November 7, 2019

400 years ago
1619

Europeana
Elizabeth Stuart was crowned Queen of Bohemia.

200 years ago
1819

Died on this date
Caleb Strong, 74. U.S. politician. Mr. Strong, a Federalist, assisted in drafting the Massachusetts State Constitution in 1779, served in the Massachusetts State Senate before representing the state in the U.S. Senate (1789-1796, and serving as Governor of Massachusetts (1800-1807, 1812-1816). He came out of retirement for his second term as Governor, and opposed the War of 1812.

140 years ago
1879

Born on this date
Leon Trotsky. Russian revolutionary leader. Mr. Trotsky, born Lev Bronstein in what is now Ukraine, was a major figure in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, and served as Russia's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (1917-1918) and People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs (1918-1925). He lost a power struggle against Josef Stalin, eventually being expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and exiled from the U.S.S.R. (1929). Mr. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60 by Spanish-born NKVD agent Ramón Mercader, acting on Mr. Stalin's orders. Mr. Trotsky's ideas, including perpetual world revolution, remain influential.

King Baggot. U.S. actor and film director. Mr. Baggot began his career on stage before moving into films in 1909. He was the first leading man in movies in the United States to be publicly identified, starring in movies such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913). Mr. Baggot directed and starred in Ivanhoe (1913), and achieved his greatest success as a director in the 1920s with films such as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman and Tumbleweeds (1925). Heavy drinking and disputes with studio executives ruined Mr. Baggot's directing career, and he was reduced to minor acting roles until his death from a stroke at a sanatorium on July 11, 1948 at the age of 68.

130 years ago
1889

Born on this date
Frank Fellows. U.S. politician. Mr. Fellows, a Republican, represented Maine's 3rd District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 until his death from a heart ailment on August 27, 1951 at the age of 61. He opposed Communism, and favoured the settlement of displaced persons in the United States.

120 years ago
1899

Politics and government
Kentucky Attorney General William S. Taylor, the Republican Party candidate, defeated Democratic Party candidate William Goebel in the Kentucky gubernatorial election, taking 48.4% of the vote to 47.8% for Mr. Goebel. The margin of victory was less than 2,000 votes, with former Governor John Y. Brown receiving 12,040 votes as the candidate of dissident Democrats. The result led to an investigation of accusations of vote fraud, and Mr. Goebel was assassinated less than three months later.

110 years ago
1909

Born on this date
Ruby Hurley. U.S. civil rights activist. Mrs. Hurley served as an administrator with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1939-1978, and was known as the "queen of civil rights." She was also president of United Methodist Women. Mrs. Hurley died on August 9, 1980 at the age of 70.

Norman Krasna. U.S. screenwriter. Mr. Krasna was best known for writing screwball comedies in the 1930s and '40s. He won the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for Princess O'Rourke (1943), which was also the first movie he directed. Mr. Krasna died on November 1, 1984, six days before his 75th birthday.

100 years ago
1919

Died on this date
Hugo Haase, 56. German politician. Mr. Haase was a lawyer who joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1887; he was elected to the municipal parliament in Königsberg in 1894, and to the Reichstag in 1897. He served as chairman of the SPD from 1911-1916, but his pacifist views led him to split from the party. Mr. Haase founded the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), serving as its chairman from 1917-1919. During the German Revolution in November 1918, He and majority SPD leader Friedrich Ebert served as joint chairmen of the provisional government, the Council of the People's Deputies. Mr. Haase left the Council on December 29, 1918 after the Council had violently suppressed the revolutionary Volksmarinedivision. He remained distrusted by many within the SPD, and died 30 days after being shot by Johann Voss while walking in to the Reichstag with the intention of exposing an alliance between Mr. Ebert and Rüdiger Von der Goltz, a Freikorps general active in the Baltic.

Politics and government
On the second anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, agents of the U.S. Bureau of Investigation, acting on behalf of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, executed a series of raids in 12 cities against the Union of Russian Workers, arresting about 10,000 suspected Communists at the beginning of the first Red Scare in the United States.

90 years ago
1929

At the movies
Paris, directed by Clarence G. Badger, and starring Irène Bordoni and Jack Buchanan, opened in theatres.







