July 23, 2020

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Alla!

180 years ago
1840

Politics and government
The British Parliament passed the the Act of Union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada, to take effect February 10, 1841, providing for the union of the two provinces under a single government. The Act also provided tor the assumption of the £1.2-million Upper Canada debt; establishment of a civil list; banning of the French language in the Assembly and in all government departments; and dissolution of French educational and civil law institutions.

160 years ago
1860

Crime
The trial of Eastbourne schoolmaster Thomas Hopley, 41, charged with manslaughter in the April 22, 1860 beating death of student Reginald Cancellor, 15, took place at Lewes Assizes before the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench Sir Alexander Cockburn and a jury. Mr. Hopley was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison. The trial became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of corporal punishment in schools.

130 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Pete Schmidt. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Schmidt played 1 game with the St. Louis Browns on July 14, 1913, allowing 3 hits and 1 run--earned--in 2 innings of relief, with no decision and an earned run average of 4.50. He died on March 11, 1973 at the age of 82.

Baseball
Harry Stovey of the Boston Reds became the first major league player to hit 100 career home runs as he reached the milestone in a 22-5 rout of the Chicago Pirates in a Players League game in Chicago.

The Columbus Buckeyes beat the Syracuse Stars 13-8 in an American Association game in Syracuse, as losing pitcher Mike Morrison made 7 wild pitches.

125 years ago
1895

Born on this date
Aileen Pringle. U.S. actress. Mrs. Pringle, born Aileen Bisbee, was a star during the era of silent films, appearing in such movies as Stolen Moments (1920); Three Weeks (1924); Dream of Love (1928); and Wall Street (1929). She died on December 16, 1989 at the age of 94.

120 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Julia Davis Adams. U.S. authoress. Mrs. Adams, the daughter of Democratic Party politician John W. Davis, wrote historical and biographical novels for teenagers, and wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym F. Draco. She died on January 30, 1993 at the age of 92.

Jack Babcock. Canadian-born soldier. Mr. Babcock, a native of Frontenac County, Ontario, attempted to join the Canadian Army during World War I at the age of 15, but was turned down and sent to work in Halifax until he was placed in the Young Soldiers Battalion in August 1917. He was then transferred to the United Kingdom, where he continued his training until the end of the war. Although he never saw combat, Acting Lance Corporal Babcock was regarded as a veteran of the war. He returned to Canada in 1919, but moved to the United States in 1921 and became an electrician before joining the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of sergeant. Sgt. Babcock spent World War II in the United States, and became an American citizen in 1946. He settled in Spokane, Washington, where he died. Mr. Babcock was the last surviving Canadian veteran of World War I, and regained his Canadian citizenship in 2008; he died on February 18, 2010 at the age of 109.

110 years ago
1910

Baseball
Philadelphia Athletics’ owner and manager Connie Mack traded infielder Morrie Rath and a player to be named later to the Cleveland Naps for outfielders Bris Lord. Shoeless Joe Jackson, an outfielder with the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association, was sent to Cleveland on July 30 to complete the deal. Mr. Rath was batting .154 (4 for 26) with no home runs and 1 run batted in in 18 games with Philadelphia in 1910. Mr. Lord was batting .219 with no homers and 17 RBIs in 58 games with Cleveland. Mr. Jackson played 136 games with the Pelicans, leading the SA with a .354 batting average, before joining the Naps in September.

90 years ago
1930

Died on this date
Glenn Curtiss, 52. U.S. aviator. Mr. Curtiss raced bicycles and motorcycles in the early 1900s, setting several land speed records on motorcycles. He began manufacturing airship engines in 1904, and joined the Aerial Experiment Association in 1908. Mr. Curtiss achieved several aviation firsts, including the first officially-witnessed flight in North America and the first long-distance flight between major cities in the United States. He manufactured the JN-4 "Jenny" for the U.S. Army and N-9 seaplane for the Navy during World War I, also selling them to the armed forces of Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Curtiss sold the stock in his company for $32 million in 1920 and retired to Florida. He travelled to Rochester, New York in 1930 to contest a lawsuit brought by former business partner August Herring, but collapsed in court with appendicitis, and died after an appendectomy.

Baseball
Pie Traynor hit the game-winning home run in both games as the Pittsburgh Pirates swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 and 16-15 in 13 innings before 6,000 fans at National League Park in Philadelphia. Mr. Traynor connected off Roy Hansen in the 9th inning of game 1, and batted 5 for 7 in game 2, with a double, 4 runs, and 4 runs batted in.

