September 26, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Jennifer Korchinski!

520 years ago
1493

World events
Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, the last of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

125 years ago
1888

Born on this date
J. Frank Dobie. U.S. writer. Mr. Dobie wrote articles and books about Texas in the days of the open range, and helped to save Texas Longhorn cattle from extinction. He died on September 18, 1964, eight days before his 76th birthday.

T. S. Eliot. U.S.-born U.K. writer. Mr. Eliot was known for poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915); The Waste Land (1922); and The Hollow Men (1925), and for plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He also wrote short stories and non-fiction, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." Mr. Eliot died on January 4, 1965 at the age of 76.

110 years ago
1903

Literature
The Adventure of the Empty House, the first Sherlock Holmes short story by A. Conan Doyle in almost 10 years and first in a series titled The Return of Sherlock Holmes, was published in this date's issue of Collier's Weekly in the United States and in the October 1903 issue of The Strand Magazine in the U.K.

Football
CRU
ORFU
(Hamilton) West End Pleasure Club (0-1) 11 @ Hamilton Tigers (1-0) 37

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Frank Brimsek. U.S. hockey goaltender. Mr. Brimsek, nicknamed "Mr. Zero," was a native of Eveleth, Minnesota, and one of the first American-born stars in the National Hockey League, playing with the Boston Bruins (1938-1943, 1945-1949) and Chicago Black Hawks (1949-1950). He earned his nickname by posting 10 shutouts in his rookie year, winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's Rookie of the Year and leading the Bruins to the Stanley Cup championship. Mr. Brimsek led the Bruins to another Stanley Cup triumph in 1941. In 10 seasons he made the NHL's first all-star team twice and the second all-star team six times, posting 40 shutouts in 514 games. Mr. Brimsek won the Vezina Trophy for allowing the fewest goals in a season twice (1938-39, 1941-42), and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966. Mr. Brimsek died on November 11, 1998 at the age of 85.

70 years ago
1943

War
Soviet forces in Ukraine were reported at or near the east bank of the Dnieper River along a 300-mile line from Kiev in the south to Dniepropetrovsk.

60 years ago
1953

Hit Parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)--Percy Faith and his Orchestra (6th week at #1)

#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)--Les Paul and Mary Ford (Best seller--8th week at #1; Jukebox--6th week at #1) ; You, You, You--The Ames Brothers (Disc Jockey--1st week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Crying in the Chapel--June Valli (3rd week at #1)
--Darrell Glenn
--Rex Allen
--The Orioles
2 You, You, You--The Ames Brothers
3 Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)--Les Paul and Mary Ford
4 Dragnet--Ray Anthony and his Orchestra
5 No Other Love--Perry Como
6 P.S. I Love You--The Hilltoppers
7 Eh, Cumpari--Julius LaRosa
8 Oh!--Pee Wee Hunt and his Orchestra
9 Ebb Tide--Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra
10 Hey Joe!--Frankie Laine

Singles entering the chart were The Velvet Glove by Henri Rene and Hugo Winterhalter (#20); Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett (#26); Caribbean by Tony Martin (#30); Many Times by Eddie Fisher (#32); and My Love, My Life, My Happiness by the Ames Brothers (#33).

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (3-4) 18 @ Ottawa (3-3) 17
Montreal (3-4) 15 @ Hamilton (4-2) 20

WIFU
Calgary (2-6) 6 @ Edmonton (7-1) 15

ORFU
Brantford (0-5) 0 @ Sarnia (3-2) 32

Canadian university
McMaster (0-1) 12 @ McGill (1-0) 13
Western Ontario 1 @ Toronto 11 (exhibition)

ORFU-university (exhibition)
Toronto Balmy Beach 10 @ Queen's University 20

Canadian intermediate-U.S. university (exhibition)
Vancouver Cubs (1-1) 1 @ University of British Columbia 11

Al Bruno scored 2 touchdowns and Ulysses Curtis added another as the Argonauts edged the Rough Riders before 15,000 fans at Lansdowne Park. Bob Shaw, recently released by the Calgary Stampeders, kicked 2 converts in his first game for Toronto. Bernie Flowers and Avatus Stone scored Ottawa touchdowns. Mr. Stone scored on a 45-yard interception return and also punted for a single. It was the last game for Toronto lineman Donn Moomaw, who was returning to the United States to train for the Preesbyterian ministry.

Montreal tackle Tex Coulter, playing his first season of Canadian football after several seasons in the NFL, pulled one of the biggest boners in Canadian football history as the Alouettes lost to the Tiger-Cats before 17,000 fans at Civic Stadium. Montreal led 15-14 with time for just one more play, and Hamilton's Cam Fraser punted the ball into the Montreal end zone. Mr. Coulter stood there watching the ball as the Hamilton players backed away in order not to get penalized for no yards. Mr. Coulter was unaware that in Canadian football the punter is allowed to go downfield and recover his own punt, and was shocked when Mr. Fraser suddenly appeared and fell on the ball for the winning touchdown. Ralph Toohy and Lou Kusserow scored the other Tiger-Cat touchdowns, with Mr. Kusserow scoring on a 10-yard pass from Butch Songin. Montreal scored 2 touchdowns after recovering punts by Hamilton's Ray Truant; Tom Hugo recovered the first and returned it 3 yards for his first career touchdown, and the second led to a 19-yard touchdown pass from Sam Etcheverry to Joey Pal.

Normie Kwong rushed for 133 of his team's 275 yards, and Steve Mendryk and Don Simon scored touchdowns as the Eskimos beat the Stampeders at Clarke Stadium. Ed Crowder went the distance at quarterback for the Eskimos, completing 4 of 8 passes and rushing 6 times for 63 yards. It was the fourth and last game for Mr. Crowder; because of a limit on the number of imports from October 1 that was then in force, he was released several days later despite the fact that he had led the Eskimos to victory in all 4 of his games. Pete Thodos scored the Calgary touchdown.

Messrs. Lee and McKeever each scored 2 touchdowns as the Imperials blanked the Redskins.

McGill quarterback Joe Kosakowski threw touchdown passes to Lorne Wrigglesworth and Max Woolley iin the 4th quarter as the Redmen edged the Marauders before 14,000 fans at Molson Stadium in Montreal.

5,000 fans at Varsity Stadium saw the Varsity Blues beat the Mustangs, while 3,000 were in attendance at Richardson Stadium in Kingston to see the Golden Gaels defeat Balmy Beach.

More than 3,000 fans at Howie McPhee Memorial Stadium in Vancouver saw the Thunderbirds, who played in an American league, defeat the Cubs, who were playing as an intermediate team before joining the Western Interprovincial Football Union in 1954 as the British Columbia Lions. The 1st half was played under Canadian rules and the 2nd half under U.S. rules. Vic Chapman punted for a single for the Cubs' only point. Don Coryell won the match of head coaches over Annis Stukus.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): She Loves You--The Beatles (3rd week at #1)

Music
Gene Pitney performed in the first concert ever held at the Jasper Place Sports Centre in Jasper Place, Alberta. Neighbourhood residents were unhappy with the noise and excitement on the part of the teenage audience.

Albertana
Three stores unofficially opened at the new Meadowlark Shopping Centre in Jasper Place: Zellers, Simpsons-Sears, and Safeway.

Winnipegana
Winnipeg investor and builder H.G. Winter announced plans for a 25-storey apartment building to be known as Hargrave Towers, for career girls only. The building, with capacity for 400 suites, was to be built between February and August 1964 in the Hargrave Street and York area. There was no age limit for the tenants, with rent for the 1-room apartments ranging from $57-$67 per month.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Can the Can--Suzi Quatro (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Samuel Flagg Bemis, 81. U.S. historian. Dr. Bemis, a specialist in American diplomatic history, began teaching in 1917, and taught at Yale University from 1935 until his retirement in 1960. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 1961. Dr. Bemis won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Pinckney's Treaty: America's Advantage from Europe's Distress, 1783–1800 (1926), and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1949), the first in a two-volume biography. He also wrote The American Secretaries of State and their Diplomacy, which appeared in 18 volumes (1927-1972). Dr. Bemis died 24 days before his 82nd birthday.

Anna Magnani, 65. Italian actress. Miss Magnani won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Her other notable films included Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City) (1945); Wild is the Wind (1957); and The Fugitive Kind (1959).

