December 3, 2021

1,710 years ago
311

Died on this date
Diocletian, 66. Emperor of the Roman Empire, 284-305. Diocletian, a native of Croatia, was a cavalry commander who was proclaimed Emperor after the deaths of Emperor Carus and Carus's son Numerian during a campaign in Persia. Diocletian governed as an autocrat, but succeeded in delegating responsibility and bringing stability to the government. He was best known for his persecution of Christians (303-312), which was the largest and bloodiest persecution of Christians by Roman authorities. As with other persecutions, it failed to eradicate Christianity within the Empire. Diocletian voluntarily abdicated in 305 because of illness, and died, 19 days before his 67th birthday.

200 years ago
1821

Politics and government
U.S. President James Monroe delivered his fifth annual State of the Union message to Congress. The subjects included commercial relations between the United States and foreign countries.

160 years ago
1861

Politics and government
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his first annual State of the Union message to Congress. Subjects included the Civil War and foreign relations.

140 years ago
1881

Politics and government
Edgar Dewdney was installed in Regina as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories; he served until 1888.

Journalism
The first edition of the daily newspaper Aamulehti (Morning Paper) was published in Tampere, Finland.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
Glenn Hartranft. U.S. athlete. Mr. Hartranft won a silver medal in the men's shot put competition at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris and finished sixth in the discus throw. He set a world record in the discus throw in 1925. Mr. Hartranft was head football coach at San Jose State University in 1942, leading the Spartans to a 7-2 record. He was San Jose State's head baseball coach in 1944-1945. Mr. Hartranft died on August 12, 1970 at the age of 68.

Mildred Wiley. U.S. athlete. Miss Wiley won a bronze medal in the women's high jump competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam. She died on February 7, 2000 at the age of 98.

Politics and government
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivered his first annual State of the Union message to Congress, in which he asked Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits." He also praised his predecessor, William McKinley, who had been assassinated three months earlier.

110 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Nino Rota. Italian composer. Mr. Rota, born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, composed operas, ballets, and other classical works, but was primarily known for his more than 150 film scores. He was primarily associated with director Federico Fellini, but also wrote music for the first two films in The Godfather series, sharing the Academy Award with Carmine Coppola for The Godfather Part II (1974). One of Mr. Rota's most popular scores was for Romeo and Juliet (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Mr. Rota had a long career as a teacher, directing the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy for almost 30 years. He died from a coronary thrombosis on April 11, 1979 at the age of 67.

100 years ago
1921

Sport
The Canadian Badminton Association was founded in Montreal.

Football
CRU
Grey Cup
Edmonton 0 @ Toronto 23

Lionel Conacher tied a Grey Cup record with 15 points as he led the Argonauts to victory over the Eskimos before 9,558 fans at Varsity Stadium. The Eskimos, wearing blue and white, were the first western team to play for the Grey Cup. Mr. Conacher scored touchdowns in the 1st and 3rd quarter and added a field goal in the 2nd quarter and singles in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, the first of which came on a missed field goal attempt. Toronto quarterback Shrimp Cochrane opened the scoring in the 1st quarter with a 3-yard touchdown rush on the first play after the Eskimos turned the ball over on downs when George Shieman's snap went over the head of punter Jack Fraser. Harry Batstone missed his first 2 convert attempts, but was successful on the third. Frank Sullivan rounded out the scoring in the 4th quarter with 2 singles on missed field goal attempts. Miles Palmer of the Eskimos rushed 25 yards for a touchdown in the 2nd half, but the play was called back on a penalty for illegal interference, and the Eskimos lost another fumble on the next play. Sinc McEvenue won the head coaching duel over Deacon White. Mr. Conacher left the game after 3 quarters to prepare to play in a hockey game that night for the Aura Lee club.

APFA
Akron (7-3-1) 0 @ Buffalo (9-0-2) 14
Cleveland (3-4) 17 @ New York (0-2) 0

Hockey
(Toronto) Sportsmen's Patriotic Association trophy
Granites 4 Aura Lee 2

Fresh from scoring 15 points for the Argonauts in their Grey Cup win over the Edmonton Eskimos at Varsity Stadium, Lionel Conacher played on defense for Aura Lee and scored a goal. Alex Romeril, who had also played for the Argonauts that day, was a substitute for the Granites.

80 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Karl Decker, 73. U.S. journalist. Mr. Decker was a correspondent for Hearst newspapers during the Spanish-American War in 1898; he was widely acclaimed for escuing the daughter of a Cuban revolutionary leader.

War
The German command reported that the "bulk of a New Zealand division" encircled southeast of Tobruk in Libya had been partly destroyed and partly captured. German troops encircled the Russian city of Tula. Moscow radio reported that Russian forces had driven the Germans to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov.

Defense
The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee approved the $8,243,839,031 third supplemental defense appropriation bill for the current fiscal year.

Law
The Indian government announced in New Delhi that all civil disobedience prisoners "whose offenses have been formal or symbolic in character" would be freed immediately.

An extraordinary grand jury in Brooklyn, New York recommended the disbarment of Alfred E. Sith, Jr., son of former New York Governor Al Smith, on 11 charges of "professional misconduct, fraud, deceit, crime and misdemeanor."

Medicine
The Journal of the American Medical Association announced that a new method of treating infantile paralysis (polio) had been developed by Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny, consisting of massage, movement, and re-education of paralyzed muscles as soon as possible after the disease was discovered.

Dr. John C. Larkin reported that "encouraging results" had been achieved in the treament of cancer during the past three years through the use of neutron rays created in the University of California's cyclotron.

Business
The U.S. National Association of Manufacturers, meeting in New York, adopted resolutions pledging "its utmost energies to the production of defense materials" and urging anti-strike legislation.

Labour
The U.S. House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate in a record vote of 252-136 a defense anti-strike bill sponsored by Rep. Howard W. Smith (Democrat--Virginia), despite the opposition of leaders in the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Football
NCAA
The Lambert Trophy was awarded in New York to Fordham University as the outstanding team in the eastern United States.

75 years ago
1946

Politics and government
Socialist Vincent Auriol was elected President of the French National Assembly.

Argentine President Juan Peron named Jose Figuerola as administrator of his five-year social-military development program.

Republican Party members of the U.S. Senate War Investigating Committee published a report which criticized the U.S. military government in Germany for supporting Eastern European refugees who refused to return to their home countries, and alleged that migration of Jews from Poland to Western Europe was part of an "organized and well-financed plan." The United Jewish Appeal ended a four-day conference in Atlantic City after hearing U.S. War Secretary Robert Patterson urge that the U.S. admit European refugees and approving a fund-raising goal of $170 million for refugee aid in 1947.

Society
An all-white jury in Atlanta acquitted Roswell Biggers of holding five Negroes in involuntary servitude.

Labour
Oakland, California was tied up by a general strike of more than 100,000 union members protesting police action in breaking up a picket line of department store clerks.

In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court Judge Alan Goldsborough convicted Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis of civil and criminal contempt of court for violating an order to revoke the union's notice of contract termination. Mr. Lewis admitted the violation, but condemned the order for forcing miners into "involuntary servitude."

Football
AAFC
Cleveland (11-2) 34 @ Miami (2-10) 0

NCAA
Associated Press sportswriters named the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish as the best college team in the United States for 1946, while the United States Military Academy received the Lambert Trophy as the best eastern team.

70 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Silent Supper, starring Vanessa Brown, Paul Valentine, Andrew Duggan, and Charlott Knight



Literature
Bill Mauldin's Army, a collection of 439 cartoons by Mr. Mauldin, was published in New York by Sloane.

The Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary honour, went to novelist and playwright Louis Poirier, who rejected the award.

War
Communist jets appeared for the first time over Seoul. The United Nations reported that its Korea War casualties outside of American and South Korean units totalled 7,605.

Politics and government
Colonel Adeeb Shishekly, Syrian Army chief of staff and leader of the previous week's coup against the People's Party cabinet, consolidated his control of the country, and appointed Col. Fawzi Silo as head of state, Prime Minister, and Defense Minister.

The Turkish Grand National Assembly passed a law making leadership of a Communist group a capital crime.

Energy
The governments of Canada and Ontario agreed to proceed with the St. Lawrence Power Development.

Oil
The Kuwait Oil Company announced the conclusion of an agreeement providing for an even division of profits with the Sheik of Kuwait.

Economics and finance
East Germany retaliated against West Germany's suspension of interzonal trade by halting coal shipments to West Berlin.

