August 29, 2021

760 years ago
1261

Religion
Three months after the death of Pope Alexander IV, the College of Cardinals elected and installed Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Jacques Pantaléon as Pope Urban IV, head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States.

500 years ago
1521

War
Ottoman Turkish forces completed the capture of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).

480 years ago
1541

War
Ottoman Turkish forces captured the Hungarian capital of Buda.

190 years ago
1831

Science
Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.

160 years ago
1861

Born on this date
Byron G. Harlan. U.S. singer. Mr. Harlan was a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who recorded on his own and in duets with others from the late 1890s through the early 1920s. He was best known for his duets with Arthur Collins--billed as Collins & Harlan--which included hits such as In My Merry Oldsmobile (1905); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1911); Aba Daba Honemoon (1914); and The Old Grey Mare (1918). Mr. Harlan died on September 11, 1936, 13 days after his 75th birthday.

War
The two-day Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries in North Carolina concluded with Union forces in control of Pamlico Sound.

150 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Albert François Lebrun. President of France, 1932-1940. Mr. Lebrun, a member of the Left Republican Party, was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1900, and held various cabinet posts through 1919. He then joined the Democratic Republican Alliance, and was elected to the Senate in 1920, representing Meurthe-et-Moselle, serving as Vice President (1925-1929) and President (1931-1932) of the Senate. Mr. Lebrun was elected President of France following the assassination of Paul Doumer in May 1932, and was re-elected in 1939, although by then exercising little power. On July 10, 1940, he enacted the Constitutional Law of 10 July 1940 allowing Prime Minister Philippe Pétain to promulgate a new constitution. Mr. Pétain replaced Mr. Lebrun the next day, although Mr. Lebrun never formally resigned. He fled to Vizelle, but was captured by the Nazis in August 1943 and imprisoned in the Tyrol, but was allowed to return to Vizelle, under constant surveillance, six weeks later. When the Allies restored the French government in August 1944, Mr. Lebrun acknowledged the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle. Mr. Lebrun lived in retirement until his death from pneumonia after a long illness on March 6, 1950 at the age of 78.

Politics and government
Japanese Emperor Meiji ordered the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centres of administration.

140 years ago
1881

Born on this date
Pat Harrison. U.S. politician. Mr. Harrison, a Democrat, represented Mississippi's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1911-1919 and represented Mississippi in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death on June 22, 1941 at the age of 59. He had been a member of the Senate Finance Committee since 1933 and President pro tempore of the Senate since January 6, 1941.

130 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Marquis James. U.S. historian. Mr. James won Pulitzer Prizes for The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston (1929) and the two-volume biography Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain (1934); Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President (1937). He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Novmber 19, 1955 at the age of 64.

Died on this date
Pierre Lallement, 47. French inventor. Mr. Lallement has been credited inventing the pedal bicycle in 1862.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
Aurèle Joliat. Canadian hockey player. Mr. Joliat played left wing with the Montreal Canadiens from 1922-1938, scoring 460 points on 270 goals and 190 assists in 655 regular season games and 14 goals and 14 assists in 28 playoff games. He was a member of Stanley Cup championship teams in 1924, 1930, and 1931, won the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1934 as the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player. Mr. Joliat was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. Less than two years before his death on June 2, 1986 at the age of 84, he entertained the fans at the Montreal Forum by skating around the rink as part of a ceremony celebrating the Canadiens' 75th anniversary.

110 years ago
1911

Born on this date
John Charnley. U.K. physician. Sir John was an orthopedic surgeon who pioneered hip replacement surgery at Wrightington Hospital in Lancashire in the 1960s. His textbook The Closed Treatment of Common Fractures (1950) influenced generations of orthopedic surgeons. Sir John died on August 5, 1982, 24 days before his 71st birthday.

Died on this date
Mahboob Ali Khan, 45. Nizam of Hyderabad, 1869-1911. Mahboob Ali Khan was 2 when he succeeded his father Afzal-ud-Daulah as Nizam (ruler) of the princely Indian sate of Hyderabad. He spent his early years under a regency, but eventually took the reins of leadership, and was the first nizam to be exposed to Western education. Mahboob Ali Khan abolished the practice of sati (the traditional Hindu practice of widows throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres) in 1876. He died 12 days after his 45th birthday, and was succeeded by his son Mir Osman Ali Khan.