Art
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.

Football
CRU
ORFU
St. Michael’s College (2-4) 1 @ Toronto (6-0) 37
University of Toronto II (1-5) 0 @ Sarnia (6-0) 6

75 years ago
1944

Died on this date
Richard Sorge, 49; Hotsumi Ozaki, 43. U.S.S.R. spies. Mr. Sorge worked under cover of being a German journalist in Nazi Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s; while in Japan in 1940-1941 he provided advance information about German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union He's regarded as one of the best spies--if not the best--ever. Mr. Ozaki was a journalist with the Tokyo newspaper Asahi Shimbun. A Communist, he joined Mr. Sorge's circle of spies in 1934. He was caught and arrested on October 14, 1941, and Mr. Sorge was arrested four days later. Mr. Ozaki, and then Mr. Sorge, were hanged at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. Mr. Ozaki was the only Japanese person to be hanged for treason by the Japanese government during World War II.

Hannah Szenes, 23. Hungarian-born Israeli soldier. Miss Szenes was recruited by the British Army and sent to Yugoslavia, where she joined a partisan group in an effort to rescue Hungarian Jews who were about to be deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland. She was arrested at the Hungarian border and imprisoned for several months before being convicted of treason. Miss Szenes was executed by firing squad.

War
The British Royal Navy announced that the Aegean Sea was free of German shipping. In the second attack on Manila Bay, U.S. planes reportedly destroyed another 249 enemy aircraft and sank three cargo ships and an oil tanker. Japanese forces reached to within 20 miles of the important railway centre of Liuchow in the southern part of the Chinese province of Kwangsi.

Diplomacy
The United States and other American republics extended recognition to the new government of Guatemala. Revolutionary Action Party candidate Juan José Arévalo had been elected President of Guatemala in a landslide two days earlier.

Politics and government
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a record fourth term as President of the United States of America. Mr. Roosevelt and vice-presidential running mate Harry Truman captured 432 electoral votes to 99 for Republican Party candidate Thomas Dewey and running mate John W. Bricker. Mr. Roosevelt took 53.4% of the popular vote to 45.9% for Mr. Dewey. Elections for the United States Senate resulted in a net loss of 1 seat from the Democrats to the Republicans, but the Democrats still held 57 seats to 38 for the Republicans and 1 for the Progressive Party. In the House of Representatives, 242 Democrats were elected, with 191 Republicans, 1 Progressive, and 1 American Labor member--a gain of 20 seats for the Democrats and a loss of 18 for the Republicans since the 1942 elections.



Disasters
16 people were killed and 50 injured when a passenger train derailed in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill.

70 years ago
1949

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Conqueror's Isle, starring Richard Derr, Vinton Hayworth, and Mercer McLeod

Literature
This I Remember, Eleanor Roosevelt's memoir of her life with Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1924-1945, was published in New York by Harper.

Politics and government
Austrian Chancellor Leopold Figl formed a new cabinet based on a People's Party-Socialist coalition.

The Polish government named Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky as Defense Minister and Marshal of the Polish Army.

Law
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two school desegregation cases, involving complaints by Negro students against the University of Texas law school and the University of Oklahoma.

Oil
Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.

Economics and finance
Paraguay devalued its currency on a sliding scale based on demand for the country's exports.

Labour
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a $1.4-million fine imposed on the United Mine Workers of America and UMW President John L. Lewis for failing to end the 1948 coal strike on court order. The ruling confirmed the government's right to halt national strikes through court injunctions. The Court also upheld a Washington state law requiring commercial loggers to reforest areas from which trees had been removed.

Sport
Mexican Army Captain Ruben Uriza won the international individual trophy at the U.S. National Horse Show in New York.

