September 4, 2021

780 years ago
1241

Born on this date
Alexander III. King of Scots, 1249-1286. Alexander III was the only son of King Alexander II and succeeded him at the age of 7 in July 1249. Alexander III married King Henry III of England's daughter Margaret, and she bore him three children, but Queen Margaret died in 1275, and all three of their children died while their father was still on the throne. King Alexander III married Yolande de Dreux in 1285. While riding at night to meet her at Kinghorn, Fife to celebrate her birthday the following day, King Alexander fell off his horse and died of a broken neck on March 18, 1926 at the age of 44. Queen Yolande was pregnant with his child, but the pregnancy ended with an apparent miscarriage, and Alexander III's 7-year-old granddaughter Margaret, Maid of Norway inherited the throne. She died uncrowned in 1290 while on her way to Scotland.

340 years ago
1681

Born on this date
Carl Heinrich Biber. Austrian musician and composer. Mr. Biber was a violinist who was a court musician in Salzburg, and wrote almost 100 works of choral and instrumental church music during the transition from the late Baroque to the rococo styles. He died on November 19, 1749 at the age of 68.

240 years ago
1781

Americana
The city of Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.

200 years ago
1821

Died on this date
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo, 35. Chilean military officer and politician. General Carrera, a member of one of Chile's most prominent families, began his military career at the age of 6, and fought in numerous battles in Europe before returning to Chile. The Carreras seized power in a coup d'état in 1811, with José Miguel Carrera serving as President of the First Chilean Governing Council (1811-1814). Spanish forces reconquered Chile in 1814, forcing Gen. Carrera into exile in Argentina, where he participated in the Argentine federalist war, which ended with the Treaty of Pilar (1820). Gen. Carrera received money and troops as a result of the treaty, and began marching toward Chile, but he was intercepted in Mendoza, Argentina, and was hanged after being convicted in a show trial.

175 years ago
1846

Born on this date
Daniel Burnham. U.S. architect. Mr. Burnham, a proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, designed many buildings for shopping, but was better known for his skyscrapers, the Plan of Chicago, and especially the World's Columbian Exposition (1892-1893) in Chicago, popularly known as "The White City." He suffered from colitis and diabetes in later years, and both conditions, in addition to food poisoning, contributed to his death at the age of 65 on June 1, 1912, while on vacation with his wife in Heidelberg. They had travelled aboard the White Star Line ship RMS Olympic, which departed for Europe across the Atlantic Ocean in the opposite direction from RMS Titanic, hours before Titanic sank.

170 years ago
1851

Born on this date
John Dillon. U.K. politician. Mr. Dillon, a native of Dublin, was an Irish nationalist who represented Tipperary (1880-1883) and East Mayo (1885-1918) in the House of Commons. He was initially a supporter of Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, but eventually split from Mr. Parnell, and led the Irish National Federation (1892-1900). Mr. Dillon became leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party in March 1918, but the party was wiped out in the general election in December 1918, in which Mr. Dillon lost his seat to Sinn Féin candidate Éamon de Valera. Mr. Dillon retired from politics, and died on August 4, 1927, a month before his 76th borthday.

130 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Fritz Todt. German engineer and politician. Mr. Todt was a civil engineer who joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the SA in 1931, achieving the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer in 1938. He was appointed Inspector General of German Roadways in July 1933, a position he held for the rest of his life, directing the construction of the German autobahns. Mr. Todt was appointed as General Plenipotentiary for Regulation of the Construction Industry in 1938; Reichsminister for Armaments and Munitions in 1940; and Inspector General for Water and Energy in 1941. In May 1938, he initiated Organisation Todt, a military-engineering company that supplied industry with forced labour and administered construction of Nazi concentration camps. Mr. Todt was killed on February 8, 1942 at the age of 50 in a plane crash after departing the "Wolf's Lair," Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's residence in Rastenburg, East Prussia. Mr. Todt had recently inspected the Eastern Front and concluded that Germany couldn't win the war there. He had visited Mr. Hitler to recommend that he sue for peace with the U.S.S.R. Mr. Hitler rejected his proposal, leading to suspicion that the plane crash was an assassination ordered by Mr. Hitler; that has never been confirmed. Mr. Todt was succeeded as Reichsminister for Armaments and Munitions by Albert Speer.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
William Lyons. U.K. automobile executive. Sir William and William Walmsley co-founded the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, and began manufacturing cars in the late 1920s. The first Jaguar model was offered in 1935, and the company was renamed Jaguar Cars Limited in 1945. Sir William died on February 8, 1985 at the age of 83.

