August 2, 2019

430 years ago
1589

Died on this date
Henry III, 37. King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, 1573-1575; King of France, 1574-1589. Henry III, the last French monarch of the Valois dynasty, died the day after being stabbed by Jacques Clément, who was immediately executed by the king's bodyguards. King Henry was succeeded on the French throne by Henry IV.

220 years ago
1799

Died on this date
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, 54. French inventor and aviator. Mr. Montgolfier and his brother Joseph-Michel co-invented the hot air balloon in 1782, and conducted the first powered ascent. They also invented a process to manufacture transparent paper.

170 years ago
1849

Died on this date
Muhammad Ali, 80. Ottoman Wāli (viceroy). Muhammad Ali Pasha seized power in Egypt in 1805 and turned it into a regional power within the Ottoman Empire, thus becoming known as the "Father of Modern Egypt." He conducted successful military campaigns, most notably conquering Sudan. Muhammad Ali Pasha was succeeded as Wāli by his grandson Abbas Pasha.

160 years ago
1859

Died on this date
Horace Mann, 63. U.S. educator and politician. Mr. Mann was the foremost advocate of secular public schooling in the United States from the late 1830s through the 1850s. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature (1827-1833), and as a Whig, represented Massachusetts' 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1848-1853). Mr. Mann campaigned unsuccessfully as the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1852, and served as President of Antioch College from 1852 until his death from typhoid fever.

150 years ago
1869

Society
Japan's Edo society class system was abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

130 years ago
1889

Born on this date
Margaret Lawrence. U.S. actress. Miss Lawrence was a stage actress who began her career in Chicago before moving to New York and appearing on Broadway. She was 39 when she died on June 9, 1929. Miss Lawrence and Mr. Bennison were performing together in a vaudeville sketch in New York, and he was visiting her home when they got into an argument. Mr. Bennison fatally shot Miss Lawrence and then fatally shot himself.

Died on this date
Eduardo Gutiérrez, 38. Argentinian author. Mr. Gutiérrez wrote more than two dozen novels, mainly about gauchos. His best-known work was Juan Moreiera (1879). Mr. Gutiérrez died 18 days after his 38th birthday.

Politics and government
John Robson was sworn in as Premier of British Columbia, succeeding the late A.E.B. Davie, who had died the day before. Mr. Robson had already been carrying on much of the day-to-day business of the government while Mr. Davie was battling a long illness.

120 years ago
1899

Born on this date
Charles Bennett. U.K. playwright and screenwriter. Mr. Bennett wrote numerous plays, screenplays, and teleplays in a career spanning more than 40 years, but was best known for his work with director Alfred Hitchcock. Mr. Bennett's play Blackmail (1928) was made into a movie by Mr. Hitchcock in 1929, and was the first British sound picture. Mr. Bennett co-wrote the screenplay for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), and was nominated for an Academy Award for his script for Foreign Correspondent (1940). He died on June 15, 1995 at the age of 95.

110 years ago
1909

Economics and finance
The United States issued its first Lincoln penny.

Baseball
Games in both major leagues were postponed as National League President Harry Pulliam was buried in Louisville. After the funeral, a special meeting of the board of directors appointed John Heydler to succeed Mr. Pulliam.

100 years ago
1919

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Nehemiah Persoff! Israeli-born U.S. actor. Mr. Persoff, a native of Jerusalem, moved to the United States with his family in 1929, and appeared in more than 200 plays, films, and television programs from 1948 until his retirement in 1999. His movies included Some Like it Hot (1959) and Yentl (1983).

Baseball
Harry Heilmann’s second home run of the game, an inside-the-park grand slam in the 10th inning, broke an 8-8 tied and led the Detroit Tigers to a 14-8 win over the New York Yankees before 33,000 fans at the Polo Grounds in New York. Mr. Heilmann also hit 2 singles, while Ty Cobb had 4 singles and a base on balls. Roger Peckinpaugh led the Yankees with a home run, 2 singles, and 4 runs batted in. Pete Schneider, who relieved New York starting pitcher Jack Quinn with none out in the 10th inning, allowed 1 hit and 2 runs--both earned--with 1 strikeout and 3 bases on balls in 2/3 inning in the 220th and last game of his 6-year major league career. He was relieved by Luke Nelson, who allowed a base on balls before retiring the final batter in his 9th and last major league game.

