October 12, 2012

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Nancy Fullerton!

520 years ago
1492

Exploration
Christopher Columbus arrived at an island that he named San Salvador in what is now known as the Bahamas.

475 years ago
1537

Born on this date
Edward VI. King of England and Ireland, 1547-1553. The son of King Henry VIII and Queen Jane Seymour was born at Hampton Court.

125 years ago
1887

Baseball
World Series
St. Louis Browns 1 @ Detroit Wolverines 2 (13 innings) (Detroit led 15-game series 2-1)

Winning pitcher Charlie Getzien allowed 13 hits, while losing pitcher Bob Caruthers allowed just 6 at Recreation Park.

100 years ago
1912

Football
CRU
IRFU
Hamilton (1-1) 9 @ Toronto (1-1) 3

ORFU
Hamilton (1-0) 36 @ (Toronto) Parkdale Canoe Club (0-1) 1

Canadian university
Queen's (1-1) 5 @ McGill (2-0) 12
Ottawa (0-20 11 @ Toronto (1-1) 30

This was the last game of the season for Ottawa College in the intercollegiate union. After their protest of the previous week's 20-19 loss had gone against them, they decided to withdraw and seek competition elsewhere for the remainder of the season.

MRU
Winnipeg Rowing Club 4 Winnipeg St. John's 3 (OT)

The teams played 10 minutes of overtime.

SRU
Regina 2 @ Saskatoon 20

ARU
Calgary (2-1) 20 Calgary YMCA (0-3) 0

Baseball
World Series Game 5
New York Giants 1 @ Boston Red Sox 2 (Boston led best-of-seven series 3-1-1)

The Red Sox scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning and Hugh Bedient pitched a 3-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Christy Mathewson before 34,683 fans at Fenway Park.

80 years ago
1932

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: His Last Bow

70 years ago
1942

Football
CRU
ORFU
Toronto Balmy Beach (2-2) 8 HMCS York (2-2) 0
Toronto RCAF Hurricanes (4-0) 15 Toronto Oakwood Indians (1-3) 1
Hamilton (3-1) 38 @ Kitchener-wateloo (0-4) 1

9,000 fans attended the doubleheader at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.

Winnipeg City Rugby Football League
Bombers (3-1-1) 13 RCAF (2-1-1) 6

Bud Moorhouse and Harry Johnston scored touchdowns for the Bombers; Ches McCance added a convert and 2 singles. Chick Chikowski scored the RCAF touchdown, converted by Johnny Lake.

60 years ago
1952

Football
CRU
IRFU
Ottawa (5-3) 23 @ Montreal (0-8) 6

Tom O'Malley threw 2 touchdown passes to Alton Baldwin, and Choo Choo Roberts rushed for 2 touchdowns as the Rough Riders beat the Alouettes for the second time in as many days. The Alouettes led 6-0 after the 1st quarter on a touchdown and convert by Ed Salem. 13,000 fans were in attendance at Delorimier Stadium.

40 years ago
1972

Died on this date
Billy Williams, 61. U.S. singer. Mr. Williams was lead singer of the gospel group the Charioteers (1930-1950), with time out for service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He then formed the Billy Williams Quartet, achieving a dozen charted singles from 1951-1959. His most successful recording was I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (1957), which reached #3 on the Billboard singles chart and sold over a million copies. Mr. Williams suffered from diabetes in later years, and died of a heart attack.

Society
The Fleischman commission on drug use in New York state schools found that 45% of high school students in New York City used “some psychoactive drug.” The study stated that most estimates were underestimates, including that which put drug use in lower grades at 20%. The study did not include “hard-core addicts who have dropped out or been expelled,” but covered users of marijuana and the so-called “soft drugs” to those on heroin and other hard drugs.

Hockey
NHL
Los Angeles 2 @ New York Islanders 3

Germain Gagnon scored with 1:09 remaining in the game at Nassau County Coliseum in Uniondale to give the expansion Islanders their first win ever. Billy Harris scored the first two Islander goals, giving him 3 in the first 2 games of the season. Bob Berry scored both Los Angeles goals.