The Cincinnati Reds rallied for 4 runs in the top of the 9th inning to overcome a 7-4 deficit and defeat the Boston Braves 8-7 in the first game of a doubleheader before 5,000 fans at Braves Field. Al Spohrer led off the bottom of the 11th inning with a single and scored on a 1-out single by Socks Seibold to give the Braves a 6-5 win in the second game.

80 years ago
1940

Diplomacy
Japanese residents in the Chinese city of Hungchow issued a demand that the United States leave Asia.

The Czecho-Slovak National Committee, headed by Eduard Benes, said in London that the United Kingdom recognized it as the Czechoslovakian government in exile.

General Wladislaw Sikorski, commander-in-chief of the Polish Army in London, announced a new Polish-British military convention.

The United Kingdom provided shelter in Khartoum for Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie until his return to Ethiopia.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles issued a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, publicly attacking the "devious processes" by which the U.S.S.R. had "deliberately annihilated" the independence of the three countries.

Defense
The British Purchasing Mission and U.S. officials agreed on allocation of the output from the U.S. defense industry. The British were to receive 40% of all aircraft produced.

The United States War Department received reports that Japanese purchasing agents were trying to corner aviation gasoline supplies on the West Coast.

Economics and finance
The Canadian Wartime Prices and Trade Board fixed prices for all grades of wheat, flour, and bread, preventing millers from passing on the 15%/bushel wheat processing tax.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a resolution extending for three years executive authority to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements.

Protest
The Bengali government in India announced that it would remove the "Black Hole" monuments, site of recent protest demonstrations.

Baseball
The Brooklyn Dodgers bought outfielder Pete Reiser from the Montreal Royals of the International League, where he was batting .250 in just 3 games. He had started the season with the Elmira Pioneers of the Class A Eastern League, batting .378 with 7 home runs in 67 games.

The Cincinnati Reds beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-3 in 11 innings and 9-2 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for their 10th doubleheader sweep of the year.

75 years ago
1945

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Sentimental Journey--Les Brown and his Orchestra (vocal chorus by Doris Day) (8th week at #1)
--Hal McIntyre and his Orchestra
--The Merry Macs
2 There! I've Said it Again--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra (vocal refrain by Vaughn Monroe and the Norton Sisters)
--Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra
3 Bell Bottom Trousers--Tony Pastor and his Orchestra
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
--Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
--Louis Prima and his Orchestra
--Jerry Colonna
4 You Belong to My Heart--Bing Crosby and Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
--Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
5 Caldonia--Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five
--Woody Herman and his Orchestra
--Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra
6 Chopin's Polonaise--Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra
7 On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe--Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and his Orchestra
--Bing Crosby
--Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
8 Laura--Johnnie Johnston
--Woody Herman and his Orchestra
--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
--Dick Haymes
9 Dream--The Pied Pipers
--Frank Sinatra
--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
10 The More I See You--Dick Haymes
--Harry James and his Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were the version of Bell Bottom Trousers by Jerry Colonna; Please No Squeeza Da Banana by Tony Pastor and his Orchestra (#34); Out of This World, with versions by Jo Stafford; and Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (#35); (Yip Yip De Hootie) My Baby Said Yes by Bing Crosby and Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five (#37); Goosey Gander by Woody Herman and his Orchestra (#39); and Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) by Frank Sinatra (#42).

War
Dispatches from Frankfurt revealed that U.S. occupation forces in Germany had carried out mass raids throughout the American zone from sunrise on July 21 until sunrise today, taking 80,000 Germans into custody for suspected membership in the SS or other criminal organizations. With the approval of U.S. President Harry Truman, U.S. Army General Leslie Groves secretly directed that the 509 Composite Group of the 20th Air Force prepare to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. U.S. destroyers broke up a four-ship Japanese convoy in Sagami Bay near Tokyo, sinking two vessels and damaging one. Chinese forces recaptured the former U.S. air base at Namyung in the province of Kwangtung.

World events
Former French Prime Minister Marshal Philippe Petain maintained his innocence as he went on trial in Paris for treason.