Labour
U.S. President Harry Truman created an 11-member Committee on Government Contract Compliance to insure observance of regulations which banned employment discrimination by businesses holding federal contracts. The order was assailed by Southerners, who opposed any enforcement of nondiscrimination, and by civil rights advocates, who felt it was too weak.

60 years ago
1961

Football
NFL
Cleveland (8-4) 38 @ Dallas (4-7-1) 17
Detroit (7-4-1) 16 @ Chicago (6-6) 15
Los Angeles (3-9) 21 @ Minnesota (3-9) 42
New York (9-3) 17 @ Green Bay (10-2) 20
Philadelphia (9-3) 35 @ Pittsburgh (5-7) 24
San Francisco (6-5-1) 17 @ Baltimore (7-5) 20
Washington (0-11-1) 24 @ St. Louis (5-7) 38

AFL
San Diego (11-1) 13 @ Houston (8-3-1) 33
Buffalo (6-7) 26 @ Oakland (2-10) 21
Boston (7-4-1) 28 @ Denver (3-10) 24
Dallas (4-8) 7 @ New York (7-5) 28

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Mamy Blue--Pop Tops (5th week at #1)

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Mammy Blue--Charisma (7th week at #1)
2 Butterfly--Danyel Gerard
3 Get Me Some Help--Neville Whitmill
4 Amen--Peanutbutter Conspiracy
5 You--Peter Maffay
6 Never Ending Song of Love--The New Seekers
7 Cousin Norman--Marmalade
8 Papa's Gonna Kiss it Better--William E.
9 Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast--Daniel Boone
10 The Desiderata--Les Crane

Singles entering the chart were Sultana by Titanic (#19); and Look Around (and You'll Find Me There) by Vince Hill (#20).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 The Desiderata--Les Crane (2nd week at #1)
2 Hey Girl--Donny Osmond
3 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
4 It's a Cryin' Shame--Gayle McCormick
5 Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops
6 Brand New Key--Melanie
7 Two Divided by Love--The Grass Roots
8 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
9 Stones--Neil Diamond
10 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes

Singles entering the chart were I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by the New Seekers (#24); American Pie by Don McLean (#27); Day After Day by Badfinger (#29); and I Can Smell that Funky Music by Eric Mercury (#30).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKVN)
1 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
2 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
3 Lovin' You Ain't Easy--Pagliaro
4 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
5 Got to be There--Michael Jackson
6 Brand New Key--Melanie
7 Hey Girl--Donny Osmond
8 The Desiderata--Les Crane
9 Everybody's Everything--Santana
10 Rock Steady--Aretha Franklin

Singles entering the chart were Respect Yourself by the Staple Singers (#29); I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by the New Seekers (#30); Scorpio by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band (#31); Turned 21 by Fludd (#35); Love Me, Love Me, Love by Frank Mills (#36); Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards (#38); Day After Day by Badfinger (#39); and Friends with You by John Denver (#40).

War
Jets from Pakistan attacked at least four Indian airports, with reports that at least eight airfields had been hit.

Diplomacy
Canada signed a new extradition treaty with the U.S.A. Two new offenses were added: conspiracy to commit assault and unlawful seizure of aircraft.

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
Edmonton's Top 20 (CHED)
1 Young Turks--Rod Stewart
2 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
3 Working for the Weekend--Loverboy
4 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
5 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
6 Here I Am--Air Supply
7 My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)--Chilliwack
8 Leather and Lace--Stevie Nicks with Don Henley
9 No Reply at All--Genesis
10 All Touch--Rough Trade
11 Lunatic Fringe--Red Rider
12 Oh No--Commodores
13 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
14 Don't Stop Believin'--Journey
15 Twilight--Electric Light Orchestra
16 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
17 Magic Power--Triumph
18 Trouble--Lindsey Buckingham
19 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
20 Under Pressure--Queen & David Bowie

Edmonton's Top 10 (CFRN)
1 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
2 Young Turks--Rod Stewart
3 The Old Songs--Barry Manilow
4 Take Off--Bob and Doug McKenzie
5 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
6 The Theme from Hill Street Blues--Mike Post
7 Steal the Night--Stevie Woods
8 Oh No--Commodores
9 Harden My Heart--Quarterflash
10 Wired for Sound--Cliff Richard

Bob and Doug McKenzie were characters played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis on the television comedy show SCTV. Accompanying vocals on Take Off were provided by Geddy Lee of Rush.

On television tonight
Bruce Hogle, news director of CFRN radio and television in Edmonton, delivered one of his more memorable editorials, blasting Metric Canada for paying $55,000 each to Bruno Gerussi and Madame Jehanne Benoit to make visits to five cities--five in western Canada for Mr. Gerussi, five in eastern Canada for Mme. Benoit--to promote the use of metric measurements in cooking. In his television editorial, which was an expansion of his "morning minutorial" on CFRN radio, Mr. Hogle awarded Metric Canada chairman Sandy MacArthur his "Turkey of the Week" award.

Labour
Stelco workers in Hamilton, Ontario ended the company's longest strike after 125 days.

Boxing
Former world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier (32-4-1) fought a 10-round majority draw against Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings (15-1-1) at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago. Referee Nate Morgan scored the fight 46-45 in favour of Mr. Cummings, while the two judges scored it a draw. It was Mr. Frazier's first fight in 5½ years, and he went into permanent retirement after this bout.



30 years ago
1991

Literature
The 1981 Governor-General's Awards for the best in Canadian literature were announced. The winners were: Rohinton Mistry for English Fiction for the first novel Such a Long Journey; Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo for English non-fiction for Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers his Unsuspected Past; Joan MacLeod for English drama for the book Amigo's Blue Guitar; Don McKay for English poetry for the book Night Field; Bernard Arcand for French non-fiction for Le Jaguar et le tamanoir; Andre Brochu for French Fiction for the novel La Croix du Nord; Gilbert Dupuis for French drama for Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri; Madeleine Gagnon for French poetry for Chant pour un Québec lointain.

Economics and finance
Canadian Auditor General Denis Desautels issued his first Annual Report; he criticized farm aid, Indian Affairs, and investment of government pension funds.

25 years ago
1996

Died on this date
Georges Duby, 77. French historian. Dr. Duby specialized in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He was a pioneer in studying not only what people of the past did, but their value systems and how they imagined their world. Dr. Duby wrote numerous books, articles and papers; his best-known work was probably La société aux XIe et XIIe siècles dans la région mâconnaise (Society in the 11th and 12th centuries in the Mâconnais region) (1953), the published version of his doctoral thesis.

Terrorism
A bomb detonated on the southbound tracks of the Port-Royal Réseau Express Régional (RER) station in Paris, killing four people, including Hélène Viel of Montréal. The Groupe Islamique Armé (Armed Islamic Group of Algeria) was suspected, but no group took resonsibility for the attack.

Scandal
Former National Hockey League Players Association executive director Alan Eagleson was charged by Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Toronto with fraud and theft; he had been indicted in 1994 for racketeering and fraud.

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Dev Anand, 88. Indian actor, director, and producer. Mr. Anand was one of the biggest stars in Indian cinematic history, mainly in Hindi-language films, in a career spanning 65 years. He appeared in more than 100 movies, produced 35, and directed 19. Mr. Anand died of cardiac arrest in London, where he was scheduled for a medical checkup.

November 27, 2021

1,510 years ago
511

Died on this date
Clovis I, 45. King of the Salian Franks, 481-c. 509; King of the Franks, c .509-511. Clovis I succeeded his father Childeric I, as a king of Salian Franks, and eventually came to rule an area extending from what is now the southern Netherlands to northern France. He conquered several smaller Frankish kingdoms, becoming the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, and is thus regarded as the first king of what became known as France. Clovis I converted to Roman Catholicism in 496, and was baptized on Christmas Day in 508; his conversion led to widespread conversion to Catholicism of the Frankish peoples. King Clovis I's kingdom was divided among his four surviving sons.

320 years ago
1701

Born on this date
Anders Celsius. Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Professor Celsius taught astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730-1744 and visited observatories in various European locations, but was best known for devising the temperature scale in 1742 that eventually bore his name. He died on April 25, 1744 at the age of 42.

275 years ago
1746

Born on this date
Increase Sumner. U.S. politician and judge. Mr. Sumner served in the provisional government of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War, and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782. He was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1782-1797) before resigning from the bench to run as a Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Sumner was elected in 1797, and served as Governor until his death from angina pectoris on June 7, 1799 at the age of 52; he was succeeded as Governor by Moses Gill.