WHA
Philadelphia 3 @ New England 4
Winnipeg 6 @ New York 4
Chicago 1 @ Houston 2

Larry Pleau scored the winning goal with less than 2 minutes remaining in the game as the Whalers won their opening game over the Blazers, who were also making their debut, before 11,692 fans at Boston Garden. Tom Williams, Dick Sarrazin, and John Cunniff also scored for New England against Philadelphia goalie Bernie Parent. Former Boston Bruins' fan favourite Derek Sanderson scored the Blazers' first goal and added an assist. Defensemen Ron Plumb and John Migneault also scored for Philadelphia against Whalers' goalie Al Smith.

Chris Bordeleau scored 4 goals to lead the Jets over the Raiders before 6,273 fans at Madison Square Garden in the opening game for both teams. Ab McDonald scored the Jets' first goal ever, and Duke Asmundson also scored for Winnipeg. Ron Ward and Bobby Sheehan accounted for all the Raiders' goals.

Reg Fleming scored to give the Cougars a 1-0 lead, but Ted Taylor and Frank Hughes scored late in the game to give the Aeros the win before 7,347 fans at Sam Houston Arena in the first game for both clubs.

Baseball
American League Championship Series
Oakland 2 @ Detroit 1 (Oakland won best-of-five series 3-2)

After giving up a run in the bottom of the 1st inning at Tiger Stadium, Blue Moon Odom and Vida Blue combined to shut down the Tigers to win the Athletics’ first pennant since the franchise was based in Philadelphia in 1931. Reggie Jackson scored the tying run in the top of the 2nd inning, but tore his left hamstring in the collision at home plate with Detroit catcher Bill Freehan, and was out of action for the rest of the game and the World Series. 50,276 attended the game at Tiger Stadium.



30 years ago
1982

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Abracadabra--Steve Miller Band (3rd week at #1)

Politics and government
Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki announced that he would resign shortly. He had been criticized about his economic policies, with many of the criticisms coming from his own Liberal Democratic Party. It was expected that he would continue to serve until a new party leader could be elected in November.

Protest
The Polish government ruled that the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk was “militarized:” the workers who had gone on strike the day before were to be treated like soldiers subject to military orders and discipline.

Economics and finance
Four of the U.S.A.’s largest banks—Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, Bank of America, Chemical Bank, and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company—reduced their prime lending rate to 12%.

Baseball
World Series
Milwaukee Brewers 10 @ St. Louis Cardinals 0 (Milwaukee led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Mike Caldwell pitched a 3-hitter for the shutout in the Brewers’ first World Series game in their 14-year history. Paul Molitor drove in 2 runs and set a World Series record for a single game with 5 hits. Robin Yount added 2 RBIs and 4 of the Brewers' 17 hits. Bob Forsch was the losing pitcher. Attendance was 53,723 for the first World Series game at Busch Memorial Stadium in 14 years.





25 years ago
1987

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): La Bamba--Los Lobos (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Alf Landon, 100. U.S. politician. Mr. Landon, an oil executive, was Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was the Republican party nominee for President of the United States in 1936, but lost to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the most lopsided results in U.S. electoral history. Mr. Landon won only in Maine and Vermont, for a total of 8 electoral votes to 523 for Mr. Roosevelt, who was seeking his second term as President.

Walter Brattain, 85. U.S. physicist and inventor. Dr. Brattain, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1956 for the invention of the transistor.

Politics and government
U.S. Vice-President George Bush announced in Houston that he was seeking the 1988 Republican party nomination for President of the United States.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (9-5) 20 @ Winnipeg (11-4) 38

Tom Clements completed 17 of 31 passes for 364 yards and 5 touchdowns—3 of them in a 24-point 3rd quarter—to lead the Blue Bombers over the Eskimos before 24,999 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Willard Reaves, who rushed 12 times for just 33 yards, caught 2 of Mr. Clements’ TD passes, with the others going to Jeff Boyd, James Murphy, and Perry Tuttle. Edmonton quarterback Matt Dunigan completed just 18 of 45 passes for 277 yards and 2 touchdowns to Stephen Jones, but also gave up 3 interceptions. Mr. Boyd caught 4 passes for 134 yards, and Mr. Tuttle 4 for 116. Brian Kelly led the Eskimos with 73 yards on 4 receptions, giving him a CFL career total of 10,858 yards, surpassing the record of 10,837 amassed by former teammate Tom Scott.

