November 14, 2019

300 years ago
1719

Born on this date
Leopold Mozart. Austrian composer and teacher. Mr. Mozart was a violinist who wrote many symphonies and other works--most of which have been lost--but who was better known for teaching his son Wolfgang, one of the most famous composers in history. Leopold Mozart died on May 28, 1787 at the age of 66.

130 years ago
1889

Born on this date
Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister of India, 1947-1964. Pandit Nehruwas leader of the Congress Party and India's first Prime Minister after achieving her independence from Great Britain. He died of an apparent heart attack on May 27, 1964 at the age of 74. His daughter Indira and grandson Rajiv also later served as Prime Minister.

Adventure
Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72 days.

Football
ORFU
Having already defeated Toronto once this year in a defense of their championship and having refused to travel to Kingston for a November 16 rematch against Toronto, Ottawa College handed the championship trophy back to the Ontario Rugby Football Union. As it turned out, Toronto refused to play Queen's University for the championship, and Ottawa College was recognized as the ORFU champion.

110 years ago
1909

Disappeared on this date
Joshua Slocum, 65. N.S.-born U.S. sailor. Captain Slocum, born Joshua Slocombe in Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia, left home at the age of 16 for Dublin and then England, sailing on various ships before setting in San Francisco in 1865 and becoming an American citizen. He spent most of his life at sea on various voyages, most notably conducting the first solo circumnavigation around the world in his sloop Spray (1895-1898), which he wrote about in his best-selling book Sailing Alone Around the World (1899-1900). In his later years, Capt. Slocum's mental state deteriorated somewhat, and his revenues declined. He disappeared while on his way from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts to the West Indies; most experts figured he had been hit by a steamer or a whale. Capt. Slocum was never seen or heard from again, and he was declared legally dead in 1924.

100 years ago
1919

Born on this date
Johnny Desmond. U.S. singer. Mr. Desmond, born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone, sang with the bands of Bob Crosby, Gene Krupa, and Glenn Miller in the early 1940s before embarking on a solo career, achieving a string of hit singles from 1946-1955. His biggest hit was his version of The Yellow Rose of Texas, which reached #3 on the Billboard singles chart in 1955. Mr. Desmond died of cancer on September 6, 1985 at the age of 65.

75 years ago
1944

War
U.S. forces in France fought their way into the western and eastern suburbs of Metz. Soviet forces in Hungary reportedly wiped out the last enemy bridgehead on the east bank of the Danube River south of Budapest. U.S. troops in the Philippines led by General Douglas MacArthur threatened both flanks of the Japanese lines in Ormoc Valley on Leyte Island.

Technology
General Electric demonstrated a radically new type of synthetic rubber in which silicon took the place of carbon.

Labour
Officials of the Wright Aircraft Supervision Association agreed to send delegates to the U.S. National War Labor Board in Washington for consultations on ending a strike by 1,800 workers.

Boxing
Joe Louis (54-1) retained his world heavyweight title with a knockout of Johnny Davis (3-4) just 53 seconds into the 1st round before 7,107 fans at Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo. According to sportswriter Tommy Holmes, Mr. Louis cuffed Mr. Davis about the face six times with left jabs before throwing the right hand punch and knocking out Mr. Davis, who regained consciousness three minutes later. Despite being scheduled for just 4 rounds, the bout was a title fight, according to a ruling by New York State Athletic Commission chairman General John J. Phelan, who declared that there would be no "exhibitions" in his jurisdiction.

70 years ago
1949

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Pengallen's Bell, starring Allan Frank, Grant Gordon, Al Patterson, and Neva Patterson

Died on this date
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, 78. U.K. politician. Viscount Runciman, a Liberal before becoming a National Liberal in 1931, held various offices, including President of the Board of Trade (1914-1916, 1931-1937). He was perhaps best known as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's emissary to Czechoslovakia in August 1938 to mediate a dispute between the Czechoslovakian government and the Sudeten German Party (SdP), which represented the ethnic German population of the border area known as the Sudetenland. The SdP, operating under instructions from Germany's Nazi regime, refused to reach an agreement. Viscount Runciman was recalled to London on September 16, and recommended the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany, claiming that there was discrimination against ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia. In a cabinet shuffle shortly thereafter, Viscount Runciman was named Lord President of the Council, a post he held until September 3, 1939. He died five days before his 79th birthday.

Edwin Upjohn, 78. U.S. artist and journalist. Mr. Upjohn was a magazine artist who owned the New York Standard and Vanity Fair.