R.R. Livingston. U.S. politician. Mr. Livingston, leader in the American Revolution, represented Provincial Congress of New York at the Continental Congress in 1776. He helped to draft the Declaration of Independence, but returned to New York before he could sign it. Mr. Livingston was the U.S. secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation from 1781-1783, and was Chancellor of New York (a Federalist delegate to the Constitution ratification convention) from 1777-1801. He died on February 26, 1813 at the age of 66.

210 years ago
1811

Died on this date
Andrew Meikle, 92. U.K. engineer. Mr. Meikle, a native of Scotland, invented windmill "spring sails" in the early 1770s, but was best known for inventing the threshing machine in the mid-1780s, which was regarded as one of the key developments of the British Agricultural Revolution in the late 18th century. He was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2011 as a charter member.

150 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Giovanni Giorgi. Italian physicist and electrical engineer. Professor Giorgi, who taught at several universities over a period of more than 35 years, introduced the rational units of electromagnetism in 1901, and in 1912 was among the first to propose a new theory that satisfied the principle of general relativity of motion and the principle of equivalence. In 1932 he elaborated a new physical theory which also reduces electromagnetic forces to metric forces. Prof. Giorgi proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI) that was adopted in 1960. He died on August 19, 1950 at the age of 78.

140 years ago
1881

Died on this date
Theobald Boehm, 87. German musician and composer. Mr. Boehm perfected the modern flute and improved its fingering system, while composing various works for flute.

125 years ago
1896

Music
The tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss received its premiere performance in Frankfurt, Germany.



Politics and government
Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier put Interior Minister Clifford Sifton, the Member of Parliament for Brandon, in charge of immigration; he started a hard-sell promotion to lure settlers to the Prairie provinces from the United States and Europe.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
Ted Husing. U.S. sportscaster. Mr. Husing was one of the pioneers of American radio and television sportscasting, working from the mid-1920s until 1954, when he was forced to retire because of blindness following surgery for a brain tumour. He spent most of his career with CBS, and was known for a commanding voice, rapid-fire speech, and editorial opinions, and his method of calling play-by-play for college football set a pattern for generations of future broadcasters. Mr. Husing died on August 10, 1962 at the age of 60 after years of declining health; he was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 1963 and the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame in 1984.

Defense
The U.S. Army War College was founded by Secretary of War Elihu Root and President Theodore Roosevelt, and formally established by General Order 155.

110 years ago
1911

Born on this date
David Merrick. U.S. theatrical producer. Mr. Merrick, born David Margulois, was nominated for more than 40 Tony Awards, and won 11, in a Broadway career spanning more than 50 years from the 1940s to the 1990s. He died on April 25, 2000 at the age of 88.

100 years ago
1921

Born on this date
Alexander Dubcek. Czechoslovakian politician. Mr. Dubcek was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1968-1969, and led the liberalization known as the Prague Spring. The invasion of Soviet tanks in August 1968 led to the end of the Prague Spring, and Mr. Dubcek was forced to resign as First Secretary in April 1969. A year later he was expelled from the Communist Party and lost his seat in parliament. Mr. Dubcek died on November 7, 1992, 20 days before his 71st birthday.

Died on this date
Douglas Cameron, 67. Canadian politician. Sir Douglas, a native of Hawkesbury, Canada West, was a lumber contractor before entering politics as a councillor (1901) and mayor (1902) of Rat Portage (now Kenora, Ontario). A Liberal, he represented Fort William and Lake of the Woods in the Ontario Legislative Assembly (1902-1905), and moved to Winnipeg shortly aftre losing his seat in the 1905 provincial election. Sir Douglas was an unsuccessful candidate in Winnipeg in the 1908 federal election, but was appointed by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, serving from 1911-1916. He called a Royal Commission of Enquiry into an ongoing scandal involving the construction costs of the province's new legislative buildings; the Commission's findings led to the resignation of Sir Rodmond Roblin as Premier.

Football
APFA
Canton (4-1-3) 15 @ Washington (0-1) 0
Dayton (4-4-1) 0 @ Buffalo (8-0-2) 7
Green Bay (3-2-1) 0 @ Chicago Staleys (7-0) 20
Cincinnati (1-2) 0 @ Evansville (3-2) 48

90 years ago
1931

Died on this date
Lya De Putti, 34. Austro-Hungarian-born U.S. actress. Miss De Putti, a native of what is now part of Slovakia, was known for playing vamp characters in European movies in the early 1920s. She went to Hollywood in 1926, but had little success. Miss De Putti's movies included The Mistress of the World (1919); Varieté (1925); and The Sorrows of Satan (1926). She reportedly attempted suicide several times, and eventually died of pleurisy originating from surgery to remove a chicken bone from her throat.

80 years ago
1941

Movies
Boston banned the showing of Two-Faced Woman (1941), two days after Providence, Rhode Island had done the same, after the Catholic Legion of Decency gave the film a "C" rating for "condemned," citing its "immoral and un-Christian attitude toward marriage and its obligations: impudently suggestive scenes, dialogue, and situations: suggestive costumes."

War
The Royal Canadian Air Force's 417 Fighter Squadron was formed at Charmy Down, England. The British command announced that New Zealand forces in Libya had joined with U.K. troops from Tobruk at El Duda after recpturing Razegh. Berlin spokesmen claimed that German forces had broken through Soviet lines in the Tula-Stalinogorsk sector south of Moscow. Gondar in northern Ethiopia, the last outpost of Italy's East African Empire, surrendered at 2 P.M. after 7½ months of siege. Thai Prime Minister Bipul Songgram said that Japan had given assurances that its troop concentrations in Indochina did not indicate an imminent attack on Thailand.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferred at the White House with Japanese Ambassador to the United States Kichisaburō Nomura and envoy Saburō Kurusu.

U.S. President Roosevelt nominated George S. Messersmith to succeed Josephus Daniels as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.

Politics and government
Three Senators and nine Deputies lost their parliamentary seats in France because of a Vichy decree barring Jews from elective assemblies.

Economics and finance
Argentine Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guinazu and U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Norman Armour reached an agreement in Buenos Aires under which the U.S. Metals Reserve Company would buy all of Argentina's production of tungsten for three years.

U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary John A. Sullivan announced that the Treasury did not "intend to suggest to the Congress any further taxes on income earned during the calendar year 1941."

Labour
U.S. President Roosevelt rejected the resignations of Congress of Industrial Organizations President Philip Murray from the National Defense Mediation Board.

National Association of Manufacturers President Charles Hook, testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives Labor Committee, opposed compulsory arbitration of defense strikes.

75 years ago
1946

War
The U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. signed an interim agreement permitting the repatriation of 25,000 Japanese prisoners now in Soviet-held territory.

Politics and government
Prime Minister Peter Fraser led his governing Labour Party to victory in the New Zealand general election, but with a reduced majority in Parliament. Labour took 42 of 80 seats, a decrease of 3 from their total going in the election. The National Party, led by Sidney Holland, won the remainin 38 seats, an increase of 4.

The Council of Foreign Ministers reached an agreement on Trieste after three weeks of negotiation, providing for a governor appointed by the Security Council; reduction of Allied troops; and election of a local assembly.

The U.S.A., U.K., and France advised Berlin's City Assembly to elect 16 aldermen despite Soviet insistence that each candidate have prior Allied approval.

World events
Azerbaijan Province threatened to declare independence as Iranian troops entered the area to supervise upcoming elections.

Braziliana
The Brazilian government completed plans for transferring the nation's capital to a specially-designed city in the central plateau.

Literature
A special sessions court in New York ruled 2-1 that Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson was obscene, and fined the publisher, Doubleday, $1,000. The book had been published in March 1946, and approximately 60,000 copies had been sold.

Technology
Allen Dumont Laboratories in Washington demonstrated a new method of transmitting pictures and sound by light beams instead of radio.

Economics and finance
Wartime controld on wages and salaries were removed in Canada, but price controls were retained.

Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan General Douglas MacArthur ordered the freezing of all assets of Japan's 10 wealthiest families, which would be placed under the supervision of the Holding Company Liquidation Commission.

Argentine President Juan Peron told a meeting of industrial leaders, "You must either accept a system of state intervention and controls, or lose everything by way of Communism."

70 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Mikki, starring Joan Chandler

War
U.S. and Communist negotiators at Panmunjom formally agreed on the establishment of a Korean cease-fire line on the present battle front, and to begin discussing truce enforcement proposals.

World events
The Czechoslovakian government announced the arrest of Rudolf Slansky, former deputy Premier in control of police and economic planning, on charges of "activities against the state."

