July 25, 2021

1,010 years ago
1011

Died on this date
Ichijō, 31. Emperor of Japan, 986-1011. Ichijō, born Kanehito-shinnō, acceded to the throne shortly after his 6th birthday, upon the abdication of Emperor Kazan. Emperor Ichijō loved literature and music, but was largely controlled by his mother and court officials. He abdicated on July 16, 1011, the day after his 31st birthday in favour of his cousin Sanjō, and died just nine days later.

760 years ago
1261

War
Constantinople was recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.

550 years ago
1471

Died on this date
Thomas à Kempis, 90-91. German clergyman. Thomas Hemerken was a Roman Catholic priest who was a member of the pietistic movement Devotio Moderna. He was best known as the author of De Imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ) (ca. 1418-1427), which became the most-widely read Christian devotional work.

230 years ago
1791

Died on this date
Isaac Low, 56. American politician. Mr. Low was a merchant in New York City who initially supported the American patriot cause, and was a delegate from New York to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and the New York Provincial Congress in 1775. He advocated a moderate approach to relations with Britain, and became a Loyalist after the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Mr. Low was imprisoned for treason in New Jersey, but was freed after intervention by George Washington. Mr. Low emigrated to England in 1783 and died there.

190 years ago
1831

Died on this date
Maria Szymanowska, 41. Polish-born musician and composer. Mrs. Szymanowska was a prominent concert pianist, touring Europe from 1815 through the 1820s before settling in St. Petersburg. She wrote about 100 piano pieces, as well as songs and small chamber works. Mrs. Szymanowska died of cholera during an epidemic in St. Petersburg.

160 years ago
1861

Died on this date
Jonas Furrer, 56. President of the Swiss Confederation, 1848-1849, 1852, 1853. Mr. Furrer, a member of the Radical Party, was elected to the Grand Council in 1834, and was President in 1837 and 1839. He was President of the Swiss Diet in 1845, and was one of the first seven members elected to the Federal Council in 1848. Mr. Furrer held several cabinet posts in addition to his three terms as President, and was in his fourth term as Minister of Justice and Police at the time of his death.

War
The United States Congress passed the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, asserting that the aim of the American Civil War was to "preserve the Union;" the measure was repealed five months later.

150 years ago
1871

Politics and government
Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Adams Archibald negotiated Treaty No. 1 in southern Manitoba with the Swampy Cree and Chippewa (Ojibway), agreeing to pay $3 per Indian for the area of approximately 10,376.5 square miles.

Anthony Musgrave left British Columbia before the return from Ottawa of Joseph Trutch, his successor and the first lieutenant governor of the province. Mr. Musgrave was B.C.'s last colonial governor.

125 years ago
1896

Born on this date
Elizabeth MacKintosh. U.K. authoress and playwright. Miss MacKintosh wrote novels under the name Josephine Tey and plays under the name Gordon Daviot. She was best known for the novel The Daughter of Time (1951), a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower. Miss MacKintosh's best-known play was probably her first, Richard of Bordeaux (1932). She died of liver cancer on February 13, 1952 at the age of 55.

Jack Perrin. U.S. actor. Mr. Perrin began appearing in silent movies in 1917, and was best kown for starring in low-budget Westerns in the 1930s. He appeared in small roles in several television programs in later years, and died of a heart attack on December 17, 1967 at the age of 71.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
Ruth Krauss. U.S. authoress. Miss Krauss wrote several collections of poetry, but was known for more than 40 books for children, most notably The Carrot Seed (1945). She died on July 10, 1993, 15 days before her 92nd birthday.

110 years ago
1911

Adventure
Bobby Leach survived a drop over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel; he spent 23 weeks in hospital recovering from injuries.

Transportation
The Carillon and Grenville Railway, the last remaining broad gauge (5'6") line in North America, was abandoned. The portage railway opened October 25, 1854, and was later acquired by the Canadian Northern Railway as part of its new Montréal to Ottawa line.

Disasters
Fire destroyed much of downtown Grand Forks, British Columbia.

80 years ago
1941

Died on this date
John Ford, 78. U.S. politician and judge. Mr. Ford sat in the New York State Senate from 1896-1900 and on the New York Supreme Court from 1907-1932. He founded the Clean Books League, and died three days before his 79th birthday.

War
The Soviet Air Force attacked the Romanian ports of Constante and Sulina.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles wired the foreign ministers of Peru and Ecuador, urging them to stop their border conflict so that the U.S.A., Argentina, and Brazil could aid in mediating the dispute.

Diplomacy
The German Transocean Press Service was convicted of failing to register in the United States as an agent of the German government, and was fined $1,000.

Technology
Radio Corporation of America announced the development of a high-voltage electron microscope, making it possible to magnify objects 100,000 times.

Scandal
Enoch Johnson, Republican Party leader of Atlantic County, New Jersey, was found guilty of evading payment of $38,716 in federal income taxes on money he received from the numbers racket.

Economics and finance
The U.S. ordered a freeze on all Japanese assets in the United States; Chinese assets were also frozen, at Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek's request, "to prevent the liquidation...of assets obtained by duress or conquest."

Labour
Over 3,000 Panamanian and Latin American workers in the Gatun area of the Canal Zone fought against labourers imported from the West Indies.

Chess
Reuben Fine retained his U.S. Chess Federation open title, defeating George Sturgis in St. Louis.

Baseball
Lefty Grove (7-4) went the distance for his 300th and last career major league win, allowing 12 hits and 5 earned runs, as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 10-6 before 10,000 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Jim Tabor hit 2 home runs for the Red Sox, and Ted Williams hit a 2-run homer to break a 6-6 tie. Al Milnar (8-13) took the loss for the Indians in relief of Mel Harder.

The New York Yankees scored 5 runs in the 4th inning and 3 in the 8th as they blanked the Chicago White Sox 8-0 before 8,109 fans at Yankee Stadium. Spud Chandler (3-3) pitched a 3-hit shutout without striking out a batter, while Tommy Henrich and Charlie Keller each hit 3-run home runs. All 8 runs were unearned.

The Philadelphia Athletics scored 6 runs in the 7th inning and 3 in the 8th as they defeated the Detroit Tigers 11-5 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The Tigers scored 4 runs in the top of the 8th.

The Boston Braves scored 3 runs in the 1st inning and 5 in the second as they coasted to an 8-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals before 22,933 fans at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Jim Tobin (7-5) pitched a 3-hit shutout, while Paul Waner hit his first home run of the season, a 3-run blast in the 2nd inning.

75 years ago
1946

Humour
At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a comedy team.

War
Chinese Nationalist forces drove the Communists northward from the Nanking-Shanghai area in the province of Kiangsu.

Defense
As part of Operation Crossroads, the United States detonated an atomic bomb underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll; it was the first such test to take place underwater, falling in the midst of 75 warships and sinking 10.

Diplomacy
An Anglo-American cabinet committee proposed a division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab sectors, with overall control resting with British authorities, which would directly administer Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Negev.

Abominations
A mob of 20 white men forced four Negroes out of acar near Monroe, Georgia and killed them for allegedly stabbing a white man.

Politics and government
U.S. President Harry Truman named Jesus Pinero as Governor of Puerto Rico, succeeding Rexford Tugwell.

Agriculture
The governments of Canada and the United Kingdom announced a trade agreement calling for the sale of 600 million bushels of Canadian wheat to Britain for the next four years.

Scandal
A U.S. War Department report affirmed that defective mortar shells had killed American combat soldiers, but denied that faulty parts were made by the armaments firm under investigation in the Senate. U.S. House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee Chairman Andrew May (Democrat--Kentucky) claimed that he was unable to attend the Senate war profits inquiry due to a heart attack, after previously agreeing to testify.

Economics and finance
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan General Douglas MacArthur approved a plan to decentralize economic power in Japan by liquidating the zaibatsu combines.

U.S. President Truman "reluctantly" signed the bill extending the Office of Price Administration through June 30, 1947, stating that he would call a special session of Congress if this new law failed to stem inflation. Mr. Truman issued an executive order shifting the Office of Economic Stabilization to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, making John Steelman temporary stabilization chief.

70 years ago
1951

On the radio
Pete Kelly's Blues, starring Jack Webb, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Little Jake

War
As Korean truce talks resumed, Communist delegates accepted the U.S. position that foreign troop withdrawal could be postponed until "after establishment of a cease-fire and armistice in Korea." U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, addressing the Massachusetts State legislature in Boston, assailed the "ineptitude of our leaders" in foreign and domestic affairs, and claimed that current Korean truce talks were the same as the field negotiations which he was fired for proposing.

Crime
A U.S. federal grand jury in New York handed down contempt of Congress citations for gambling bosses Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, and Frank Erickson, who had refused to andwer questions before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee in March 1951.

Technology
Dr. Morris Fishbein reported the development of an X-ray machine that made it possible to take an X-ray picture of the whole human body without danger.

Oil
British-operated Iraq Petroleum Company agreed to an equal division of profits with the Iraqi government.