Baseball
Gene Wright of the Dayton Old Soldiers in the Western Association pitched his second consecutive no-hitter, shutting out the Grand Rapids Woodworkers 2-0 in Dayton, walking 3 batters and striking out 4. He had pitched a 9-0 no hitter three days earlier against the Columbus Senators.

80 years ago
1941

War
A German submarine made the first attack against a United States ship, firing two torpedoes at the destroyer USS Greer. German artillery began shelling Leningrad.

Diplomacy
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King spoke at Mansion House in London as the guest of Lord Mayor Sir George Wilkinson and the Corporation of London. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was also in attendance. Mr. King said, in part:

The people of Canada will be quick to recognize that the honour which is being done me to-day is meant as an honour to all Canada...This City to-day is held in high honour above all the cities of the earth. The very name of London reverberates around the world like the sound waves of a great bell calling together all who love and cherish freedom. I am here to-day to tell the brave men and women of Britain that the call is being answered, and will continue to be answered in ever larger measure from across the sea. (Cheers.)

In this world struggle to thwart aggression and to end oppression Canada is at Britain's side. The United States of America is lending powerful support...

...I thank you, Prime Minister, for honouring this occasion by your presence. (Cheers.) To me is indeed a source of pride that, behind our relationship in the affairs of State at this time of war, there lies an unbroken friendship extending over more than a third of a century--a friendship kept warm by personal visits of one or the other to Britain or Canada...To-day I stand at your side, one with you in thought and purpose and determination, never more honoured than that long years of public service should have afforded me the opportunity so to represent before the world the proud position of Canada at the side of Britain. (Cheers.)...

...Mankind may well be grateful that here in Britain, a free man, who believes in the ultimate power of free men, has become the champion of the hosts of freedom. (Cheers.)...Of you, Mr. Churchill, history will record that, by your example and your leadership, you helped to save the freedom of the world. (Cheers.)...

...Canada's entry into war was the deliberate decision of a free people, by their own representatives, in a free Parliament.

Canada is a nation of the new world. As a nation of the new world, we placed ourselves freely at Britain's side because Britain's cause was the cause of freedom, not in this island alone, not in the British Empire alone, not in the old world alone, but everywhere in the world...

...We are fighting to defend democratic and Christian ideals. We believe that everything which free men value and cherish on this side of the grave is in peril in this war. The right of men, rich and poor, to be treated as men; the right of men to make the laws by which they shall be governed; the right of men to work where they will, at what they will; the right of womankind to the serenity and sanctity of the home; the right of children to play in safety under peaceful heavens; the right of old men and women to the tranquillity of their sunset; the right to speak the truth in our hearts; the right to worship, in our own way, the God in whom we believe. (Cheers.)...

...For the task that faces Britain and those who fight with her is, I verily believe, nothing less than the task of saving humanity.

In recent days, you and I, Prime Minister, have crossed the great "Northern Bridge" which stretches through Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland from the old world to the new...As I spanned those waters and islands, in the space of a single night, I had a new and more vivid sense of our nearness, in North America, to the heart of the world conflict...

...We know that it is not enough to garrison the bridge itself, unless we are prepared to defend this island, which is its eastern bridgehead. That is why the fighting men of Canada are here in growing numbers to share in a task which is our defence as well as yours...

...That the United States was to share in keeping this northern bridge was the best of news...

...We, in Canada, were greatly heartened when, three years ago, the President, after referring to the Dominion of Canada as a part of the sisterhood of the British Empire, declared that the people of the United States would not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil were threatened by any other Empire. I reciprocated at once by recognizing Canada's responsibility to do what lay within her power to prevent attacks through our territory upon the United States. These declarations were the starting point of our agreement for joint defence.

To-day, fortunately, we are witnessing the birth of still wider arrangements for joint defence between the British Empire and the United States. Your declaration, Prime Minister, that in the Far East, Britain would stand at the side of the United States, is a sure sign of the deepening interdependence of the free world...