Defense
The Canadian Naval Service became the Royal Canadian Navy.

Anthropology
Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerged from the wilderness of northeastern California.

90 years ago
1931

Died on this date
David T. Abercrombie, 64. U.S. businessman. Mr. Abercrombie opened his first Abercrombie Co. clothing store in New York City in 1892; the company later became Abercrombie & Fitch.

80 years ago
1941

At the movies
Ich klage an (I Accuse), directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, and starring Paul Hartmann and Heidemarie Hatheyer, opened in theatres in Germany.

War
The Estonian capital of Tallinn was occupied by German forces, three days after they had entered the city. The German and Italian governments announced that German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Italian Duce Benito Mussolini had concluded five days of talks at Mr. Hitler's headquarters on the Russian front, discussing military and political questions that affected the war. Despite an Iranian cease-fire order, U.K.-U.S.S.R. forces continued their advance in Iran. A Chinese government spokesman said that Chinese troops had begun a general offensive against Japanese forces in the provinces of Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsi, Kiangsu, and Anhwei.

World events
Eight more people were executed in Paris, three on charges of espionage and five for "activity against the occupying power."

Diplomacy
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that Averell Harriman would head the U.S. mission to the three-power conference in Moscow.

An Argentine Chamber of Deputies committee investigating anti-Argentine activities reported that there were 64,319 Germans in semi-military groups in the country, organized by the German embassy.

Defense
U.S. Maritime Commission Chairman Emory Land said that the United States would obtain the use of about 26 Axis tankers immobilized in Latin America.

The U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars announced that Earl Southard, suspended commander of the Illinois department, had been found guilty of disloyalty by a court-martial for his activities in the Keep America Out of War Committee.

Politics and government
Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. Woodward was commissioned as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.

Republican Party candidate Lawrence H. Smith, an isolationist, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, defeating Democratic candidate Thomas Amlie.

Labour
The U.S. National Defense Mediation Board announced that the Congress of Industrial Organizations Chemical Workers Union had agreed to end its strike in 17 plants of the U.S. Gypsum Company pending an investigation of union demands.

75 years ago
1946

Died on this date
Adolphus Busch III, 55. U.S. brewer. Mr. Busch succeeded his father Augustus A. Busch as president of Anheuser-Busch Company upon Augustus Busch's death in 1934. Adolphus Busch III ran the company until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage, and was succeeded in turn by his brother August A. "Gussie" Busch, Jr.

John Steuart Curry, 48. U.S. artist. Mr. Curry was known for his paintings of rural life in his native Kansas, and with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, was hailed as one of the great figures of American Regionalism. He wasn't hailed in his native state, however, as many Kansans thought he portrayed the state in a negative light. Mr. Curry's most famous work is Tragic Prelude (1938-1940), one of two murals he completed for the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. He died of a heart attack.

War
Documents were introduced at the Tokyo trial of accused Japanese war criminals to show that Japanese troops had killed 280,000 Chinese in the 1937 "rape of Nanking."

Nationalist Chinese forces reported the capture of Chengte, a key transport junction northeast of Peking.

Diplomacy
The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 8 to admit Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden to UN membership, while a U.S.S.R. veto excluded Ireland, Portugal, and Transjordan.

The British government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee revealed that it had decided against inviting Jamal Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, to a September 9 conference in London on Palestine.

Politics and government
Colonel C. A. Banks was commissioned as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.

Defense
U.S. Army intelligence authorities in Stuttgart announced that they had broken a pro-Soviet German spy ring.

The United States Navy dreadnought USS Nevada, launched in 1914, was decommissioned.

Crime
Pennsylvania Governor Edward Martin ordered state police to probe Ku Klux Klan activities, and asked the U.S. Justice Department for the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Labour
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan General Douglas MacArthur banned strikes of Japanese workers "inimical to the objectives of the military occupation."