Diplomacy
U.S. Senator Tom Connally presented the United Nations Charter to the full Senate for discussion.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Theodore Bilbo (Democrat--Mississippi) refused the demand of Representative Vito Marcantonio (American Liberal Party--New York) that he apologize to Miss Josephine Piccolo for addressing her as "My Dear Dago" in a letter, after she had written Sen. Bilbo about his opposition to Fair Employment Practices Commission legislation.

Fred Vinson took office as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, while John Snyder took office as director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.

Science
A bill to establish a National Science Foundation was introduced into the United States Senate.

Disasters
Northern New Jersey and the Berkshire area of Massachusetts suffered $4 million in damage from floods following eight days of heavy rain.

70 years ago
1950

Died on this date
Bill Lange, 79. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Lange played center field with the Chicago Colts/Orphans (1893-1899), batting .330 with 39 home runs and 579 runs batted in in 813 games. He had 400 stolen bases, including a National League-leading 73 in 1897. Mr. Lange retired in order to marry a woman whose father refused to let her marry a baseball player; although the marriage ended in divorce a few years later, Mr. Lange refused all offers to resume playing. He became successful in real estate and insurance in San Francisco, and worked for the New York Giants as a scout in Europe, searching for possible talent while establishing baseball leagues in several European countries.

Shigenori Tōgō, 67. Japanese politician and diplomat. Mr. Tōgō held various diplomatic posts from 1913-1941, including Ambassador to Germany (1937-1938) and Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1938-1940). He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo from October 1941, but resigned on September 1, 1942; he was appointed to the House of Peers, but spent most of World War II in retirement. Mr. Tōgō returned to the post of Foreign Minister in April 1945 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Admiral Kantarō Suzuki, and advocated Japanese surrender to the Allies. He was convicted of war crimes in 1948, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and died from gall bladder inflammation while in prison.

War
Chinese Communist artillery bombarded Nationalist-held Quemoy Island, but no attempt was made to land an invasion force.

Disasters
30 homeward-bound U.S. National Guardsmen and 4 crewmen were killed in the crash of a C-46 troop carrier plane near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Baseball
Pitcher Saul Rogovin hit a grand slam in the 2nd inning off Ed Lopat to give the Detroit Tigers a 4-0 lead over the New York Yankees, but it took a 2-run rally in the top of the 9th to enable them to win 6-5 before 59,760 fans at Yankee Stadium. Hank Bauer hit a 3-run homer off Mr. Rogovin in the 3rd inning to get New York on the scoreboard.

60 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool--Connie Francis (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: Scandalo al sole (The Theme from "A Summer Place")--Percy Faith and his Orchestra (12th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Milord--Dalida (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): Good Timin'--Jimmy Jones (4th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 I'm Sorry--Brenda Lee
2 Alley-Oop--The Hollywood Argyles
--Dante and the Evergreens
3 Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)--Roy Orbison
4 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini--Brian Hyland
5 Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool--Connie Francis
6 Because They're Young--Duane Eddy and the Rebels
7 Mule Skinner Blues--The Fendermen
8 A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)--Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
9 Please Help Me, I'm Falling--Hank Locklin
10 Tell Laura I Love Her--Ray Peterson

Singles entering the chart were It's Now or Never by Elvis Presley (#48); Walk - Don't Run by the Ventures (#67); In My Little Corner of the World by Anita Bryant (#70); The Twist, with versions by Chubby Checker; and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (#82); Margo (The Ninth of May) by the Browns (#89); I Just Go for You by Jimmy Jones (#92); Over the Rainbow by the Demensions (#93); Mio Amore by the Flamingos (#97); Red Sails in the Sunset by the Platters (#98); Second Honeymoon by Johnny Cash (#99); The Wreck of the "John B" by Jimmie Rodgers (#100); and I'll Fly Away by Lonnie Sattin and his Orchestra (also #100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)--Roy Orbison (2nd week at #1)
2 It's Now or Never--Elvis Presley
3 Walk - Don't Run--The Ventures
4 The Blamers--Les Vogt
5 Feel So Fine--Johnny Preston
6 Dreamin'--Johnny Burnette
7 Image of a Girl--The Safaris with the Phantom's Band
8 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini--Brian Hyland
9 Walking to New Orleans--Fats Domino
10 No--Dodie Stevens

Singles entering the chart were Pineapple Princess by Annette with the Afterbeats (#21); In My Little Corner of the World by Anita Bryant (#33); A Broken Vow by the Chordettes (#40); Hully Gully Cha Cha Cha by Skip and Flip (#44); Over the Rainbow by the Demensions (#45); How Long by Darwin and the Cupids (#46); Little Boy Lost by Jimmy Dean (#47); Down the Street to 301 by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two (#48); It Only Happened Yesterday by Jack Scott (#49); and Sweet Cucumber by Little Bill (#50).