Ralph Earnhardt, 50. U.S. auto racing driver. Mr. Earnhardt drove in the NASCAR circuit from 1956-1964. He never won a race, but finished in the top ten 16 times in 51 races. Mr. Earnhardt died of a heart attack, reportedly in his garage. He was the father of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

Transportation
The supersonic jet plane Concorde made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in record-breaking time.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Australiana--Austen Tayshus (5th week at #1)

World events
Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averted a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.

Diplomacy
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Ronald Reagan chastised the Soviet Union for the September 1 downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Soviet air space with the loss of all 269 people aboard, but also made a new proposal to break the deadlock between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. on intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Mr. Reagan said that the door to an agreement was open and "It is time for the Soviet Union to walk through it," and he offered to reduce the number of missiles scheduled for deployment in Europe, and said some missiles could be deployed outside Europe.

Baseball
Bob Forsch of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched his second career major league no-hitter, blanking the Montreal Expos 3-0 at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis. His first no-hitter was a 5-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in the same stadium on April 16, 1978.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Simply Irresistible--Robert Palmer (2nd week at #1)

Diplomacy
In his last address to the United Nations while he was President of the United States, Ronald Reagan was complimentary toward the body and called for greater efforts to stop any use of chemical weapons.

Olympics
Ben Johnson of Canada was stripped of the gold medal he had won three days earlier in the men's 100-metre run and was sent back to Toronto from Seoul in disgrace after testing positive for a banned drug. He instantly went from being a Canadian hero to "that Jamaican." Also embarrassed was the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's, which had just published its latest issue with a photo of Mr. Johnson on the cover and the headline King of Seoul.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)--Meat Loaf

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): What's Up?--4 Non Blondes (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: What's Up?--4 Non Blondes (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Mr. Vain--Culture Beat (5th week at #1)

Adventure
Daredevil diesel mechanic Dave Munday, 53, of Caistor Centre, Ontario, took his second plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, becoming the first person to make two trips over the Falls; his previous was trip in 1985.

Education
Ontario's Royal Commission on Learning began holding hearings in Thunder Bay as the province prepared to evaluate the quality of education in the face of widespread complaints.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (9-4) 52 @ Edmonton (7-6) 14

Matt Dunigan completed 26 of 43 passes for 429 yards and 3 touchdowns as the Blue Bombers handed the Eskimos their worst defeat ever at Commonwealth Stadium. There were 30,972 fans in attendance for at least part of the game, but most left long before it was over. Gerald Wilcox, David Williams, and Allan Boyko caught TD passes for Winnipeg. Chris Johnstone rushed for a touchdown, Nathaniel Bolton returned a punt 71 yards for another, and Greg Battle returned a fumble 42 yards for another Winnipeg TD. Lucius Floyd and Gary Morris scored Edmonton touchdowns. Mr. Floyd scored on a 1-yard rush with 3 seconds remaining in the 1st half and the Eskimos trailing 28-0.

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Robert Palmer, 54. U.K. musician. Mr. Palmer was an overrated singer and songwriter whose hit singles included Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) (1979); Addicted to Love (1986); and Simply Irresistible (1988). He died of a heart attack while on vacation in Paris.

Labour
About 6,000 workers in more than 300 day care centres in Quebec held walkouts, claiming that the contract they had signed with the former Parti Quebecois government was not being respected by the new Liberal government of Premier Jean Charest.

Disasters
At least 164 people were injured but no deaths were reported when an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale struck northern Japan, causing power failures and setting fires.

Football
CFL
Calgary (4-10) 21 @ Ottawa (6-9) 26
British Columbia (8-6) 7 @ Edmonton (11-4) 27

Ricky Ray completed 25 of 34 passes for 303 yards and touchdowns to Terry Vaughn and Jason Tucker as the Eskimos easily beat the Lions before 44,432 fans at Commonwealth Stadium to clinch a playoff spot for the 32nd straight season. Winston October and Mike Pringle rushed for Edmonton touchdowns to help the Eskimos to a 21-0 halftime lead. The Lions broke the shutout with 49 seconds remaining in the 3rd quarter on a 7-yard pass from Dave Dickenson to Jason Clermont. Mr. Vaughn caught 11 passes for 142 yards. A B.C. player was caught with a sticky substance on his jersey and was sent off the field until he had it removed, but for some reason, the Lions wren't penalized, even though the rule book called for a 10-yard penalty for the infraction.