Possum Whitted doubled with 1 out and nobody on base in the top of the 14th inning and Gene Paulette followed with a run-scoring double for the Philadelphia Phillies as they edged the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in the first game of a doubleheader at Cubs Park. Grover Cleveland Alexander allowed 9 hits and 2 earned runs in pitching a complete game defeat. Eppa Rixey pitched a 10-hit complete game victory as the Phillies won the second game 4-3 in 10 innings to complete the sweep. The second game was interrupted by fans throwing bottles in protest against a call at third base, and several fans came onto the field after umpires Cy Rigler and Lord Byron at the end of the game.

90 years ago
1929

Education
Wilber Huston, 16,of Olympia, Washington, was named the winner of the Edison Scholarship Contest. The "Brain Derby" was a search for the smartest high school boy from each of the 48 American states and the District of Columbia to succeed famed inventor Thomas Edison, 82. The announcement of the winner was made by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Samuel Stratton at the conclusion of a weekend in which all contestants had been invited to Mr. Edison's mansion in West Orange, New Jersey, and were subjected to a five-hour exam.

Baseball
The Philadelphia Athletics gave up 6 runs in the 1st inning and 2 in the 2nd to fall behind 8-0, but came back to defeat the Detroit Tigers 11-10 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. Harry Heilmann had 4 hits, including 2 home runs, for the Tigers. Jack Quinn, who had surrendered Mr. Heilmann's game winning grand slam 10 years earlier to the day, started on the mound for Philadelphia and failed to retire a batter, leaving after Mr. Heilmann singled in a run.

Bibb Falk's 3-run home run climaxed a 4-run 9th inning for the Cleveland Indians as they overcame an 8-5 deficit to beat the New York Yankees 9-8 at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees loaded the bases with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th, but Tony Lazzeri flied out to left field to end the game.

First baseman Don Hurst hit his 6th home run in as many games to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 2-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Les Sweetland allowed 11 hits in pitching the shutout; Larry French was the losing pitcher, allowing 6 hits.

80 years ago
1939

Died on this date
Harvey Spencer Lewis, 55. U.S. mystic. Mr. Lewis was initially interested in exposing fraudulent psychic phenomena, and was elected president of the New York Institute for Psychical Research at the age of 20. He was initiated into a Rosicrucian order during a trip to France, and became the U.S.A.'s first Imperator of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), holding the position from 1915 until his death. Mr. Lewis was succeeded as Imperator by his son Ralph Maxwell Lewis.

Defense
Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

75 years ago
1944

War
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in an address to the House of Commons, predicted that "victory may perhaps come soon," with no great lapse between the defeat of Germany and that of Japan. U.S. forces in France continued their drive into Brittany, with one column moving toward St. Malo and Brest, and another toward Rennes. U.S. forces in Guam made gains averaging 2 miles. Japanese troops failed in four attempts to break out of the Allied encirclement at Aitape, Dutch New Guinea.

World events
The state of Democratic Macedonia was set up in the Bulgarian occupation zone in Yugoslavia.

Diplomacy
Turkey severed diplomatic relations with Germany.

Octavio Vejar Vasquez, head of the Mexican Committee for Postwar Problems, said that Pan-American Union had failed to cement hemispheric relations, and proposed replacing it with an Inter-American Union.

Protest
11 people were injured and 300--mostly Negroes--were arrested in Philadelphia in rioting during a strike of 6,000 Philadelphia Transportation Company workers, which had followed a move by the company to upgrade the status of eight Negro workers by order of the U.S. Committee on Fair Employment Practices. The National War Labor Board referred the strike to President Franklin D. Roosevelt for "appropriate action," and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asked Mr. Roosevelt to order the United States Army to take over the Philadelphia transit system.