Defense
A Nike missile, the first rocket to intercept an airplane, was fired at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Scandal
The U.S. Army announced that none of the U.S. Military Academy football players dismissed for cheating would be accepted for reappointment to the academy.

Science
Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology won the American Chemical Society's first Gilbert Newton Lewis medal for contributions to theoretical chemistry.

Oil
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company announced that it would pay its usual 30% dividend to shareholders this year due to profits from its "substantial" operations outside Iran.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Moliendo Café--Lucho Gatica (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): L'Auto-circulation--Henri Tisot (4th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Big Bad John--Jimmy Dean (4th week at #1)
2 Runaround Sue--Dion
3 Please Mr. Postman--The Marvelettes
4 Goodbye Cruel World--James Darren
5 Fool #1--Brenda Lee
6 Bristol Stomp--The Dovells
7 Heartaches--The Marcels
8 Tower of Strength--Gene McDaniels
9 Crazy--Patsy Cline
10 This Time--Troy Shondell

Singles entering the chart were Unchain My Heart by Ray Charles and his Orchestra (#62); Hey! Little Girl by Del Shannon (#78); I'll Never Stop Wanting You by Brian Hyland (#83); Searching by Jack Eubanks (#91); Happy Times (Are Here to Stay) by Tony Orlando (#93); Let's Go Trippin' by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones (#94); Poor Fool by Ike & Tina Turner (#95); Walkin' with My Angel by Bobby Vee (#96); Little Altar Boy by Vic Dana (#99); and Cotton Fields by the Highwaymen (#100).

On the radio
Macabre, on USAFRS Far East Network
Tonight's episode: The Man in the Mirror

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, on BBC
Tonight's episode: The Empty House

On television tonight
Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Closed Cabinet, starring Olive Sturgess, David Frankham, Peter Forster, Jennifer Raine, and Patricia Manning



Diplomacy
Argentine President Arturo Frondizi arrived in Ottawa to begin a four-day visit.

Disasters
The U.K. Royal Air Force began airlifting food supplies to flood victims in Somalia.

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): Mammy Blue--Charisma (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Mamy Blue--Pop Tops

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Coz I Luv You--Slade (3rd week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Banks of the Ohio--Olivia Newton-John (3rd week at #1)
2 Maggie May/Reason to Believe--Rod Stewart
3 Mammy Blue--Joel Dayde
4 Love is a Beautiful Song--Dave Mills
5 Signs--Five Man Electrical Band
6 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down--Joan Baez
7 Speak to the Sky--Ricky Springfield
8 Butterfly--Danyel Gerard
9 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney
10 Riders on the Storm--The Doors

Singles entering the chart were A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall by Leon Russell (#27); Spanish Harlem by Aretha Franklin (#29); Gonna See My Baby Tonight by the La De Das (#33); and Do You Know What I Mean by Lee Michaels (#37).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Without a Worry in the World--Rod McKuen
2 Non, Non, Rien N'a Changé--Poppys
3 Soley Soley--The Middle of the Road
4 Reason to Believe/Maggie May--Rod Stewart
5 Pappie Loop Toch Niet Zo Snel--Herman Van Keeken
6 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 Spanish Harlem--Aretha Franklin
8 Only Lies--Greenfield & Cook
9 Kom Van Dat Dak Af [Maxi Single]--Peter en Zijn Rockets
10 Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein--Roy Black + Anita

Singles entering the chart were How Do You Do by Mouth & MacNeal (#19); Ik Heb 'n Vraag by Wilma (#23); I Will Return by Springwater (#28); Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself by the Bee Gees (#29); Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Shocking Blue (#30); A Sunny Day in Greece by Tee Set (#34); and Gypsys Tramps & Thieves by Cher (#38).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes (2nd week at #1)
2 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
3 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
4 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
5 Family Affair--Sly and the Family Stone
6 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
6 Maggie May/Reason to Believe--Rod Stewart
8 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
9 Rock Steady--Aretha Franklin
10 The Desiderata--Les Crane

Singles entering the chart were American Pie - Parts I and II by Don McLean (#69); Hey Girl/I Knew You When by Donny Osmond (#70); Clean Up Woman by Betty Wright (#76); Hey Big Brother by Rare Earth (#77); Nothing to Hide by Tommy James (#78); Drowning in the Sea of Love by Joe Simon (#80); Me and Bobby McGee by Jerry Lee Lewis (#81); I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by the Hillside Singers (#87); Truckin' by the Grateful Dead (#91); Sour Suite by the Guess Who (#94); Love is Funny that Way by Jackie Wilson (#98); I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again by Buffy Sainte-Marie (#99); and Tightrope Ride by the Doors (#100). I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony), one of the most annoying songs of its time, was the theme song from a Coca-Cola television commercial.



U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Family Affair--Sly and the Family Stone
2 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
3 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
4 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
5 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
6 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
7 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
8 Two Divided by Love--The Grass Roots
9 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
10 Everybody's Everything--Santana

Singles entering the chart were American Pie - Parts I and II by Don McLean (#70); Sour Suite by the Guess Who (#73); Let's Stay Together by Al Green (#77); Looking for a Love by J. Geils Band (#78); Lay Lady Lay by the Isley Brothers (#80); I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by the Hillside Singers (#82); Men are Getting Scarce by Chairmen of the Board (#83); Daisy Mae by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds (#87); Treat Me Like a Good Piece of Candy by Dusk (#91); You Keep Me Holding On by Tyrone Davis (#93); Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' by Charley Pride (#94); I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by New Seekers (#95); Five Hundred Miles by Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti (#96); The Witch Queen of Orleans by Redbone (#98); and Fool Me by Joe South (#99).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Family Affair--Sly and the Family Stone
2 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
3 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
4 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
5 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
6 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
7 Rock Steady--Aretha Franklin
8 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
9 Everybody's Everything--Santana
10 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher

Singles entering the chart were Day After Day by Badfinger (#70); Looking for a Love by J. Geils Band (#73); Hey Big Brother by Rare Earth (#77); Love is Funny that Way by Jackie Wilson (#78); Clean Up Woman by Betty Wright (#80); My Boy by Richard Harris (#82); I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by the Hillside Singers (#83); Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' by Charley Pride (#85); No Sad Song by Helen Reddy (#87); I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by New Seekers (#91); Turn Your Radio On by Ray Stevens (#92); The Witch Queen of Orleans by Redbone (#95); Sour Suite by the Guess Who (#97); and Can I by Eddie Kendricks (#100).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
2 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
3 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
4 Two Divided by Love--The Grass Roots
5 Everybody's Everything--Santana
6 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
7 Absolutely Right--Five Man Electrical Band
8 I'm a Man--Chicago
9 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
10 I'd Love to Change the World--Ten Years After

Singles entering the chart were Pretty as You Feel by Jefferson Airplane (#65); L'Oiseau by Rene Simard (#77); A Natural Man by Lou Rawls (#82); Satisfaction by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (#88); Respect Yourself by the Staple Singers (#89); Hallelujah by Sweathog (#93); I Don't Need No Doctor by Humble Pie (#96); Can I Get a Witness by Lee Michaels (#97); Hey Girl by Donny Osmond (#98); and My Boy by Richard Harris (#100).

Calgary's Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 The Desiderata--Les Crane
2 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
3 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
4 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
5 Two Divided by Love--The Grass Roots
6 Stones--Neil Diamond
7 Bow Down to the Dollar--Joshua
8 Lonesome Mary--Chilliwack
9 Tell Me Why--Matthews' Southern Comfort
10 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
Pick hit of the week: Got to Be There--Michael Jackson

Space
The U.S.S.R.'s Mars 2 orbiter released a descent module; it malfunctioned and crashed, but was the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

Football
NCAA
Army 24 Navy 23 @ John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Ooa hela natten--Attack (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Chi Mai--Ennio Morricone

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Endless Love--Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
2 Urgent--Foreigner
3 Wired for Sound--Cliff Richard
4 Green Door--Shakin' Stevens
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 Queen of Hearts--Juice Newton
7 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
8 It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin
9 Going Back to My Roots--Odyssey
10 Hooked on Classics--The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were It's You, It's You, It's You by Joe Dolan (#12); Pretend by Alvin Stardust (#15); and Prince Charming by Adam & the Ants (#16).

Died on this date
Lotte Lenya, 83. Austrian-born singer and actress. Miss Lenya, born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamaue, was best known for singing the songs of her first husband, composer Kurt Weill. They moved to New York City in 1935, and Miss Lenya spent the rest of her life in the United States. She appeared in several movies, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her supporting performance in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). Miss Lenya died of cancer.