70 years ago
1951

On the radio
Pete Kelly's Blues, starring Jack Webb, on NBC

Diplomacy
Following a hostile interview with U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, C.S.S.R. Ambassador to the U.S.A. Vladimir Prochazka told reporters that the case of imprisoned Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis was "closed" and that Czechoslovakian courts "will not yield to any pressure."

Crime
A court in San Juan, Puerto Rico sentenced Puerto Rican nationalist leader Pedro Abizu Campos to 12-54 years in prison, following his conviction on subversion charges.

The Danish government released former SS-Obergruppenführer and civilian administrator of occupied Denmark (1942–1945) Werner Best as part of an amnesty for German war criminals. SS-Obergruppenführer Best had been sentenced to death in 1948, but the sentence was reduced to 12 years.

Politics and governments
Proponents of a constitutional monarchy failed to win a decisive majority in the Jordanian general election. Political parties were banned at the time, so all candidates ran as independents.

Disasters
Mukden radio reported 1,800 deaths and 3,000 people missing after severe flooding in Manchuria.

Boxing
Kid Gavilan (75-12-3) retained his National Boxing Association world lightweight title with a 15-round split decision over Billy Graham (91-7-6) at Madison Square Garden in New York.



Football
CRU
IRFU
Montreal (0-1) 6 @ Hamilton (1-0) 37

Two quarterbacks made their Canadian football debuts in this game at Civic Stadium: Bernie Custis, a graduate of Syracuse University, with the Tiger-Cats; and George Ratterman, who had led the National Football League in touchdown passes in 1950--22 with the New York Yanks--with the Alouettes.

Baseball
The Boston Braves traded pitcher Johnny Sain to the New York Yankees for pitcher Lou Burdette and $50,000. Mr. Sain was 5-13 with an earned run average of 4.21 and 1 save in 26 games with Boston in 1951, batting .212 with 1 home run and 4 runs batted in. Mr. Burdette was 14-12 with a 3.21 ERA in 30 games with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, batting .107 with 1 homer and 6 RBIs.

Gil Hodges drove in 7 runs with 2 home runs and a double, and Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campanella each drove in 3 runs, to help the Brooklyn Dodgers rout the Cincinnati Reds 13-1 before 9,488 fans at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Don Newcombe (17-7) pitched a 9-hit complete game victory.

Jim Hearn (13-7) pitched a 3-hitter to outduel Murry Dickson (17-12), who pitched a 7-hitter, and Alvin Dark drove in 2 runs with a single and a home run to help the New York Giants defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 before 7,678 fans at the Polo Grounds in New York, remaining 6 games behind the National League-leading Dodgers.

Billy Johnson drew a base on balls with 1 out in the top of the 9th inning, stole second base and advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Del Wilber, and scored on an outfield fly by Bill Sarni to break a 2-2 tie as the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 before 20,717 fans at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. Eddie Waitkus was on second base with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th, but relief pitcher Harry Brecheen struck out Dick Sisler and retired Bill Nicholson on a fly ball to right field to end the game. Gerry Staley (15-13) allowed 6 hits and 2 earned runs in 8+ innings to get the win.

Gus Zernial hit a 2-run home run with 2 out in the top of the 4th inning to open the scoring and Alex Kellner (8-13) pitched a 5-hitter to outduel Mike Garcia (17-10) as the Phladelphia Athletics shut out the Cleveland Indians 3-0 before 12,019 fans at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.

Johnny Pesky batted 4 for 4 with a double and 4 runs, and Ted Williams hit a 3-run home run to help the Boston Red Sox defeat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 before 8,050 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit.

Mickey Vernon led off the top of the 13th inning with a single and eventually scored from third base on an error by second baseman Nellie Fox with 1 out to break a 1-1 tie as the Washington Nationals edged the Chicago White Sox 2-1 before 8,633 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Mickey Harris (6-8) pitched 1.2 scoreless innings to get the win in relief of Connie Marrero, who allowed 9 hits and 1 earned run in 11.1 innings.

The New York Yankees scored 5 runs in the top of the 1st inning and 4 in the 9th as they routed the St. Louis Browns 15-2 before 5,554 fans at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Mickey Mantle hit a 3-run home run off Satchel Paige to conclude the scoring. Winning pitcher Allie Reynolds (13-7) pitched a 2-hitter and batted 2 for 5 with a run and 3 runs batted in. St. Louis starter Ned Garver (15-9) retired just one batter, and allowed 4 hits, 2 bases on balls, and 5 runs--all earned.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' Man--Ricky Nelson (8th week at #1)

50 years ago
1971

Died on this date
Nathan Leopold, 66. U.S. criminal. Mr. Leopold was a child prodigy who reportedly studied 15 languages and spent 5, and was a noted amateur ornithologist who completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and was preparing to enter Harvard Law School when he and fellow prodigy Richard Loeb, with whom he had become friends and begun committing petty crimes at the U of C, decided to demonstrate their intellectual superiority by committing a "perfect murder" without consequences. On May 21, 1924, they kidnapped and murdered Bobby Franks, 14, Mr. Loeb's neighbour and second cousin. The pair were questioned and soon arrested, with each naming the other as the actual killer. Messrs. Leopold and Loeb were convicted of murder and kidnapping, but were both spared death sentences and handed life sentences for murder and 99 years for kisnapping as a result of the courtroom pleading of their attorney, the famed Clarence Darrow. Mr. Loeb was murdered in Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois by a fellow inmate on January 28, 1936 at the age of 30. Mr. Leopold became a model prisoner at Stateville, teaching other inmates in the prison's school, and volunteering as a guinea pig in the Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study. He was paroled in March 1958, and eventually moved to Santirce, Puerto Rico, where he got married, obtained a master's degree at the University of Puerto Rico, and taught classes there. Mr. Leopold also worked as a civil servant, and resumed his hobby of ornithology. He died of a diabetes-related heart attack.

Football
CFL
Toronto (4-1) 24 @ British Columbia (3-3) 27

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Out Here on My Own--Nikka Costa (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): One Day in Your Life--Michael Jackson

#1 single in Ireland: Green Door--Shakin' Stevens (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Green Door--Shakin' Stevens (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Japanese Boy--Aneka

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 De Nederlandse Sterre Die Strale Overal!--Rubberen Robbie (2nd week at #1)
2 Wordy Rappinghood--Tom Tom Club
3 One Day in Your Life--Michael Jackson
4 No Me Hables--Juan Pardo
5 Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)--Ottawan
6 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
7 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
8 Ghost Town--The Specials
9 Caribbean Disco Show--Lobo
10 Happy Birthday--Stevie Wonder

Singles entering the chart were Why Tell Me, Why by Anita Meyer (#26); Green Door by Shakin' Stevens (#27); Japanese Boy by Aneka (#32); A Heart in New York by Art Garfunkel (#35); Magnetic Fields Part 2 by Jean Michel Jarre (#36); and Don't Say You Leave this Summer by Albert West (#37).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (3rd week at #1)
2 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters
3 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury
4 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around--Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
5 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
6 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
7 (There's) No Gettin' Over Me--Ronnie Milsap
8 Urgent--Foreigner
9 Lady (You Bring Me Up)--Commodores
10 Who's Crying Now--Journey

Singles entering the chart were Private Eyes by Daryl Hall & John Oates (#68); Hard to Say by Dan Fogelberg (#72); Alien by Atlanta Rhythm Section (#88); Love All the Hurt Away by Aretha Franklin and George Benson (#89); and Our Lips are Sealed by the Go-Go's (#90).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (3rd week at #1)
2 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters
3 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury
4 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
5 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
6 Elvira--The Oak Ridge Boys
7 I Don't Need You--Kenny Rogers
8 Lady (You Bring Me Up)--Commodores
9 Urgent--Foreigner
10 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around--Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

Singles entering the chart were Private Eyes by Daryl Hall & John Oates (#64); Hard to Say by Dan Fogelberg (#74); Alien by Atlanta Rhythm Section (#85); Love All the Hurt Away by Aretha Franklin and George Benson (#88); Our Lips are Sealed by the Go-Go's (#89); and Not Fade Away by Eric Hine (#90).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (3rd week at #1)
2 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
3 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
4 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters
5 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury
6 The Stroke--Billy Squier
7 Elvira--The Oak Ridge Boys
8 Urgent--Foreigner
9 Lady (You Bring Me Up)--Commodores
10 (There's) No Gettin' Over Me--Ronnie Milsap