Economics and finance
Convoy HX-300, the largest trade convoy of World War II, arrived in Liverpool, 16 days after leaving Halifax. The convoy consisted of 159 merchant ships and 32 escorts, all of which arrived safely.

The Canadian House of Commons adopted the Liberal government's family allowance plan for mothers of Canadian families. Quebec's Union Nationale government of Premier Maurice Duplessis denounced this project as a federal intrusion into provincial jurisdiction. Roman Catholic clergy attacked the government's decision to send the allowance checks to women, arguing that it was an attack on the authority of the father.

70 years ago
1949

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

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Long Distance, starring Frank Gallop and Jan Miner

Diplomacy
U.S. Ambassador to China John Leighton Stuart left Nanking for the United States.

Defense
U.S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson abolished the Army's fleet and ordered its 320 ocean-going ships transferred to the new Military Sea Transportation Service established by the Navy.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's machine maintained its rule in Virginia as its rule in Virginia as its candidate for Governor, state Senator John Battle, won the Democratic Party primary.

Crime
Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader William Morris went to jail in Birmingham for refusing to give a fedeal grand jury lists of KKK members.

Americana
U.S. Senator Kenneth McKellar (Democrat--Tennessee), chairman of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion, announced plans to rebuild the interior of the White House, preserving the exterior walls.

Labour
The British Columbia government repealed a 42-year ban on employment of Asian immigrants in government-related work.

60 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): Oui, oui, oui, oui--Jean Phillipe (7th week at #1)

Died on this date
Mary Teresa Norton, 84. U.S. politician. Mrs. Norton, a Democrat, became the first woman from her party to be elected to Congress and the first to represent New Jersey, representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1925-1951. She supported labour and women's rights, and chaired four House committees.

Diplomacy
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon left Moscow for Warsaw, where he was greeted by a welcoming crowd of 100,000.

World events
Imam Ghalib bin Ali of Oman declared himself "president of an independent republic" of Oman, and stated that he would continue his revolt against the Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

Defense
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps disclosed successful testing of the Red-eye, a heat-seeking missile designed for use by individual infantrymen to destroy low-flying warplanes.

Golf
Bob Rosburg shot a 4-under-par 66 in the final round to win the PGA Championship with a 3-under-par total score of 277 at Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, 1 stroke ahead of Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders.

Baseball
Johnny Antonelli picked up his 15th win of the season and Willie McCovey hit his first major league home run--off Ron Kline--as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 before 22,653 fans at Seals Stadium in San Francisco.

Frank Malzone hit a 2-run home run in the 4th inning and Jackie Jensen hit a 3-run homer in the 8th for the Boston Red Sox as they came back from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Detroit Tigers 5-4 before 16,722 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Jim Bunning pitched the 9th inning for the Tigers and struck out Sammy White, Jim Mahoney, and Ike Delock on 9 pitches, the first time an American League pitcher had accomplished the feat since Lefty Grove in 1928.

Billy Goodman singled home Nellie Fox with none out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th inning to conclude a 2-run rally for the Chicago White Sox as they edged the Washington Senators 3-2 in the first game of a doubleheader before 26,866 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The inning was aided by a throwing error by Washington catcher Steve Korcheck on Mr. Fox's bunt, allowing Luis Aparicio to score from first base and Mr. Fox to reach third. The White Sox scored 3 runs in each of the 3rd, 5th, and 6th innings to win the second game 9-3 to complete the sweep. Jim Kaat made his major league debut as Washington's starting pitcher in the second game, allowing 2 hits and 3 runs--1 earned--in 2 2/3 innings, walking 3 batters and striking out none in taking the loss.