Golf
Betsy Rawls, 32, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, won the United States Women's Open for a record fourth time at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts. She overcame a seven-stroke deficit in the third round with a 68 and took the title with a final round 75 to win by one stroke over Joyce Ziske.

Baseball
Mike de la Hoz hit his first major league home run for the Cleveland Indians as they defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-2 before 13,328 fans at Fenway Park in Boston, with Jim Perry (11-4) pitching a 6-hit complete game victory. Cleveland left fielder Jimmy Piersall went into a war dance in the 6th and 8th innings while Ted Williams was at bat for the Red Sox in an attempt to distract the Boston star, and was ejected, and ultimately fined $100. Indians’ manager Joe Gordon was also ejected when he pleaded Mr. Piersall’s case. When Mr. Piersall was ejected, Bubba Phillips moved from third base to left field and George Strickland went in to play third base, with no plate appearances or fielding chances in the 971st and last game of his 10-year major league career.

Harmon Killebrew hit a 2-run home run and three Cuban players--pitcher Pedro Ramos, first baseman Julio Becquer, and shortstop Jose Valdivielso--turned a triple play as the Washington Senators beat the Kansas City Athletics 8-3 before 3,598 fans at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Whitey Herzog was the player who lined into the only all-Cuban triple play in major league history. Winning pitcher Chuck Stobbs improved to 7-2 for the season, allowing 4 hits and 1 run--earned--in 5 innings of relief.

Juan Marichal (2-0) pitched a 4-hitter to outduel Harvey Haddix (6-6) as the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 before 30,228 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

Roger Craig (4-1) pitched a 3-hitter to outduel Dallas Green (1-4), who allowed only 4 hits, as the Los Angeles Dodgers shut out the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0 before 31,631 fans at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

40 years ago
1970

Died on this date
Leith Stevens, 60. U.S. composer. Mr. Stevens wrote scores for many radio and television shows, and for movies such as Destination Moon (1950); The Wild One (1953); and The Gene Krupa Story (1959). Mr. Stevens received a phone call from the police telling him that his wife had been killed in a car accident, and after making a few calls to others to let them know, he sat down and suffered a fatal heart attack.

World events
Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat and Oman, 60, was overthrown in a palace coup by his 28-year-old son Qabus bin Said for reasons of "health and age." Qabus, who had been educated at Oxford University and Sandhurst Military Academy, said he had taken control because of his father’s "inability" to use "the new-found wealth of his country for the needs of his people." Oil discovered in the mid-1960s had brought new wealth to the isolated sultanate.

Diplomacy
Egyptian President Gamal Nasser returned from 19 days in the U.S.S.R. and accepted unconditionally a Middle East peace plan announced a month earlier by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers. The Rogers proposal, which had been submitted to the U.S.S.R., U.K., France, and the Middle East countries, was based on the United Nations resolution of November 1967, and called for a 90-day standstill cease-fire and negotiations conducted by Gunnar Jarring, Sweden’s Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., who had tried to bring the sides together before. "We want peace, but peace is remote. We do not want war, but war is around us," Mr. Nasser said. He explained that he had reasoned that "we will be giving Israel the excuse to obtain more arms from the U.S. on the pretext that it wants peace while we want war" if "we do not answer the U.S."

The U.S.A., U.K., and France abstained in voting on an Afro-Asian United Nations Security Council resolution demanding unconditional compliance with the UN arms embargo against South Africa. Despite abstentions, the resolution, calling for immediate halt of weapons and spare parts shipments by member nations, passed 12-0.

Terrorism
The six Palestinian members of the Popular Struggle Front who had hijacked a Greek Olympic jetliner after takeoff from Beirut the day before were flown to Cairo, and the jet was returned to Beirut.

A U.S. federal grand jury in Detroit indicted all 13 members of the Weathermen, a splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society, on charges of conspiracy to commit bombings through a nationwide underground of terrorists.

Protest
A visitor to the British House of Commons in London shouted "Belfast! See how you like it!" and tossed two gas bombs into the crowded House moments after Prime Minister Edward Heath had left the floor. It was the most violent incident in Parliament since 1812.