Tsuneo Matsudaira, 72. Japanese diplomat and politician. Mr. Matsudaira was Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.A. (1924-1928) and the U.K. (1929-1935) before serving as Minister of the Imperial Household (1936-1945). He resigned from the latter position after taking responsibility for the burning of part of the Imperial Palace during the American firebombing of Tokyo. Mr. Matsudaira served as the first President of the House of Councillors from 1947 until his death.

War
Nationalist Chinese leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek visited Chungking in an attempt to rally the Nationalist capital's defenses.

Politics and government
Three Polish Communist Party leaders, including former Deputy Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka, were expelled from the party's Central Committee for advocating "nationalist-rightist deviation" from the party line.

Hawaiian Governor Ingram Stainback issued a proclamation ordering the election of a constitutional convention preparatory to the territory's expected statehood.

Labour
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union President Harry Bridges went on trial in San Francisco on charges of falsely denying Communist Party in 1945.

60 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Oh Yeah Uh Huh--Col Joye and the Joy Boys

#1 single in Italy: Forever--Joe Damiano (7th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Souvenirs--Bill Ramsey (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): Travellin' Light--Cliff Richard and the Shadows (5th week at #1)

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Mr. Blue--The Fleetwoods
2 Don't You Know--Della Reese
3 Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin
4 Put Your Head on My Shoulder--Paul Anka
5 Deck of Cards--Wink Martindale
6 Primrose Lane--Jerry Wallace with the Jewels
7 Lonely Street--Andy Williams
8 Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat--Paul Evans
9 Unforgettable--Dinah Washington
10 You were Mine--The Fireflies

Singles entering the chart were Hound Dog Man (#61)/This Friendly World (#98) by Fabian; I've Been Around by Fats Domino (#69); Old Shep by Ralph DeMarco (#84); Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams) by Ray Peterson (#87); Talk That Talk by Jackie Wilson (#91); The Little Drummer Boy by Johnny Cash (#92); Sandy by Larry Hall (#94); Wont'cha Come Home by Lloyd Price (#96); Tiny Tim by LaVern Baker (#99); Smokie--Part 2 by Bill Black's Combo (#100); (It's No) Sin by Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra (also #100); and You Got What It Takes by Marv Johnson (also #100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Danny Boy--Conway Twitty
2 Living Doll--Cliff Richard and the Drifters
3 Believe Me--The Royal Teens
4 Oh! Carol--Neil Sedaka
5 The Big Hurt--Miss Toni Fisher
6 Mr. Blue--The Fleetwoods
7 Just Ask Your Heart--Frankie Avalon
8 We Got Love--Bobby Rydell
9 One Minute to One--Ricky Nelson
10 It Happened Today--The Skyliners

Singles entering the chart were First Name Initial/My Heart Became of Age by Annette with the Afterbeats (#19); Midnight Stroll by the Revels (#34); and Cry Baby by the Fireballs (#40).

Adventure
Andreas Rechnitzer and Jacques Piccard took the bathyscaphe Trieste to a record depth of 18,600 feet in the Pacific Marianas trench off Guam.

War
The Belgian Colonial Ministry reported that 124 Africans in the in the Ruanda-Urundi trust territory had been killed in Bahutu attacks and that Belgian troops had arrested at least 1,000 rioters.

Diplomacy
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rejected Communist China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone as "impractical."

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the appointment of a National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs to seek ways of solving "current and long-range problems in our relations with Latin America."

Defense
The American Federation of Scientists charged that former U.S. President Harry Truman's "ill-advised" statement six days earlier advocating resumption of U.S. nuclear tests would hamper efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to smaller powers.

Politics and government
A Gallup poll showed that 66% of American voters approved of the way President Dwight D. Eisenhower "is doing his job," while 19% disapproved.

Economics and finance
The Colombo Plan Consultative Committee concluded a four-day meeting in Jakarta, voting to extend the Plan's activities to 1966.

Football
CFL
IRFU
Finals
Hamilton 5 @ Ottawa 17 (First game of 2-game total points series)

WIFU
Finals
Edmonton 8 @ Winnipeg 16 (Winnipeg won best-of-three series 2-0)

Quarterback Russ Jackson rushed for 86 yards and 2 touchdowns and fullback Dave Thelen added 103 yards rushing for the Rough Riders as they beat the Tiger-Cats before 18,926 fans at Lansdowne Park.

Normie Kwong’s touchdown, converted by Jackie Parker, gave the Eskimos a 7-0 lead before 15,872 fans at Winnipeg Stadium, but the Blue Bombers came back to take a 15-7 halftime lead. The key play came when the Eskimos were stopped on a third-down gamble at their own 25-yard line when they were trailing 8-7, and the Blue Bombers took just 2 plays to score a touchdown. Gerry James led the Blue Bombers with 9 points on a touchdown, 2 converts, and a single, with Leo Lewis scoring the other Winnipeg TD.

Canadian university
Churchill Trophy @ Varsity Stadium, Toronto
Western Ontario 34 British Columbia 7

Lionel Conacher, Jr. rushed for 3 touchdowns and scored another touchdown on a 41-yard pass from backup quarterback Ken Rysdale as the Mustangs defeated the Thunderbirds on a waterlogged field to win the Winston Churchill Trophy--a trophy designed by renowned sculptor R. Tait McKenzie--in Canada's first national university championship game. Meco Poliziani, Mr. Conacher's backfield partner, scored the other UWO touchdown. Ticket prices ranged from $2.00-$3.50; 2,500 showed up. John Metras was the winning head coach over Frank Gnup. Frank Cosentino, in his final university game, played most of the game at quarterback for the Mustangs before Mr. Rysdale mopped up. Mr. Cosentino wrote an article about the game and the season titled 1959--A Good Year for J.W. Little Memorial Stadium: The Final Season, a souvenir program that was published by the University of Western Ontario in 1999.



50 years ago
1969

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Rain and Tears--Hi Revving Tongues

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Sugar Sugar--The Archies

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Take a Letter Maria--R.B. Greaves (2nd week at #1)
2 The Rainmaker--Tom Northcott
3 Cherry Hill Park--Billy Joe Royal
4 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye--Steam
5 Echo Park--Keith Barbour
6 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes--Crosby, Stills & Nash
7 And When I Die--Blood, Sweat & Tears
8 Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son--Creedence Clearwater Revival
9 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary
10 Something/Come Together--The Beatles

Singles entering the chart were Up on Cripple Creek by The Band (#26); Someday We'll Be Together by Diana Ross and the Supremes (#27); I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City by Nilsson (#28); A Brand New Me by Dusty Springfield (#29); and Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head by B.J. Thomas (#30).

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Something/Come Together--The Beatles (2nd week at #1)
2 Take a Letter Maria--R.B. Greaves
3 Tracy--The Cuff Links
4 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes--Crosby, Stills & Nash
5 Cherry Hill Park--Billy Joe Royal
6 Echo Park--Keith Barbour
7 Down on the Corner--Creedence Clearwater Revival
8 Suspicious Minds--Elvis Presley
9 Is That All There Is--Peggy Lee
10 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary

Space
Apollo 12, with Pete Conrad (Commander), Dick Gordon (Command Module Pilot), and Alan Bean (Lunar Module Pilot) lifted off toward the moon from Cape Kennedy, Florida, despite being struck by lightning.





War
The Paris peace talks remained at a stalemate at the 42nd weekly session in the Hotel Majestic, where Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam, with his eye on anti-war demonstrators in the United States, again called for unilateral U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam, expressing his confidence that "the American people will oppose with increasing vigour the Nixon Administration’s policy of aggression." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge countered that "the great majority of the American people support President Nixon as he seeks a just peace."

Abominations
The United States Army disclosed that Staff Sergeant David Mitchell had been charged on October 28 with assault with intent to kill in connection with his involvement in the My Lai massacre in the South Vietnamese village of Songmy on March 16, 1968. Sgt. Mitchell, currently on active duty at Fort Hood, Texas, had been a squad leader of the platoon that had gunned down at least 109 men, women, and children.

Protest
The second anti-war Vietnam Moratorium opened, concentrated on Washington. A symbolic, single-file "March Against Death" began to send a continual stream of demonstrators around the Lincoln Memorial, past the White House, and onto the Capitol lawn.

Literature
Several days after being expelled from the official writers’ union, Aleksandr Solzhenytsyn described the Soviet Union as a "sick society" in a letter to the union that was made public by an acquaintance in Moscow. Mr. Solzhenitsyn said that his expulsion from the union was approved before he had a chance to defend himself.

40 years ago
1979

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman--Dr. Hook

World events
All 25 Arab mayors in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip submitted their resignations when the Ministerial Defense Committee of Israel ruled that the expulsion of Bassam Shaka, Mayor of the West Bank city of Nablus, should go ahead as ordered. Fearing that the incident might inflict damage on attempts to include Palestinian leaders in the autonomy plan being negotiated under the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, the U.S.A. and Egypt urged Israel to drop the case. Mr. Shaka had been charged with supporting terrorism because of opinions that he had expressed in a television interview a week earlier.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Jimmy Carter issued Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the seizure of hostages at the American embassy in Tehran.

Hockey
NHL
Toronto 7 St. Louis 2

30 years ago
1989

On television tonight
The Wonder Years, on ABC
Tonight’s episode: Odd Man Out

Transportation
Canadian Pacific Rail began cabooseless train operations.