60 years ago
1959

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I'll Never Fall in Love Again--Johnnie Ray (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: Forever--Joe Damiano (6th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Souvenirs--Bill Ramsey (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): Travellin' Light--Cliff Richard and the Shadows (4th week at #1)

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin (7th week at #1)
2 Mr. Blue--The Fleetwoods
3 Don't You Know--Della Reese
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 Teen Beat--Sandy Nelson
9 Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat--Paul Evans
10 You were Mine--The Fireflies

Singles entering the chart were I'm Movin' On by Ray Charles and his Orchestra (#64); I'll Walk the Line by Don Costa, Orchestra and Chorus (#72); Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) by the Browns (#73); Marina, with versions by Rocco Granata and the International Quintet; and Willy Alberti (#75); Uh! Oh! by the Nutty Squirrels (#91); Do-Re-Mi by Mitch Miller and his Sing Along Chorus (#96); First Name Initial by Annette with the Afterbeats (#98); Shadows by the Five Satins (#99); Fancy Nancy by Skip and Flip (#100); Starry Eyed by Gary Stites (also #100); and I Ain't Sharin' Sharon by Buddy Knox (also #100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Living Doll--Cliff Richard and the Drifters (3rd week at #1)
2 Just Ask Your Heart--Frankie Avalon
3 Danny Boy--Conway Twitty
4 One Minute to One--Ricky Nelson
5 Poco-Loco--Gene and Eunice
6 The Big Hurt--Miss Toni Fisher
7 It Happened Today--The Skyliners
8 Oh! Carol--Neil Sedaka
9 We Got Love--Bobby Rydell
10 Teen Beat--Sandy Nelson

Singles entering the chart were Hound Dog Man/This Friendly World by Fabian (#15); Reveille Rock by Johnny and the Hurricanes (#18); Drum Party by Sandy Nelson (#22); Tear Drop by Santo & Johnny (#25); Believe Me by the Royal Teens (#31); Clouds by the Spacemen (#32); and My Little Baby by Rose Maddox (#34). Hound Dog Man and This Friendly World were from the movie Hound-Dog Man (1959), in which Fabian starred.

Calgary's top 10 (CFAC)
1 Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin
2 Mr. Blue--The Fleetwoods
3 Put Your Head on My Shoulder--Paul Anka
4 Teen Beat--Sandy Nelson
5 ('Til) I Kissed You--The Everly Brothers
6 In the Mood--Ernie Fields Orchestra
7 Torquay--The Fireballs
8 Battle Hymn of the Republic--The Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Philadelphia Orchestra
9 Just Ask Your Heart--Frankie Avalon
10 Heartaches By the Number--Guy Mitchell
Pick hit of the week: Marina--Rocco Granata and the International Quintet
Audience picks: Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder--Paul Anka
Lonely Street--Andy Williams
Battle Hymn of the Republic--The Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Don't You Know--Della Reese

Died on this date
Victor McLaglen, 72. U.K.-born U.S. actor. Mr. McLaglen was born in England, and spent some time in Vancouver, British Columbia and Winnipeg before returning to England to serve in World War I. He was a heavyweight boxer before and after the war, compiling a professional record of 16-81-1, and fighting a 6-round exhibition against world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1909. Mr. McLaglen returned to North America after World War I, and began acting in movies in 1920. He became popular in action roles in silent movies, and made a successful transition to sound movies. Mr. McLaglen acted in seven movies directed by John Ford; he won an Academy Award for his starring performance in The Informer (1935), and was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting performance in The Quiet Man (1952). He played character roles in movies and television programs until his death from a heart attack.

Space
The U.S.A. launched the Discoverer 7 satellite into a near-polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The power supply inverter providing electricity to the control system did not operate correctly, and the satellite began tumbling after launch. The re-entry vehicle failed to separate from the spacecraft.

Diplomacy
Cuba recalled its ambassador to Venezuela after the Venezuelan government objected to an intended visit by Cuban Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro and Major Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Defense
Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai proposed that China and India pull back their border forces 20 kilometres from the disputed border areas.

Politics and government
The Northern Cameroons voted to remain under British-administered United Nations trusteeship rather than becoming part of Nigeria in 1960.

Osman Bolukbasi, leader of Turkey's opposition Republican Peasants Nation Party, was sentenced to 10 months in jail for insulting Parliament by describing the ruling Democratic Party as "servants of tyrants."

Labour
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Taft-Hartley Act injunction interrupting the longest nationwide steel strike on its 116th day. UNited Steel Workers of America President David McDonald ordered all strikers to return to work.

Golf
The U.S.A. defeated the U.K. 8½-3½ in the biennial Ryder Cup in Palm Springs, California.

Football
CFL
IRFU
Semi-Final
Montreal 0 @ Ottawa 43

ORFU
Finals
London 21 @ Sarnia 39 (Sarnia led best-of-three series 1-0)

Russ Jackson and Babe Parilli split the quarterbacking as the Rough Riders routed the Alouettes at Lansdowne Park. It was the final CFL game for Montreal greats Red O’Quinn and Tom Hugo, as well as for head coach Doug "Peahead" Walker, who was fired the next day.

Gene Cook scored 2 touchdowns to lead the Golden Bears to their victory at Norm Perry Park, with other Sarnia touchdowns being scored by Chuck Stanley, J.B. Smith, and Ed Vernes. Mr. Vernes converted all 5 and added a field goal and single. Al Bruno, Jim Greer, and Ron King scored touchdowns for the Lords, all of them converted by Earl Kaiser.

50 years ago
1969

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Saved by the Bell--Robin Gibb

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Teresa--Joe Dolan

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Take a Letter Maria--R.B. Greaves
2 Something/Come Together--The Beatles
3 Echo Park--Keith Barbour
4 Cherry Hill Park--Billy Joe Royal
5 Suspicious Minds--Elvis Presley
6 The Rainmaker--Tom Northcott
7 Jesus is a Soul Man--Lawrence Reynolds
8 Wedding Bell Blues--The 5th Dimension
9 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes--Crosby, Stills & Nash
10 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye--Steam

Singles entering the chart were Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday by Stevie Wonder (#27); Holly Holy by Neil Diamond (#28); Heaven Knows by the Grass Roots (#29); and One Tin Soldier by the Original Caste (#100).

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Something/Come Together--The Beatles
2 Take a Letter Maria--R.B. Greaves
3 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes--Crosby, Stills & Nash
4 Echo Park--Keith Barbour
5 Try a Little Kindness--Glen Campbell
6 Which Way You Goin’ Billy?--The Poppy Family
7 Suspicious Minds--Elvis Presley
8 You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling--Dionne Warwick
9 Riverboat--Five Man Electrical Band
10 And When I Die--Blood, Sweat & Tears

On the radio
A Book at Bedtime, on BBC 4
Tonight's episode: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 15, read by Nigel Stock

This was the concluding episode.

Died on this date
Thurman Arnold, 88. U.S. lawyer, judge, and politician. Mr. Arnold was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1921) and Mayor of Laramie, Wyoming (1923-1924) before holding positions in the law schools of various institutions, including Yale University (1930-1938). He served the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Attorney General (1938-1943), where he was in charge of the Antitrust Division. When President Roosevelt decided to de-emphasize antitrust enforcement in favour of getting corporations to contribute to the effort to win World War II, he kicked Mr. Arnold upstairs by appointing him as Associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1943-1945). Mr. Arnold didn't enjoy life on the bench, and resigned to return to the private practice of law in Washington, D.C.

Disasters
A dynamite explosion in the Buffelstein gold mine, southwest of Johannesburg, killed 64 and injured 14.

Floods in southern Thailand killed 16 and left 50 missing.

40 years ago
1979

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): One Day at a Time--Lena Martell

Diplomacy
In a response to the hostage-taking at the U.S. embassy in Iran, U.S. emissaries known to be sympathetic to the Iranian revolution were sent to Iran with a personal letter from President Jimmy Carter, but Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini refused to receive them.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announced that he would challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic Party U.S. presidential nomination, saying that he felt "compelled by events and my commitment to public life" to enter the race. He insisted that his candidacy would strengthen rather than weaken the party.

Hockey
NHL
Detroit 5 Edmonton 3

30 years ago
1989

On television tonight
The Wonder Years, on ABC
Tonight’s episode: On the Spot

Politics and government
East German Premier Willi Stoph and the entire Council of Ministers resigned.

Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, became the first Negro to be elected as a Governor of a state when he won a narrow victory in Virginia over Republican candidate J. Marshall Coleman. In New Jersey, Democrat James Florio won in a landslide over Republican Jim Courter. Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, a Democrat, became the first Negro to be elected Mayor of New York, defeating former U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, a Republican. New Haven, Durham, and Seattle also elected their first Negro mayors.

Environment
A meeting in the Netherlands of representatives of 68 countries unanimously adopted a compromise resolution on the issue of the alleged threat to the environment posed by alleged global warming. The resolution committed the signatories to stabilizing levels of carbon dioxide emissions by 2000. A stronger resolution that would have set specific goals did not get a consensus, meeting resistance from the United States and Japan.

Diplomacy
The day after unfreezing $567 million in Iranian assets that the United States had held since 1979, U.S. President George Bush said that he hoped Iran would use its influence to help free U.S. hostages in the Middle East.

25 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex

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

Singles entering the chart were Insensitive by Jann Arden (#85); A Conspiracy by the Black Crowes (#86); If I Only Knew by Tom Jones (#88); Hope by Our Lady Peace (#94); Embers by Lennie Gallant (#95); If I'm Not in Love by Kathy Troccoli (#96); Tell Me by the Groove Kings (#97); and Only One Road by Celine Dion (#98).

Died on this date
Shorty Rogers, 70. U.S. musician. Mr. Rogers, born Milton Rajonsky, played trumpet and flugelhorn with bandleaders such as Woody Herman and Stan Kenton before leading his own band. He later became prominent as a composer and arranger.

Radio
WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first Internet radio broadcast.

World events
The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, sitting in The Hague, indicted a Serb, the former commander of a detention camp in Bosnia, for crimes against humanity.

Disasters
A tornado roared through the Charlebois region of Quebec, killing an estimated 1 million trees.

20 years ago
1999

Labour
About 2,000 dockworkers in British Columbia were locked out in a dispute over work done by a non-union company. Ports on the west coast were shut for everything but bulk grain shipments for a week, costing the Port of Vancouver alone $90 million a day.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (6-12) 10 @ Montreal (12-6) 45

Mike Pringle rushed 16 times for 87 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Alouettes to an easy win before 19,461 fans at Molson Stadium. Montreal quarterback Anthony Calvillo completed 14 of 17 passes for 306 yards and touchdowns to Michael Soles and Jock Climie. Terry Baker converted all5 and added 3 field goals and a single. Troy Westwood accounted for Winnipeg's scoring with 3 field goals and a single. The game was basically over when the Alouettes struck for 3 touchdowns for a 21-3 lead after just 13 minutes. An indication of the Blue Bombers' futility was the fact that running back Deland McCullough carried 11 times for 46 yards, leaving him 10 yards short of a 1,000-yard season; it turned out to be his last game. A win or tie for the Blue Bombers would have given them a playoff spot, crossing over into the West Division ahead of the Edmonton Eskimos, who finished third in the West with a 6-12 record.

10 years ago
2009

Politics and government
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted 220-215 in favour of landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it, and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.

Football
CFL
Montreal (15-3) 42 @ Toronto (3-15) 17



Calgary (10-7-1) 14 @ Saskatchewan (10-7-1) 30



CIS
Loney Bowl
Semi-Final
Acadia 30 @ St. Francis Xavier 33

Dunsmore Cup
Semi-Finals
Concordia 1 @ Laval 63
Bishop's 15 @ Montreal 40

Yates Cup
Semi-Finals
McMaster 6 @ Queen's 32
Western Ontario 26 @ Wilfrid Laurier 16

Hardy Cup
Semi-Finals
Regina 23 @ Saskatchewan 53
Alberta 13 @ Calgary 45

Baseball
Nippon Series
Yomiuri Giants 2 @ Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 0 (Yomiuri won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Six pitchers combined to allow 11 hits, but managed a shutout for the Giants as they defeated the Nippon-Ham Fighters before 40,714 fans at the Sapporo Dome to win their 21st Nippon Series championship. Yoshiyuki Kamei doubled with 1 out in the 2nd inning and scored the winning run on a 2-out double by Shinnosuke Abe. Shun Tono started on the mound for Yomiuri, but left after just 4 batters when he was hit be a line drive. He was relieved by Tetsuya Utsumi, who pitched 4 2/3 innings and was credited with the win. Mr. Abe was named the Series' Most Valuable Player.