Economics and finance
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Charles Brennan arrived in Belgrade to investigate Yugoslavia's food situation for possible U.S. aid.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' Man--Ricky Nelson (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Carlton Molesworth, 85. U.S. baseball player and manager. Mr. Molesworth pitched 4 games with the Washington Senators (1895), posting a record of 0-2 with an earned run average of 14.63, batting .143 (1 for 7). He played 17 seasons in the minor leagues (1895-1915), mainly as an outfielder. Mr. Molesworth played with (1906-1911, 1914-1915) and managed (1908-1922) the Birmingham Barons of the Southern Association, compiling a record of 1,098-977. He managed the Columbus Senators of the American Association (1923-1925), and then worked as a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates through the 1947 season. Mr. Molesworth died after several years of declining health.

Defense
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in a televised address from the White House, said: "We cannot and will not permit the Communists to drive us out of Berlin--either gradually or by force. For the fulfillment of our pledge to that city is essential to the morale and security of West Germany, to the unity of western Europe, and to the faith of the entire world...So long as the Communists insist that they are preparing to end by themselves unilaterally our rights in West Berlin and our commitments to its people, we must be prepared to defend those rights and those commitments. We will at all times be ready to talk, if talk will help. But we must also be ready to resist with force, if force is used against us. As part of a long-term buildup in U.S. strength "to meet a worldwide threat," Mr. Kennedy said he was asking Congress for additional increases in armed forces spending and manpower, was ordering draft calls doubled and tripled, and requesting Congressional authorization to recall to service certain reserve units; extend tours of duty; and activate some Air Transport and Air National Guard squadrons.



Football
CFL
Pre-season
Ottawa (2-0) 28 @ Montreal (0-1) 19
Toronto (2-0) 28 @ Calgary (0-2) 17

Baseball
Roger Maris hit 2 home runs in each game for the New York Yankees as they swept a doubleheader from the Chicago White Sox 5-1 and 12-0 before 46,240 fans at Yankee Stadium. Clete Boyer also homered twice in the second game, while Mickey Mantle homered for the Yankees in the first game, giving him 38 home runs on the season to 40 for Mr. Maris. Whitey Ford (18-2) and Bill Stafford (9-4) were the respective winning pitchers.

Dick Donovan (7-8) pitched a 5-hitter to outduel Jack Kralick (9-6) and led off the 3rd inning with a home run to open the scoring for the Washington Senators as they edged the Minnesota Twins 2-1 before 20,600 fans at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.

Wayne Causey scored from third base on a wild pitch as pinch hitter Dick Howser drew a base on balls, climaxing a 3-run 8th inning for the Kansas City Athletics as they came from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Cleveland Indians 3-2 before 6,568 fans at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. The Indians loaded the bases with 1 out in the 9th, but relief pitcher Gerry Staley iinduced Bubba Phillips to ground into a 1-2-3 double play to end the game.

Pinch hitter Bob Sadowski and Ed Yost hit consecutive run-scoring singles with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Los Angeles Angels a 5-4 win over the Detroit Tigers before 8,316 fans at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. The Tigers had taken a 4-3 lead on a 2-run home run by Bill Bruton with 2 out in the top of the 9th. Manny Montejo, the second of four Detroit pitchers, allowed 1 hit and no runs in 2 innings in his first major league game, striking out 3 batters and walking none.

The San Francisco Giants scored 7 runs in the 8th inning and 4 in the 9th as they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-7 before 18,698 fans at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Harvey Kuenn and Matty Alou each had 4 hits and 4 runs batted in for the Giants. Mr. Alou entered the game in left field in the bottom of the 1st inning as a substitute for his brother Felipe, who was injured in a play at second base after singling in the top of the inning.

Lou Burdette (12-6) pitched a 2-hitter to outduel Ken Hunt (9-7), who allowed 5 hits in a complete game, as the Milwaukee Braves shut out the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 before 21,442 fans at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Hank Aaron hit a solo home run with 1 out in the bottom of the 4th to open the scoring, and Mr. Burdette singled home Lee Maye with 2 out in the 7th to provide an insurance run.

50 years ago
1971

Died on this date
Leroy Robertson, 74. U.S. composer. Dr. Robertson taught at Brigham Young University (1925-1948) and the University of Utah (1948-1962). He wrote piano, organ, and string works, as well as Mormon hymns, and was best known for Oratorio from the Book of Mormon (1953).

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Enola Gay--OMD (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Only Crying--Keith Marshall (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: The Streets of New York--Wolfe Tones

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Ghost Town--The Specials (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Ghost Town--The Specials (3rd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 One Day in Your Life--Michael Jackson
2 Chequered Love--Kim Wilde
3 Caribbean Disco Show--Lobo
4 Rio--Maywood
5 Only Crying--Keith Marshall
6 Going Back to My Roots--Odyssey
7 You Drive Me Crazy--Shakin' Stevens
8 How 'bout Us--Champaign
9 More Stars--Stars on 45
10 Stand & Deliver--Adam and the Ants

Singles entering the chart were No Me Hables by Juan Pardo (#26); Your Love by Lime (#31); Malaika by Boney M. (#32); Cantara Pepe by the Press (#33); and Als Ik Jou Niet Had by Mieke (#35).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 The One that You Love--Air Supply
2 Bette Davis Eyes--Kim Carnes
3 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
4 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury
5 Elvira--The Oak Ridge Boys
6 I Don't Need You--Kenny Rogers
7 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters
8 You Make My Dreams--Daryl Hall & John Oates
9 Boy from New York City--The Manhattan Transfer
10 Hearts--Marty Balin

Singles entering the chart were Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) (#57); Step by Step by Eddie Rabbitt (#65); Hold on Tight by Electric Light Orchestra (#67); The Beach Boys Medley by the Beach Boys (#76); You Could Take My Heart Away by Silver Condor (#78); Square Biz by Teena Marie (#82); For Your Eyes Only by Sheena Easton (#83); General Hospi-Tale by the Afternoon Delights (#84); Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) by Don Felder (#85); You're Mine Tonight by Pure Prairie League (#86); I'm in Love by Evelyn King (#88); Chloe by Elton John (#89); and Summer '81 Medley by the Cantina Band (featuring Lou Christie) (#90). The Beach Boys Medley was a compilation of brief excerpts from a number of the band's Capitol Records singles from 1962-1966. For Your Eyes Only was the title song from the latest James Bond movie.

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
2 The One That You Love—Air Supply
3 Elvira--Oak Ridge Boys
4 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury
5 Bette Davis Eyes--Kim Carnes
6 I Don't Need You--Kenny Rogers
7 You Make My Dreams--Daryl Hall & John Oates
8 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters
9 Stars on 45--Stars on 45
10 Boy from New York City--The Manhattan Transfer

Singles entering the chart were Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) (#59); Hold on Tight by Electric Light Orchestra (#62); The Beach Boys Medley by the Beach Boys (#76); You Could Take My Heart Away by Silver Condor (#81); A Woman in Love (It's Not Me) by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (#83); General Hospi-Tale by the Afternoon Delights (#84); For Your Eyes Only by Sheena Easton (#85); Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) by Don Felder (#86); Chloe by Elton John (#87); I'm in Love by Evelyn King (#88); Some Days are Diamonds (Some Days are Stone) by John Denver (#89); and Tempted by Squeeze (#90). .

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)--Joey Scarbury (2nd week at #1)
2 The One that You Love--Air Supply
3 Elvira--The Oak Ridge Boys
4 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
5 Bette Davis Eyes--Kim Carnes
6 I Don't Need You--Kenny Rogers
7 Medley--Stars on 45
8 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters
9 Boy from New York City--The Manhattan Transfer
10 Hearts--Marty Balin

Singles entering the chart were Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) (#46); Hold on Tight by Electric Light Orchestra (#49); Step by Step by Eddie Rabbitt (#63); I'm in Love by Evelyn King (#79); The Beach Boys Medley by the Beach Boys (#81); You Could Take My Heart Away by Silver Condor (#85); General Hospi-Tale by the Afternoon Delights (#86); A Woman in Love (It's Not Me) by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (#87); Tempted by Squeeze (#88); Some Days are Diamonds (Some Days are Stone) by John Denver (#90); and Send for Me by Atlantic Starr (#95).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Gemini Dream--The Moody Blues (2nd week at #1)
2 Arc of a Diver--Steve Winwood
3 Boy from New York City--The Manhattan Transfer
4 A Life of Illusion--Joe Walsh
5 Jessie's Girl--Rick Springfield
6 You Make My Dreams--Daryl Hall & John Oates
7 Modern Girl--Sheena Easton
8 Winning--Santana
9 In the Air Tonight--Phil Collins
10 Slow Hand--Pointer Sisters

Singles entering the chart were Urgent by Foreigner (#23); Who's Crying Now by Journey (#26); and The Break Up Song (They Don't Write 'Em) by the Greg Kihn Band (#28).

Protest
Hundreds of people protesting the visit of the Springboks rugby team from South Africa invaded Rugby Park in Hamilton, New Zealand, forcing the cancellation of the match against Waikato.

Crime
The McDonald Royal Commission condemned illegal Royal Canadian Mounted Police activities against Québec separatists and other dissidents, and recommended a civilian agency to take over security work.