...Much is being said about a new world order to take the place of the old world order when the war is at an end. If that new order is not already on its way before the war is over, we may look for it in vain. A new world order cannot be worked out at some given moment and reduced to writing at a conference table. It is not a matter of parchments and of seals. That was one of the mistaken beliefs at the end of the last War. A new world order to be worthy of the name is something that is born, not made. It is something that lives and breathes; something that needs to be developed in the minds and the hearts of men; something that touches the human soul. It expresses itself in good will and in mutual aid. It is the application, in all human relationships, of the principle of helpfulness and of service. It is based not on fear, on greed, and on hate, but on mutual trust and the noblest qualities of the human heart and mind. It seeks neither to divide nor to destroy. Its aim is brotherhood, its method cooperation.

While the old order is destroying itself, this new relationship of men and nations has already begun its slow but sure evolution. It found expression when Britain determined to put an end to aggression in Europe; when other nations of the British Commonwealth took their place at the side of Britain, and when the United States resolved to lend its powerful aid to the nations which are fighting for freedom. It has found its latest expression in the Atlantic Charter. All these factors are combining to create one great brotherhood of freedom-loving peoples. It must now be wholly clear that if a new world order based upon freedom is to assume some definite shape, this can only be effected through the leadership of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States of America working in wholehearted cooperation toward this great end. (Cheers.) On such a foundation of unity of purpose and effort, all free peoples may well hope to build an enduring new world order.

A new heaven and a new earth--are not these, in very truth, what we seek to-day? A heaven to which men and women and little children no longer will look in fear, but where they may gaze again in silent worship and in thankfulness for the benediction of the sun and the rain; an earth no longer scarred by warfare and torn by greed, but where the lowly and the humble of all races may work in ways of pleasantness and walk in paths of peace.

And the sea no longer will be the scene of conflict, nor harbour any menace; it, too, will gladden the hearts of men as it unites, in friendly intercourse, the nations of the world.

Then...shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal Peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land.
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year."

This new heaven, this new earth, is the vision which, at this time of war, unites, inspires, and guides Britain, Canada, and other nations of the British Commonwealth, the United States, and our Allies in all parts of the world. No lesser vision will suffice to gain the victory. No lesser service to humanity will hold the faith and win the gratitude of mankind. (Loud cheers.) The Times, September 5, 1941, pp. 5-6.

The poem from which Mr. King quoted is The Golden Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Mr. Churchill rose to propose the toast of "The Lord Mayor." He spoke in praise of Mr. King and the Canadian war effort, and concluded his remarks with:

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with close relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand, and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations a division between the proud and once happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the new world. (Cheers.) The Times, September 5, 1941, p. 6.

Mr. Churchill's words were quoted, approximately, in the movie The Scarlet Claw (1944), when Basil Rathbone, playing Sherlock Holmes, delivered a tribute to Canada at the end of the film.

Defense
U.S. ships began escorting British convoyes for part of the trip across the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. State Department revealed that the first cargo of aviation gasoline for the Soviet Air Force had reached Vladivostok aboard the U.S. tanker L.P. St. Clair.

Journalism
The Italian government of Duce Benito Mussolini banned all foreign newspapers from Italy.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Senate voted to lower the indivudual income tax exemption in the pending tax bill to $1,500 for married people and $750 for single people.

Oil
11 major American oil companies agreed to make maximum use of all available railraod tank cars to end the gasoline shortage along the East coast of the United States.

Baseball
Atley Donald was the winning pitcher as the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 6-3 before 13,088 fans at Fenway Park in Boston to clinch the American League pennant, the earliest clinching date in major league history. The Yankees' record stood at 91-45, 20 games ahead of the second-place Chicago White Sox and 20 1/2 games ahead of the Red Sox.

The Cleveland Indians scored 3 runs in the top of the 10th inning and withstood a 2-run rally in the bottom of the inning to defeat the Detroit Tigers 7-6 before 4,317 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Bob Feller pitched a complete game for his 22nd win of the season.

Rip Sewell allowed just 1 hit and Vince DiMaggio drove in 2 runs with a double and scored a run as the Pittsburgh Pirates blanked the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 before 1,720 fans at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in a game that was called because of rain with 1 out in the bottom of the 5th inning.

Claude Passeau pitched a 5-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Lon Warneke as the Chicago Cubs blanked the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in the first game of a doubleheader at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs won the second game 4-3 in 10 innings to complete the sweep.

75 years ago
1946

At the movies
Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Glenn Ford and Janet Blair, received its premiere screening in San Diego.



Theatre
A revival of The Front Page, starring Lew Parker, Arnold Moss, George Lyons, and Olive Deering, opened at the Royale Theatre on Broadway in New York. The play had been a big hit in its original presentation in 1928.