Baseball
American League Championship Series
Minnesota 9 @ Detroit 5 (Minnesota won best-of-seven series 4-1)

The Twins knocked Detroit starting pitcher Doyle Alexander out of the box with 4 runs in the 2nd inning. The Tigers cut the lead to 4-3 with 3 runs in the bottom of the 4th, but the Twins scored 1 in the 7th, 1 in the 8th, and 3 in the 9th to clinch their first AL pennant since 1965. Bert Blyleven pitched 6 innings to get the win before 47,448 fans at the last post-season game ever played at Tiger Stadium.



20 years ago
1992

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (7-7) 49 @ Ottawa (7-7) 47

The Blue Bombers scored 6 touchdowns in the 1st half to build up a 42-18 lead and withstood a late Ottawa rally to edge the Rough Riders before 23,898 fans at Lansdowne Park. Winnipeg quarterback Danny McManus completed 13 of 24 passes for 406 yards and 4 touchdowns—to Gerald Alphin, Larry Thompson (who scored after recovering a teammate’s fumble), Warren Hudson, and Rob Crifo. Greg Battle returned a fumble 55 yards for a Winnipeg touchdown with 13 seconds left in the 1st half, and Donald Smith returned a punt 71 yards for a touchdown in the 3rd quarter after taking a lateral across the field from Matt Pearce on a punt return. Ottawa quarterback Tom Burgess completed 29 of 50 passes for 371 yards and 4 touchdowns—2 to James Ellingson, 1 each to Reggie Barnes and Stephen Jones. Mr. Barnes rushed 27 yards for a touchdown in the 3rd quarter, and Treamelle Taylor returned a punt 96 yards for a touchdown to begin the Rough Riders’ 22-point 4th quarter. The game ended with Mr. Ellingson scoring his second TD on a 5-yard pass from Mr. Burgess, followed by a pass from Mr. Burgess to Jock Climie for a 2-point convert.

Baseball
American League Championship Series
Toronto 2 @ Oakland 6 (Toronto led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Ruben Sierra hit a 2-run home run off losing pitcher David Cone in the bottom of the 1st inning and the Athletics scored 3 runs in the 5th inning as they beat the Blue Jays before 44,955 fans at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Dave Stewart was the winning pitcher.



10 years ago
2002

Terrorism
202 people, mainly Australian tourists, were killed when a car bomb exploded on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Diplomacy
Iraq sent a letter to United Nations weapons inspection chiefs saying that it would let UN inspectors return under rules set out by the UN Security Council in 1998.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (7-8-0-2) 11 @ Winnipeg (9-6) 20

The Blue Bombers trailed the Roughriders 11-9 until Troy Westwood’s 30-yard field goal with 3:05 remaining in regulation time gave Winnipeg a 12-11 lead. The Blue Bombers quickly regained possession, and Khari Jones connected with Milt Stegall for a 60-yard touchdown—the only TD of the game—with 2:28 remaining. Mr. Westwood converted and Bob Cameron punted for a single in the last minute before 29,503 fans at Winnipeg Stadium on a windy afternoon.



Baseball
National League Championship Series
St. Louis 5 @ San Francisco 4 (San Francisco led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Mike Matheny, Jim Edmonds, and Eli Marrero hit home runs to help the Cardinals efeat the Giants before 42,177 fans at Pacific Bell Park. Barry Bonds homered for the Giants. Chuck Finley allowed 7 hits and 4 earned runs in 5 innings but still picked up the win.



American League Championship Series
Minnesota 1 @ Anaheim 7 (Anaheim led best-of-seven series 3-1)

The Angels broke a 0-0 tie with 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning and 5 in the 8th to beat the Twins before 44,830 fans at Edison International Field of Anaheim. John Lackey was the winning pitcher over Brad Radke.