Football
CFL
Toronto (0-4) 13 @ Hamilton (3-1) 57
Ottawa (1-3) 17 @ British Columbia (3-0) 31

30 years ago
1991

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

Died on this date
Lazar Kaganovich, 97. U.S.S.R. politician. Mr. Kaganovich was a Bolsehevik Communist who helped Josef Stalin seize power in the Soviet Union, and remained loyal to him. Mr. Kaganovich played a large role in the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, and even refused to defend his brother, also a Communist, when he was accused of disloyalty. Mr. Kaganovich gradually lost influence within the Communist Party after the death of Mr. Stalin in 1953, and was expelled from the party in 1961. He was the last surviving Old Bolshevik.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (1-2) 16 @ Toronto (3-0) 30



Edmonton (2-1) 36 @ British Columbia (2-1) 37

Edmonton kicker Ray Macoritti missed 2 field goal attempts in the last minute, enabling the Lions to escape with a victory over the Eskimos at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.



25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Killing Me Softly--The Fugees (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Killing Me Softly--The Fugees (2nd week at #1)

World events
In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, deposed President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, a Hutu.

Business
Toronto-based publisher Coach House Press announced that it would cease operations, blaming Ontario government cutbacks. It reopened in 1997 with a focus on electronic editions.

Olympics
Canadian swimmer Curtis Myden won his second bronze medal of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, in the 200-metre men's individual medley.

Football
CFL
Edmonton (3-2) 34 @ Ottawa (1-4) 18

Danny McManus completed 17 of 36 passes for 406 yards and touchdowns of 27 yards to Eddie Brown and 16 yards to Shalon Baker as the Eskimos defeated the Rough Riders at Frank Clair Stadium. Eric Blount rushed 8 yards for the other Edmonton TD, while Frank Jagas, in his fifth and last game as an Eskimo, added 3 converts, 4 field goals, and a single. Mr. Brown caught 4 passes for 159 yards, while teammate Marc Tobert caught 4 for 128--including a 60-yard gain--for the first 100-yard game of his CFL career. Edmonton defensive back Darian Hagan had a 73-yard interception return.

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Michael Cacoyannis, 89. Cypriot-born Greek film director. Mr. Cacoyannis worked in radio and theatre in England before moving to Greece in the early 1950s. He directed 17 movies, and was best known for Zorba the Greek (1964).

Politics and government
Jack Layton, Leader of the Opposition in Canada, took a medical leave of absence, and an interim leader of the New Democratic Party was appointed.

May 6, 2021

550 years ago
1471

Died on this date
Thomas Tresham. English politician. Sir Thomas represented various constituencies in the House of Commons, served as a justice of the peace, and was Speaker of the House of Commons (1459-1460). He sided with the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1468 until Henry VI regained the throne in 1470. Yorkist King Edward IV was restored to the throne after the Battle of Barnet in April 1471; Sir Thomas fled to meet Queen Margaret of Anjou, but was captured and executed.

Edmund Beaufort, 32-33 (?). English nobleman and military commander. Mr. Beaufort held several titles, and supported Lancastrian King Henry VI in the Wars of the Roses. He and other Lancastrian leaders were captured in Tewkesbury Abbey, two days after their defeat by Yorkist forces in the Battle of Tewkesbury, and were tried and executed immediately at the Cross in the centre of Tewkesbury.

520 years ago
1501

Born on this date
Marcellus II. Roman Catholic Pope, 1555. Marcellus II, born Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, was ordained a priest in 1535, and held various bishoprics and administrative positions before succeeding Pope Julius III on April 9, 1555. Pope Marcellus fell ill soon after his installation, and died of a stroke on May 1, 1555, just 22 days into his papacy, and five days before his 54th birthday. He was succeeded as Pope by Paul IV.

425 years ago
1596

Died on this date
Giaches de Wert, 60-61 (?). Flemish-born Italian composer. Mr. Wert moved to Italy as a boy and became associated with the Gonzaga family. He wrote sacred and secular music, and was best known for writing about 230 madrigals. Mr. Wert died after suffering from malaria for many years.

220 years ago
1801

War
U.K. Royal Navy Captain Thomas Cochrane, in the 14-gun HMS Speedy, captured the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo off Barcelona.

170 years ago
1851

Born on this date
Aristide Bruant. French entertainer. Mr. Bruant was a nightclub singer and comedian in Paris who was credited with creating the chanson réaliste genre of music, but was best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He died on February 11, 1925 at the age of 73.

160 years ago
1861

Born on this date
Motilal Nehru. Indian politician. Mr. Nehru was a lawyer and journalist before entering politics. He was President of the Indian National Congress (1919-1920, 1928-1929), and chaired the Nehru Commission (1928), a memorandum to appeal for a new dominion status and a federal set-up of government for the constitution of India. Mr. Nehru died on February 6, 1931 at the age of 69, after years of declining health; his son Jawaharlal served as the first Prime Minister of independent India (1947-1964).

Americana
Arkansas seceded from the Union.

150 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Victor Grignard. French chemist. Professor Grignard was awarded a share of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of the [...] Grignard reagent." He died on December 13, 1935 at the age of 64.

125 years ago
1896

Horse racing
Ben Brush, with Willie Sims up, won the 22nd running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville in a time of 2:07¾. Ben Eder placed second and Semper Ego finished third in the 8-horse field.

110 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Guy des Cars. French journalist and author. Mr. des Cars began his career as a journalist, but was best known for more than 60 pulp novels in a career spanning more than 50 years from the early 1940s to the early '90s. He died on December 21, 1993 at the age of 82.

Politics and government
François Langelier was installed as Québec's 10th Lieutenant Governor; he served until his death on February 8, 1915.

90 years ago
1931

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Willie Mays!
The Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder was born in Westfield, Alabama.

80 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Heinrich Simon, 60. German journalist. Dr. Simon, a Jewish refugee and writer of anti-Nazi editorials in Germany, died in Washington after being beaten by unknown assailants.

War
Germany announced the seizure of eight islands, closing the Aegean Sea to British ships. British troops broke the siege of Habbania air base in Iraq.

Diplomacy
Japan and France signed two agreements in Tokyo for economic collaboration between Japan and Indochina.

Defense
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft, piloted by Lowry Brabham, made its first flight. U.S. War Secretary Henry Stimson urged that the U.S. Navy be used to insure that Lend-Lease aid reached Britain. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 161-131 to reject an amendment to the ship seizure bill that would have barred the President from turning the captured vessels over to the United Kingdom. U.S. Senator Claude Pepper (Democrat--Florida) urged the U.S. to get tough with the Axis, and occupy, with the U.K., Dakar, the Azores, the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

Politics and government
U.S.S.R. dictator Josef Stalin became Premier of Russia, replacing Vyacheslav Molotov.

The Congressional bloc of the Radical Party in Argentina voted to end its three-month legislative boycott, thus permitting Congress to resume its normal functions.

Aviation
Igor Sikorsky set a world record at Bridgeport, Connecticut, of 1 hour 32½ minutes for sustained flight in a helicopter.

Humour
Bob Hope performed his first United Service Organizations show, at March Field, California.

Economics and finance
U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation Chairman Emil Schram accepted the presidency of the New York Stock Exchange.

Labour
The U.S. Third Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Merchant seamen had the right to strike aboard ship when it was in a safe domestic port.

Baseball
Playing his last game before induction into the U.S. Army, Hank Greenberg hit 2 home runs to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 7-4 win over the New York Yankees before 7,850 fans at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Bruce Campbell also hit 2 home runs for the Tigers--both of them hit back-to-back with the homers of Mr. Greenberg. New York second baseman Jerry Priddy hit his first major league home run in the 7th inning, a 3-run blast off winning pitcher Johnny Gorsica, who pitched a complete game. Ernie Bonham allowed 5 earned runs in 3 innings in taking the loss.

The Boston Braves scored all their runs in the 5th inning as they edged the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 at Braves Field. Wes Ferrell started on the mound for Boston, but allowed 2 hits, a base on balls, and 2 runs in just 1 inning in the final game of his 15-year major league career.

75 years ago
1946

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Oh! What it Seemed to Be--Frankie Carle and his Orchestra (8th week at #1)
--Frank Sinatra
--Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
--Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
2 Prisoner of Love--Perry Como
3 I'm a Big Girl Now--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
4 One-zy, Two-zy (I Love You-zy)--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
--Phil Harris and his Orchestra
5 The Gypsy--The Ink Spots
--Dinah Shore
--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
6 Shoo Fly Pie (And Apple Pan Dowdy)--Stan Kenton and his Orchestra
--Dinah Shore
7 Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)--Dinah Shore
--Andy Russell
8 You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)--Les Brown and his Orchestra
--Perry Como
9 Seems Like Old Times--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
10 All Through the Day--Frank Sinatra
--Perry Como

New singles entering the chart were Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You) by the Hoosier Hot Shots and Sally Foster (#17); It Couldn't Be True! (Or Could It?) by Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra (#21); (Ah Yes) There's Good Blues Tonight, with versions by Les Brown and his Orchestra; and Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra (#27); We'll Gather Lilacs (#31)/I'll Be Yours (J'Attendrai) (#41) by Bing Crosby and Camarata and his Orchestra; We'll Gather Lilacs by Alvino Rey and his Orchestra (#31, charting with the version by Bing Crosby and Camarata and his Orchestra); All that Glitters is Not Gold by Dinah Shore (#34); and In Love in Vain, with versions by Margaret Whiting; and Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest (#39).

