Tuesday 9 March 2010

March 10, 2010

340 years ago
1670


Died on this date
Johann Rudolf Glauber, 66
. German-born Dutch alchemist and chemist. Mr. Glauber, who lived in several cities before settling in Amsterdam in 1640, has been described as one of the first chemical engineers; he was the first person to produce concentrated hydrochloric acid in 1625 by combining sulfuric acid and table salt. The same year, he discovered sodium sulfate, which became known as "Glauber's salt." Mr. Glauber wrote about 40 books, but became seriously ill in 1660, probably the result of poisoning from heavy metals used in his work. He was crippled by a fall from a wagon in 1666, and died six days after his 66th birthday.

250 years ago
1760


Diplomacy
Chief Michael Augustine of Richibucto in what is now New Brunswick signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship at Halifax as a renewal of the agreements of 1725 and 1749, re-affirming Mi’kmaq hunting and fishing rights.

225 years ago
1785

Diplomacy

Thomas Jefferson was appointed the U.S.A.’s minister to France.

180 years ago
1830


Defense
The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army was created.

160 years ago
1850


Born on this date
Spencer Gore
. U.K. tennis and cricket player. Mr. Gore played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874-1875), but was best known for winning the first Gentleman's Singles tennis title at Wimbledon in 1877. He was credited with being the first player to use the technique of volleying. Mr. Gore retired from competitive tennis after losing the Gentleman's Singles final at Wimbledon in 1878, and died on April 19, 1906 at the age of 56.

120 years ago
1890


Born on this date
Albert Ogilvie
. Australian politician. Mr. Ogilvie, a member of the Labour Party, represented the Division of Franklin in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1919 until his death. He became Leader of the Opposition in 1929, and Premier of Tasmania from 1934. Mr. Ogilvie's government modernized Tasmania's health care system and embarked on other economic reforms. He was in office at the time of his death on June 10, 1939 at the age of 49, which took place a few hours after he took ill while playing golf.

110 years ago
1900


Born on this date
Pandelis Pouliopoulos
. Greek Communist. Mr. Pouliopoulos was the founder of the Trotskyist movement in Greece. Imprisoned by the Greek regime of Ioannis Metaxas in 1938, he was executed on June 6, 1943 at the age of 43, and was one of 100 militants executed by Italian occupation forces in Nezero, near the Greek city of Larissa, in retaliation for the destruction by partisans of the Gorgopotamos bridge. The executions were carried out by the Carabinieri--the Italian military police--after soldiers refused to perform the task.

100 years ago
1910


Died on this date
Carl Reinecke, 75
. German composer and conductor. Mr. Reinecke was a successful concert pianist before conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig from 1860 until the 1890s. He wrote over 300 works, including three symphonies, four piano concertos, and numerous other instrumental works, including the flute Sonata Undine (1882).

Karl Lueger, 65. Austrian politician. Mr. Lueger was first elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus (lower house of the Reichsrat (Imperial Parliament) in 1885, representing the Fifth District of Vienna, and was re-elected in 1891, two years before he founded the Austrian Christian Social Party, which promoted Roman Catholic social values and opposed Jews. Some critics said that Mr. Lueger's anti-Semitism was just a populist attempt to get votes, and that he was tolerant toward Jews, personally, and in office. Mr. Lueger was also elected to the Lower Austria Landtag (Parliament) in 1890, and served as Mayor of Vienna from 1897 until his death from diabetes. He was succeeded as Mayor by Josef Neumayer.

Canadiana
The city of Prince Rupert, British Columbia was incorporated.

75 years ago
1935

On the radio

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Louis Hector and Leigh Lovell, on NBC

70 years ago
1940


On television tonight
In the first televised opera, W2XBS-TV in New York City broadcast members of the Metropolitan Opera Company in scenes from I Pagliacci.

Died on this date
Mikhail Bulgakov, 48
. Russian author and playwright. Dr. Bulgakov was a surgeon who abandoned his medical career after a near-fatal attack of typhus in 1919. He then began another career, writing journalism, novels, short stories and plays. Dr. Bulgakov had difficulty getting his writing published or his plays produced, but Soviet dictator Josef Stalin saved him from arrest and execution. Dr. Bulgakov died after a long battle with the inherited kidney disorder nephrosclerosis. His best-known work, the novel The Master and Margarita, which satirized the atheism of the Soviet Union, was written between 1928-1940, but wasn't published until the late 1960s.

War
Diplomatic sources in Washington reported the scuttling of the German steamer Hanover near Puerto Rico, near the American safety zone.

World events
A Hindu-Muslim riot in Calcutta claimed the lives of six people.

Economics and finance
A United States Commerce Department survey indicated that trade with the Netherlands East Indies would increase because of the European war.

Labour
The International Labor Organization announced the postponement of its annual meeting for one year.