War
The Chinese Foreign Ministry disclosed that the country had suffered $30-40 billion in damage during eight years of war with Japan, and claimed 40% of Japanese reparations.

Politics and government
The French Constituent Assembly approved a bicameral parliament consisting of a National Assembly with legislative powers and an Advisory Council.

Radical Party candidate Gabriel Gonzalez Videla defeated Conservative Eduardo Cruz and Liberal Fernando Alessandri in the Chilean presidential election, but did not win a majority in the four-way race, leaving Congress to choose between the top two candidates.

Louis St.-Laurent was appointed Secretary of State for External Affairs in the cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

Democrats in New York nominated U.S. Senator James Mead as the party's candidate to oppose incumbent Governor and Republican candidate Thomas Dewey in the November election.

Labour
10,000 New Jersey truck drivers began a sympathy strike to support the wage demands of 15,000 striking New York Teamsters.

70 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: This Way Out, starring Richard Coogan and Jean Parker

U.S. President Harry Truman inaugurated transcontinental television service--107 radio microwave relay stations from New York to San Francisco--when AT&T broadcast his address to the opening session of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.



Died on this date
Louis Adamic, 53. Slovenian-born U.S. author. Mr. Adamic, a native of what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, emigrated to the United States at the and of 1913, and became an American citizen in 1918. He wrote articles and books promoting socialism in the United States and the Yugoslav National liberation struggle led by Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Mr. Adamic was plagued by failing health when he reportedly shot himself to death; some people suspected that he had been assassinated by a Balkan faction, but no definitive proof of that has surfaced.

War
The 52-nation Japanese Peace Treaty Conference opened in San Francisco.

The one millionth U.S. soldier killed since the Battle of Lexington (1775) fell in Korea.

Politics and government
U.S. President Truman again spurred talk that he would run for re-election, delivering a strong attack on "reactionaries and isolationists" in a speech to western Democrats in San Francisco.

The U.S. Army denied Harvard University professor John King Fairbank, an Institute of Pacific Relations trustee, permission to enter Japan.

Oil
The Mexican government bought the Charro Oil Company for $1,852,000, settling the last dispute remaining from Mexico's 1938 oil expropriation.

Economics and finance
New York Stock Exchange prices hit a 21-year peak in moderate trading.

Tennis
16-year-old Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly defeated Shirley Fry 6–3, 1–6, 6–4 to win her first of three straight women's singles titles at the U.S. National Championships in Forest Hills, New York.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Enamorada--José Guardiola

#1 single in France (IFOP): Il faut savoir--Charles Aznavour (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Michael--The Highwaymen
2 Wooden Heart--Joe Dowell
3 Tossin' and Turnin'--Bobby Lewis
4 You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It)--Ral Donner
5 School is Out--U.S. Bonds
6 Take Good Care of My Baby--Bobby Vee
7 My True Story--The Jive Five with Joe Rene and Orchestra
8 Hurt--Timi Yuro
9 Don't Bet Money Honey--Linda Scott
10 As If I Didn't Know--Adam Wade

Singles entering the chart were You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby by Bobby Darin (#67); Don't Get Around Much Anymore by the Belmonts (#78); Juke Box Saturday Night by Nino and the Ebb Tides (#81); A Little Dog Cried by Jimmie Rodgers (#83); Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) by Sue Thompson (#84); For Sentimental Reasons by the Cleftones (#88); I Don't Like it Like That by the Bobbettes (#90); Let's Get Together by Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills (#92); The Way You Look Tonight by the Lettermen (#93); Please Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes (#95); I Love How You Love Me by the Paris Sisters (#96); Human by Tommy Hunt (#97); and Foot Stomping - Part 1 by the Flares (#100). I Don't Like it Like That was an "answer" to I Like it Like That (Part 1) by Chris Kenner, charting at #22. Let's Get Together was from the movie The Parent Trap (1961), in which Miss Mills played twins.

Football
CFL
Toronto (1-3) 19 @ Hamilton (4-0) 21
Winnipeg (5-2) 17 @ Saskatchewan (2-4) 11
Edmonton (6-0) 10 @ Calgary (1-4) 9

Jackie Parker's 40-yard field goal attempt with 24 seconds remaining in the game at McMahon Stadium hit the crossbar and flopped over for the winning points for the Eskimos.