Abominations
The United States Senate voted 54-33 to approve and send to President Richard Nixon the controversial crime bill allowing "no-knock" searches; preventive detention; more wiretaps; and mandatory harsh sentences in the District of Columbia. President Nixon was expected to sign the bill, which had been panned as unconstitutional by its critics.

Health
A former consultant on hunger to the U.S. administration of President Richard Nixon told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that 40 of the top 60 dry breakfast cereals had little nutritional content and that "the worst cereals are huckstered to children" on television.

Football
CFL
Pre-season
Ottawa (1-4) 27 @ Hamilton (1-3) 20

Baseball
Milt Pappas (6-3) pitched a 4-hitter for the Chicago Cubs as edged the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 before 30,891 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Cincinnati starter Jim McGlothlin allowed 4 hits in 7 scoreless innings, but the Cubs scored an unearned run in the 8th against Clay Carroll (7-2). It was the only shutout against the Reds all year, tying the National League record.

40 years ago
1980

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (Hot Press): Crying--Don McLean (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Mollie Steimer, 82. Russian-born activist. Ms. Steimer, born Marthe Alperine, moved with her family to the United States at the age of 15, and in her late teens became involved in union activities in the garment district on the Lower East Side of New York City. She became an anarchist and was convicted under the Sedition Act in 1918 for distributing leaflets opposing U.S. military action in Russia opposing the Bolshevik Revolution. Ms. Steimer was deported to Russia in 1921, and met fellow anarchist and life partner Senya Fleshin. The couple were deported to Germany in 1923, and fled to France after the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933. Ms. Steimer was imprisoned in France in 1940, but escaped, and she and Mr. Fleshin eventually made their way to Cuernavaca, Mexico, operating a photographic studio until her retirement in 1963, while continuing to support anarchist causes until her death.

Sarto Fournier, 72. Canadian politician. Mr. Fournier, a native of East Broughton, Quebec, was a member of the Liberal Party when he represented the Quebec riding of Maisonneuve-Rosemont in the Canadian House of Commons (1935-1953). He ran unsuccessfully four times for Mayor of Montreal but was elected in 1957 and served until 1960, initiating the Expo 67 world's fair project. Mr. Fournier was a Liberal member of the Senate from the Quebec riding of De Lanaudière from 1953 until his death.

Space
Soyuz 37, with a crew of Commander Viktor Gorbatko and Flight Engineer Phạm Tuân, lifted off from Baiklonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to dock with the Salyut 6 space station. Mr. Tuân becames the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space.

Crime
Police arrested two suspects in the assassination in Bethesda, Maryland the day before of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former press attaché at the Iranian Embassy in Washington. A U.S. postal service jeep had been hijacked, and Mr. Tabatabai had been shot to death when a gunman disguised as a mail carrier arrived at his house claiming that he had a special delivery for him. Those arrested were the mail carrier driving the vehicle, Tyrone Frazier, and Horace Butler. A third man, believed to have fired the shots and identified as David Belfield, was charged with first degree murder and was still at large. Mr. Belfield was a member of a small group of American black Muslims who had adopted Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s brand of Islamic fundamentalism. Mr. Tabatabai had been an outspoken and highly visible opponent of the Ayatollah, and was president of the Iran Freedom Foundation, a group dedicated to the creation of a "secular democracy" in Iran.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (2-1) 20 @ Toronto (2-1) 16
Saskatchewan (0-3) 24 @ Calgary (2-1) 40

Ottawa kicker Gerry Organ was successful on both of his field goal attempts, including one from 40 yards with 1:51 remaining, while Toronto’s Zenon Andrusyshyn missed all 3 of his field goal attempts, including one from 17 yards, drawing boos from the crowd of 40,112 at Exhibition Stadium. Jim Reid rushed 2 yards for the first Rough Rider touchdown, while Condredge Holloway threw 45 yards to Martin Cox for the other. Argonaut quarterback Mark Jackson rushed 11 yards for a touchdown and passed 39 yards to Terry Metcalf for the other Toronto major.

James Sykes rushed 19 times for 194 yards and 3 touchdowns, including a run of 74 yards, as the Stampeders amassed 332 yards rushing. Willie Burden added 58 yards on 9 carries, including a 22-yard touchdown, and rookie Calgary receiver Leo Lewis rushed 62 yards for a touchdown on his first (and only) CFL rushing attempt and added 20 yards on 2 pass receptions. Jim Washington led the Roughriders with 17 carries for 94 yards and a touchdown, and scored another touchdown on a 9-yard pass reception from Tom Rozantz. Mr. Rozantz also connected with Gerry Fellner for a Saskatchewan touchdown. 30,857 were in attendance at McMahon Stadium.