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Black or White--Michael Jackson (2nd week at #1)

25 years ago
1996

War
A United Nations court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. It was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.

Politics and government
Pat Binns was sworn in as Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Keith Milligan. Mr. Binns had led the Progressive Conservative Party to victory in the recent provincial election, ending 10 years of Liberal government.

20 years ago
2001

Space
A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Ken Russell, 84. U.K. film and television director. Mr. Russell directed documentaries for television before making feature films, often about the lives of composers. His movies, characterized by a flamboyant directing style, included Women in Love (1969); The Boy Friend (1971); Tommy (1975); Lisztomania (1975); and Altered States (1980). Mr. Russell died after a series of strokes.

Football
CFL
Grey Cup @ B.C. Place Stadium, Vancouver
British Columbia 34 Winnipeg 23

Travis Lulay completed touchdown passes of 66 yards to Kierrie Johnson and 6 yards to Arland Bruce in the 2nd half, and the Lions held off a late rally to defeat the Blue Bombers before 54,313 fans. Winnipeg quarterback Buck Pierce completed touchdown passes of 45 yards to Greg Carr and 13 yards to Terrence Edwards in the last 4 minutes of the game as the Blue Bombers cut the deficit from 31-9 to 31-23. Mr. Lulay was named the game's Most Valuable Player.

November 26, 2021

290 years ago
1731

Born on this date
William Cowper. U.K. poet and hymnist. Mr. Cowper was a forerunner of English romantic poetry, writing of everyday life and the countryside. He was a devout Christian, despite suffering intermittent bouts of doubt and insanity, writing hymns that included Light Shining out of Darkness (1773). Mr. Cowper was a close friend of John Newton, and the two were associated in campaigning against slavery. Mr. Cowper died of dropsy on April 25, 1800 at the age of 68.

170 years ago
1851

Died on this date
Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia, 82. Prime Minister of France, 1832-1834, 1839-1840, 1840-1847. Marshal of the Empire Soult served in the Revolutionary Wars in the 1790s and the Penisular War against Portugal (1808-1812), engaging in large-scale looting in the latter. Marshal Soult fought in Germany and in the Battle of Waterloo (1815), suffering several defeats by Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington. Marshal Soult went into exile in Germany until being recalled to France in 1819. He created the French Foreign Legion in 1831, and served three terms as Prime Minister, also serving as Minister of War (1830-1834, 1840-1845).

130 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Scott Bradley. U.S. composer and conductor. Mr. Bradley was an organist who became known for composing and conducting music for cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Barney Bear, Screwy Squirrel, and George and Junior. He died on April 27, 1977 at the age of 85.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
William Sterling Parsons. U.S. military officer. Rear Admiral Parsons joined the U.S. Navy in 1922, and trained in ordnance and ballistics. He joined the Manhattan Project in 1943 under J. Robert Oppenheimer, and was the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Rear Adm. Parsons remained a close friend and associate of Dr. Oppenheimer after the war, and was disturbed by the revocation of Dr. Oppenheimer's security clearance. Just hours after hearing of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "blank wall" directive denying Dr. Oppenheimer access to classified material, Rear Adm. Parsons began experiencing chest pains, and he died the next day, December 5, 1953, nine days after his 52nd birthday, while doctors were examining him at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

110 years ago
1911

At the movies
The Courting of Mary, directed by James Kirkwood and George Loane Tucker, and starring Mary Pickford, opened in theatres. It was the first release from the Majestic Motion Picture Company.

Born on this date
Samuel Reshevsky. Polish-born U.S. chess player. Mr. Reshevsky was a child prodigy who moved to New York City with his parents in 1920. He was an accountant who won the U.S. championship eight times, and was a major contender for the world championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-'60s. Mr. Reshevsky was granted the title of international grandmaster in 1950, and wrote several books on chess. He died on April 4, 1992 at the age of 80.

100 years ago
1921

Football
CRU
Eastern Final
Parkdale Canoe Club (ORFU) 8 @ Toronto Argonauts (IRFU) 16

NCAA
Navy 7 Army 0 @ Polo Grounds, New York

90 years ago
1931

Football
NFL
Green Bay (11-1) 38 @ Providence (4-4-2) 7
New York (5-6) 6 @ Staten Island (4-6-1) 9
Chicago Cardinals (4-4) 7 @ Chicago Bears (7-3) 18

80 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Ernest Lapointe, 65. Canadian politician. Mr. Lapointe, a Liberal, represented Kamouraska in the House of Commons from 1904-1919 and Quebec East from 1919 until his death. He was Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Government of Prime Minister Mackenzie King from 1921-1924, and Minister of Justice from 1924 until his death. Mr. Lapointe served as Mr. King's "Quebec lieutenant," as Mr. King did not speak French, and had little interest in Quebec affairs.

Movies
New York Roman Catholic Archbishop Francis Spellman issued a pastoral letter denouncing Two-Faced Woman as "dangerous to public morals." It was the first time a movie had been so singled out.

Literature
The Limited Editions Club awarded its gold medal to Ernest Hemingway for his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, chosen as the book published in the previous three years that was most likely to become a classic.

War
Japan's 1st Air Fleet departed Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii. Soviet forces recaptured Rostov and drove German troops on the southern front back 50 miles to the Mius River. Dispatches reported that German forces were driving toward Stalinogorsk, 120 miles southeast of Moscow, in an apparent attempt to encircle the capital.

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull presented the Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan to Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.A. Kichisaburō Nomura, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions.

Asiatica
The Lebanese government issued a proclamation in Beirut declaring the independence of Lebanon under Free French and British protection.

Scandal
The U.S. Senate committee investigating defense contracts heard testimony that waste and nepotism were extensive in the building of a shell-loading plant in Milan, Tennessee. Committee Chairman Sen. Harry Truman (Democrat--Missouri) said that the evidence was "shocking."

The Panamanian government ordered the arrest of Third Vice President Anibal Rios, now in Colombia, on charges of peculation while he was Panama's Minister of Education.

Economics and finance
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-63 to defeat Rep. Albert Gore's (Democrat--Tennessee) amendment to the price control bill freezing wages, prices, and rents.

Labour
American Federation of Labor President William Green, Congress of Industrial Organizations President Philip Murray, CIO Secretary James Carey, and Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas expressed opposition to anti-strike legislation now being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives Labor Committee.

75 years ago
1946

World events
A British soldier and a Jew were reported killed and 21 soldiers wounded as 3,375 Jewish refugees resisted transfer to Cyprus from Haifa.

Diplomacy
Haiti was admitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), bringing the total number of voting nations to 29.

U.S. President Harry Truman and Mrs. Truman held a diplomatic banquet for representatives of 30 nations, the first since 1939.

Defense
U.K. Prime Minister Clement Attlee blamed delays in demobilization of the armed forces on slow progress with the European peace treaties.

Politics and government
The Egyptian Chamber of Deputies gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha, enabling him to sign the proposed security pact with Britain.

The U.S. House of Representatives Campaign Expenditures Committee announced that it would conduct an investigation of New York's 18th District, home of Rep. Vito Marcantonio (American Labor Party) to determine if voters had been intimidated or coerced.

Economics and finance
The Preparatory Committee of the International Conference on Trade and Employment ended its six-week London meeting with the adoption of a draft world trade charter aimed at expanding employment through reduction of trade barriers.

70 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Beyond the Door, starring Richard Greene, Gregory Morton, and Lenka Peterson

Defense
NATO Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower asked a closed session of the North Atlantic Council in Rome for a NATO army of about 40 active and reserve divisions by 1953, and a 100-division force by the end of 1954.

The U.S.A. and the Dominican Republic signed a 10-year agreement permitting the United States to set up installations on Dominican soil to track and control experimental guided missiles.

Religion Pope Pius XII responded to protests against his statement on abortions by saying that the Roman Catholic Church sometimes sanctioned saving a mother's life at the cost of the life of her unborn child.