60 years ago
1950


Died on this date
Robert Anderson Jardine, 72
. U.K. clergyman. Rev. Jardine was a Church of England vicar of a parish in Darlington in the north of England who defied Church authorities by performing the wedding between the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII, and twice-divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson in France. Rev. Jardine performed the ceremony "without episcopal licence," and was forced to resign soon after returning to England.

War
The Burmese Army charged that Karen nationalists had massacred hundreds of civilians before retreating in the face of a government drive to regain the Toungoo area near Rangoon.

The Colombian government said that it had "normalized" conditions in Barrancabermeja, an oil field centre where rebellious troops had recently seized control.

Defense
Ho Chi Minh's Vietnamese government announced that all citizens aged 18-45 were subject to conscription into the Viet Minh.

Radio
Radio Daily published a poll of radio editors naming Jack Benny as the "greatest radio personality of the last 25 years."

Medicine
Dr. Albert Schatz of Brooklyn, New York sued Selman Wakeman for half the profits from the sale of streptomyecin, claiming to be a co-discoverer of the drug.

Economics and finance
The Cuban cabinet authorized the Havana cigar industry to produce machine-made cigars for the first time.

Labour
The American Federation of Labor National Farm Labor Union urged U.S. President Harry Truman to terminate an agreement with Mexico permitting U.S. farms to employ Mexican workers.

50 years ago
1960


Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Marina--Rocco Granata and the International Quintet

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): Poor Me--Adam Faith (2nd week at #1)

On television tonight
The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The White Slavers, with guest stars Dick York, Mike Kellin, Nita Talbot, and Betty Field

Education
The Quebec government of Premier Antonio Barrette enacted several laws concerning schools and universities, in particular the Act concerning real estate investments of Quebec universities and the Act granting financial assistance to Quebec universities.

40 years ago
1970


Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Kvällstoppen): Monia--Peter Holm (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade): Let it Be--The Beatles

Yellowknifiana
The day after the opening of the first Arctic Winter Games, the flags of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, which had lined Franklin Avenue downtown, had all been stolen. The games continued.

Crime
U.S. Army Captain Ernest Medina, Captain Eugene Kuotoc, Staff Sergeant Kenneth L. Hodges, Sergeant Esquiel Torres, and Private Max Hutson were charged with various crimes in connection with the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. The charges ranged from premeditated murder and rape to the "maiming" of a suspect during questioning. Captain Medina was commander of the unit to which most of the accused men belonged.

30 years ago
1980


Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Crazy Little Thing Called Love--Queen (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Okuru Kotoba--Kaientai

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Video Killed the Radio Star--The Buggles (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Sun of Jamaica--Goombay Dance Band (4th week at #1)

On television tonight
Family, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Daylight Serenade

Died on this date
Herman Tarnower, 69
. U.S. physician and author. Dr. Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (1978), was shot and killed at his home in Purchase, New York, eight days before his 70th birthday. He was found unconscious on the floor of his bedroom bleeding profusely from three bullet wounds, and was pronounced dead an hour later at a hospital. Jean Harris, a long-time friend of Dr. Tarnower’s and headmistress of Madeira School in Virginia, was seen driving away from Dr. Tarnower’s house as police arrived to investigate a report of a disturbance. She turned over a .32-caliber revolver and later admitted to shooting the doctor.

Diplomacy
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini fully backed the militants holding the hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and placed stringent conditions on any visits to the captives by the 5-man United Nations commission hearing grievances against the deposed shah. As a result, the panel left the country and suspended issuing a report of its investigation.

Politics and government
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe appointed political rival Joshua Nkomo as Minister of Home Affairs.

25 years ago
1985


Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Square Rooms--Al Corley

#1 single in Switzerland: You're My Heart, You're My Soul--Modern Talking

On the radio
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes, starring Graham Armitage and Kerry Jordan, on Springbok Radio
Tonight's episode: An Item of Cartography

Died on this date
Konstantin Chernenko, 73
. U.S.S.R. political leader. Mr. Chernenko replaced Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 13, 1984, four days after Mr. Andropov’s death. He also served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from April 11, 1984 until his death, but was widely regarded as just a caretaker until a younger leader was ready to take over. Indeed, that turned out to be the case, when Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded to the U.S.S.R.’s highest office the day after Mr. Chernenko’s death . Mr. Chernenko was a veteran apparatchik whose background was mainly in propaganda. He was in failing health during his time in office; among his few accomplishments as Soviet leader were a trade pact with China and a meeting with British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. In the late fall of 1984 the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. agreed to resume arms reduction talks in early 1985.

Bob Nieman, 58. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Nieman was an outfielder with the St. Louis Browns (1951-1952); Detroit Tigers (1953-1954); Chicago White Sox (1955-1956); Baltimore Orioles (1956-1959); St. Louis Cardinals (1960-1961); Cleveland Indians (1961-1962); and San Francisco Giants (1962), batting .295 with 125 home runs and 544 runs batted in in 1,113 games. On September 14, 1951, he became the first man to hit home runs in each of his first 2 major league at bats. Mr. Nieman finished his major league career with a brief appearance in the 1962 World Series, and concluded his playing career with the Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League, betting .301 with 13 homers and 39 RBIs in 103 games.