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Man with the Twisted Lip

Theatre
Russell Crouse and Howard Lindsay were awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for State of the Union.

Music
Leo Sowerby was awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Canticle of the Sun.

Literature
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Age of Jackson.

Journalism
The Scranton Times was awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service by a newspaper. William Leonard Laurence of The New York Times won in the category of General Reporting; Arnaldo Cortesi of The New York Times won for General Correspondence; and Hodding Carter of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi won in the category of Editorial Writing.

War
At the Nuremberg trials of accused Nazi war criminals, former German Economics Minister Walther Funk claimed to have signed anti-Jewish decrees "to protect Jews from arbitrary violence." Marshal Ion Antonescu, wartime Romanian dictator and Iron Guard leader, went on trial in Bucharest for treason with three of his former ministers.

Diplomacy
At the Paris conference of foreign ministers, U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov offered to modify the Soviet stance on Italian colonies and reparations in return for the awarding of Trieste to Yugoslavia; the U.K. and U.S.A. rejected the proposal.

Defense
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Hussein Ala reported to the UN Security Council that Iranian officials were unable to verify that Soviet troops had left Azerbaijan.

U.S. President Harry Truman requested a $7.25-billion from the War Department in fiscal 1947, and sent Congress the Inter-American Military Cooperation Act, calling for U.S. aid in the training, organization, and equipment of Latin American armed forces.

General Alexander Vandegrift told the U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that unification of the armed forces would probably "spell extinction" for the Marine Corps, which he said the Army was determined to reduce.

Medicine
The Australian government of Prime Minister Ben Chifley announced plans to establish a national medical service despite opposition from the medical profession.

Labour
A strike against Bethlehem Steel by 35,000 members of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers ended when a contract was signed providing an hourly wage increase of 18c.

U.S. President Truman conferred with advisers on the coal miners' strike, while American Federation of Labor President William Green backed the stand of United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis.

Baseball
A U.S. federal court in St. Louis issued an injunction temporarily restraining the Pasquel brothers of the Mexican League from persuading players with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break their contracts.

The New York Yankees announced that they would be the first team to travel by air for a full season, as they signed a contract with United Air Lines for 1946.

70 years ago
1951

Married on this date
King Farouk of Egypt, 31, and commoner Narriam Sadek, 17, were married in Cairo. It was the second marriage for King Farouk; he had married Safinaz Zulficar in 1938, and the couple were divorced in 1948.



War
An Ethiopian light infantry battalion of 1,158 men arrived in Pusan, South Korea to fight for the United Nations.

Politics and government
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, exiled leader of the opposition Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR), won a plurality of 42.9% of the vote in the Bolivian presidential election. Republican Socialist Unity Party candidate Gabriel Gosalvez was second with 32.0%, and Bolivian Socialist Falange candidate Bernardino Bilbao Rioja was third with 10.5%. Because none of the six candidates received a majority of the popular vote, the National Congress was constitutionally obliged to elect a President on August 6 from the three candidates who received the most public votes. Hernán Siles Zuazo, Mr. Paz's running mate, led vice presidential candidates with 43.25% of the vote.

The first round of voting in the Austrian presidential election resulted in Austrian People's Party candidate Heinrich Gleißner leading with 40.14% of the vote, followed by Socialist Party candidate Theodor Körner (39.15%) and Federation of Independents candidate Burghard Breitner (15.41%). Because no candidate won a majority of the vote, a runoff election between the top two contenders was scheduled for May 27.

State parliamentary elections in Lower Saxony (the British zone of Germany) gave 11% of the popular vote to the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, led by Otto Ernst Remer.

Disasters
An earthquake in southeastern El Salvador caused 200 deaths and 700 injuries, and left 20,000 people homeless.

Baseball
Cliff Chambers (3-2) pitched a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates--their first in 44 years--as they shut out the Boston Braves 3-0 in the second game of a doubleheader before 15,492 fans at Braves Field. Mr. Chambers pitched the shutout despite giving up 8 bases on balls and a wild pitch. He also batted in the game’s third run in the 8th inning. It was the only major league start and decision for losing pitcher George Estock (0-1), normally a reliever. Warren Spahn (3-2) pitched a 6-hit shutout as the Braves won the first game 6-0, with Murry Dickson (3-1) taking the loss.

The St. Louis Cardinals scored 6 runs in the top of the 8th inning to overcome a 7-5 deficit and defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers 11-7 before 32,200 fans at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Surrender--Elvis Presley (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: Jealous of You--Connie Francis (5th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Babysitter-Boogie--Ralf Bendix (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Dutch Top 40): Non je ne regrette rien--Edith Piaf (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): You're Driving Me Crazy--The Temperance Seven (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Mother-in-Law--Ernie K-Doe
2 Runaway--Del Shannon
3 Blue Moon--The Marcels
4 A Hundred Pounds of Clay--Gene McDaniels
5 (I Don’t Know Why) But I Do--Clarence "Frogman" Henry
6 I’ve Told Every Little Star--Linda Scott
7 You Can Depend on Me--Brenda Lee
8 On the Rebound--Floyd Cramer
9 Daddy’s Home--Shep and the Limelites
10 Take Good Care of Her--Adam Wade

Singles entering the chart were Peanut Butter by the Marathons (#71); The Touchables in Brooklyn by Dickie Goodman (#80); Raindrops by Dee Clark (#86); Be My Boy by the Paris Sisters (#91); Lullaby of the Leaves by the Ventures (#93); Moody River by Pat Boone (#94); What a Surprise by Johnny Maestro (#96); (It Never Happens) In Real Life by Chuck Jackson (#100); The World We Love In (Il Cielo In Una Stanza) by Mina (also #100); and The Great Snow Man by Bob Luman (also #100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Travelin' Man/Hello Mary Lou--Ricky Nelson
2 Runaway--Del Shannon
3 Shy Away--Jerry Fuller
4 Running Scared--Roy Orbison
5 Little Devil--Neil Sedaka
6 Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)--The Coasters
7 Theme for a Dream--Cliff Richard and the Shadows
8 The Rebel - Johnny Yuma--Johnny Cash
9 Tragedy--The Fleetwoods
10 After the Hurricane--Paul Evans

Singles entering the chart were Travelin' Man; Indian Giver by Annette with the Up Beats (#36); That Old Black Magic by Bobby Rydell (#41); Ronnie by Marcy Joe (#43); How Many Tears by Bobby Vee (#44); I'm a Fool to Care by Joe Barry (#46); What a Surprise by Johnny Maestro (#47); and Mama Said by the Shirelles (#50).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKWX)
1 Little Devil--Neil Sedaka
2 Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' Man--Ricky Nelson
3 Running Scared--Roy Orbison
4 Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)--The Coasters
5 Runaway--Del Shannon
6 Theme for a Dream--Cliff Richard and the Shadows
7 Moody River--Pat Boone
8 After the Hurricane--Paul Evans
9 Peanut Butter--The Marathons
10 The Rebel - Johnny Yuma--Johnny Cash

Singles entering the chart were Indian Giver by Annette with the Up Beats (#32); Bongo Express by Preston Epps (#34); Underwater by the Frogmen (#35); Louisiana Mama by Gene Pitney (#36); The Wayward Wind by Gogi Grant (#38); Daddy's Home by Shep and the Limelites (#39); and I Feel So Bad by Elvis Presley (#40).

On television tonight
The Roaring 20's, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Among the Missing

Horse racing
Carry Back, with Johnny Sellers up, won the 87th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville in 2:04. Crozier placed second and Bass Clef finished third in the 15-horse field. First prize money was $120,500.



Baseball
At Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Woodie Held of the Cleveland Indians hit a grand slam in the 1st inning of a game against the Washington Senators--only to have it wiped from the record when the game was rained out after 2 innings.

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): Les rois mages--Sheila

Business
Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn signed major league baseball to a $72-million television contract with NBC.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Montreal 3 @ Chicago 5 (Chicago led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Lou Angotti scored 2 goals and 2 assists to lead the Black Hawks past the Canadiens at Chicago Stadium. Chicago defenseman Pat Stapleton’s face was badly gashed by the skate blade of Montreal’s Rejean Houle, and Mr. Stapleton required over 50 stitches as well as later treatment by a plastic surgeon.

40 years ago
1981

Baseball
The Seattle Mariners, with a record of 6-18, fired Maury Wills as manager, replacing him with Rene Lachemann. The Mariners responded with a 12-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers before 4,828 fans at the Kingdome in Seattle. Winning pitcher Mike Parrott (1-2) snapped a personal 18-game losing streak, allowing 5 hits and 1 unearned run in 7 innings. Seattle shortstop Jim Anderson batted 3 for 4 with a double, 2 runs, and 5 runs batted in.

Steve Dillard drew a base on balls to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning and scored from second base on a 2-out single by Ken Reitz to give the Chicago Cubs a 2-1 win over the Houston Astros before 2,572 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

The Cincinnati Reds, trailing 8-4 after 7½ innings, scored a run in the bottom of the 7th inning, 2 in the 8th, and 2 in the 9th to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-8 before 14,551 fans at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Johnny Bench singled home Ken Griffey from third base with none out and the bases loaded to end the game.