60 years ago
1961

Football
CFL
Eastern Finals
Toronto 2 @ Hamilton 48 (OT) (Hamilton won 2-game total points series 55-27)

The Argonauts carried a 25-7 lead into Civic Stadium for the second game, but the Tiger-Cats dominated regulation time, leading 20-2 after 60 minutes. A single by Don Sutherin on a missed field goal in the 1st quarter and a safety touch when Toronto's Ron Morris intercepted a pass from Bernie Faloney on his own 1-yard line and was tackled in his end zone in the 2nd quarter gave Hamilton a 3-0 halftime lead. Mr. Faloney threw touchdown passes of 12 yards to Garney Henley and 23 yards to Ralph Goldston in the 3rd quarter. Mr. Sutherin converted both and kicked a 12-yard field goal in the 4th quarter to give the Tiger-Cats a 20-0 lead in the game and a 27-25 lead in the series. Toronto punter Dave Mann kicked singles of 48 and 54 yards to tie the series, and the Argonauts had another chance in the last minute when Stan Wallace intercepted a Faloney pass and returned it to the Hamilton 27. The Argonauts, instead of immediately kicking for a point, ran two plays that lost yards, and Mr. Mann failed to punt the ball through the end zone on the last play of regulation time. Mr. Faloney punted the ball back to Mr. Mann, who punted it back. Mr. Faloney fielded the ball at his goal line and returned it 110 yards for a touchdown, which was called back because of a number of illegal blocks. Toronto's Art Johnson fumbled the kickoff to start the 1st 10-minute overtime period, Hamilton's Carver Shannon recovered, and the Tiger-Cats scored 3 touchdowns in 7 minutes, as Mr. Faloney threw touchdown passes of 15 yards to Gerry McDougall, 11 yards to Mr. Henley, and 15 yards to Paul Dekker. In the 2nd overtime period, Mr. Shannon rushed 8 yards for a touchdown. All were converted by Mr. Sutherin. Mr. Faloney completed 20 of 36 passes for 328 yards, while Toronto's Tobin Rote, who was sacked 8 times by the Tiger-Cats, completed 22 of 45 for just 165 yards.

NFL
Baltimore (6-5) 27 @ Washington (0-10-1) 6
Dallas (4-6-1) 13 @ Philadelphia (8-3) 35
Los Angeles (3-8) 24 @ Chicago (6-5) 28
Philadelphia (7-3) 24 @ Cleveland (7-3) 45
Minnesota (2-9) 28 @ San Francisco (6-4-1) 38
New York (9-2) 37 @ Cleveland (7-4) 21
St. Louis (4-7) 27 @ Pittsburgh (5-6) 30

AFL
Oakland (2-9) 11 @ Dallas (4-7) 43
Denver (3-9) 14 @ Houston (7-3-1) 45

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Mamy Blue--Pop Tops (4th week at #1)

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Mammy Blue--Charisma (6th week at #1)
2 Butterfly--Danyel Gerard
3 Get Me Some Help--Neville Whitmill
4 Amen--Peanutbutter Conspiracy
5 You--Peter Maffay
6 Never Ending Song of Love--The New Seekers
7 What are You Doing Sunday--Dawn
8 Papa's Gonna Kiss it Better--William E.
9 Did You Ever--Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
10 Stagger Lee--Tommy Roe

Singles entering the chart were The Desiderata by Les Crane (#19); and Mexico by Dave Mills (#20).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 The Desiderata--Les Crane
2 Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops
3 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
4 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
5 It's a Cryin' Shame--Gayle McCormick
6 Hey Girl--Donny Osmond
7 Everybody's Everything--Santana
8 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
9 Two Divided by Love--The Grass Roots
10 Stones--Neil Diamond

Singles entering the chart were Take it Slow (Out in the Country) by Lighthouse (#25); Have You Seen Her by the Chi-Lites (#27); Respect Yourself by the Staple Singers (#28); Tightrope Ride by the Doors (#29); and Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards (#30).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKVN)
1 Hey Girl--Donny Osmond (2nd week at #1)
2 Baby I'm-A Want You--Bread
3 The Desiderata--Les Crane
4 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
5 Lovin' You Ain't Easy--Pagliaro
6 It's a Cryin' Shame--Gayle McCormick
7 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
8 Absolutely Right--Five Man Electrical Band
9 Wild Night--Van Morrison
10 Everybody's Everything--Santana

Singles entering the chart were Have You Seen Her by the Chi-Lites (#14); Brand New Key by Melanie (#20); White Lies, Blue Eyes by Bullet (#36); Cherish by David Cassidy (#37); Family Affair by Sly & the Family Stone (#38); and Theme from "Summer of '42" by Peter Nero (#39).

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
Edmonton's Top 16 (CHED)
1 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
2 My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)--Chilliwack
3 Young Turks--Rod Stewart
4 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
5 Working for the Weekend--Loverboy
6 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
7 All Touch--Rough Trade
8 Here I Am--Air Supply
9 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
10 Leather and Lace--Stevie Nicks and Don Henley
11 No Reply at All--Genesis
12 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
13 Lunatic Fringe--Red Rider
14 Magic Power--Triumph
15 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
16 Twilight--Electric Light Orchestra

Edmonton's Top 10 (CFRN)
1 Young Turks--Rod Stewart
2 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
3 Steal the Night--Stevie Woods
4 Wired for Sound--Cliff Richard
5 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
6 Here I Am--Air Supply
7 The Theme from Hill Street Blues--Mike Post
8 Yesterday's Songs--Neil Diamond
9 Oh No--Commodores
10 Harden My Heart--Quarterflash

Died on this date
Max Euwe, 80. Dutch chess player and executive. Mr. Euwe was a mathematician and computer science professor who won 12 Dutch championships from 1921-1955, and was world champion (1935-1937). He was granted the title of international grandmaster in 1950, and was President of Fédération Internationale des Échecs (International Chess Federation) (FIDE) (1970-1978). Mr. Euwe wrote more than 70 books on chess; he died of a heart attack.

30 years ago
1991

Died on this date
Bob Johnson, 60. U.S. hockey coach. "Badger Bob" coached the University of Wisconsin Badgers from 1966-1975 and 1976-1982, winning national championships in 1973, 1977, and 1981. He coached the United States Olympic team in 1975-1976, and U.S. national teams in various tournaments from 1973-1991. Mr. Johnson was head coach of the Calgary Flames from 1982-1987, leading them to the Stanley Cup finals in 1986. After three years as president of USA Hockey, Mr. Johnson returned to coaching with the Pittsburgh Penguins, leading them to his--and their--first Stanley Cup championship in 1991. He died of brain cancer, which was diagnosed while he was preparing Team USA for the Canada Cup tournament. Mr. Johnson was replaced as head coach of the Penguins by Scotty Bowman, who led them to another Stanley Cup victory in 1992. Mr. Johnson was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992.

Movies
The Genie Awards, recognizing the best in Canadian cinema for 1990 and 1991, were handed out at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto. Black Robe won six awards, including Best Picture and Direction (Bruce Beresford).

Asiatica
The National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolished the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renamed several cities back to their original names.

Baseball
Major league owners ratified the collective bargaining agreement in a five-year contract retroactive to 1996, to run through the year 2000. They also voted to adopt interleague play and revenue sharing for small-market teams such as the Montreal Expos.

25 years ago
1996

Died on this date
Michael Bentine, 74. U.K. comedian. Mr. Bentine wrote and appeared in numerous radio and televisin programs in a career spanning 50 years, but was perhaps best known as an original member of the cast of the radio program The Goon Show (1951-1953). He was a close friend of Peter Sellers, and often wrote for Mr. Sellers. Mr. Bentine died of prostate cancer.

10 years ago
2011

Space
The Mars Science Laboratory, with the Curiosity rover, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.



War
NATO forces in Afghanistan attacked a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.

November 22, 2021

300 years ago
1721

Born on this date
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres. Swiss-born Canadian cartographer and politician. Mr. Des Barres moved to England as a young man, and trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He served as an adie-de-camp to General James Wolfe during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), and compiled Atlantic Neptune (1777), a four-volume collection of maps, charts and views of North America. Mr. Des Barres served as Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton (1784-1787) and Governor of Prince Edward Island (1804-1812). He died in Halifax on October 24 or 27, 1824, less than a month before his 103rd birthday.

160 years ago
1861

Born on his date
Ranavalona III. Queen of Madagascar, 1883-1897. Ranavalona III was selected from among several members of the Andriana class qualified to succeed Queen Ranavalona II on the throne. Queen Ranavalona III entered into a political marriage with Rainilaiarivony, a member of the Hova elite who served as Prime Minister (1864-1895). She tried to strengthen trade and diplomatic ties with foreign powers, but invading French troops defeated Hova forces in 1895 and formally annexed Madagascar on January 1, 1896. Queen Ranavalona was allowed to remain as a figurehead sovereign, but a popular resistance movement against the French was put down in 1897, and she was exiled to the island of Réunion. Rainilaiarivony died later that year, and Ravalona III moved to Algiers, where she lived until her death from a severe embolism on May 23, 1917 at the age of 55.

150 years ago
1871

Died on this date
Oscar Dunn, 49 (?). U.S. politician. Mr. Dunn was born into slavery in New Orleans, but his father purchased the family's freedom in 1832. Mr. Dunn became a successful carpenter, and in 1867 was elected to New Orleans City Council. He defeated a white candidate for the Republican Party nomination, and in June 1868 took office as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, also serving as President pro tempore of the Louisiana State Senate, becoming the first Negro to serve as Lieutenant Governor of a U.S. state. Mr. Dunn was also President of the Metropolitan Police in New Orleans. He was associated with the Radical Republicans during the era of Reconstruction after the American Civil War. The Republicans in Louisiana wee afflicted with internal divisions during Mr. Dunn's time in office, and he had numerous political enemies. He died suddenly at his home; symptoms were reportedly consistent with arsenic poisoning, and there were suspicions that Mr. Dunn ws murdered. He was succeeded as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana by P.B.S. Pinchback.

140 years ago
1881

Born on this date
Enver Pasha. Ottoman military officer and politician. İsmail Enver Pasha was a leader of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 that established democracy in the Ottoman Empire, and with Talaat Pasha and Cemal Pasha, was one of the Three Pashas who effectively ruled the empire after taking power in a coup d'état in 1913. Enver Pasha was a mirliva (brigadier general) who served with the Ottoman Army (1903-1918); as Minister of War and defacto commander-in-chief (1904-1918), he led a disastrous attack against Russian forces in the Battle of Sarikamish (1914-1915), and blamed Armenians for his defeat. Enver Pasha was one of the principal perpetrators of the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks during World War I; he escaped the Ottoman Empire at the end of the war, and was convicted in absentia of the genocide. Enver Pasha ended up in central Asia, and on August 4, 1922 at the age of 48, was killed by machine-gun fire while leading the Basmachi Revolt against the Bolsheviks.

130 years ago 1891 Born on this date
Edward Bernays. Austrian-born U.S. publicist. Mr. Bernays, a nephew of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, has been called "the father of public relations" and one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century. He was born in Vienna, and moved with his family to New York City when he was an infant. Mr. Bernays worked with the U.S. Committee on Public Information's Bureau of Latin-American Affairs during World War I, and then worked as a "public relations counsel" in New York from 1919-1963 on behalf of businesses and governments. His advertising campaigns included the "Torches of Freedom" project in the 1920s to induce women to smoke cigarettes, and work on behalf of the United Fruit Company in the 1950s in connection with the Central Intelligence Agency's overthrow of the Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Arbenz. Mr. Bernays' books included Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923); Propaganda (1928); and Public Relations (1945). Mr. Bernays died on March 9, 1995 at the age of 103.

125 years ago
1896

Died on this date
George Ferris, Jr., 37. U.S. engineer. Mr. Ferris invented the Ferris Wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He died of typhoid fever.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
José Leandro Andrade. Uruguayan soccer player. Mr. Andrade, nicknamed "la maravilla negra" (The Black Marvel), played wing-half with six senior Uruguayan clubs (1921-1934), scoring 39 goals in 284 games. He scored 1 goal in 34 international matches (1923-1930), helping Uruguay win gold medals in the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympic Games, and the first World Cup in 1930. Mr. Andrade developed syphilis during his playing career, and fell on hard times in later years, taking to drink and dying in poverty in an asylum on October 5, 1957 at the age of 55.

Joaquín Rodrigo. Spanish composer. Mr. Rodrigo, who went blind at the age of 3 and wrote his compositions in Braille, was a pianist who was known for his compositions for guitar. His best-known work is Concierto de Aranjuez (1940). Mr. Rodrigo died on July 6, 1999 at the age of 97.

110 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Ralph Guldahl. U.S. golfer. Mr. Guldahl won 16 PGA tournaments, including the U.S. Open in 1938 and 1939, and the Masters in 1939. When he won the 1938 U.S. Open, he became the last golfer to do so while wearing a necktie during play. Mr. Guldahl died on June 11, 1987 at the age of 75.

100 years ago
1921

Born on this date
Rodney Dangerfield. U.S. comedian. Mr. Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen, was known for saying, "I don't get no respect." His album No Respect (1980) won a Grammy Award. Mr. Dangerfield's movies included Caddyshack (1980); Easy Money (1983); and Back to School (1986). Mr. Dangerfield died on October 5, 2004 at the age of 82, of complications from heart surgery.

90 years ago
1931

Football
NFL
Portsmouth (10-3) 19 @ Chicago Cardinals (4-3) 10
Cleveland (2-7) 7 @ Staten Island (3-6-1) 16
Chicago Bears (6-3) 26 @ Brooklyn (2-10) 0
Green Bay (10-1) 14 @ New York (5-5) 10

80 years ago
1941

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Piano Concerto in B Flat--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra (8th week at #1)

Died on this date
Werner Mölders, 28. German military aviator. Oberst (Colonel) Mölders was the leading German air ace during the Spanish Civil War, and the first flying ace to claim 100 victories in combat. He was killed in the crash of a plane in which he was a passenger on the way from Crimea to Germany to attend the funeral of his superior, Ernst Udet, who had committed suicide on November 17.

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferred in Washington with Viscount Halifax (U.K.); Dr. Hu Shih (China); Richard Casey (Australia); and Dr. A. Loudon (Netherlands) on the Far Eastern situation.

Defense
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the Office of Production Management to seize property required for national defense.

Politics and government
Chilean Interior Minister Leonardo Guzman and Defense Minister Carlos Valdovinos resigned.

The Panamanian government banned the circulation of anti-democratic propaganda.

Medicine
Dr. Leslie Chambers and Werner Henle of the University of Pennsylvania showed the first photographs of influenza virus type A, which were taken with an electron microscope and showed the virus to be 4 ten-millionths of an inch in diameter.

Labour
Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis and the UMW policy committee accepted U.S. President Roosevelt's appointment of a three-man commission to arbitrate the union's demand for a closed shop, and ordered striking coal miners to return to work immediately. The Congress of Industrial Organizations convention in Detroit adjourned after adopting resolutions scoring the Federal Bureau of Investigation as "political police" and the National Labor Relations Board as biased aganst CIO unions.

Football
CRU
Eastern Final
Hamilton (ORFU) 2 @ Ottawa (IRFU) 7

Bert Haigh's touchdown, converted by Eric Chipper, provided all the scoring the Rough Riders needed to defeat the Wildcats at Lansdowne Park to advance to the Grey Cup. Arnie McWatters punted for a single for the other Ottawa point. Scotty Wright punted for 2 singles to account for the Wildcats' scoring.

75 years ago
1946

Died on this date
Otto Georg Thierack, 57. German jurist and politician. Mr. Thierack joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and rose to the rank of President of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof). He was Reich Minister of Justice from August 20, 1942-April 30, 1945. Mr. Thierack handed convicts over to the SS for punishment during World War II, was arrested at the conclusion of the war. He committed suicide in prison by poisoning before he could be tried at Nuremberg for war crimes.

Politics and government
Bulgarian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov became Premier and named a cabinet that included 10 Communists, five Peasant Party members, and two Socialists.

Bolivia's governing Liberal Party nominated former Ambassador to the United States Luis Gernando Guachalla as President.

Law
A U.S. district court in Washington dismissed charges against 26 surviving defendants of the 1942 mass indictments for sedition, saying that another trial would be a "travesty on justice."

Labour
A major strike was triggered in the copper and gold mines of the Noranda company in Abitibi, Quebec. The strikers were supported by a union affiliated with the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations. The strike didn't end until February 10, 1947.

Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis returned to Washington to appear before U.S. district court in the current mining dispute, while 3,000 striking hard coal miners resumed work.

The annual CIO convention ended in Atlantic City after re-electing Philip Murray as President and United Auto Workers leaders Walter Reuther and R.J. Thomas as Vice Presidents.

Baseball
The Baseball Writers Association of America named Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals as the National League's Most Valuable Player for 1946. "Stan the Man" played 156 games--114 games at first base and 42 in left field--leading the NL in batting percntage (.365); slugging percentage (.587); at bats (624); runs (124); hits (228); doubles (50); and triples (20), and was third in runs batted in (103) as the Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a two-game playoff to win the NL pennant and then defeated the Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3 in the World Series.

70 years ago
1951

At the movies
Scrooge, directed by Brian Desmond-Hurst, and starring Alastair Sim in the title role, received its premiere screening at the Odeon Marble Arch in London. It opened in the United States six days later under the title A Christmas Carol.