Baseball
Johnny Blanchard hit a solo home run with 1 out in the bottom of the 8th inning to break a 3-3 tie and the New York Yankees scored another run later in the inning as they beat the Washington Senators 5-3 in the first game of a doubleheader before 34,683 fans at Yankee Stadium. Bob Cerv tripled with 1 out in the 7th and scored on a sacrifice fly by Clete Boyer to break a 2-2 tie as the Yankees won the second game 3-2 to complete the sweep, extending their American League lead to 6 games over the second-place Detroit Tigers. The Senators had a runner on first base with 2 out in the 9th, and Bob Johnson hit a deep fly ball to left field. Yogi Berra made a leaping catch to prevent a home run and end the game, but injured his hand, and was out of the lineup for the next 10 days. Bud Daley (10-16) pitched a 6-hit complete game victory, outduelling Pete Burnside (1-7), who pitched a 7-hit complete game.



Jackie Brandt and Charley Lau hit home runs in a 4-run 4th inning for the Baltimore Orioles as they beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader before 19,334 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Ron Nischwitz, the last of three Detroit pitchers, pitched 2 perfect innings, striking out 3 batters, in his major league debut. The Orioles were leading the second game 4-1 after 8 innings when the game was suspended because of a curfew. The game was resumed the next day, and relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm retired the Tigers in order to complete the sweep.

The Minnesota Twins scored 2 runs in the 2nd inning, 6 in the 4th, and 1 in the 5th, wnd withstood a 4-run 7th-inning rally as they beat the Chicago White Sox 9-5 before 20,036 fans in the first of two games at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. Harmon Killebrew's 39th home run of the season gave the Twins a 2-0 lead in the 2nd. Mike DeGerick, the third of four Chicago pitchers, allowed 2 runs and 1 run--earned--in 1.2 innings, walking 1 batter and striking out none in his major league debut. The White Sox scored 5 runs in the 4th as they overcame a 5-3 deficit to win the second game 9-5 before 12,540 fans. Chicago center fielder Al Smith batted 4 for 5 with a home run in the second game, while Joe Horlen (1-0), the second of three Chicago pitchers, allowed 2 hits in 4+ scoreless innings, walking 4 batters and striking out 2, to get the win in his first major league game.

Joe Koppe singled to lead off the 7th inning, advanced to third base on a single by Ken Hunt, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Steve Bilko for the eventual deciding run as the Los Angeles Angels withstood a 2-run 8th-inning rally and defeated the Kansas City Athletics 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader before 6,912 fans at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. Mr. Koppe's run was unearned, as he hit a foul pop fly that third baseman Wayne Causey dropped for an error to prolong his plate appearance. The Athletics scored 11 runs in the bottom of the 5th as they overcame a 7-2 deficit and won the second game 13-7.

Ken Johnson (6-2) pitched a 4-hitter and Eddie Kasko hit a 2-run home run in the 1st inning to provide the necessary scoring for the Cincinnati Reds as they shut out the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0 in the first game of a doubleheader before 16,175 fans at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. The Phillies withstood a 2-run 9th inning rally as they won the second game 5-3. Art Mahaffey (10-18) pitched an 8-hit complete game victory in the second game, and struck out Gene Freese to end the game while Gordy Coleman was on first base. Ken Hunt (9-10) took the loss.

Don Drysdale (11-9) pitched a 2-hitter to outduel Juan Marichal (13-10) as the Los Angeles Dodgers shut out the San Francisco Giants 4-0 before 32,109 fans at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, moving to within 2 games of the National League-leading Reds, dropping the fourth-place Giants 8 games off the lead.

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep--Lally Stott (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Pensieri e parole--Lucio Battisti (14th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): I'm Still Waiting--Diana Ross (3rd week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Eagle Rock--Daddy Cool (9th week at #1)
2 I Did What I Did for Maria--Tony Christie
3 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart--The Bee Gees
4 L.A. International Airport--Susan Raye
5 Daddy Cool--Drummond
6 I Don't Know How to Love Him--Helen Reddy
7 Sweet, Sweet Love--Russell Morris
8 It's Too Late--Carole King
9 Love Her Madly--The Doors
10 I'll Meet You Halfway--The Partridge Family