30 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Odoru Pompokolin (おどるポンポコリン)--B.B.Queens (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Verdammt, Ich Lieb' Dich--Matthias Reim (10th week at #1)

Personal
This blogger spent the day with attractive female company in Kitchener and Waterloo.

Law
U.S. President George Bush announced that David Souter, a judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, would be his nominee to succeed the retiring William Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Souter was a graduate of Harvard Law School and had served as New Hampshire’s attorney general and as a state Supreme Court judge before being named to the circuit court earlier in 1990.

25 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: How Deep is Your Love--Portrait

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): Wish You were Here--Rednex

#1 single in Switzerland: Wish You were Here--Rednex (2nd week at #1)

Space
Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.

War
The United Kingdom sent 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

Golf
John Daly shot 1-under-par in a 4-hole playoff to finish 4 strokes ahead of Constantino Rocca and win the British Open at the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. The two were tied after 4 rounds with 6-under-par total scores of 282. First prize money was £125,000 ($199,375).



Cycling
Miguel Indurain of Spain became the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five consecutive times, defeating Alex Zulle of Switzerland by 4 minutes 35 seconds.



20 years ago
2000

Diplomacy
The 26th annual Group of Eight (G8) summit concluded in Okinawa. Leaders pledged to cut the percentage of the world’s population living in extreme poverty to half the 1990 figure by 2015, and reduce the number of AIDS cases 25% by 2010, but no specific measures were adopted to achieve their goals. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the summit after meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. Mr. Putin said that North Korea was willing to forego its nuclear weapons program if other countries helped it to launch satellites.

Aviation
Bombardier Aerospace President Michael Graff took advantage of the Farnborough Airshow in England to announce the development of a new regional jet: the CRJ900.

Disasters
In India, a Boeing 737-200 jet crashed and burst into flames, killing 55 people on board and on the ground. The plane was scheduled to be taken out of service later in the year.

Golf
Tiger Woods won the British Open for the first time, becoming, at 24, the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam--winning the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA championship. He shot a 3-under-par 69 in the final round, and his 4-round total was a 19-under-par 269 (a record for a major tournament), 8 strokes ahead of Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els. First prize money was £500,000 ($759,150).



Cycling
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the second consecutive year. He covered the 2,774-mile course in 92 hours, 33 minutes, 8 seconds. The result has since been voided by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, and upheld by the Union Cycliste Internationale, because of the use by Mr. Armstrong and others of performance-enhancing drugs.



Baseball
Tony Perez, Sparky Anderson, Carlton Fisk, Bid McPhee, and Turkey Stearnes were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Marty Brennaman, longtime broadcaster of Cincinnati Reds’ games, many of which featured Mr. Perez and Mr. Anderson, was inducted into the broadcasters’ wing.

The Houston Astros hit 6 home runs, 4 in the 2nd inning off Andy Benes, as they beat the St. Louis Cardinals 15-7 before 42,684 fans at Enron Field in Houston. Houston leadoff hitter Bill Spiers batted 3 for 5 with 2 home runs, 3 runs, and 6 runs batted in. Lance Berkman also homered twice for the Astros. Jason Green, the third of four Houston pitchers, allowed 1 hit and 1 run--earned--in 1.1 innings, walking 3 batters and striking out 2 in his first major league game.

Pedro Martinez (11-3) allowed 6 hits, struck out 15 batters, and walked none for the Boston Red Sox as they edged the Chicago White Sox 1-0 before 33,224 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Mike Sirotka (9-8) allowed 5 hits, and the only run against him was unearned, when Israel Alcantara reached second base on a throwing error by Chicago shortstop John Valentin with 1 out in the bottom of the 4th inning and scored on a single by Jason Varitek.

10 years ago
2010

Died on this date
Daniel Schorr, 93. U.S. journalist. Mr. Schorr was a reporter with CBS radio and television from 1953-1976, and won three Emmy Awards. He was with CNN from 1979-1985 and then joined National Public Radio, with whom he worked until a couple of week before his death

Football
CFL
British Columbia (1-3) 20 @ Toronto (3-1) 24