Literature
Closing the Ring, the fifth volume of Sir Winston Churchill's History of the Second World War, was published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin.

War
U.S. and Communist negotiators in Panmunjom reached a tentative agreement to locate the cease-fire line on the present battle front if agreement could be reached within a month on other questions, including truce enforcement and exchange of prisoners. Chinese and North Korean forces attacked Hill 355, held by the Second Battalion of the Canadian Royal 22e Régiment. The troops were occupying a 7-kilometre front extending north-east from the Samichon River; D Company met heavy shelling, but held the position for 96 hours in harsh, snowy conditions. Canadian losses were 15 killed and 34 wounded.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. asked the United Nations General Assembly to investigate alleged U.S. attempts to organize subversive movements in Communist countries.

Defense
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Western Allies reached a "general agreement" on ending the occupation of West Germany under a new "peace contract."

Politics and government
Premier Leslie Frost led his Progressive Conservative Party to its third consecutive majority in the Ontario provincial election. The PCs won 79 of 90 seats in the Legislative Assembly, an increase of 26 from before the election. The Liberal Party, led by Walter Thomson, dropped from 14 seats to 8, but regained the position of official Opposition. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, led by Ted Jolliffe, dropped from 19 seats to 2.

Agriculture
Argentine President Juan Peron told visiting U.S. Congressmen in Buenos Aires that he hoped to double Argentina's agricultural production during his second five-year administration through new irrigation projects and farm mechanization.

Football
NFL
Green Bay (3-6) 35 @ Detroit (6-2-1) 52

60 years ago
1961

At the movies
Blue Hawaii, directed by Norman Taurog, and starring Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, and Angela Lansbury, opened in theatres.



Football
CFL
Western Finals
Calgary 14 @ Winnipeg 43 (Winnipeg won best-of-three series 2-0)

Leo Lewis scored touchdowns on a 49-yard pass from Kenny Ploen and a 42-yard rush to lead the Blue Bombers to their fourth western title in five years. Frank Rigney scored the third Winnipeg touchdown when he recovered a fumble by Calgary punt returner Bill Miller in the Stampeders' end zone, and Winnipeg backup quarterback Hal Ledyard threw touchdown passes of 83 yards to Ernie Pitts and 11 yard to Farrell Funston. Gerry James converted all 5 touchdowns and added 2 field goals and a single. Winnipeg fullback Charlie Shepard punted for a single, but left the game with a leg injury in the 3rd quarter. The Blue Bombers led 43-0 before Jerry Keeling, who had replaced starter Eagle Day at quarterback for the Stampeders, produced 2 late touchdowns, rushing 2 yards for one and handing off to Earl Lunsford for a 2-yard touchdown rush. Both were converted by George Hansen. 16,800 were in attendance at Winnipeg Stadium on a mild Wednesday night.

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Banks of the Ohio--Olivia Newton-John (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Ame no Midōsuji--Ouyang Fei Fei (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops (5th week at #1)

Died on this date
Zez Confrey, 76. U.S. musician and composer. Edward Elzear Confrey was a jazz pianist who composed and performed novelty tunes in a career spanning more than 40 years, but was best known for writing Kitten on the Keys (1922) and Dizzy Fingers (1923). He died after suffering from Parkinson's disease for many years.

Terrorism
FLQ terrorist Bernard Lortie was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Québec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis in 1970.

Disasters
Five teenagers from Edinburgh and their instructor were killed in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.

Football
NFL
Green Bay (3-6-1) 21 @ Atlanta (5-4-1) 28

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Say I Love You--Renée Geyer (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Japanese Boy--Aneka (5th week at #1)

Died on this date
Hans Krebs, 81. German-born U.K. physician and biochemist. Sir Hans was a pioneer in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and makes it available to drive the processes of life. He began his career in Germany, but as a Jew, lost his job shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Sir Hans was quickly hired by Cambridge University, and later worked at Sheffield University and the University of Oxford. He was awarded a share of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle." Sir Hans died after a brief illness.

Football
CFL
Grey Cup @ Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Edmonton 26 Ottawa 23

Dave Cutler's 27-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining in regulation time gave the Eskimos their record fourth straight Grey Cup victory. The Eskimos fell behind 20-0 in the 2nd quarter, as rookie quarterback J.C. Watts, named the game's outstanding offensive player, led the Rough Riders to 2 Gerry Organ field goals, followed by touchdown rushes of 1 yard by Jim Reid and 14 yards by Sam Platt, both converted by Mr. Organ. Edmonton quarterback Warren Moon threw 2 interceptions in the 1st half before veteran Tom Wilkinson, playing the final game of a 15-year CFL career, relieved him in the 2nd quarter and completed 10 of 13 passes. Mr. Wilkinson's efforts produced just 1 point, when Dave Cutler missed a field goal, but the Eskimos seemed considerably less rattled when they came out to play the 2nd half. Mr. Moon returned and threw another interception, but the Rough Riders were unable to capitalize, and the Eskimos rallied for 2 quick touchdowns. Mr. Moon handed off to Jim Germany for a 1-yard touchdown run, converted by Mr. Cutler, to make the score 20-8. A few minutes later, Mr. Watts fumbled, and Edmonton linebacker Dale Potter recovered at the Ottawa 3-yard line. Mr. Moon sneaked over from the 1, and Mr. Cutler's convert reduced Ottawa's lead to 20-15. A field goal by Mr. Organ made the score 23-15, but Mr. Moon drove the Eskimos downfield late in the 4th quarter, and sneaked over from the 1-yard line for his second touchdown of the game. Mr. Moon then passed to Marco Cyncar for a 2-point convert--the first in Grey Cup history--to tie the game. The game's most controversial play occurred shortly after, when a completion from Mr. Watts to tight end Tony Gabriel was nullified when Mr. Gabriel and Edmonton defensive back Gary Hayes were both called or pass interference--a call that no one could remember seeing before (or since). The Eskimos soon regained possession, and Mr. Moon moved the team into position for the winning kick. The man who snapped the ball for the winning field goal, Bob Howes, was ending his 14-year CFL career. It was also the last game of the 11-year CFL career of Tony Gabriel; playing on a bad knee, he caught 6 passes for 76 yards. Another Ottawa receiver, Joe Taylor, played his only game as a Rough Rider, and didn't catch a pass. His only other CFL game had been with the Montreal Alouettes, when he'd caught 1 pass for 7 yards in the Alouettes' season opener on July 4.



NFL
San Diego (7-5) 55 @ Oakland (5-7) 21

San Diego tight end Kellen Winslow tied an NFL record for a single game, catching 5 touchdown passes, as the Chargers routed the defending Super Bowl champion Raiders at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The record had been set by Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals in 1950.

30 years ago
1991

At the movies
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West opened in theatres. Among the actors using their voices in this animated film was James Stewart, and it was his final movie role.



25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Breathe--The Prodigy

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Rat Trap--Dustin (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
María Casares, 74. Spanish-born French actress. Miss Casares was the daughter of a member of the Republican government in Spain in the 1930s, and fled to Paris with her mother at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. She became a renowned stage actress in France, and appeared in films such as Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945); Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne) (1945); and La Lectrice (The Reader) (1988), receiving a César Award nomination for her supporting performance in the latter. Miss Casarès died of colon cancer, the day after her 74th birthday.

Mark Lenard, 72. U.S. actor. Mr. Lenard, born Leonard Rosenson, was a character actor who was best known for playing Sarek, the father of Mr. Spock, in three Star Trek television series and five movies from 1966-1991. He died from multiple myeloma.

20 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Mary Kay Ash, 83. U.S. businesswoman. Mrs. Ash founded Mary Kay Cosmetics in 1963. The company became one of the most successful multi-level marketing businesses in the world.

Norman Granz, 83. U.S.-born music producer. Mr. Granz began producing the "Jazz at the Philharmonic" concerts in Los Angeles in 1944, and expanded the concerts into international tours and recordings through the 1950s. He insisted on racially integrating the concerts, and refused to stage concerts where Negro performers were discriminated against or segregated. Mr. Granz founded the Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo record labels. In 1959, he moved to Switzerland, where he died of cancer.

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Svetlana Alliluyeva, 85. U.S.S.R.-born writer. Miss Alliluyeva, the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, lectured on history and political science before defecting to the United States in 1967. She moved back to the Soviet Union in 1984 and regained her Soviet citizenship, but returned to the U.S.A. two years later.

Paul Motian, 80. U.S. musician. Mr. Motian was a jazz drummer and composer who worked with artists such as Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett in addition to leading his own combos. Mr. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties.