June 17, 2020

280 years ago
1740

Died on this date
William Wyndham, 52 (?). U.K. politician. Sir William was a Tory who sat in the House of Commons from 1710-1740; he was Secretary at War (1712-1713) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1713-1714). Sir William was a Jacobite who was opposed to the Hanoverian succession to the monarchy, and led the Tory opposition in the House until his death after falling from his horse.

225 years ago
1795

World events
The inhabitants of the town of Swellendam in what is now South Africa rebelled against the rule of the Dutch East India Company and proclaimed the Republic of Swellendam.

140 years ago
1880

Baseball
Monte Ward pitched the National League’s second perfect game in six days as he led the Providence Grays to a 5-0 win over the Buffalo Bisons at Messer Street Grounds in Providence. Losing pitcher Pud Galvin made the last out.

120 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Martin Bormann. German politician. Mr. Bormann held various positions in the Nazi regime from 1933-1945, including head of the Parteikanzlei (Nazi Party Chancellery) and personal secretary to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Mr. Bormann was 44 when he and SS Doctor Ludwig Stumpfegger were killed while trying to escape from invading Soviet forces in Berlin on May 2, 1945. Rumours persisted for years that Mr. Bormann had escaped to another country, but his remains were eventually discovered and identified.

Evelyn Irons. U.K. journalist. Miss Irons, a native of Glasgow, was a war correspondent during World War II; she was one of the first reporters to reach liberated Paris, and the first female war correspondent to receive the French Croix de Guerre. Miss Irons went to the United States in 1952 to cover the presidential election, and remained in the country. She died on April 3, 2000 at the age of 99.

War
Western Allied and Japanese forces captured the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.

110 years ago
1910

Born on this date
Red Foley. U.S. musician. Clyde Julian Foley was one of the biggest stars in country music in person, and on records, radio, and television in a career spanning almost 40 years. He had 10 singles which reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart, including Shame on You (1945); Birmingham Bounce (1950); and Mississippi (1950). Mr. Foley died of respiratory failure in his sleep on September 19, 1968 at the age of 57, shortly after performing two shows in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and after praying with fellow country singer Billy Walker and reportedly trusting in Jesus Christ as his saviour.

George Hees. Canadian football player and politician. Mr. Hees, a native of Toronto, played with the Toronto Argonauts (1934, 1937-1938), helping them to Grey Cup championships in his last two seasons. He served with the Canadian Army during World War II as a Brigade Major, and played with the Canadian Army team that defeated a U.S. Army team in the Tea Bowl in London in 1944. As a Progressive Conservative, he represented the Toronto-area ridings of Broadview (1950-1963); Northumberland (1965-1968, 1979-1988); and Prince Edward-Hastings (1968-1979) in the Canadian House of Commons. Mr. Hees served in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as Minister of Transport (1957-1960) and Minister of Trade and Commerce (1960-1963), and in the cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Minister of Veterans Affairs (1984-1988). In the early 1980s, he was Chairman of the Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence. Mr. Hees died on June 11, 1996, six days before his 86th birthday.

Aviation
Romanian aviator Aurel Vlaicu piloted an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight over Cotroceni airfield in Bucharest.

Religion
Education in Relation to the Christianization of National Life was the theme of this day’s presentation to the World Missionary Conference in the Assembly Hall at the United Free Church of Scotland in Edinburgh.

100 years ago
1920

Born on this date
Jacob H. Gilbert. U.S. politician. Mr. Gilbert, a Democrat, was a member of the New York State Assembly (19511954) and New York State Senate (1955-1960). He represented New York's 23rd District (1960-1963) and 22nd District (1963-1971) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Gilbert died on February 27, 1981 at the age of 60.

François Jacob. French physician. Dr. Jacob was awarded France's Cross of Liberation for his service during World War II, and then became a bacteriologist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with French colleagues Jacques Monod and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis." Dr. Jacob died on April 19, 2013 at the age of 92.

Setsuko Hara. Japanese actress. Miss Hara, born Masae Aida, appeared in more than 100 movies from 1935-1963, playing tragic heroines in her early films, and typical Japanese women in her later films. Miss Hara's movies included Die Tochter des Samurai (The Daughter of the Samurai) (1937); Late Spring (1949); and Tokyo Story (1953). She retired from acting in 1963, and lived in seclusion until her death from pneumonia on September 5, 2015 at the age of 95.

Peter Le Cheminant. U.K. military officer and politician. Air Chief Marshal Le Cheminant was a senior commander of the Royal Air Force who served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (1974-1976) and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe (1976-1979). He retired from military service in 1979, and served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1980-1985). Air Chief Marshal Le Cheminant died on April 8, 2018 at the age of 97.

80 years ago
1940

Died on this date
Arthur Harden, 74. U.K. biochemist. Sir Arthur shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Adolf Windaus of Germany and Hans von Euler-Chelpin of Sweden "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes."

War
RMS Lancastria, a Cunard liner that had been commandeered by the British government for war service, was attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France while taking part in Operation Ariel, the evacuation of British nationals and troops from France. At least 4,000 were killed in the U.K.'s worst maritime disaster; there were 2,447 survivors. Another commandeered liner, SS Oronsay, suffered several fatalities when her bridge was hit by a bomb, but managed to rescue some survivors of Lancastria and get home. The British Army's 11th Hussars assaulted and took Fort Capuzzo in Libya from Italian forces. French Prime Minister Philippe Pétain asked the Spanish ambassador to approach Germany about an armistice.

Abominations
The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania fell under the military occupation and political reorganization of the U.S.S.R.

Diplomacy
The U.S. State Department cautioned Germany and Italy to stay away from British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Western Hemisphere.

Japanese military authorities demanded that French Indochina halt arms shipments to Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.

Colonel Francis P. Walters of the United Kingdom resigned his post as undersecretary of the League of Nations.

Politics and government
The Uruguayan Senate voted wide powers to the government to repress pro-Axis activities and ban all secret societies.

Defense
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate $1.2 billion more for naval construction.

75 years ago
1945

War
The U.S. Army 86th Infantry Division arrived in New York as the first unit to return in toto from Europe; it would be the first full unit sent to the Pacific theatre.

Diplomacy
At the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, U.S.S.R. delegation leader Andrei Gromyko asked that the UN General Assembly be limited in its discussions to issues of "maintenance of international peace and security" rather than having the right to discuss any matter of international relations.

Politics and government
The Italian Committee of International Liberation agreed that Ferruccio Parri lead the formation of a new government.

Labour
The day after more than 6,000 truckers in Chicago had defied U.S. government orders not to strike, the U.S. Army sent 5,000 more troops to Chicago to keep the trucks moving.

70 years ago
1950

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Told Them All About You--Donald Peers (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): "The Third Man" Theme--Anton Karas (Best Seller--8th week at #1); Hoop-Dee-Doo--Perry Como (Disc Jockey--2nd week at #1); "The Third Man" Theme--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (Jukebox--7th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 "The Third Man" Theme--Anton Karas (9th week at #1)
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
2 Bewitched--Bill Snyder and his Orchestra
--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra
--Doris Day
--Larry Green and his Orchestra
--Jan August & Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats
3 My Foolish Heart--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra
--Billy Eckstine
--Mindy Carson
4 Sentimental Me--The Ames Brothers
--Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
--Ray Anthony and his Orchestra
5 Hoop-Dee-Doo--Perry Como
--Kay Starr
--Doris Day
6 It Isn’t Fair--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
7 The Old Piano Roll Blues--Hoagy Carmichael and Cass Daley
--Lawrence "Piano Roll" Cook
8 If I Knew You Were Comin’ (I’d’ve Baked a Cake)--Eileen Barton
--Georgia Gibbs
9 Roses--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
10 I Wanna Be Loved--The Andrews Sisters
--Billy Eckstine

Singles entering the chart were Bonaparte's Retreat, with versions by Kay Starr; and Gene Krupa and his Chicago Jazz (vocal refrain by Bobby Scots) (#26); Buffalo Billy by Roberta Quinlan, Jerry Murad's Harmonicats and Jan August (#31); Mississippi by Red Foley (#32); Dedicated to You by Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine (#37); Juke Box Annie by Kitty Kallen (#39); and Thanks, Mister Florist by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra (#40).

Defense
Arab League delegates, meeting in Cairo, signed a collective security pact obligating each member state to help defend any of the others against aggression.

U.S. President Harry Truman signed a bill authorizing $596 million for military construction during the next two years.

Politics and government
New York Governor Thomas Dewey, 48, announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election because of health problems.

Crime
U.S. President Truman ordered tax files and other confidential government data made available to the special Senate Crime Investigating Committee.

Religion
The Spanish government of dictator Francisco Franco reaffirmed policies prohibiting non-Catholics from having public demonstrations, establishing schools or recreational centres, or making collections for churches.

Medicine
Dr. Richard Lawler performed the first human kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago.

Economics and finance
The newly-formed French Congress of the Middle Class, meeting in Paris, adopted a program demanding equality with trade unions and industrial groups in determining France's economic and social policies.

60 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Cathy's Clown--The Everly Brothers (8th week at #1)

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight's episode: The Mighty Casey, starring Jack Warden

Economics and finance
The Nez Perce Indian tribe was awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land in the Northwest Plateau of the United States which had been undervalued at four cents per acre in the 1863 treaty.

Baseball
Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox became the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 career major league home runs when he connected off Wynn Hawkins of the Cleveland Indians for a 2-run blast with 1 out in the top of the 3rd inning, breaking a 1-1 tie as the Red Sox won 3-1 before 9,765 fans at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. Winning pitcher Frank Sullivan (3-6) pitched a 4-hit complete game and recorded 12 strikeouts.

Clete Boyer and Mickey Mantle hit home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Chicago White Sox before 43,320 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. White Sox’ owner Bill Veeck had installed a $300,000 scoreboard that set off fireworks whenever a White Sox player hit a home run. When Messrs. Boyer and Mantle homered for the Yankees, the Yankee players lit sparklers in the dugout. Winning pitcher Art Ditmar (5-3) pitched a 7-hit complete game and batted 2 for 4 with a run batted in.



Al Spangler led off the bottom of the 12th inning with a triple and scored on a bases-loaded single by pinch hitter Felix Mantilla to give the Milwaukee Braves a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals before 19,167 fans at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Bob Buhl (6-3) allowed 1 hit and no runs in 1.1 innings to get the win in relief of George Brunet, who allowed 5 hits and 1 earned run in 10.2 innings.

Bill Virdon hit his first home run of the season to lead off the 6th inning, and it proved to be the deciding run as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 before 43,296 fans at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Jim Gilliam led off the bottom of the 9th with a double and scored on a 1-out single by Wally Moon, but Duke Snider grounded into a double play to end the game. Vern Law (10-2) pitched a 6-hit complete game to win the pitchers' duel over Stan Williams (5-1), who allowed 6 hits and 2 earned runs in 8 innings.

50 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): In the Summertime--Mungo Jerry (2nd week at #1)

Crime
The bodies of 11-year-old Susan Blatchford and 12-year-old Gary Hanlon were found in a shallow grave in a wood at Waltham Abbey in Essex, England. The "Babes in the Wood," from north London, had last been seen alive on March 31, playing near their homes.

Environment
U.S. Interior Secretary Walter Hickel announced that the pesticide DDT and more than a dozen other chemicals would be virtually banned on more than ¼ of the land area of the United States. 32 other chemicals and classes of chemicals were "restricted."

Scandal
Nathan Voloshen, a lawyer and lobbyist, pled guilty to conspiring with a former administrative assistant to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John W. McCormack to use the speaker’s office to defraud federal agencies. Mr. Voloshen was about to be tried on the charge with Dr. Martin Sweig, the former aide in question.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Richard Nixon, in a televised address, asked business and labour to help end inflation by voluntarily resisting short-term desires for increased wages and profits. Mr. Nixon said that he would not impose direct wage and price controls, announcing instead a new national commission on productivity to suggest ways of increasing work output per worker.



Boxing
Jerry Quarry (36-4-4) scored a technical knockout of Mac Foster (24-1) at 2:09 of the 6th round of a heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. On the undercard, Mr. Quarry's brother Mike (23-0) won a 10-round majority decision over Ray Ayala (5-4-1) in a light heavyweight bout.



40 years ago
1980

Defense
British Secretary of State Francis Pym told the House of Commons that the first U.S. Cruise missiles to be stored on British soil would be stored at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, and the disused RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire.

Politics and government
Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Jean Chrétien and Saskatchewan Attorney General Roy Romanow co-chaired constitutional talks in Ottawa; the talks broke off August 29, 1980 with no agreement on 12 items of change.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Toronto (0-2) 16 @ Montreal (2-0) 31

Baseball
The Houston Astros scored 3 runs in each of the first 2 innings as they defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-1 before 19,480 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago, but winning pitcher J.R. Richard (7-1) left the game after 5 innings and 8 strikeouts, complaining of a tired arm.

Johnny Bench and Ray Knight hit consecutive home runs to begin the 9th inning for the Cincinnati Reds, enabling them to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 before 25,565 fans at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh.

Garry Templeton led off the bottom of the 9th inning with a single and scored from second base on a 1-out double by Ted Simmons to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves before 13,524 fans at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis. Pete Vuckovich (6-5) allowed 8 hits and 2 earned runs in a complete game to win the pitchers' duel over Doyle Alexander (4-3), who allowed 8 hits and 3 earned runs in a complete game.

Jerry White's solo home run with 1 out in the top of the 6th inning proved to be the deciding run as the Montreal Expos edged the San Francisco Giants 2-1 before 19,362 fans at Candlestick Park in New York. David Palmer (4-1) allowed 6 hits and 1 earned run in 7.1 innings, outduelling Vida Blue (9-3), who allowed 6 hits and 2 earned runs in 8 innings.

Gene Richards singled home Paul Dade with the bases loaded and 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the San Diego Padres a 2-1 win over the New York Mets before 11,448 fans at San Diego Stadium.

Pinch runner German Barranca scored on a sacrifice fly by Jamie Quirk in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Kansas City Royals a 3-2 win over the Texs Rangers before 25,324 fans at Royals Stadium. Mr. Barranca was running for Willie Aikens, who singled to lead off the inning. Rich Gale (3-7) pitched a 9-hit complete game victory. Gaylord Perry (3-6), who was removed from the game after Mr. Aikens' single, allowed 8 hits and 3 earned runs in 8+ innings to take the loss.

30 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Vogue--Madonna (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Black Velvet--Alannah Myles (3rd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 I Promised Myself--Nick Kamen (3rd week at #1)
2 I Can't Stand It!--Twenty 4 Seven featuring Capt. Hollywood
3 Hey, Wickie--Der Schreckliche Sven & die tollkühnen Plattenreiter
4 Black Velvet--Alannah Myles
5 Infinity (1990's...Time for the Guru)--Guru Josh
6 Insieme: 1992--Toto Cutugno
7 Ding Dong--Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
8 Hier kommt Kurt--Frank Zander
9 Vogue--Madonna
10 The Power--Snap!

Singles entering the chart were Alle meine Lieda by Remix-Poidl (#14); and Insieme Fairplay by Etta Scollo & José Feliciano (#30).

Politics and government
In the first free elections in Bulgaria in recent times, the Bulgarian Socialist Party won 211 of 400 seats in the Grand National Assembly. The Socialists were a Marxist party, but not as hard-line as the party that had run the country since the end of World War II. The opposition coalition, the Union of Democratic Forces, won 144 seats. Other parties ran far behind; a party representing ethnic Turks won 23 seats. The first round of elections had taken place on June 10; the June 17 elections were the runoffs.

Diplomacy
South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie, arrived in Ottawa to begin a visit to Canada; they later went on an 11-day tour of the United States.

Golf
Hale Irwin and Mike Donald were tied for the lead after 4 rounds of the U.S. Open at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois with 8-under-par total scores of 280, forcing an 18-hole playoff the following day.

25 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Mouth--Merril Bainbridge (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): 21 Go'nat historier--Timm & Gordon

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): Think Twice--Céline Dion (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Wallonia (Ultratop 40): Pour que tu m'aimes encore--Céline Dion (6th week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Pour que tu m'aimes encore--Céline Dion (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Conquest of Paradise--Vangelis (7th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Unchained Melody/(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover--Robson Green & Jerome Flynn (5th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?--Bryan Adams (3rd week at #1)
2 Water Runs Dry--Boyz II Men
3 Total Eclipse of the Heart--Nicki French
4 Don't Take it Personal (Just One of Dem Days)--Monica
5 Scream/Childhood--Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson
6 This is How We Do It--Montell Jordan
7 I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By--Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige
8 Freak Like Me--Adina Howard
9 I Believe--Blessid Union of Souls
10 Let Her Cry--Hootie & the Blowfish

Singles entering the chart were Scream/Childhood; Freek'n You by Jodeci (#20); I Can Love You Like That by All-4-One (#27); My Love is for Real by Paula Abdul (#36); Big Yellow Taxi by Amy Grant (#83); I Love You/You Bring Me Joy by Mary J. Blige (#86); Survival of the Fittest by Mobb Deep (#92); and He's Mine by MoKenStef (#93).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Water Runs Dry--Boyz II Men (4th week at #1)
2 Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?--Bryan Adams
3 Total Eclipse of the Heart--Nikki French
4 Let Her Cry--Hootie & the Blowfish
5 I Believe--Blessid Union of Souls
6 I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By--Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige
7 Don't Take it Personal (Just One of Dem Days)--Monica
8 This is How We Do It--Montell Jordan
9 I Know--Dionne Farris
10 Scream--Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson

Singles entering the chart were Old School by 2Pac (#23, charting with the A-side, Dear Mama); I Got 5 on It by Luniz (#62); Feel Me Flow by Naughty by Nature (#69); Feels So Good by Xscape (#76); I Wanna Love Like That by Tony Thompson (#78); He's Mine by MoKenStef (#84); Colors of the Wind by Vanessa Williams (#86); and Mind Blowin' by Smooth (#91). Colors of the Wind was from the movie Pocahontas (1995).

War
Russian troops twice stormed a hospital in the town of Budyonnovsk, where Chechen rebels had taken 2,000 patients and medical staff hostage three days earlier and had threatened to kill them if the Russians didn't stop their offensive in Chechnya. The Russian troops were able to free only about 50 hostages, while the Chechens freed about 150 more.

Diplomacy
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a guest of the "Group of 7"--U.S.A.; U.K.; Canada; France; Germany; Italy; Japan--leaders at their summit in Halifax , said that Russia would attempt to use its influence with Serbia to bring an end to the conflict in Bosnia. In an implied criticism of Russia, the leaders voted to urge all nations to "avoid any collaboration with Iran which might contribute to the acquisition of a nuclear-weapons capability." Regarding the seizure of hostages by Chechen rebels in Budyonnovsk, the leaders urged that a solution be found without resort to force; Mr. Yeltsin objected, and Chechnya wasn't mentioned in the final communique.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
New Jersey 2 @ Detroit 1 (New Jersey led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Claude Lemieux's goal at 3:17 of the 3rd period broke a 1-1 tie as the Devils edged the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.



Football
CFL
Pre-season
Ottawa (0-1) 11 @ Baltimore (1-0) 45
San Antonio (1-0) 35 @ Memphis (0-1) 14
Calgary (0-1) 18 @ British Columbia (1-1) 36

20 years ago
2000

Died on this date
Ismail Mahomed, 68. Chief Justice of South Africa, 1998-2000. Justice Mahomed was appointed to the appointed to the Supreme Court of Swaziland in 1979, and in 1982 was appointed an Appeal Judge in Lesotho, later becoming president of the Appeals Court. In 1991, he became chairman of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa and the country's first non-whit Supreme Court Justice. Justice Mahomed was later appointed to the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, and was made a judge of the Constitutional Court in 1995. He was named Chief Justice of South Africa by President Nelson Mandela in 1998, and died of pancreatic cancer shortly after retiring.

Joe Albanese, 66. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Albanese posted a 0- record with an earned run average of 4.50 in 6 games, all in relief, with the Washington Senators in 1958. He was 45-60 in 213 games in 8 seasons in the minor leagues (1951-1959). Mr. Albanese died nine days before his 67th birthday.

Business
Seagram agreed to merge with France's Vivendi to form a global media giant and compete with the U.S. Internet/media company AOL; it marked the end of the Montréal-based Bronfman family's control over the company.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Montreal (0-0-1) 13 @ Toronto (0-0-1) 13

This was the first game to feature a post-game demonstration of the CFL's new overtime format, with the teams taking turns scrimmaging the ball at their opponents' 35-yard line.

Baseball
Bernie Williams of the New York Yankees drove in 7 runs with a home run, 2 doubles, and a single, but the Yankees lost 10-9 to the Chicago White Sox before 54,053 fans at Yankee Stadium. The White Sox took an 8-0 lead after 2½ innings. Jake Westbrook (0-1) started on the mound for New York and allowed 7 hits and 6 runs--all earned--in 1.2 innings, walking 2 batters and striking out none in 1.2 innings in his first major league game.

The Toronto Blues Jays took an 11-1 lead after 4½ innings and held on to defeat the Boston Red Sox 11-10 before 32,951 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. The Red Sox scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 5th and 5 in the 7th and had the potential tying run on second base with 1 out in the 9th, but Carl Everett was retired on a foul popup, and pinch hitter Brian Daubach struck out to end the game.

Bobby Higginson singled with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th and Juan Gonzalez followed with a home run to give the Detroit Tigers an 8-6 win over the Cleveland Indians before 39,569 fans at Comerica Park in Detroit, completing a comeback from a 6-3 deficit after 6 innings.

Starting pitcher Ismael Valdez singled home Joe Girardi with 2 out in the bottom of the 2nd inning for the game's only run as the Chicago Cubs edged the Montreal Expos 1-0 before 39,502 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Mr. Girardi had reached first base on an error by shortstop Orlando Cabrera, and the run was unearned. Mr. Valdez left the game after 3 innings, and Steve Rain (1-0), the first of four relief pitchers, pitched 3.2 innings and was credited with his first major league win. Losing pitcher Dustin Hermanson (5-4) and two relievers allowed just 4 hits.

The Louisiana State University Tigers, trailing 5-2 in the bottom of the 8th inning, scored 3 runs a pair of home runs to tie the score, and scored a run in the bottom of the 9th to edge the Stanford University Cardinal 6-5 at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha to win their fifth College World Series in the past 10 years.



10 years ago
2010

War
Canadian House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken approved a multi-party deal (except the New Democratic Party, which had walked out of last-ditch negotiations) to give select MPs access to thousands of sensitive Afghan detainee documents, believed to contain information related to the alleged torture of prisoners transferred to Afghan authorities by Canadian soldiers.

Terrorism
Canadian Supreme Court Puisne Justice John Major released his Air India Inquiry report; he blamed a "cascading series of errors" by government, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Canadian Security Intelligence Service for the failure to prevent the 1985 terrorist attack against Air India Flight 182, bound from Toronto and Montreal to New Delhi, that killed all 329 people aboard.

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Boston 79 @ Los Angeles Lakers 83 (Los Angeles won best-of-seven series 4-3)

Kobe Bryant was successful on just 6 of 24 field goal attempts, but scored 23 points, including 10 in the 4th quarter, as the Lakers came back from a 49-36 3rd-quarter deficit to defeat the Celtics before 18,997 fans at Staples Center to win their 16th National Basketball Association championship, and their 11th since moving from Minneapolis in 1960. Mr. Bryant was named the Finals' Most Valuable Player, although Ron Artest, who scored 15 points and grabbed 6 rebounds, was hailed by head coach Phil Jackson as the most valuable player of the seventh game.