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Eyes to Me--Dreams Come True

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Se mustamies--Hausmylly (8th week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Joyride--Roxette (5th week at #1)

On television tonight
Hollywood Detective, on A&E
Tonight's episode: Chasing the Goose

Died on this date
Wilfrid Hyde-White, 87. U.K. actor. Mr. Hyde-White was a character actor on stage, screen, and television in both the United Kingdom and United States for more than 60 years. He played Colonel Pickering in the movie My Fair Lady (1964). Mr. Hyde-White died six days before his 88th birthday.

Journalism
This date's issue of Time magazine contained the cover story The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Scientology, leading to years of legal conflict.

Business
Montreal-based Canadair received 100 orders for its twin-engined Regional Jet; costing $275 million to develop, the plane was a stretched Challenger for less than 100 passengers.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference Finals
Edmonton 3 @ Minnesota 7 (Minnesota led best-of-seven series 2-1)

25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Fastlove--George Michael (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Children--Robert Miles (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Children--Robert Miles (7th week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Ironic--Alanis Morissette (6th week at #1)
2 Because You Loved Me--Céline Dion
3 Birmingham--Amanda Marshall
4 Follow You Down--Gin Blossoms
5 Nobody Knows--The Tony Rich Project
6 Closer to Free--BoDeans
7 Lucky Love--Joan Osborne
8 Only Love (The Ballad of...)--Sophie B. Hawkins
9 Some Bridges--Jackson Browne
10 Shoe Box--Barenaked Ladies

Singles entering the chart were The Only Thing that Looks Good on Me is You by Bryan Adams (#88); Mission: Impossible by Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen, Jr. (#92); Love You All by 54 40 (#93); Work it Out by Def Leppard (#95); I Should Know by The Pursuit of Happiness (#96); Killing Me Softly by the Fugees (#97); I Hate My Generation by Cracker (#98); Love Don't Live Here Anymore by Madonna (#99); and Reach by Gloria Estefan (#100). Mission: Impossible was the title theme from the movie.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Western Conference Semi-Finals
Colorado 3 @ Chicago 4 (OT) (Chicago led best-of-seven series 2-1)

20 years ago
2001

Terrorism
A bomb, the second such in three weeks, exploded at a north London post office, but killed no one.

Religion
Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first Roman Catholic pope to enter a mosque when he entered the Omayyad Great Mosque in Damascus. He also met with Greek Orthodox and Catholic leaders in Damascus.

10 years ago
2011

Economics and finance
Canada began negotiations in Brussels with the European Union on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

April 1, 2020

800 years ago
1220

Born on this date
Go-Saga. Emperor of Japan, 1242-1246. Go-Saga, born Kunihito-shinnō, was a son of Emperor Tsuchimikado, and acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne upon the death of his second cousin Shijō. Emperor Go-Saga abdicated in favour of his son Go-Fukakusa, and became a cloistered emperor, dying on March 12, 1272, 15 days before his 52nd birthday.

680 years ago
1340

Died on this date
Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, 47 or 48 (?). German royal family member. Gerhard III, a member of the Schauenburg family, ruled Holstein-Rendsburg and a large part of Denmark during the interregnum of 1332–1340. While attempting to suppress a rebellion in North Jutland, Gerhard III was assassinated in his bedroom by Danish squire Niels Ebbesen, and was succeeded as Count by his son Henry II.

130 years ago
1890

Died on this date
David Wilber, 69. U.S. politician. Mr. Wilber, a Republican, represented New York's 20th (1873-1875); 21st (1879-1881); and 24th (1887-1890) Districts in the U.S. House of Representatives. He died in office after several years of ill health.

Alexander Mozhaysky, 65. Russian military officer and engineer. Rear Admiral Mozhaysky served with the Imperial Russian Navy from 1841-1882. He began work on designing heavier-than-air craft in 1876, but an attempt at flight in 1884 was unsuccessful. Rear Admiral Mozhaysky's achievements with regard to flight control and propulsion are regarded as considerable, considering the limited technology available to him. He died 11 days after his 65th birthday.

120 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Stefanie Clausen. Danish diver. Miss Clausen won a gold medal in the women's 10-metre platform competition at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. She died on August 2, 1981 at the age of 61.

110 years ago
1910

Born on this date
Harry Carney. U.S. musician. Mr. Carney was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who performed with Duke Ellington's orchestra from 1927 until his death on October 8, 1974 at the age of 64, four months after the death of Mr. Ellington.

100 years ago
1920

Born on this date
Toshiro Mifune. Chinese-born Japanese actor. Mr. Mifune appeared in almost 170 feature films, but was best known for the 16 he made with director Akira Kurosawa, including Rashomon (1950); Seven Samurai (1954); and Yojimbo (1961). He died on December 24, 1997 at the age of 77.

War
Soviet troops used superior forces to attack Finns stationed at Salmijaervi, near Petchenga, while the Finnish government received a telegram from U.S.S.R. Commissar for Foreign Affairs M. Tchilcherin breaking off all negotiations.

Hockey
Stanley Cup
Finals
Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) 1 Ottawa Senators (NHL) 6 @ Toronto (Ottawa won best-of-five series 3-2)

The Senators erupted for 5 goals in the 3rd period--3 by Jack Darragh--to beat the Metropolitans. Bobby Rowe opened the scoring for Seattle 10 minutes into the 1st period, but Buck Boucher tied the score 4 minutes later. Eddie Gerard and Frank Nighbor scored the other Ottawa goals. The last 3 goals were scored in the span of 1½ minutes, beginning at the 13-minute mark. The game, played under NHL rules, took place at Arena Gardens because of poor ice conditions in Ottawa.

90 years ago
1930

At the movies
Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), directed by Josef von Sternberg, and starring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich, received its premiere screening in Berlin.





Oddities
Chicago Cubs’ catcher Gabby Hartnett held onto a ball dropped from the Goodyear blimp hovering at an altitude of 550 feet. Mr. Hartnett topped Gabby Street's feat of hanging onto a ball dropped from the Washington Monument‚ a height of 504 feet.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Montreal Canadiens 3 @ Boston 0 (Montreal led best-of-three series 1-0)

Albert Leduc's goal at 8:43 of the 2nd period proved to be the winner as the Canadiens shut out the Bruins at Boston Garden. Sylvio Mantha scored at 13:17 of the 2nd period, and Pit Lepine closed the scoring at 6:27 of the 3rd period, as George Hainsworth posted the shutout to win the goaltending duel over Tiny Thompson.

80 years ago
1940

On the radio



Politics and government
The Japanese community nominated five members to the Shanghai Council of International Settlement with the express intention of gaining control.

United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis threatened to form a third party in the United States unless the Democrats nominated a presidential candidate acceptable to "labor and the common people."

Law
In an address to the U.S. Attorneys Conference in Washington, U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson said that government prosecutors must use extreme care in protecting civil liberties.

Economics and finance
U.S. Senator Arthur Vandenberg (Republican--Michigan), in a radio broadcast to a Nebraska Republican Party rally, urged an end to New Deal farm policies.

Track and field
The U.S. Track Writers' Association named Greg Rice as the outstanding athlete of the 1940 indoor season.

75 years ago
1945

War
Allied forces in Germany encircled the Ruhr, where an estimated 30,000 German troops were trapped. Soviet Red Army troops captured Sopron, Hungary, and drove on across the border into Austria to take Trausersdorf. United States troops landed on Okinawa in the Ryukyu Island group, 360 miles south of Japan. By the end of the day, 50,000 troops had landed on an 8-mile stretch of the island's southwest coast, and penetrated 3 miles inland, capturing two airfields. Japanese resistance was unexpectedy light.

Diplomacy
Argentina declared that all German and Japanese residents must register with the police and would be restricted.

Labour
United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis agreed to urge miners to keep the mines open for a 30-day extension of the present contract on condition that any wage adjustments be retroactive to April 1.

70 years ago
1950

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): The Four Winds and the Seven Seas--Bing Crosby; Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Music! Music! Music!--Teresa Brewer with the Dixieland All Stars (Best Seller--3rd week at #1); If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake--Eileen Barton with the New Yorkers (Disc Jockey--2nd week at #1); Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy--Red Foley (Jukebox--8th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Music! Music! Music!--Teresa Brewer (2nd week at #1)
2 Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy--Red Foley
--Bing Crosby
3 I Said My Pajamas (And Put on My Pray’rs)--Tony Martin and Fran Warren
4 If I Knew You Were Comin’ (I’d’ve Baked a Cake)--Eileen Barton with the New Yorkers
--Georgia Gibbs
5 Rag Mop--The Ames Brothers
--Ralph Flanagan and his Orchestra
--Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
--Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys
6 There’s No Tomorrow--Tony Martin
7 Daddy’s Little Girl--Dick Todd
--The Mills Brothers
8 It Isn’t Fair--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
9 The Cry of the Wild Goose--Frankie Laine
10 Dearie--Ray Bolger and Ethel Merman
--Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

Singles entering the chart were Sentimental Me by the Ames Brothers (#20); C'es Si Bon (It’s So Good) by Johnny Desmond (#22); Spaghetti Rag, with versions by Jack Fina and his Orchestra; Ray Anthony and his Orchestra; and Frankie Carle and his Orchestra (#36); Satan Wears a Satin Gown by Frankie Laine (#39); and Wanderin' by Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra (#40). Sentimental Me was originally the B-side of Rag Mop, and was also released as an A-side.