50 years ago
1969

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): My Sentimental Friend--Herman's Hermits

#1 single in France: Les Champs-Elysées--Joe Dassin

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Lisa dagli occhi blu--Mario Tessuto (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Oh Happy Day--The Edwin Hawkins Singers

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Honky Tonk Women--The Rolling Stones

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

Singles entering the chart were Along Came Jones by Ray Stevens (#30); Sugar, Sugar by the Archies (#33); In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) by Zager & Evans (#36); and One/Mr. Whippy by Johnny Farnham (#38).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Give Peace a Chance--Plastic Ono Band (2nd week at #1)
2 Saved by the Bell--Robin Gibb
3 Venus--Shocking Blue
4 I Want to Live--Aphrodite's Child
5 Honky Tonk Women--The Rolling Stones
6 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
7 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager & Evans
8 Je t'aime...mon non plus--Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg
9 Blowin' in the Wind--Hollies
10 A Way of Life--The Family Dogg

Singles entering the chart were Vaarwel! Ik Zal Geen Traan Om Je Laten by Corry en De Rekels (#33); Happiness is in this Beat by the Shoes (#35); Murdock 9-6182 by Alles (#36); Nathalie by Dave (#38); Mrs. Robinson by Booker T. & the M.G.'s (#39); and Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition (#40).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager & Evans (4th 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 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town--Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
7 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)--Neil Diamond
8 Honky Tonk Women--The Rolling Stones
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 Share Your Love with Me by Aretha Franklin (#55); Green River (#70)/Commotion (#71) by Creedence Clearwater Revival; Nobody But You Babe by Clarence Reid (#77); Simple Song of Freedom by Tim Hardin (#81); Change of Heart by Dennis Yost and the Classics IV (#82); That's the Way God Planned It by Billy Preston (#84); Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love is Hot) by Donovan with the Jeff Beck Group (#86); Dynamite Woman by Sir Douglas Quintet (#87); The Young Folks by Diana Ross and the Supremes (#88); In My Room by Sagittarius (#89); By the Time I Get to Phoenix by the Mad Lads (#90); Keem-O-Sabe by the Electric Indian (#91); Let's Call it a Day Girl by Bobby Vee (#92); The Hunter by Ike & Tina Turner (#93); Hook and Sling--Part I by Eddie Bo (#95); You Made a Believer (Out of Me) by Ruby Andrews (#96); Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was by the Chi-Lites (#97); and In a Moment by the Intrigues (#100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager & Evans (3rd week at #1)
2 Crystal Blue Persuasion--Tommy James and the Shondells
3 My Cherie Amour--Stevie Wonder
4 Spinning Wheel--Blood, Sweat & Tears
5 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)--Jr. Walker & the All Stars
6 Honky Tonk Women--The Rolling Stones
7 One--Three Dog Night
8 Quentin's Theme--The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde
9 Baby, I Love You--Andy Kim
10 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)--Neil Diamond

Singles entering the chart were Change of Heart by Dennis Yost and the Classics IV (#78); Easy to Be Hard by Three Dog Night (#80); When I Die by Motherlode (#82); Keem-O-Sabe by the Electric Indian (#85); Free Me by Otis Redding (#86); Look at Mine by Petula Clark (#87); Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly & the Family Stone (#88); All the Waiting is Not in Vain by Tyrone Davis (#94); Chelsea Morning by Judy Collins (#99); and I Want You So Bad by B.B. King (#100). Easy to Be Hard was originally from the musical Hair.

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager and Evans
2 Baby, I Love You--Andy Kim
3 Crystal Blue Persuasion--Tommy James and the Shondells
4 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)--Neil Diamond
5 Quentin’s Theme--The Charles Randolph Greane Sounde
6 My Pledge of Love--The Joe Jeffrey Group
7 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town--Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
8 When I Die--Motherlode
9 Spinning Wheel--Blood, Sweat & Tears
10 Yesterday, When I was Young (Hier Encore)--Roy Clark

Singles entering the chart were Odds and Ends by Dionne Warwick (#77); Free Me by Otis Redding (#78); Keem-O-Sabe by the Electric Indian (#80); That's the Way God Planned It by Billy Preston (#91); Let's Call it a Day Girl by Bobby Vee (#93); Change of Heart by Dennis Yost and the Classics IV (#94); I Want You So Bad by B.B. King (#96); Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly & the Family Stone (#97); Look at Mine by Petula Clark (#98); No One There to Love Me by Alistair and Linda (#99); and Crosswalk by the Stampeders (#100).