25 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex (2nd week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Secret--Madonna
2 What's the Frequency, Kenneth--R.E.M.
3 Always--Bon Jovi
4 Out of Tears--Rolling Stones
5 I'll Make Love to You--Boyz II Men
6 Endless Love--Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey
7 Circle of Life--Elton John
8 All I Wanna Do--Sheryl Crow
9 Living in Danger--Ace of Base
10 Jane--Barenaked Ladies

Singles entering the chart were Toy Train by Rymes with Orange (#79); One Night in Heaven by M People (#86); I am I by Queensryche (#87); I am So Ordinary by Paula Cole (#88); Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon by Urge Overkill (#90); The Sweetest Days by Vanessa Williams (#91); and My Wave by Soundgarden (#92). Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon was from the movie Pulp Fiction (1994).

Died on this date
Tom Villard, 40. U.S. actor. Mr. Villard was best known for co-starring in the television comedy series We Got it Made (1983-1984, 1987-1988). He was a sodomite who died of AIDS-related pneumonia, five days before his 41st birthday.

10 years ago
1999

Diplomacy
The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.

Politics and government
Faced with the possibility that the United States would lose its vote in the United Nations General Assembly, the administration of President Bill Clinton and Republicans in the House of Representatives reached a compromise. Under the agreement, $926 million in U.S. debt to the UN would be paid over three years, and a separate bill would ban, for one year, U.S. financial support for international organizations that promoted abortion rights.

Protest
900 English-speaking Quebeckers, including Equality Party leader Keith Henderson and activist Howard Galganov, demonstrated on Parliament Hill in Ottawa against Quebec's language law, Bill 101, and asked the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien for a formal commitment to protect their linguistic rights. A petition of 15,000 signatures was given to a member of the Reform Party, asking parliamentarians to adopt only laws "that affirm the equality of each individual."

Football
CFL
Eastern Semi-Final
Toronto 6 @ Hamilton 27

Western Semi-Final
Edmonton 17 @ Calgary 30

The Argonauts lost 4 of 8 fumbles and added 4 other turnovers (including 2 punts blocked by Gerald Vaughn), as they were able to muster only 2 field goals by Dan Giancola in their loss to the Tiger-Cats front of an Ivor Wynne Stadium crowd of 21,873. The Tiger-Cats amassed only 200 yards in net offense, with quarterback Danny McManus completing just 9 of 24 passes for 97 yards. One of Mr. McManus’s completions went for a 17-yard touchdown to Archie Amerson in the first quarter. Hamilton’s other offensive touchdown was scored by Ronald Williams on a 1-yard run with 16 seconds left in the third quarter. Shino Prater returned an interception 55 yards for the final touchdown with 2:57 remaining in the game. Paul Osbaldiston converted all 3 and added 2 field goals. Mr. Williams rushed 28 times for 127 yards. Jim Ballard started at quarterback for the Argonauts, but lasted just a couple of plays. Neither Jay Barker nor Jimmy Kemp was able to generate a sustained attack. It was the last game for Jim Barker as Toronto head coach, who produced a good defense, but an inconsistent and largely unproductive offense.



Dave Dickenson threw touchdown passes to Kelvin Anderson and Marcus Dowdell and handed off to Mr. Anderson for another touchdown to lead the Stampeders to victory over the Eskimos before 25,305 fans at McMahon Stadium. Mark McLoughlin converted all 3 and added 3 field goals. Mr. Dickenson was 20 for 28 in passing for 289 yards, while Mr. Anderson rushed 21 times for 71 yards and caught 3 passes for 33. The Stampeders made 4 interceptions, 3 of them off Edmonton starting quarterback Nealon Greene, who completed 16 of 29 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown to Rick Walters. Backup quarterback Marcus Crandell was 10 for 14 for 137 yards and completed a 12-yard pass to Donnie Ashley for the Eskimos’ second touchdown with 2 seconds left in the game. Sean Fleming converted one and added a field goal and single. Edmonton’s Terry Vaughn led all receivers with 8 receptions for 136 yards. Sean Millington, in his last game as an Eskimo, carried 3 times for 13 yards and caught 2 passes for 17. The Calgary defense contained Mr. Greene all day, which is exactly what they said they would do. Don Matthews, concluding one of the worst seasons of any head coach in Eskimo history, didn’t bother to adjust to Calgary’s game plan.



10 years ago
2009

Football
CIS
Loney Bowl
St. Francis Xavier 22 @ St. Mary's 31

Dunsmore Cup
Montreal 7 @ Laval 31

Yates Cup
Western Ontario 39 @ Queen's 43



Hardy Cup
Calgary 39 @ Saskatchewan 38