Curling
Brier @ Moncton Coliseum
Final
Northern Ontario (Al Hackner) 6 Alberta (Pat Ryan) 5 (11 ends)

N.O. skip Al Hackner made a brilliant double take-out with his final shot in the 10th end to tie the score, and stole the winning point in the 11th when Mr. Ryan was heavy with his last rock. It was the second Canadian championship for Mr. Hacker, having led Northern Ontario to the title in 1982.



Hockey
NHL
Vancouver 6 Edmonton 3
Montreal 5 Hartford 5

CIAU
Western championship
Alberta 6 Manitoba 5 (OT) (Alberta won best-of-three series 2-1)

20 years ago
1990


Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Pump Up the Jam--Technotronic (9th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Get Up! (Before the Night is Over--Technotronic (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Les Valses de Vienne--François Feldman (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (CIN): Dub Be Good to Me--Beats International (2nd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (4th week at #1)
2 Daar Gaat Ze--Clouseau
3 Sacrifice--Elton John
4 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul
5 I Wish it Would Rain Down--Phil Collins
6 King Kong Five--Mano Negra
7 Live Together (New Version)--Lisa Stansfield
8 Fools Gold--The Stone Roses
9 Look Away--Chicago
10 Here I Am (Come and Take Me)--UB40

Singles entering the chart were Jij Daar! by Petra & Co. (#28); Touch Me--Sexual Version by the 49ers (#30); Put Your Hands Together by D Mob (#31); All My Life by Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville (#32); Dangerous by Roxette (#34); and Arabeat by Bingo! featuring: Serge Gobin (#37).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Escapade--Janet Jackson (2nd week at #1)
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Roam--The B-52s
4 Black Velvet--Alannah Myles
5 Price of Love--Bad English
6 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
7 No More Lies--Michel'le
8 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
9 I Go to Extremes--Billy Joel
10 Love Will Lead You Back--Taylor Dayne

Singles entering the chart were The Secret Garden by Quincy Jones (#73); Time After Time by Timmy T. (#80); Room at the Top by Adam Ant (#84); The Way it Is by Tesla (#86); Bad Love by Eric Clapton (#88); Have a Heart by Bonnie Raitt (#92); Hide and Seek by Pajama Party (#93); Expression by Salt-N-Pepa (#95); and Advice for the Young at Heart by Tears for Fears (#96).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Escapade--Janet Jackson
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
4 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli
5 We Can't Go Wrong--Cover Girls
6 Roam--The B-52's
7 Price of Love--Bad English
8 Tell Me Why--Expose
9 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
10 C'mon and Get My Love--D Mob introducing Cathy Dennis

Singles entering the chart were Have a Heart by Bonnie Raitt (#59); Room at the Top by Adam Ant (#64); I Come Off by Young M.C. (#69); Lambada by Kaoma (#73); A Face in the Crowd by Tom Petty (#76); Got to Have Your Love by Mantronix (featuring Wondress) (#82); Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin' by Inner City (#87); and Imagination by Xymox (#90).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair) (2nd week at #1)
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Escapade--Janet Jackson
4 I Wish it Would Rain Down--Phil Collins
5 I Go to Extremes--Billy Joel
6 Roam--The B-52's
7 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
8 Too Late to Say Goodbye--Richard Marx
9 No Myth--Michael Penn
10 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli

Singles entering the chart were Carry On by the Box (#69); Don't Wanna Fall in Love by Jane Child (#73); A Little Love by Corey Hart (#76); No More Lies by Michel'le (#80); Keep it in Line by Danny Brooks (#83); Just a Friend by Biz Markie (#85); Save this House by Spirit of the West (#87); (My My) Baby's Gonna Cry by Eurythmics (#89); We Almost Got it Together by Tanita Tikaram (#91); Everything You Touch by Smokey Robinson (#93); and I'm Your Man by Joe Cocker (#95).

Died on this date
Pat McDonald, 68
. Australian actress. Miss McDonald appeared in radio, stage, screen, and television, and was best known as a longtime cast member of the television soap operas Number 96 (1972-1977) and Sons and Daughters (1981-1987). She died of pancreatic cancer.

World events
Farzad Bazoft, a reporter with the British newspaper The Observer, was sentenced to death by a court in Baghdad after being convicted of espionage on behalf of Israel while working on a story about an explosion at a weapons complex 30 miles (48 kilometres) south of the Iraqi capital. Daphne Parish, a British nurse who was said to have driven Mr. Bazoft to the site, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Politics and government
Haitian President Prosper Avril was forced into exile by street protests, 18 months after seizing power in a coup. Military leader Hérard Abraham then served as acting President for three days before relinquishing the presidency to Jean Rénald Clérismé.

Hockey
NHL
Edmonton 2 @ Toronto 3

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