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)--Zager and Evans
2 The Ballad of John and Yoko--The Beatles
3 Baby, I Love You--Andy Kim
4 Sugar, Sugar--The Archies
5 Laughing--The Guess Who
6 Let Me--Paul Revere and the Raiders
7 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)--Neil Diamond
8 In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley
9 Spring--John Tipton
10 Crystal Blue Persuasion--Tommy James and the Shondells
Pick hit of the week: Honky Tonk Women--The Rolling Stones

Diplomacy
Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit a Communist country since the end of World War II when he arrived in Romania, where he expressed, to enthusiastic crowds, the belief that "nations can have widely different internal orders and live in peace". Mr. Nixon met with Romanian President Nicolae Ceaucescu, and called for the nations of the world to "see the world as it is--a real world, where many interests divide men and many interests unite them." Pleased with his reception, Mr. Nixon stressed that his visit was a friendly one that was in no way aimed against the Soviet Union. He reiterated his desire for negotiations with the U.S.S.R., and suggested an agenda of global scope.

World events
The government of South Vietnam confirmed that nearly 50 people, including several civil servants and military officials, had been arrested in the last 10 days. President Nguyen Van Thieu’s special assistant for political affairs was among those arrested and charged with espionage in a crackdown on what was described as a Communist intelligence network.

Religion
Pope Paul VI ended his three-day visit to Africa after making repeated but apparently unsuccessful appeals for peace in the conflict between Nigeria and Biafra.

Disasters
Eight Canadian tourists were killed when a Tanzanian bus plunged into Ngorongoro Crater.

Two Danish fishermen were killed off Roedby when their trawler hit a mine left over from World War II.

Baseball
Jim McAndrew allowed 3 hits in 7 innings to win the pitchers' duel over Ron Reed, who allowed 4 hits in 7 innings, as the New York Mets edged the Atlanta Braves 1-0 before 37,442 fans at Shea Stadium in New York. Ron Swoboda walked to lead off the bottom of the 7th inning and eventually scored on a single by pinch hitter Cleon Jones.

Ken Holtzman pitched a 2-hitter and Ron Santo hit a pair of solo home runs for the Chicago Cubs as they beat the San Diego Padres 4-1 before 26,984 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

The St. Louis Cardinals took a 7-1 lead and held on for a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers before 39,740 fans at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, giving the Cardinals 13 wins in their last 15 games.

Gary Peters pitched a 6-hitter and hit his second home run of the season to lead the Chicago White Sox over the Detroit Tigers 5-0 before 16,646 fans at Tiger Stadium. Luis Aparicio's solo homer with 1 out in the top of the 1st inning proved to be the winning run.

Dick Green singled off Ron Kline with the bases loaded and 2 out in the bottom of the 11th inning to drive home Reggie Jackson, giving the Oakland Athletics a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox before 13,184 fans at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. It was the third straight "walk-off" win for the Athletics, and the second straight in which Mr. Green had singled in the winning run. Mr. Jackson batted 3 for 3 with a double, his 41st home run of the season, 3 bases on balls, 2 runs, and 2 runs batted in.

Ken McMullen scored Jim French with a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning to break a 7-7 tie as the Washington Senators beat the California Angels 8-7 before 10,967 fans at Anaheim Stadium. The Angels loaded the bases with 2 out in the bottom of the 10th, but Aurelio Rodriguez grounded into a force play to end the game.

40 years ago
1979

Died on this date
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 84. Peruvian politician. Mr. Haya de la Torre was a university reformer before entering politics. He was exiled to Mexico by the Peruvian government in 1924, and founded the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana--Partido Aprista Peruano (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance--Peruvian Aprista Party) in 1924, leading the party for the rest of his life. He favoured universal democracy and Latin American solutions to regional problems, rejecting both U.S. imperialism and Soviet Communism. Mr. Haya de la Torre returned to Peru in 1931 and was an unsuccessful candidate for President of Peru that year. He was imprisoned later that year, and the party was outlawed from 1931-1934 and 1935-1945. Mr. Haya de la Torre was forced to seek asylum at the Colombian embassy in Lima from 1949-1954, but was eventually feed, and the APRA was legalized again in 1956. Mr. Haya de la Torre ran for President again in June 1962, and led with 33.0% of the vote, slightly below the one-third required by the Constitution in order to be elected. A military coup a month later nullified the election. Mr. Haya de la Torre ran for President again in June 1963, but finished second. He became a member and President of the Peruvian Constituent Assembly in July 1978, serving until his death just over a year later at the age of 84 on August 2, 1979. A few weeks before his death, Mr. Haya de la Torre signed the new constitution on his deathbed.