Singles entering the chart were Eat at Home/Smile Away by Paul & Linda McCartney (#36); Sweet and Innocent by Donny Osmond (#39); and What the World Needs Now/Abraham, Martin and John by Tom Clay (#40).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Borriquito--Peret (4th week at #1)
2 Manuela--Jacques Herb
3 One Way Wind--Cats
4 Black and White--Greyhound
5 Pour un Flirt--Michel Delpech
6 Blossom Lady--Shocking Blue
7 We Shall Dance--Demis Roussos
8 Que Je T'aime--Sandra & Andres
9 Sweet Hitch-Hiker--Creedence Clearwater Revival
10 Because I Love--Majority One

Singles entering the chart were Just a Friend by Sandy Coast (#21); Voy, Voy by Peret y Su Rumba Gitana (#26); Waarom Kwam Jij Toch in Mijn Leven by Anja en Johnny (#30); Non, Non, Rien N'a Changé by the Poppys (#32); Anna by Martin Wulms and his Orchestra (#36); and Marianne by Stephen Stills (#38).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney
2 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart--The Bee Gees
3 Smiling Faces Sometimes--The Undisputed Truth
4 Spanish Harlem--Aretha Franklin
5 Go Away Little Girl--Donny Osmond
6 Ain't No Sunshine--Bill Withers
7 Take Me Home, Country Roads--John Denver with Fat City
8 Signs--Five Man Electrical Band
9 Liar--Three Dog Night
10 I Just Want to Celebrate--Rare Earth

Singles entering the chart were Superstar/Bless the Beasts and Children by the Carpenters (#49); Ko-Ko Joe by Jerry Reed (#74); California Kid and Reemo by Lobo (#81); A Long Time, a Long Way to Go by Runt (#92); Carey by Joni Mitchell (#93); He'd Rather Have the Rain by Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti (#94); Desdemona by the Searchers (#96); Military Madness by Graham Nash (#97); Women's Love Rights by Laura Lee (#98); and We're Friends by Day (And Lovers by Night) by the Whatnauts (#100). Bless the Beasts and Children was the title song of the movie.

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Take Me Home, Country Roads--John Denver with Fat City
2 Spanish Harlem--Aretha Franklin
3 Smiling Faces Sometimes--The Undisputed Truth
4 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart--The Bee Gees
5 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)--Marvin Gaye
6 Go Away Little Girl--Donny Osmond
7 Signs--Five Man Electrical Band
8 Liar--Three Dog Night
9 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney
10 Ain't No Sunshine--Bill Withers

Singles entering the chart were Military Madness by Graham Nash (#78); Can You Get to That by Funkadelic (#83); Is That the Way by Tin Tin (#88); Women's Love Rights by Laura Lee (#91); Black Seeds Keep on Growing by the Main Ingredient (#92); A Part of You by Brenda and the Tabulations (#96); Lucky Me by the Moments (#97); Roll On by the New Colony Six (#98); Leave My Man Alone by the Raeletts (#99); and Think His Name by Johnny Rivers & the Guru Ram Das Ashram Singers (#100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Take Me Home, Country Roads--John Denver with Fat City (2nd week at #1)
2 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)--Marvin Gaye
3 Spanish Harlem--Aretha Franklin
4 Sweet Hitch-Hiker--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 Signs--Five Man Electrical Band
6 Liar--Three Dog Night
7 Smiling Faces Sometimes--The Undisputed Truth
8 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart--The Bee Gees
9 Go Away Little Girl--Donny Osmond
10 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney

Singles entering the chart were Superstar by the Carpenters (#58); Birds of a Feather by the Raiders (#71); Gimme Shelter by Grand Funk Railroad (#77); Ghetto Woman by B.B. King (#82); California Kid and Reemo by Lobo (#84); All My Trials by Ray Stevens (#85); You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk) by the 8th Day (#86); Think His Name by Johnny Rivers & the Guru Ram Das Ashram Singers (#87); Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll by John Baldry (#93); Hijackin' Love by Johnnie Taylor (#96); Carey by Joni Mitchell (#97); A Part of You by Brenda and the Tabulations (#99); and All My Hard Times by Joe Simon (#100).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart--The Bee Gees (2nd week at #1)
2 Draggin' the Line--Tommy James
3 Take Me Home, Country Roads--John Denver with Fat City
4 Sweet Hitch-Hiker--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 Go Away Little Girl--Donny Osmond
6 Liar--Three Dog Night
7 Riders on the Storm--The Doors
8 Beginnings--Chicago
9 Go Down Gamblin'--Blood, Sweat & Tears
10 Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)--Marvin Gaye

Singles entering the chart were Superstar by the Carpenters (#70); Get it While You Can by Janis Joplin (#74); Gimme Shelter by Grand Funk Railroad (#77); Try a Little Harder by Doctor Music (#81); 6 O'Clock in the Morning by James, John and Francois (#96); Down by the River by Joey Gregorash (#99); and Ko-Ko Joe by Jerry Reed (#100).