Singles entering the chart were Private Eyes by Daryl Hall & John Oates (#46); Hard to Say by Dan Fogelberg (#74); Love All the Hurt Away by Aretha Franklin and George Benson (#88); Our Lips are Sealed by the Go-Go's (#89); and Sweat (Till You Get Wet) by Brick (#98).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Gemini Dream--Moody Blues
2 In the Air Tonight--Phil Collins
3 The One that You Love--Air Supply
4 Urgent--Foreigner
5 Sausalito Summernight--Diesel
6 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
7 The Stroke--Billy Squier
8 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
9 Fire and Ice--Pat Benatar
10 Medley--Stars on 45

Since RPM was publishing its first charts since July 4 because of the nationwide postal strike, 20 of the 50 entries on the Top Singles chart were new, and too numerous to mention here.

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 In the Air Tonight--Phil Collins (2nd week at #1)
2 Fire and Ice--Pat Benatar
3 Urgent--Foreigner
4 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury
5 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
6 One Step Ahead--Split Enz
7 Tempted--Squeeze
8 Who's Crying Now--Journey
9 Don't Let Him Go--REO Speedwagon
10 Lady (You Bring Me Up)--Commodores

Singles entering the chart were Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones (#27); and Lonely Nights by Bryan Adams (#30).

Died on this date
Lowell Thomas, 89. U.S. journalist. Mr. Thomas was a writer, broadcaster, and film producer who was known for his wide travels. He publicized T.E. Lawrence during World War I, making him famous as Lawrence of Arabia. Mr. Thomas presented the first televised newscast in 1939, and produced the first Cinerama movie in 1952, but was best known for his radio newscasts, which he presented on CBS and from 1930-1932 and 1947-1976 and on NBC from 1932-1947.

Football
CFL
Montreal (1-7) 11 @ Hamilton (6-2) 16
Calgary (4-4) 21 @ British Columbia (7-1) 31

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (9th week at #1)

Died on this date
Libero Grassi, 67. Italian businessman. Mr. Grassi was a clothing manufacturer from Palermo who was murdered by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their pizzo (extortion) demands.

Music
Crowded House performed at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton. This blogger arrived in time to hear them, but missed the opening act, Far Cry.

Politics and government
The Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. suspended all activities of the Soviet Communist Party, officially bringing it to an end.

Law
Manitoba's aboriginal justice inquiry said that the legal system systematically discriminated against Canadian natives, and recommended universal self-government and a separate justice system run by natives.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (0-8) 14 @ Ottawa (4-4) 38

Damon Allen threw 3 touchdown passes and handed off to Reggie Barnes for another TD to lead the Rough Riders over the Tiger-Cats before 24,532 fans at Lansdowne Park for their fourth straight win.



25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Trash--Suede (2nd week at #1)

Music
This blogger was in attendance with enjoyable female company as the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's Symphony Under the Sky series opened at Hawrelak Park.

Space
The Canadian UVAI (Ultra-Violet Auroral Imager) instrument was launched on board the Russian Interbol-2 spacecraft.

Scandal
The British Columbia Securities Commission found former British Columbia Premier Bill Bennett guilty of insider trading committed when he was in office. Mr. Bennett was Premier from 1975-1986.

Disasters
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashed into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

20 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Eric Tipton, 86. U.S. baseball and football player and coach. Mr. Tipton was a running back and punter with the Duke University Blue Devils (1936-1938), rushing for 1,633 yards and 17 touchdowns, while also playing baseball with Duke as an outfielder. He was drafted in the 13th round by the Washington Redskins in 1939, but elected to play professional baseball instead. Mr. Tipton played left field with the Philadelphia Athletics (1939-1941) and Cincinnati Reds (1942-1945), batting .270 with 22 home runs and 151 runs batted in in 501 games. He batted .291 with 114 homers and at least 719 RBIs in 10 seasons in the minor leagues (1940-1942, 1946-1952). Mr. Tipton was an assistant football coach at the College of William and Mary (1939-1956) and lightweight (150 pounds and under) football coach at the United States Military Academy (1957-1976), compiling a record of 104-14-1 record and 13 league titles in the latter position. He was head baseball coach at William and Mary (1953-1957) and USMA (1958-1977), compiling a record of 234-201-5 and 3 league titles with Army. Mr. Tipton was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965. He died of heart failure.

Sid Peterson, 83. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Peterson played with the St. Louis Browns (1943), posting a 2-0 record with an earned run average of 2.70 in 3 games, despite allowing 15 hits in 10 innings. He was 114-95 with a 3.61 ERA in 304 games in 10 seasons in the minor leagues (1940-1950), winning 19 games with the Wichita Falls Spudders of the Class B Big State League in 1948 and 20 with the Spudders in 1950. Mr. Peterson worked with the Wichita Falls, Texas police department after his baseball career ended.

Francisco Rabal, 75. Spanish actor. "Paco" Rabal appeared in more than 200 movies and television programs in a career spanning 60 years. He received numerous international awards and was flying back to Bordeaux after winning an award at the Montreal Film Festival, when he died of emphysema.

Dick Selma, 57. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Selma played with the New York Mets (1965-1968); San Diego Padres (1969); Chicago Cubs (1969); Philadelphia Phillies (1970-1973); California Angels (1974); and Milwaukee Brewers (1974), compiling a record of 42-54 with an earned run average of 3.62 and 31 saves in 307 games, batting .172 with no home runs and 7 runs batted in. He played just 4 games with the Padres, but recorded the club's first win. Mr. Selma was 58-45 in 10 seasons in the minor leagues (1963-1967, 1973-1977). He was known for his sense of humour, and died of liver cancer.

Graeme Strachan, 49. Australian musician and television host. "Shirl" Strachan was the lead singer of the rock group Skyhooks (1974-1978), and had several hit singles as a solo artist. He hosted the children's television program Shirl's Neighbourhood (1979–1983), and appeared as a co-host and carpenter on the home renovation program Our House (1993-2001), which was cancelled after he was killed in a crash of the helicopter he was flying.

Baseball
The Milwaukee Brewers scored 5 runs in the 4th inning and 4 in the 5th as they overcame a 4-0 deficit and defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-8 before 24,551 fans at Miller Park in Milwaukee. Pittsburgh third baseman Aramis Ramirez batted 4 for 4 with a base on balls, 2 home runs, 3 runs, and 5 runs batted in. He led off the 9th with a homer, and the Pirates had runners on first and second bases with 2 out, but Abraham Nunez grounded out to pitcher Chad Fox to end the game.

The St. Louis Cardinals scored 9 runs in the 2nd inning to over come a 4-0 deficit and withstood a 3-run 9th-inning rally as they held on to beat the San Diego Padres 16-14 before 31,362 fans at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis. Ryan Klesko of the Padres batted 5 for 6 with 2 home runs, 2 doubles, 4 runs, and 5 runs batted in; one of his homers travelled 472 feet and was estimated to be the longest home run in the 36-year history of the stadium.

Luis Gonzalez hit his 50th home run of the season to lead off the bottom of the 5th inning, providing the insurance run for the Arizona Diamondbacks as they blanked the San Francisco Giants 2-0 before 31,990 fans at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. Bobby Witt (2-1) and 3 relief pitchers combined to pitch a 4-hit shutout, defeating Kirk Rueter (12-10).

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Honeyboy Edwards, 96. U.S. musician. David Edwards was a Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist who performed and recorded on his own and with artists such as Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines in a career spanning eight decades, and was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Chicago, six weeks after announcing his retirement, and hours before he was scheduled to give a performance.

Fred Farran, 74. U.S. singer. Mr. Farran and his identical twin brother Ed comprised half of the vocal group the Arbors, who had hit singles with A Symphony for Susan (1966); The Letter (1969); I Can't Quit Her (1969); and Touch Me (1969). The group wrote and performed music for commercials for 30 years after the hits ended. Ed Farran died on January 2, 2003 at the age of 65, and Fred died of pneumonia.