Thurman Munson, 32. U.S. baseball player. The New York Yankees’ catcher and team captain had been taking flying lessons, and was killed when the plane he was flying crashed at Canton, Ohio and burst into flames. Mr. Munson survived the crash, but he was paralyzed when the crash broke his neck, and he died when others were unable to rescue him from the fire. Mr. Munson joined the Yankees in 1969, and was the American League Rookie of the Year in 1970, when he hit .302. He hit .302 again in 1976, when he was named the AL’s Most Valuable Player, leading the Yankees to their first pennant in 12 years. Mr. Munson hit .435 in the 1976 American League Championship Series, and followed that up with a .529 average in the World Series. He hit .320 in the World Series of 1977 and 1978, both of which the Yankees won. In 1,423 regular season games, Mr. Munson batted .292, with 113 home runs and 701 runs batted in. He was hitting .288 with 3 home runs and 39 RBIs in 97 games in 1979.

Defense
U.S. Senators Sam Nunn (Democrat--Georgia), John Tower (Republican--Texas), and Henry Jackson (Democrat--Washington) demanded a commitment from President Jimmy Carter to increase defense spending before the Senate would consider the SALT-II arms limitation treaty with the U.S.S.R. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he would urge the Senate to reject the pact if such a commitment was not met.

30 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Sealed with a Kiss--Jason Donovan (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Licence to Kill--Gladys Knight (2nd week at #1)

Diplomacy
Pakistan was re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

Abominations
A massacre was carried out by an Indian peacekeeping force in Sri Lanka, killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

Politics and government
General Czeslaw Kiszczak, the chief enforcer of the 1981 martial law decree, was confirmed as Premier of Poland, receiving the support of 237 of 420 deputies in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament. Gen. Kiszczak proposed that the United Workers (Communist) Party and the trade union movement Solidarity form a "grand coalition" government; the latter declined.

Scandal
The United States Justice Department announced that 46 futures traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade had been indicted on a variety of counts including mail fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud, and filing false tax returns. 21 were charged with racketeering under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, and faced the loss of their assets. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had been conducting an investigation in Chicago for more than two years.

Paul Adams, inspector general of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, told a Senate subcommittee that 20 consultants had received $5.7 million in fees for lobbying the department. He said that a disproportionate share of HUD money had gone to states that had relatively little need for it, but where highly paid consultants, often with influence in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, had landed contracts for developers.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (3-1) 29 @ Winnipeg (2-2) 27



25 years ago
1994

World events
Rwanda's new coalition government said that it would prosecute those responsible for the massacres in that country in recent months.

Diplomacy
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic threatened to break off relations with Bosnian Serbs if they rejected a peace plan put forward by the U.S.A. and European nations.

Economics and finance
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced a one-year truce in the wheat war with the United States. U.S. tariffs would be imposed on Canadian exports over 1.5 million tons in the 1994-1995 crop year. In the 1993-1994 crop year, 2.5 million tons of durum wheat had gone from Canada to the U.S., mostly to satisfy the demand for high-quality wheat for pasta.

20 years ago
1999

Died on this date
Willie Morris, 64. U.S. author. Mr. Morris, a native of Mississippi, wrote fiction and non-fiction about the American South. His books included the memoir My Dog Skip (1995). Mr. Morris died of a heart attack several days after seeing an advance version of the movie My Dog Skip, which was released in 2000.

Disasters
At least 290 people were killed when two trains carrying approximately 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal.