July 26, 2019

710 years ago
1309

Europeana
Henry VII was recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

550 years ago
1469

War
Rebel forces commanded by Robin of Redesdale defeated royalist forces led by the Earl of Pembroke and Earl of Devon in the Battle of Edgecote Moor in Oxfordshire, England.

510 years ago
1509

Died on this date
Vira Narasimha III. Vijayanagaran Emperor, 1505-1509. Vira Narasimha III, the son of Emperor Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, took the throne after the assassination of his elder brother Immadi Narasa Nayaka. Emperor Vira Narasimha spent his reign fighting rebel warlords. He died of an illness, and was succeeded by his half-brother Krishna Deva Raya.

490 years ago
1529

Politics and government
Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro González was appointed Governor of Peru.

280 years ago
1739

Born on this date
George Clinton. 4th Vice President of the United States, 1805-1812. Mr. Clinton was a brigadier general in the Continental Army and served as Governor of New York from 1777-1795 and 1801-1804. He served as Vice President under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and became the first Vice President to die in office when he succumbed to a heart attack on April 20, 1812 at the age of 77.

260 years ago
1759

War
The Battle of Ticonderoga began at Fort Carillon, New York. 11,000 British troops under the command of Sir Jeffrey Amherst confronted 400 Frenchmen under the command of Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque.

140 years ago
1879

Born on this date
Shunroku Hata. Japanese military officer and politician. Gensui (Field Marshal) Hata had a career in the Imperial Japanese Army spanning more than 40 years. He served in the Russo-Japanese War, and commanded forces in China during the early years of World War II. Gensui Hata was Japan's Minister of War from August 1939-July 22, 1940. He commanded the Second General Army in Hiroshima from 1944-1945, taking command of the city in the aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. Gensui Hata was convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in 1948, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was paroled in 1954, and died on May 10, 1962 at the age of 82 while attending a ceremony honouring the war dead.

130 years ago
1889

Religion
A group of over 100 Roman Catholics made a pilgrimage to the church at Lac Ste-Anne, Alberta, 30 miles northwest of Edmonton. The church was built to commemorate the vision of a parish priest from St. Albert, who had seen a vision of the Saint on a visit to Ste. Anne's shrine in France in 1889. The tradition continues today.

125 years ago
1894

Born on this date
Aldous Huxley. U.K. author. Mr. Huxley, who was best known for his novel Brave New World (1932), was an agnostic who was keenly interested in Eastern mysticism, and advocated and practiced the use of psychedelic drugs. He died on November 22, 1963 at the age of 69.

120 years ago
1899

Died on this date
Ulises Heureaux, 53. President of the Dominican Republic, 1882-1884, 1887-1889, 1889-1899. Mr. Heureaux, a member of the Partido Azul (Blue Party), and exercised power behind the scenes when he wasn't in office, effectively running a dictatorship. Financial corruption on the part of Mr. Heureaux led to a revolt by tobacco planters and merchants, and he was assassinated. Mr. Heureaux was succeeded as President by Vice President Wenceslao Figuereo.

110 years ago
1909

Born on this date
Vivian Vance. U.S. actress. Miss Vance, born Vivian Jones, was best known for playing Ethel Mertz in the television comedy series I Love Lucy (1951-1957) and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960), and playing Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show (1962-1965). She was nominated for Emmy Awards four times for her supporting performances in I Love Lucy, winning in 1953, the first time the category was recognized. Miss Vance developed breast cancer in 1973, suffered a stroke in 1977, and died of bone cancer on August 17, 1979, 22 days after her 70th birthday.

Peter Thorneycroft. U.K. politician. Mr. Thorneycroft, a Conservative, represented Stafford (1938-1945) and Monmouth (1945-1966) in the House of Commons and held various cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer (1957-1958) and Minister of/Secretary of State for Defence (1962-1964). He was elevated to the House of Lords in 1967 as Baron Thorneycroft, and was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1975-1981. Baron Thorneycroft died on June 4, 1994 at the age of 84.

Transportation
The first train of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway crossed Saskatchewan.

100 years ago
1919

Born on this date
Virginia Gilmore. U.S. actress. Miss Gilmore, born Sherman Virginia Poole, appeared in numerous television programs and in movies such as Western Union (1941) ; Berlin Correspondent (1942); and The Pride of the Yankees (1942). She was married to actor and director Yul Brynner from 1944-1960, and died of emphysema on March 28, 1986 at the age of 66.

James Lovelock. U.K. environmentalist. Dr. Lovelock has conducted influential work in cryonics, but is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.

75 years ago
1944

War
Canadian forces in France reportedly captured Tilly before dawn, but they only controlled half the village, and the German panzers counter-attacked, destroying most Canadian tanks and cutting off the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. U.S. forces in France, led by tanks, advanced all along their 40-mile front. British troops in Italy reached a point 8 miles south of Florence. Soviet troops in Poland reached the Vistula River and took Deblin, 55 miles southeast of Warsaw. Chinese troops recaptured Leiyang in the province of Hunan, 40 miles south of besieged Hengyang. U.S. Marines gained control of the northern third of Tinian Island.

Politics and government
The Chinese government reported a "partial agreement" with the Communist Party, but indicated that it was "too much to expect a total accord." Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek had offered the Communists free participation in politics after the war in return for wartime control by the Kuomintang regime in Chungking.

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made public a memorandum to American nations recommending continued refusal to recognize the government of Argentina.

The government of Colombia seized property of German nationals to cover damage by German war measures.

Labour
U.S. Army Service Forces Commander Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell cancelled leaves of U.S. Army civilian workers in arsenals and depots and ordered a 54-hour work week.

Minneapolis Judge W.W. Bardwell issued a warrant for the arrest of American Federation of Musicians President James Petrillo, the day after Mr. Petrillo had ordered 16 musicians at radio station KSTP in St. Paul to go on strike despite a court order.

70 years ago
1949

On the radio
Philo Vance, starring Jackson Beck
Tonight’s episode: The Cheesecake Murder Case

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Promise, starring Mary Patton, William Post, Jr., and Eva Marie Saint

At the movies
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and John Agar, received its premiere screening in Kansas City, Kansas.



Died on this date
Ernest Thomas. U.S. criminal suspect. Mr. Thomas, one of the "Groveland Four" Negroes accused of raping Norma Padgett, a 17-year-old white girl and assaulting her husband in Groveland, Florida, was shot to death by a sheriff's posse in nearby Perry.

War
India and Pakistan reached a cease-fire agreement in Kashmir through the United Nations Kashmir Commission.

World events
The Ecuadorian government suppressed a revolt led by former dictator Carlos Mancheno.

Politics and government
Hussein Sirry Pasha formed a new Egyptian coalition cabinet following the previous day's resignationof Saadist leader Ibrahim Abdul hadi Pasha's cabinet.

Economics and finance
Western military commanders in Berlin ordered the restitution of all private property seized by the Nazis in excess of 1,000 marks value.

Labour
The Hawaiian legislature convened in special session to deal with the 87-day-old longshoremen's strike. Governor Ingram Stainback asked for authority to seize and operate shipping facilities on the islands during the strike.

United Steel Workers of America and steel company representatives began wage negotiations in New York before a presidential fact-finding board.

60 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): Oui, oui, oui, oui--Jean Phillipe (6th week at #1)

Diplomacy
U.S.S.R. Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon reviewed Soviet-American relations for 5 1/2 hours in Moscow in what aides termed "a full and complete discussion...of major issues."

50 years ago
1969

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley (4th week at #1)

#1 single in France: Oh Happy Day--The Edwin Hawkins Singers (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Lisa dagli occhi blu--Mario Tessuto (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 The Ballad of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe--The Beatles
2 Hair--The Cowsills
3 Bad Moon Rising/Lodi--Creedence Clearwater Revival
4 Get Back/Don't Let Me Down--The Beatles with Billy Preston
5 My Sentimental Friend--Herman's Hermits
6 Dear Prudence--Doug Parkinson in Focus
7 Love Me Tonight--Tom Jones
8 Heather Honey--Tommy Roe
9 The Real Thing--Russell Morris
10 Frozen Orange Juice--Peter Sarstedt

Singles entering the chart were Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife by O.C. Smith (#31); See by the Rascals (#36); Black Pearl by Sonny Charles & the Checkmates, Ltd. (#37); Monty and Me by Zoot (#38); Love is All I Have to Give by the Checkmates, Ltd. (#39); and Lazy Life by Heart 'N' Soul (#40).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Give Peace a Chance--Plastic Ono Band
2 I Want to Live--Aphrodite's Child
3 Venus--Shocking Blue
4 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
5 Honky Tonk Women--The Rolling Stones
6 Saved by the Bell--Robin Gibb
7 Je t'aime...mon non plus--Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg
8 The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles
9 A Salty Dog--Procol Harum
10 Blowin' in the Wind--Hollies

Singles entering the chart were In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) by Zager & Evans (#20); Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires (#29); Our Life by Gloria (#32); Hello Susie by Amen Corner (#35); and I'd Rather Go Blind by Chicken Shack featuring Christine Perfect (#37).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager & Evans (3rd week at #1)
2 Crystal Blue Persuasion--Tommy James and the Shondells
3 Spinning Wheel--Blood, Sweat & Tears
4 My Cherie Amour--Stevie Wonder
5 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)--Jr. Walker & the All Stars
6 Good Morning Starshine--Oliver
7 One--Three Dog Night
8 The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles
9 Baby, I Love You--Andy Kim
10 Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet--Henry Mancini, his Orchestra and Chorus

Singles entering the chart were A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash (#42); True Grit by Glen Campbell (#61); Give Peace a Chance by the Plastic Ono Band (#62); Odds and Ends by Dionne Warwick (#90); Sugar, Sugar by the Archies (#91); Everybody Knows Matilda by Duke Baxter (#92); First Hymn from Grand Terrace by Mark Lindsay (#93); Let Yourself Go by the Friends of Distinction (#94); Love Theme from "Romeo And Juliet" (A Time for Us) by Johnny Mathis (#96); Ease Back by the Meters (#98); Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Little Anthony and the Imperials (#99); and Big Bruce by Steve Greenberg (#100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager & Evans (2nd week at #1)
2 Crystal Blue Persuasion--Tommy James and the Shondells
3 Spinning Wheel--Blood, Sweat & Tears
4 My Cherie Amour--Stevie Wonder
5 One--Three Dog Night
6 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)--Jr. Walker & the All Stars
7 Good Morning Starshine--Oliver
8 Color Him Father--The Winstons
9 Love Me Tonight--Tom Jones
10 Baby, I Love You--Andy Kim

Singles entering the chart were A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash (#56); True Grit by Glen Campbell (#69); Green River (#70)/Commotion (#81) by Creedence Clearwater Revival; Give Peace a Chance by the Plastic Ono Band (#76); Share Your Love with Me by Aretha Franklin (#79); Let Yourself Go by the Friends of Distinction (#82); Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love is Hot) by Donovan with the Jeff Beck Group (#85); Odds and Ends by Dionne Warwick (#86); Simple Song of Freedom by Tim Hardin (#89); Dynamite Woman by Sir Douglas Quintet (#91); Nobody But You Babe by Clarence Reid (#93); That's the Way God Planned It by Billy Preston (#95); Straight Ahead by Young-Holt Unlimited (#96); The Young Folks by Diana Ross and the Supremes (#97); In a Moment by the Intrigues (#99); and Let's Call it a Day Girl by Bobby Vee (#100). The Young Folks was the B-side of No Matter What Sign You Are, which had peaked at #27 on June 28 and was now no longer on the chart.

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles (5th week at #1)
2 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager and Evans
3 Baby, I Love You--Andy Kim
4 Let Me--Paul Revere and the Raiders
5 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
6 Spring--John Tipton
7 Crystal Blue Persuasion--Tommy James and the Shondells
8 Hey, Little Man--The Happy Feeling
9 One--Three Dog Night
10 Bad Moon Rising--Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pick hit of the week: Laughing--The Guess Who

Diplomacy
U.S. President Richard Nixon arrived in the Philippines to start a tour of Far East countries.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy had received more than 10,000 telegrams in response to his appeal to the people of Massachusetts to help decide his political future. A spokesman for Sen. Kennedy said that the messages ran "100 to 1" in favour of his remaining in office. The family of Mary Jo Kopechne were presumably among the minority.

Disasters
An Algerian Caravelle jetliner crashed in the desert while making an emergency landing, killing 30 European oilmen and 5 of 7 crewmen.

40 years ago
1979

Politics and government
Indian President N. Sanjiva Reddy named C. Charan Singh--former deputy to Morarji Desai, who led the move to oust him--as Prime Minister.

Defense
Retired NATO Commander General Alexander Haig appeared before the United States Senate hearings on the SALT-II arms limitation treaty, and told the Senate that ratification should be delayed until the treaty’s "flaws" were resolved, and an assessment of future Carter administration spending programs was conducted.

Diplomacy
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young met with Palestine Liberation Organization UN observer Zehdi Labib Terzi at the New York apartment of Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara, the Kuwaiti delegate to the UN. In a meeting lasting 15 to 30 minutes, Mr. Young and Mr. Terzi discussed the postponement of a UN Security Council session scheduled for July 31, to consider a resolution on Palestinian rights. U.S. Middle east policy barred any direct contact with the PLO until it accepted Israel's right to exist. Mr. Young did not inform the State Department of the meeting.

Energy
The United States House of Representatives voted 237-182 to continue the Clinch River nuclear breeder reactor project in Tennessee, which the administration of President Jimmy Carter had favoured terminating.

30 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Sealed with a Kiss--Jason Donovan

#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Licence to Kill--Gladys Knight

Licence to Kill was the title song of the movie.

Law
The Quebec Court of Appeal prohibited Chantal Daigle, a woman who was 21 weeks pregnant, the right to an abortion, ruling that a child had a civil status "regardless of the stage of pregnancy." The judgment followed the steps taken by Ms. Daigle's former lover, Jean-Guy Tremblay, who wanted her to complete her pregnancy. On August 8th, it was announced that Ms. Daigle had obtained an abortion in the United States. The Supreme Court of Canada then "broke" the Quebec Court of Appeal's order to continue the pregnancy, unanimously concluding that "the fetus was not a human being and, therefore, enjoyed neither the right to life nor the legal personality, and that (...) moreover he will be treated as a person only in cases where it is essential to do so to protect his interests after birth. " In arriving at this conclusion, the Supreme Court referred to the fact that "the Quebec Charter, taken as a whole, does not reflect any clear intention on the part of the legislator to take into consideration the status of the fetus"; the Charter does not provide an exact definition of the terms "human being" and "person". The Quebec Civil Code also did not recognize the fetus as a legal personality.

Technology
A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Football
CFL
Calgary (1-2) 28 @ British Columbia (0-3) 26

Danny Barrett quarterbacked the Stampeders to victory over the Lions at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver in an impressive effort just five days after losing 54-4 at home to the Edmonton Eskimos.

25 years ago
1994

Died on this date
Christy Henrich, 22. U.S. gymnast. Miss Henrich was a member of the U.S. national team who died of anorexia nervosa after being told by an official to lose weight.

Terrorism
14 people were injured when a car bomb exploded outside the Israeli embassy in London.

Diplomacy
King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin addressed the United States Congress, the day after they had signed the Washington Declaration, ending the enmity between the countries.

20 years ago
1999

Died on this date
Phaedon Gizikis, 82. President of Greece, 1973-1974. General Gilikis was a career officer in the Hellenic Army, and succeeded the ousted George Papadopoulos to become the second and last President during the military junta of 1967-1974.

Walter Jackson Bate, 81. U.S. author. Professor Bate was a literary critic and biographer who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies John Keats (1963) and Samuel Johnson (1977).

Television
An episode of the CTV children’s series Mentors II, starring Henry Czerny as Ludwig van Beethoven, was filmed at The Gramophone record store in Edmonton. This blogger was an extra in one scene.

Music
The Beach Boys performed after the Trappers’ baseball game at Telus Field in Edmonton. They performed the usual hits, but the voice of Carl Wilson was greatly missed.

War
The Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan, which had begun on May 3, officially ended. The Indian Army announced the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

Labour
Major league baseball umpires filed suit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia for the right to withdraw their mass resignations. So far‚ 14 of the 56 umps who "resigned" had withdrawn their resignations. Resignations from 9 of the American League umps were accepted by the league.

10 years ago
2009

Died on this date
Merce Cunningham, 90. U.S. dancer and choreographer. Mr. Cunningham was a major figure in American modern dance for more than 50 years, operating his own company and working with artists in other disciplines.

Terrorism
The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a Nigerian Police Force station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities, leaving more than 1,000 people dead.