Plastic Population (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): The Only Way is Up--Yazz and the Plastic Population (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Monkey--George Michael

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Monkey--George Michael
2 I Don't Wanna Go On with You Like That--Elton John
3 Roll With It--Steve Winwood
4 Sweet Child o' Mine--Guns 'N' Roses
5 I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love--Chicago
6 Fast Car--Tracy Chapman
7 Hands to Heaven--Breathe
8 Perfect World--Huey Lewis and the News
9 Simply Irresistible--Robert Palmer
10 1-2-3--Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine

Singles entering the chart were The Loco-Motion by Kylie Minogue (#83); Long and Lasting Love (Once in a Lifetime) by Glenn Medeiros (#87); Inside a Dream by Jane Wiedlin (#88); and Don't Know What You've Got (Till it's Gone) by Cinderella (#89).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That--Elton John (3rd week at #1)
2 Fast Car--Tracy Chapman
3 Sign Your Name--Terence Trent D'Arby
4 Make Me Lose Control--Eric Carmen
5 Simply Irresistible--Robert Palmer
6 Hold On to the Nights--Richard Marx
7 Hands to Heaven--Breathe
8 Perfect World--Huey Lewis and the News
9 Monkey--George Michael
10 Roll With It--Steve Winwood

Singles entering the chart were True Love by Glenn Frey (#72); The Rumour by Olivia Newton-John (#76); Don't You Know by Steve Winwood (#84); Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin (#88); Love Bites by Def Leppard (#91); Endless Night by Eye Eye (#93); Superstitious by Europe (#95); Bring Me Some Water by Melissa Etheridge (#96); Wait for Me by the Northern Pikes (#97); and Kokomo by the Beach Boys (#98). Don't Worry be Happy was featured in the movie Cocktail, and Kokomo was written for that movie.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (1-6) 24 @ Hamilton (4-3) 51



25 years ago
1993

Diplomacy
The United Nations lifted the oil embargo and other sanctions harmful to the Haitian economy after the military agreed to end their rule of the country and allow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide return.

The Canadian Defence Department revealed that the family of a slain Somali man had received the settlement they had requested in March when compensation of $15,000 was paid in early June. The department's investigation into the deaths of four Somalis as the Canadian armed forces compound in Somalia was not complete at the time of the settlement.

Politics and government
Nigerian dictator General Ibrahim Babangida announced that he would not honour his pledge to restore civilian government, but promised to install an interim government of soldiers and civilians. Demonstrators continued to demand that the results of the June election be recognized, and a three-day strike shut down the capital of Lagos.

Transportation
The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, was completed.

Football
CFL
Sacramento (2-7) 23 @ Saskatchewan (6-3) 26
British Columbia (6-3) 30 @ Calgary (9-0) 35

Dave Ridgway's 50-yard field goal on the last play of regulation time--his fourth FG of the game--gave the Roughriders their win over the Gold Miners before 33,032 fans, a record crowd at Taylor Field in Regina. Sacramento quarterback David Archer completed touchdown passes to Rod Harris and Mike Oliphant in the 2nd quarter, while Saskatchewan quarterback Kent Austin threw touchdown passes to Ray Elgaard in the 3rd quarter and Don Narcisse in the 4th quarter.

Doug Flutie threw touchdown passes to Derrick Crawford and Dave Sapunjis and rushed for a TD of his own as the Stampeders defeated the Lions before 27,011 fans at McMahon Stadium. Mr. Crawford also caught a 2-point convert pass from Mr. Flutie. B.C. quarterback Danny Barrett completed 2 touchdown passes to Darren Flutie and handed off to Cory Philpot for the other Lion touchdown.

20 years ago
1998

Football
CFL
British Columbia (3-6) 8 @ Hamilton (7-2) 18
Toronto (5-4) 37 @ Winnipeg (0-9) 16
Saskatchewan (2-7) 13 @ Edmonton (6-3) 35

Jimmy Kemp threw touchdown passes to C.J. Williams, Myron Wise, and Shannon Myers, and Kavis Reed returned an interception 56 yards for another TD, as the Eskimos took a 28-0 lead at the end of the 1st quarter and coasted to victory over the Roughriders before 31,894 fans at Commonwealth Stadium. Mr. Kemp finished the game with 18 completions in 30 pass attempts for 292 yards. Edmonton's Henry "Gizmo" Williams passed 10,000 yards in career kick returns, while Saskatchewan's Don Narcisse broke former teammate Ray Elgaard's Canadian Football League career record of 830 pass receptions.

10 years ago
2008

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Barack Obama (Illinois) was nominated for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention at Pepsi Center in Denver. Sen. Joe Biden (Delaware) was nominated for Vice President.