Died on this date
Recep Peker, 61. Prime Minister of Turkey, 1946-1947. Mr. Peker, a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP), held various cabinet posts in a parliamentary career of almost 30 years. Despite being Prime Minister during a period of multi-party rule, he opposed a multi-party system, and supported an authoritarian one-party state.

Charles R. Drew, 45. U.S. physician and surgeon. Dr. Drew conducted research into blood transfusions, using his knowledge to develop large-scale blood banks early in World War II, saving the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers. A Negro, he was appointed director of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank in February 1941, but resigned a year later in protest against the organization's' policy of excluding the blood of Negroes from plasma-supply networks. Several hours after performing an operation, Dr. Drew was driving while suffering from fatigue, and died shortly after suffering severe leg injuries in a car accident.

World events
Police in French Algeria arrested 59 members of a nationalist underground army.

Diplomacy
Jordan, threatened with expulsion from the Arab League for negotiating separately with Israel, agreed at a meeting in Cairo that no Arab state would make a separate agreement with Israel.

Defense
Defense ministers of North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations, meeing in The Hague, approved an overall plan for integrated defense against attack. Associated Press reported that U.S. and U.K. military leaders arranged to bar British War Secretary John Strachey, accused of pro-Communist sympathies, from access to top NATO defense secrets.

Medicine
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's first cancer research center began operating in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Labour
The Yugoslavian government began a large-scale transfer of white-collar workers to basic industries.

The Communist-backed Latin American Labor Confederation ended a four-day conference in Montevideo with plans to strengthen its position in Latin American countries by campaigning for better living conditions, world peace, and independence of labour from U.S. influence.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Semi-Finals
New York 3 @ Montreal 2 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-0)
Detroit 0 @ Toronto 2 (Toronto led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Buddy O'Connor scored a powerplay goal with 8:02 remaining in regulation time to tie the score, and Ed Slowinski scored the winning goal with 6:26 remaining as the Rangers overcame a 2-1 1st-period deficit to defeat the Canadiens at the Montreal Forum.

Joe Klukay and Max Bentley scored in the 2nd period for the Maple Leafs as they shut out the Red Wings at Maple Leaf Gardens, with Turk Broda earning his second shutout of the series in goal.

Baseball
The Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League opened their season against the Portland Beavers clad in shorts‚ rayon shirts‚ and knee socks. "These suits will give us more speed‚" predicted manager Fred Haney, but the outfits were used only occasionally during the season.

60 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): My Old Man's a Dustman--Lonnie Donegan (2nd week at #1)

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight’s episode: Execution, starring Albert Salmi and Russell Johnson

Space
The United States launched Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) 1, the world’s first weather satellite, whose purpose was to photograph cloud cover. It transmitted the first television picture from space.

Law
Clifford W. Harvison was appointed Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; he served until October 31, 1963.

Transportation
Trans-Canada Air Lines began jetliner service to and from Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.

Energy
The government of Canada approved a National Energy Board recommendation for natural gas exports to the United States.

50 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Bridge Over Troubled Water--Simon & Garfunkel (2nd week at #1)

On television tonight
Then Came Bronson, starring Michael Parks, on NBC
Tonight's episode: What's an Ark Without Centaurs?

This was the 26th and last episode of the series.

War
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched a spring offensive in South Vietnam, shelling 115 targets, including 11 provincial capitals, with repeated hits on Saigon. 13 ground assaults were also part of the offensive, which killed 38 Americans.

Abominations
The U.S. Army formally accused Captain Ernest Medina of being "responsible" for the My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, in which unarmed civilians were gunned down by American soldiers.

Politics and government
The government of Canada transferred governing of the eastern and upper Arctic from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development to the Northwest Territories government.

Health
U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages, and banning cigarette advertisements from radio and television. The law was to take effect on January 2, 1971.

Business
The first of over 670,000 American Motors Corporation Gremlins were released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.

Labour
A 41% pay increase over two years ended the New York tugboat strike after two months, making it the longest tug strike in the history of the port.

The first contract covering table-grape pickers in the United States was signed in Los Angeles, signalling the end of a strike and national boycott against table grapes supplied by nonunion pickers.

Disasters
61 people were killed and 21 injured when a Moroccan jet crashed and exploded on approaching the Casablanca airport.

Hockey
CHL
Adams Cup
Semi-Finals
Omaha 4 @ Fort Worth 5 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)
Tulsa 5 @ Iowa 3 (Iowa led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Baseball
In Cactus League action in Tucson, Arizona, the former Seattle Pilots, now officially the Milwaukee Brewers, defeated the Cleveland Indians 9-4. Gene Brabender was the winning pitcher, while Dick Ellsworth took the loss. Danny Walton hit a home run for the Brewers, who were still listed in newspaper summaries as representing Seattle, although an agreement approved the day before by American League owners, and that evening by bankruptcy referee Sidney Volinn, had transferred the team to Milwaukee.

40 years ago
1980

Hit parade
Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)--Pink Floyd (5th week at #1)
2 Sun of Jamaica--Goombay Dance Band
3 I Have a Dream--ABBA
4 The Ballad of Lucy Jordan--Marianne Faithfull
5 Rapper's Delight--Sugarhill Gang
6 Lucifer--The Alan Parsons Project
7 Que sera mi vida (If You Should Go)--Gibson Brothers
8 Confusion--Electric Light Orchestra
9 Coward of the County--Kenny Rogers
10 Wie frei willst du sein?--Howard Carpendale

Singles entering the chart were Coward of the County; Wie frei willst du sein?; San Francisco Bay by Smokie (#11); and Ladies' Night by Kool and The Gang (#18).

World events
Six men in a bus crashed through the gates of the Peruvian embassy in Cuba in an attempt to obtain asylum; a Cuban guard was killed in the incident.

Diplomacy
Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr announced that the Iranian government would take control of the hostages in the U.S. embassy in Tehran if the United States promised not to make threats against Iran.

Politics and government
In the race for major party nominations for President of the United States, primaries took place in Wisconsin and Kansas. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan won the Republican primary in Wisconsin with 40% of the vote and 28 delegates to the Republican National Convention, while George Bush took 31% but no delegates, because of a winner-take-all basis for each district. Rep. John Anderson took 28% and 6 delegates. Mr. Reagan also won in Kansas. President Jimmy Carter won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin with 56% of the vote and 49 delegates to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy’s 30% and 26 delegates. California Governor Jerry Brown took 13%, and announced his withdrawal from the campaign. Mr. Carter also won in Kansas.

Art
Bill Reid's sculpture The Raven and the First Men was unveiled by Prince Charles at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. Made by the Haida sculptor in yellow cedar, it was lowered by crane through a skylight into a special hall designed by Arthur Erickson.

Humour
Radio-Canada in Moncton, New Brunswick announced that Sugarloaf Mountain, a long dormant volcano for hundreds of millions of years, was suddenly erupting. Many in the region became alarmed, before they realized that it was only an April Fool’s joke.

Labour
Mentally disabled workers in Carleton Place, Ontario became the first in a sheltered workshop in Canada to go on strike; they won a raise in weekly salary to $10 from $7.50.

Hockey
NHL
Edmonton 0 @ Vancouver 5

30 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Don't Make Me Over--Sybil (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (6th week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (5th week at #1)
2 Get Up! (Before the Night is Over)--Technotronic
3 Got to Get--Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K.
4 The Message is Love--Arthur Baker and the Backbeat Disciples featuring Al Green
5 Bakerman--Laid Back
6 Pump ab das Bier--Werner
7 Dub Be Good to Me--Beats International
8 Dangerous--Roxette
9 Touch Me--49ers
10 Sit and Wait--Sydney Youngblood

Singles entering the chart were Dub Be Good to Me; Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul (#18); Un' estate italiana by Edoardo Bennato & Gianna Nannini (#22); I Wish it Would Rain Down by Phil Collins (#26); and The Power by Snap! (#27).

Politics and government
The government of Canada signed a final land claim agreement with Yukon First Nations, giving them surface title to 41,000 square kilometres of land, plus mineral rights and $232 million cash.

Protest
Up to 1,000 inmates at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England ran amok in a riot over overcrowding.

25 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Here's Johnny!--Hocus Pocus (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Sarajevo's børn - Gi dem et håb--Various artists

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): Het isj nie moeilijk, het isj gemakkelijk--Kamiel Spiessens

#1 single in France (SNEP): Zombie--The Cranberries (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Alice, Who the X is Alice--Gompie (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)--Outhere Brothers

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Take a Bow--Madonna (6th week at #1)
2 Candy Rain--Soul for Real
3 Creep--TLC
4 Red Light Special--TLC
5 Strong Enough--Sheryl Crow
6 Run Away--Real McCoy
7 This is How We Do It--Montell Jordan
8 Baby--Brandy
9 Big Poppa/Warning--The Notorious B.I.G.
10 You Gotta Be--Des'ree

Singles entering the chart were Joy by BLACKstreet (#79); Purple Medley by Prince (#84); Total Eclipse of the Heart by Nicki French (#88); Wonderful by Adam Ant (#90); Your Loving Arms by Billie Ray Martin (#91); Shy Guy by Diana King (#92); Feel So High by Des'ree (#93); The Keeper of the Stars by Tracy Byrd (#95); and Safe + Sound by DJ Quik (#98). Shy Guy was from the movie Bad Boys (1995).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Take a Bow--Madonna (7th week at #1)
2 Candy Rain--Soul for Real
3 Red Light Special--TLC
4 Run Away--Real McCoy
5 If You Love Me--Brownstone
6 Strong Enough--Sheryl Crow
7 Big Poppa/Warning--Notorious B.I.G.
8 I Know--Dionne Farris
9 Baby--Brandy
10 Creep--TLC

Singles entering the chart were Can't Stop Lovin' You by Van Halen (#72); White Lines by Duran Duran (#79); I'd Rather Be Alone by IV Xample (#80); Ask of You by Raphael Saadiq (#81); Here and Now by Letters to Cleo (#85); Until the End of Time by Foreigner (#86); Close to You by Fun Factory (#87); Down by the Water by PJ Harvey (#89); I'll Be Around by Rappin’ 4-Tay featuring the Spinners (#90); Let Her Cry by Hootie & the Blowfish (#91); and Grapevine by Brownstone (#93).

Died on this date
Jack M. Warner, 78 or 79. U.S. movie executive. Mr. Warner was the son of Jack Warner of the Warner Brothers studio. Jack M. Warner worked in Warner Brothers' short subject department and produced several feature films before being fired by his father in 1958 after becoming estranged.

20 years ago
2000

Politics and government
The Liberal Party pulled out of Japan’s coalition government, and within hours, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was hospitalized.

Crime
The Enigma coding machine, used by the Germans to encode messages during World War II, was stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, southeastern England.

10 years ago
2010

Died on this date
John Forsythe, 92. U.S. actor. Mr. Forsythe, born Jacob Freund, appeared in movies such as The Trouble with Harry (1955) and Topaz (1969), but was better known for his roles in television series such as Bachelor Father (1957-1962); Charlie's Angels (1976-1981); and Dynasty (1981-1989).

Tzannis Tzannetakis, 81. Prime Minister of Greece, 1989. Mr. Tzannetakis was a military officer who resigned the day after a military junta seized power in 1967, and was imprisoned from 1969-1971 for his resistance activity. When democracy was restored to Greece in 1974, Mr. Tzannetakis joined New Democracy. He was elected to Parliament in 1977, and was Minister for Public Works (1980-1981). When neither New Democracy nor the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) could form a government in 1989, Mr. Tzannetakis was a compromise candidate, serving as Prime Minister from July-2, October 12, while also serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 1990-1993, and remained in Parliament until his retirement in 2007.

Law
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the Prince Edward Island Appeal Court decision that found the province had no duty of care toward children sent by family members or guardians to the P.E.I. Protestant Orphanage, founded in 1928 and shut down in 1976. In 2002, 57 survivors banded together to seek damages from the province, for decades of beatings and sexual abuse.

Abominations
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued a formal apology and provided an undisclosed financial settlement to Zofia Cisowski, mother of Robert Dziekanski, who was tasered to death at Vancouver International Airport in 2007. The force also donated $20,000 to a scholarship in her son's name.

Crime
Louis Woodcock and Tyshaun Barnett, both Negroes, were guilty of manslaughter and aggravated assault in the December 26, 2005 shooting of 15-year-old Jane Creba, caught in a gun battle between rival drug gangs on Yonge Street in Toronto. Jeremiah Valentine and Jorrell Simpson-Rowe had already been sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder.

September 6, 2018

390 years ago
1628

Americana
Puritans settled Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

150 years ago
1868

Born on this date
Heinrich Häberlin. President of the Swiss National Council, 1918-1919; President of the Swiss Federal Council, 1926, 1931. Mr. Häberlin joined the Swiss Council of States in 1904 and was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Thurgau from 1905-1920. He was elected to the Federal Council in 1920 and was in charge of the Justice and Police Department until his resignation in 1934. Mr. Häberlin was largely responsible for the unification of Switzerland's criminal law. He died on February 26, 1947 at the age of 78.

130 years ago
1888

Born on this date
Joseph P. Kennedy. U.S. diplomat and political figure. Mr. Kennedy was a stock and commodity investor who also owned parts of several movie studios and distilleries, and served as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938-1940, was the father of Joe, Jr., who was being groomed to run for President of the United States until his death in a 1944 plane crash. It was left to surviving sons Jack, Bobby, and Teddy to carry on their father's political ambitions. Joe, Sr. outlived all of his sons except Teddy, the Senator from Chappaquiddick. Joe Kennedy, Sr. died on November 18, 1969 at the age of 81.

120 years ago
1898

Disasters
The Ottawa & New York Railway Bridge (south channel crossing) over the St. Lawrence River collapsed at Cornwall, Ontario, killing 15 people.

100 years ago
1918

Baseball
World Series
Boston Red Sox 1 @ Chicago Cubs 3 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Lefty Tyler pitched a 6-hitter and singled in the last 2 runs of a 3-run 2nd inning to lead the Cubs over the Red Sox before 20,040 fans at Comiskey Park.

90 years ago
1928

Died on this date
Salvatore Santo Marco. U.S. crime victim. Mr. Santo Marco, a resident of Coney Island, New York, was found bound and strangled under a pile of stones in a yard near his home, the day after he'd been kidnapped.

80 years ago
1938

Died on this date
John Stuart Hindmarsh, 30. U.K. race car driver and aviator. Mr. Hindmarsh, with Luis Fontés, won the 24 Hours at Le Mans auto race in 1935. He was killed test flying a Hawker Hurricane I L1652 at Brooklands aerodrome in Surrey, possibly overcome by carbon monoxide poisoning.

75 years ago
1943

Died on this date
John Cudahy, 55. U.S. diplomat. Mr. Cudahy served as U.S. Ambassador or Envoy to Poland (1933-1937); Ireland (1937-1940); Belgium (January-July 1940); and Luxembourg (January-July 1940). He died when he was thrown from his horse while riding on his family estate near Milwaukee.

War
U.S.S.R. forces continued their advances on the Donets Basin iron centre. U.K. Royal Air Force planes dropped 1,500 tons of bombs on the twin cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and other Rhineland targets. U.K. forces in Italy captured Palmi and pushed inland to take Delianova.

Academia
The Monterrey Institute of Technology was founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.

Labour
U.S. war plants remained open on Labor Day as Congress of Industrial Organizations President William Green and American Federation of Labor President William Murray pledged labour to continue its war efforts "come hell or high water." The U.S. National War Labor Board approved an increase in the present 67c-$1.45 hourly wage scale at the Seattle and Renton, Washington plants of Boeing Aircraft Company to 82.5c-$1.60 in order to counteract a labour shortage by attracting some of the 14,000 workers to be released by Seattle shipyards.

Disasters
The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derailed at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117.

Tennis
Joe Hunt defeated Jack Kramer to win the men's singles final at the U.S. amateur championships in Forest Hills, New York.

70 years ago
1948

On the radio
The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Elliott Lewis, on MBS

At the movies
The Red Shoes, produced, directed, and written by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, and Marius Goring, opened in theatres in the United Kingdom.

Europeana
Juliana of Orange and Nassau took her oath as Queen of the Netherlands in a ceremony in Amsterdam's 500-year-old Nieuwe Kirk. She was succeeding her mother Wilhelmina, who had abdicated for health reasons.

Politics and government
Polish Deputy Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka issued a public apology for his "errors" in opposing Cominform policy, and was permitted to return to the cabinet.

A group of eight atomic scientists, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Karl Compton, issued a statement denouncing U.S. House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committtee spy investigations as "an imminent threat to our national security and the entire governmental atomic research program."

Protest
Communist disorders disrupted a meeting of the Berlin City Assembly in the Soviet sector, forcing the Assembly's non-Communist majority to move to the British sector.

Tennis
The U.S.A. defeated Australia 5-0 in Davis Cup matches in Forest Hills, New York. Ted Schroeder won the men's singles competition, while Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy won the men's doubles final.

Football
IRFU
Toronto (2-0) 14 @ Hamilton (0-2) 7

WIFU
Calgary (4-0) 14 @ Saskatchewan (1-3) 8

Ced Gyles and Jim Mitchener scored touchdowns for the Stampeders as they beat the Roughriders at Taylor Field in Regina. Johnny Bell scored the Saskatchewan touchdown.

60 years ago
1958

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): A Pub with No Beer--Slim Dusty

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Sail Along Silvery Moon--Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra (9th week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Hello, le soleil brille--Annie Cordy (26th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): When--The Kalin Twins (2nd week at #1)

U.S. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu (Volare)--Domenico Modugno (3rd week at #1)
--Dean Martin
2 Little Star--The Elegants
3 Bird Dog--The Everly Brothers
4 Patricia--Perez Prado and his Orchestra
5 Just a Dream--Jimmy Clanton and the Rockets
6 Everybody Loves a Lover--Doris Day
7 My True Love--Jack Scott
8 Poor Little Fool--Ricky Nelson
9 It's All in the Game--Tommy Edwards
10 Fever--Peggy Lee

Singles entering the chart were Topsy II by Cozy Cole (#57); You'll Always Be My Sweetheart by Bobby Van (#61); The Ways of a Woman in Love by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two (#64); Week End by the Kingsmen (#65); La-Do-Dada by Dale Hawkins (#67); and Count Every Star by the Rivieras (#71). Topsy II was the B-side of Topsy I. Week End was an instrumental; the Kingsmen were Bill Haley's Comets, without Bill Haley.