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 Sweet Hitch-Hiker--Creedence Clearwater Revival
2 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep--Middle of the Road
3 Rain Dance--The Guess Who
4 Take Me Home, Country Roads--John Denver with Fat City
5 Liar--Three Dog Night
6 Bangla-Desh--George Harrison
7 She Didn't Do Magic--Lobo
8 We Got a Dream--Ocean
9 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney
10 Talk it Over in the Morning--Anne Murray
Pick hit of the week: Ain't No Sunshine--Bill Withers

World events
Major General Hassan al-Amri, forced to resign as Prime Minister of Yemen less than two weeks after forming a new cabinet, took up exile in Lebanon.

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Vill ha dej--Freestyle (4th week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Bette Davis Eyes--Kim Carnes (7th week at #1)

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Chequered Love--Kim Wilde
2 Hak Hom Blokkies--David Kramer
3 Bette Davis Eyes--Kim Carnes
4 Titles--Vangelis
5 Tequila Sheila--Mac Davis
6 One Day in Your Life--Michael Jackson
7 Kids in America--Kim Wilde
8 More and More--Joe Dolan
9 Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)--Ottawan
10 Being with You--Smokey Robinson

Singles entering the chart were Winning by Santana (#15); and Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) (#16).

Football
CFL
British Columbia (7-2) 7 @ Ottawa (3-6) 17

Baseball
Dave Henderson singled with 2 out and nobody on base in the top of the 20th inning and Joe Simpson tripled him home to break a 7-7 tie as the Seattle Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 8-7 before 13,355 fans in the longest game by innings in the history of Fenway Park in Boston. The game had begun on September 3 but had been suspended after 19 innings because of a curfew. The Red Sox loaded the bases with 2 out in the bottom of the 20th, but Jim Beattie relieved Jerry Don Gleaton and induced Jim Rice to ground into a force play to end the game. In the regularly scheduled game, the Mariners scored 4 runs in the 2nd inning and coasted to a 5-2 win before 20,949 fans, as Bob Stoddard (1-0), with relief help from Mike Parrott, allowed 8 hits and 2 earned runs in 6.2 innings, walking 1 batter and striking out 4, making 1 assist in his major league debut.

Cliff Johnson led off the top of the 11th inning with a home run to break a 4-4 tie as the Oakland Athletics edged the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 before 15,733 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Shooty Babitt entered the game for Oakland as a pinch runner for Jim Spencer in the 8th inning and remained in the game at second base, batting 1 for 1 and making 1 putout and 1 assist in his 54th and last major league game.

The Milwaukee Brewers scored 3 runs in the 2nd inning, 4 in the 3rd, and 6 in the 7th as they routed the Minnesota Twins 16-5 before 7,976 fans at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. Mark Funderburk played the last 3 innings in left field for Minnesota, driving in a run with a sacrifice fly in the 8th in his only plate appearance, and having no fielding chances in his first major league game.

Jack Clark hit a solo home run with 2 out in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the San Francisco Giants a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs before 9,707 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (4th week at #1)

Died on this date
Charlie Barnet, 77. U.S. musician. Mr. Barnet was a jazz saxophonist and bandleader whose hit recordings included Skyliner, Cherokee, and Scotch and Soda. He was married 11 times, with the last marriage lasting 33 years.

Tom Tryon, 65. U.S. actor and author. Mr. Tryon starred in movies such as I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) and The Cardinal (1963), but had greater success as an author of horror and mystery novels such as The Other (1971) and Harvest Home (1973). He died of stomach cancer.

Dottie West, 58. U.S. singer-songwriter. Mrs. West, born Dorothy Marsh, was one of the most popular country singers from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. She achieved three #1 singles on the Billboard country chart as a solo artist and two more in duets. Mrs. West recorded with several male singers, most notably Kenny Rogers from 1978-1983. Mrs. West died several days after suffering internal injuries while being driven at high speed to a concert date.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (4-5) 20 @ British Columbia (5-4) 24

Doug Flutie threw 3 touchdown passes as the Lions overcame an early 10-0 deficit to defeat the Rough Riders before 28,107 fans at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.



Baseball
The eight-man Committee for Statistical Accuracy announced that a no-hit game was one of 9 innings or more in which one team had failed to get a hit. Among those removed from the list of no-hitters were those that had gone fewer than 9 innings, Jim Maloney's game in 1965 when he pitched 10 no-hit innings before giving up a hit and losing in the 11th, and Harvey Haddix's performance in 1959 when he pitched 12 perfect innings before giving up 2 hits and losing in the 13th. The 1917 game in which Babe Ruth was ejected after walking the first batter and Ernie Shore retired the baserunner and the remaining 26 batters was no longer listed as a perfect game for Mr. Shore, but as a combined no-hitter for Messrs. Ruth and Shore. The committee also listed Roger Maris as the sole holder of the record for home runs in a single season; his 61 homers in the 162-game season of 1961 had been listed separately from Babe Ruth's 60 homers in the 154-game season of 1927.

Infielders Shane Turner and Tommy Shields each played all nine positions for the Rochester Red Wings of the International League in their season-ending 8-0 win over the Syracuse Chiefs.

25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Wannabe--Spice Girls (2nd week at #1)

Television
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission awarded broadcast licences for 23 new channels, including a new History and Entertainment Network; CHUM Ltd. of Toronto received 6 licences.

War
The United States launched 44 cruise missiles at targets south of Baghdad in an effort to curb the invasions of Iraqi forces into Kurdish territory.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attacked a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.

20 years ago
2001

Popular culture
Tokyo DisneySea opened to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

Baseball
16-year-old Luo Chin-lung pitched 5 innings, striking out 8, as Taiwan beat Australia 14-4 in the World Cup.

Jose Cruz led off the bottom of the 1st inning with a home run to begin a 5-run inning as the Toronto Blue Jays embarrassed the New York Yankees 14-0 before 20,036 fans at SkyDome in Toronto. Felipe Lopez drove in 5 runs with a pair of homers and a triple, and Tony Fernandez came to bat as a pinch hitter in the 7th and hit a grand slam. Chris Carpenter (9-11) pitched a 6-hitter, striking out 12 batters and walking none. Erick Almonte played the last 4 innings at shortstop for New York, batting 1 for 1 and making 1 putout in his first major league game, while Juan Rivera played the last 3 innings in right field for New York, batting 0 for 1 with no fielding chances in his major league debut.

Gabe Kapler doubled home Chris Magruder and Ruben Sierra with none out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Texas Rangers a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins before 22,045 fans at the Ballpark in Arlington. Mr. Magruder was making his major league debut, entering the game as a pinch runner for Rafael Palmeiro, who singled to lead off the 9th.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays scored a run in the 9th inning to tie the score and erupted for 6 runs with 2 out in the 10th to break a 2-2 tie as they beat the Seattle Mariners 8-3 before 44,859 fans at Safeco Field in Seattle.

John Valentin, Royce Clayton, Paul Konerko, and Jeff Liefer hit home runs for the Chicago White Sox as they beat the Detroit Tigers 10-1 in the first game of a doubleheader before 13,265 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Winning pitcher Mark Buehrle (13-7) allowed 4 hits and 1 run in 8 innings. Sean Lowe (7-4) allowed 2 hits in 5 innings and four relief pitchers allowed just 2 hits as the White Sox won the second game 4-0 to complete the sweep. Magglio Ordonez hit a 2-run homer in the 5th inning of the second game. Detroit right fielder Chris Wakeland made his major league debut in the second game, batting 0 for 3 and making 6 putouts.

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Lee Roy Selmon, 56. U.S. football player. Mr. Selmon played defensive end with the University of Oklahoma Sooners (1972-1975), earning All-American honours and helping the Sooners win national championships in 1974 and 1975, and winning the Lombardi Award ad Outland Trophy in his final season. He was the first overall draft choice of the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League in 1976, and played 9 seasons with them, receiving First Team All-Pro recognition three times (1979, 1980, 1982) and Second Team recognition twice (1978, 1984), and playing in the Pro Bowl in his last six seasons. Mr. Selmon retired after the 1984 season because of a back injury, worked as a bank executive, and joined the University of South Florida's athletics department in 1993, serving as USF's atheltics director (2001-2004). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. Mr. Selmon died two days after suffering a stroke.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (7-2) 7 @ Saskatchewan (2-7) 27