Americana
Mary Ann Mobley, representing Mississippi, was named Miss America 1959 at the annual pageant at Bordwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.



Defense
U.S. warships began to escort Nationalist Chinese supply and ammunition convoys over the 100-mile route from Taiwan to Quemoy.

Politics and government
The U.S.S.R. announced that former Premier Nikolai Bulganin had been dismissed as a member of the Communist Party presidium.

Protest
More than 300 demonstrators were injured as federal police using tear gas and truncheons broke up a mass rally by leftist members of Mexico's National Educational Workers Union in Mexico City.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower vetoed a bill providing $279 million in aid to chronically depressed areas.

Track and field
Armin Hary of West Germany ran 100 metres in a world record time of 10 seconds in Friedrichshafen.

Football
CFL
IRFU
Montreal (1-3) 1 @ Ottawa (2-2) 17

WIFU
Saskatchewan (3-2) 6 @ Winnipeg (4-2) 27
Edmonton (2-3) 26 @ British Columbia (0-6) 7

Tom Dimitroff and Bobby Judd scored touchdowns for the Rough Riders as they beat the Alouettes before 17,056 fans at Lansdowne Park.

Charlie Shepard, Leo Lewis, Gordie Rowland, and Ron Latourelle scored touchdowns for the Blue Bombers as they easily beat the Roughriders before 18,376 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Cookie Gilchrist scored the Saskatchewan touchdown in the last minute of the game. Winnipeg halfback and kicker Gerry James, leading the West in scoring, kicked the first 2 converts, but then broke his leg, and missed the rest of the season.

The Eskimos rushed for 428 yards as they beat the Lions before 26,653 fans at Empire Stadium in Vancouver. Johnny Bright rushed 17 times for 160 yards; Normie Kwong added 135 yards on 23 carries; Don Flynn rushed for touchdowns of 24 and 21 yards; and Jackie Parker rushed 8 yards for the other Edmonton touchdown.

50 years ago
1968

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Indian Lake--The Cowsills

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Harper Valley P.T.A.--Ricki Page
--Jeannie C. Riley
2 On the Road Again--Canned Heat
3 You Keep Me Hangin' On--The Vanilla Fudge
4 Down at Lulu's--Ohio Express
5 People Got to Be Free--The Rascals
6 Morning Dew--Lulu
7 The Snake--Al Wilson
8 Hush--Deep Purple
9 Tell Someone You Love Them--Dino, Desi and Billy
10 Pictures of Matchstick Men--The Status Quo

Singles entering the chart were the version of Harper Valley P.T.A. by Jeannie C. Riley; Hey Jude/Revolution by the Beatles (#15); Fire by Arthur Brown (#21); Time Has Come Today by the Chambers Brothers (#26); (The Lament of the Cherokee) Indian Reservation by Don Fardon (#28); Six Man Band by the Association (#29); and Give a Damn by Spanky and Our Gang (#30).

Edmonton's top 10 (CJCA)
1 Harper Valley P.T.A.--Jeannie C. Riley
2 Revolution/Hey Jude--The Beatles
3 Sunshine of Your Love--Cream
4 Born to Be Wild--Steppenwolf
5 Morning Dew--Lulu
6 Sealed with a Kiss--Gary Lewis and the Playboys
7 Do it Again--The Beach Boys
8 Hello, I Love You--The Doors
9 You Keep Me Hangin' On--The Vanilla Fudge
10 Sunshine Girl--Herman's Hermits

Africana
Swaziland obtained her independence from British colonial rule, becoming a constitutional monarchy under King Sobhuza II.

Diplomacy
Jamaican Prime Minister Hugh Shearer arrived in Ottawa to start a three-day visit to Canada.

Politics and government
U.S.S.R. First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov arrived in Prague to confer with Czechoslovakian leaders for five days on the August 29 Moscow agreement ending the "Prague spring" liberalization program under Communist Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek. Two quasi-political clubs that had been formed in the wake of the liberalized program were outlawed.

40 years ago
1978

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Three Times a Lady--Commodores (3rd week at #1)

Humour
Bill Cosby, with the Bill Henderson Quartet as the opening act, performed two shows at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton. Ticket prices were $6.50, $7.50, and $8.50.

Crime
The U.S. House of Representatives Assassinations Committee opened hearings on the November 22, 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Economics and finance
The Royal Canadian Mint’s first Gold Maple Leaf (GML) went on sale; at one ounce, the coin had a gold content of .999. At the time of the GML's release, the only bullion coin was the Krugerrand, which was not widely available because of the economic boycott of apartheid-era South Africa.

Hockey
NHL
Sam Pollock resigned after 14 seasons as general manager of the Montréal Canadiens, but remained as one of the club's directors. Under Mr. Pollock's leadership, the Canadiens won nine Stanley Cup championships, including his last three seasons in the position.

30 years ago
1988

Died on this date
Leroy Brown, 37. U.S. wrestler. Mr. Brown, whose real name was Roland Daniels, took his wrestling name from the Jim Croce song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. He wrestled mainly in the eastern and southern United States, winning several championships in a professional career running from 1977 until his death from a stroke and subsequent heart attack caused by severe cirrhosis of the liver.

Disasters
Flood waters from major rivers in Bangladesh began to recede, but not before a reported 1,154 people had been killed and 25 million left homeless.

25 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Germany (Media Control): What's Up?--4 Non Blondes (3rd week at #1)

Football
CFL
Toronto (1-9) 21 @ Hamilton (4-6) 23
Edmonton (6-4) 13 @ Calgary (10-0) 33

Paul Osbaldiston's third field goal of the game--a 42-yard kick with 5 seconds remaining in regulation time--gave the Tiger-Cats the win over the Argonauts before 21,762 fans at Ivor Wynne Stadium in the traditional Labour Day game. Toronto appeared to have won the game with less than a minute to play on a 2-yard touchdown rush by quarterback Reggie Slack, converted by Lance Chomyc, but the Argonauts' defense couldn't stop the Hamilton offense from moving into field goal range. Hamilton quarterback Don McPherson rushed 14 yards for a touchdown in the 1st half, while defensive back Bobby Dawson returned an interception 29 yards for a TD in the 2nd half. Mike "Pinball" Clemons returned a punt 44 yards for the first Toronto touchdown in the 3rd quarter, and Mr. Slack rushed 3 yards for his first TD of the game a little later. The win ended a 6-game losing streak for the Tiger-Cats, and ended the head coaching career of the Argonauts' Dennis Meyer; before their next game he was replaced by general manager Bob O'Billovich, who had previously served the Argonauts as head coach from 1982-1989. Mr. Meyer, who had replaced the fired Adam Rita after 10 games in 1992, left with a record of 4-14.



Doug Doug Flutie threw 2 touchdown passes to Will Moore and another to Dave Sapunjis as the Stampeders eventually wore down a tired Edmonton defense in beating the Eskimos before a sellout crowd of 38,205 at McMahon Stadium. The Eskimos did a good job of containing Mr. Flutie for 3 quarters while their own offense under quarterback Damon Allen sputtered, but they couldn't stop Mr. Flutie forever, and he put the game away for the Stampeders in the 4th quarter. The only Edmonton touchdown came on a 3-yard pass from backup quarterback Rickey Foggie to Gary Morris with less than 3 minutes remaining in the game. It was the final CFL game for Edmonton receiver Kasey Dunn, whose dismissal was hastened by a missed block on a play leading to a key hit on Mr. Allen by a Stampeder defender. Edmonton head coach Ron Lancaster was stomping around outside the stadium after the game like Fred Flintstone when he was mad, and all that was missing was the tuba accompaniment. It was the 13th--and so far, last--Labour Day game attended by this blogger.

20 years ago
1998

Died on this date
Akira Kurosawa, 88. Japanese film director. Mr. Kurosawa was one of the most influential directors in movie history, internationally famous for films such as Rashomon (1950) and Seven Samurai (1954). He was given an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1990.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (0-10) 18 @ Saskatchewan (3-7) 32



10 years ago
2008

Died on this date
Anita Page, 98. U.S. actress. Miss Page, born Anita Pomares, was a major star in the late 1920s and early 1930s in movies such as Our Dancing Daughters (1928); The Broadway Melody (1929); and Skyscraper Souls (1932). She retired from acting in 1936, but made a brief comeback 60 years later. Miss Page was one of the last survivors of the silent film era.

Football
CFL
British Columbia (5-5) 35 @ Hamilton (2-8) 12

CIS
Saskatchewan (2-0) 42 @ Regina (0-2) 14
Manitoba (1-1) 17 @ Calgary (1-1) 37
Alberta (1-1) 9 @ British Columbia (1-1) 27