December 25, 2021

975 years ago
1046

Europeana
Henry III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.

560 years ago
1461

Born on this date
Christina of Saxony. Queen consort of Denmark (1481-1513); Norway (1483-1513); and Sweden (1497-1501). Christina married the future King Hans in 1478, and became Queen consort when he acceded to the Danish throne upon the death of his father. Hans was subsequently elected King of Norway and conquered Sweden. Queen Christina accompanied her husband to Sweden, but he began an adulterous affair in 1501, and was removed as king, while Queen Christina was taken into custody, and wasn't permitted to return to Denmark until 1503, where she lived separately from King Hans until her death on December 8, 1521, 17 days before her 60th birthday.

310 years ago
1711

Born on this date
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville. French musician and composer. Mr. Mondonville was a classical violinist who was associated with the Chapelle royale and chamber, performing 100 concerts. He wrote grands motets, light operas, oratorios, and works for violin. Mr. Mondonville died on October 8, 1772 at the age of 60.

200 years ago
1821

Born on this date
Clara Barton. U.S. nurse. Miss Barton was a schoolteacher and self-taught nurse who aided Union Army soldiers in the American Civil War and ran the Office of Missing Soldiers after the war, identifying soldiers killed or missing in action. She founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and was its president until her retirement in 1904. Miss Barton died on April 12, 1912 at the age of 90.

190 years ago
1831

Protest
Baptist preacher Samuel Sharpe began the 11-day Great Jamaican Slave Revolt; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilized in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.

160 years ago
1861

Born on this date
Madan Mohan Malaviya. Indian educator, journalist, and politician. Mahamana Malaviya, a lawyer by profession, co-founded Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1916, and was its vice chancellor from 1919-1938. He founded the English-language newspaper The Leader in 1909, and was chairman of the Hindustan Times (1924-1936). Mahamana Malaviya was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council/Central Legislative Assembly (1912-1926) while being a moderate advocate of Indian independence, and served three terms as president of the Indian National Congress. He was one of the founders of the Bharat Scouts and Guides, and died on November 12, 1946 at the age of 84.

130 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Kenneth Anderson. Indian-born U.K. military officer and politician. General Sir Kenneth served in both world wars, and was best known for commanding the British First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa and the subsequent Tunisian Campaign. He served as Governor of Gibraltar from 1947-1952. General Sir Kenneth died of pneumonia on April 29, 1959 at the age of 67.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. U.K. royal family member. Princess Alice was the daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland's largest landowner, and married Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V, in 1935. She served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)/Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF), and held official positions with a dozen British Army regiments. The Duchess of Gloucester carried out public functions until she was 98, and died on October 29, 2004 at the age of 102.

100 years ago
1921

Born on this date
Steve Otto. Polish-born Canadian politician. Mr. Otto, a Liberal, represented the Ontario riding of York East in the Canadian House of Commons (1962-1972). He was 22 days past his 67th birthday when he disappeared and was presumed dead when his sailboat hit a rock and capsized off the coast of Cuba on January 16, 1989.

Died on this date
Hans Huber, 69. Swiss composer. Mr. Huber wrote eight symphonies, five operas, four piano concertos, and other orchestral, chamber, and choral works.

Vladimir Korolenko, 68. Russian journalist and author. Mr. Korolenko wrote fiction and non-fiction expressing criticism of Russia's czarist regime; his best-known work was the short novel The Blind Musician (1886). Mr. Korolenko suffered from progressive heart disease in later years, and died of pneumonia.

90 years ago
1931

Radio
The shortwave station HCJB, "The Voice of the Andes," began broadcasting from Quito, Ecuador.

80 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Richard S. Aldrich, 57. U.S. politician. Mr. Aldrich, a son of U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich and a cousin of the Rockefellers, was a Republican, and a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1914-1916) and Senate (1916-1918). He represented Rhode Island's 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1923-1933).

War
British forces surrendered Hong Kong to invading Japanese forces; 290 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada (a Quebec unit) and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were dead, and 493 wounded. Major John Crawford and 1,975 Canadian soldiers were captured and incarcerated at the Sham Shui Po prison camp at Kowloon for 44 months. Japanese soldiers continued their destruction of St. Stephen's College hospital in Hong Kong, killing over 100 British, Canadian and Indian wounded soldiers, as well as a number of doctors and nurses. Manila and Tokyo dispatches reported that Japanese troops had advanced at three points on the Phillipine island of Luzon despite strong resistance. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

World events
Reuters reported from Bhagalpur, India that 320 Hindu leaders, including Dr. Syamprosad Mookerjee, finance minister of the Bengal government, had been arrested for trying to attend a conference that had been banned.

Communications
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Australian Prime Minister John Curtin formally opened a 7,420-mile direct radio-telegraph communications system between the two countries.

Politics and government
The male population of Saint Pierre voted by more than 98% for association with Free French forces, as opposed to collaboration with the Axis.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones announced the creation of a Small Business Unit in the Commece Department under William Shepardson.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Joint Committee on Non-Essential Expenditures, headed by Senator Harry F. Byrd (Democrat--Virginia), recommended total savings of $1.7 billion in non-defense expenditures.

Labour
Representatives of Air Associates, Inc. and the Congress of Industrial Organizations United Auto Workers of America reached an agreement in Bendix, New Jersey on a one-years contract, providing wage increases and a modified union shop.

75 years ago
1946

Died on this date
W.C. Fields, 66. U.S. actor. Mr. Fields, born William Claude Dukenfield, was famous (and beloved by this blogger) for his misanthropic persona, side-of-the-mouth vocal delivery, large nose, juggling skill, and fondness for alcohol. His movies included It's a Gift (1934); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939); and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941). He died as a result of years of heavy drinking.

Emir Mohammed Zeinati. Palestinian crime victim. Mr. Zeinati, an Arab landowner, was slain in Haifa by unknown assassins, apparently for selling land to Jews.

Asiatica
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands proclaimed the Provisional State of East Indonesia, including all of the former Dutch East Indies east of Java and Borneo except New Guinea.

Diplomacy
The U.K. and France signed an agreement eliminating visa requirements and other restrictions on citizens of one country travelling in the other.

Politics and government
Boycotted by Communists, China's Constitutional Assembly passed a new constitution, based on British and American models, which would go into effect on January 1, 1947. Communist spokesmen called the charter "illegal' and said that it would not be recognized in Communist-held areas.

French High Commissioner for Indonesia Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu issued a Christmas message stating, "France does not intend in the present stage of evolution of the Indochinese people to give them total and unconditional independence."

Chile's Socialist Party rejected a proposed alliance with the Communists.

Energy
The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated within the U.S.S.R.'s F-1 nuclear reactor.

Nuclear scientist C. Rogers McCullough revealed that researchers were constructing the world's first atomic power pile for peacetime use at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Gas for industrial use was cut off in six New Jersey counties, following a strike at the Jersey City and Piscataway Township plants of the Public Service and Electric Company.

70 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: The Lonely Place, starring Judith Evelyn, Boris Karloff, and Robin Morgan

Died on this date
Harry T. Moore, 46. U.S. civil rights leader. Mr. Moore was a schoolteacher who founded, in 1934, the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida, and was president of the state chapter of the NAACP. His activities included registration of Negro voters in Florida and and working for equal pay for Negro teachers in public schools. Mr. Moore and his wife Harriette, 49, were at their home in Mims, Florida on Christmas night when a bomb planted under the bedroom floor exploded. The local hospital in Titusville refused to treat Negroes, and Mr. Moore died while being transported by ambulance to the closest one where he could receive treatment. Mrs. Moore was seriously injured, and died nine days later, on January 3, 1952. The murders were investigated in 1951-1952, but no one was prosecuted then or in later decades when subsequent investigations took place. A state investigation in 2005-2006 named four Ku Klux Klan members, by then long dead, as the likely murderers.

Diplomacy
Cuba and the Dominican Republic signed in Washington a declaration of peaceful intentions, as D.R. President Rafael Trujillo pardoned five Cuban sailors of plotting to overthrow the Dominican government.

Crime
The Stone of Destiny, a British royal family heirloom, was stolen from Westminster Abbey in London.

Oil
Iran nationalized the Khanaquin and Rafidian oil companies, subsidiaries of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Moliendo Café--Lucho Gatica (6th week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): L'Auto-circulation--Henri Tisot (8th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 The Lion Sleeps Tonight--The Tokens (2nd week at #1)
2 Run to Him--Bobby Vee
3 The Twist--Chubby Checker
4 Goodbye Cruel World--James Darren
5 Walk on By--Leroy Van Dyke
6 Peppermint Twist - Part I--Joey Dee & the Starliters
7 Please Mr. Postman--The Marvelettes
8 Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen--Neil Sedaka
9 Let There Be Drums--Sandy Nelson
10 Can't Help Falling in Love--Elvis Presley

Singles entering the chart were She's Everything (I Wanted You to Be) by Ral Donner (#76); Please Come Home for Christmas by Charles Brown (#85); Go on Home by Patti Page (#91); Tuff by Ace Cannon (#92); I Told the Brook by Marty Robbins (#94); Smoky Places by the Corsairs featuring the voice of Jay "Bird" Uzzell (#95); Tears from an Angel by Troy Shondell (#96); Free Me by Johnny Preston (#97); I Need Some One by the Belmonts (#98); Santa & the Touchables by Dickie Goodman (#99); and Ev'rybody's Cryin' by Jimmie Beaumont (#100). Santa & the Touchables was a "break-in" record, a comedy record featuring excerpts from recent hits, and was Mr. Goodman's third such single in 1961, after The Touchables and The Touchables in Brooklyn.

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, on BBC
Tonight's episode: The Blue Carbuncle

On television tonight
Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Portrait Without a Face, starring Jane Greer, Robert Webber, and George Mitchell



Died on this date
Otto Loewi, 88. German-born pharmacologist. Dr. Loewi shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Henry Dale "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses." He emigrated to Austria in 1903 and became an Austro-Hungarian citizen two years later, but spent three months in custody after the German Anschluss of Austria in 1938. Dr. Loewi was released on condition that he relinquish all his possessions, including his research, to the Nazis. He went to Britain, Belgium, and eventually the United States in 1940, becoming an American citizen in 1946.

Owen Brewster, 73. U.S. politician. Mr. Brewster was Governor of Maine (1925-1929); member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine (1935-1941); and United States Senator from Maine (1941-1952). As chairman of a special Senate committee investigating defense procurement during World War II, Mr. Brewster attacked the commercial interests of Howard Hughes, but his reputation suffered when Mr. Hughes responded with accusations of his own.

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Pensiero--Pooh (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)--Benny Hill (3rd week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Maggie May/Reason to Believe--Rod Stewart (3rd week at #1)
2 Banks of the Ohio--Olivia Newton-John
3 Peace Train--Cat Stevens
4 Mammy Blue--Joel Dayde
5 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves--Cher
6 Imagine--John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 Love is a Beautiful Song--Dave Mills
8 Speak to the Sky--Ricky Springfield
9 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey--Paul & Linda McCartney
10 Freedom Come, Freedom Go--The Fortunes

Singles entering the chart were Hi Honey Ho by Daddy Cool (#26); Captain Zero by the Mixtures (#31); Walking the Floor on My Hands by Johnny Farnham (#33); and Superstar by the Carpenters (#37).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 How Do You Do--Mouth & MacNeal (2nd week at #1)
2 Non, Non, Rien N'a Changé--Poppys
3 Pappie Loop Toch Niet Zo Snel--Herman Van Keeken
4 I Will Return--Springwater
5 Coz I Luv You--Slade
6 Out of Sight, Out of Mind--Shocking Blue
7 Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein--Roy Black + Anita
8 Without a Worry in the World--Rod McKuen
9 Soley Soley--The Middle of the Road
10 Des Chansons Pop--Poppys

Singles entering the chart were Hoog Daar Aan de Hemel by Corry en de Rekels (#15); Tightrope Ride by the Doors (#31); Family Affair by Sly & the Family Stone (#33); and Lovin' and Hurtin' by Jojo (#34).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Brand New Key--Melanie
2 Family Affair--Sly & the Family Stone
3 American Pie - Parts I and II--Don McLean
4 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
5 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
6 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
7 All I Ever Need is You--Sonny & Cher
8 Scorpio--Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band
9 Cherish--David Cassidy
10 Hey Girl/I Knew You When--Donny Osmond

Singles entering the chart were Black Dog by Led Zeppelin (#67); Fire and Water by Wilson Pickett (#79); Never Been to Spain by Three Dog Night (#81); What am I Living For by Ray Charles (#87); Under My Wheels by Alice Cooper (#88); Son of Shaft by the Bar-Kays (#92); Love Gonna Pack Up (And Walk Out) by the Persuaders (#96); Do the Funky Penguin Part II by Rufus Thomas (#97); and Pain (Part 1) by the Ohio Players (#99).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Brand New Key-Melanie
2 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
3 Family Affair--Sly & the Family Stone
4 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
5 Cherish--David Cassidy
6 American Pie - Parts I and II--Don McLean
7 All I Ever Need is You--Sonny & Cher
8 Scorpio--Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band
9 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
10 Respect Yourself--Staples Singers

Singles entering the chart were Never Been to Spain by Three Dog Night (#60); Together Let's Find Love by the 5th Dimension (#75); Fire and Water by Wilson Pickett (#76); Slippin' Into Darkness by War (#83); Ain't Understanding Mellow by Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager (#85); What am I Living For by Ray Charles (#86); Son of Shaft by the Bar-Kays (#87); Those were the Days by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton (as the Bunkers) (#89); Ajax Airlines by Hudson and Landry (#90); The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Robert John (#93); Come on Over to My House by Layng Martine (#96); Love Potion Number Nine by the Coasters (#97); and Jungle Fever by Chakachas (#99).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Brand New Key-Melanie
2 Family Affair--Sly and the Family Stone
3 American Pie--Don McLean
4 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
5 Have You Seen Her--Chi-Lites
6 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
7 Cherish--David Cassidy
8 All I Ever Need is You--Sonny & Cher
9 Respect Yourself--The Staple Singers
10 Stones--Neil Diamond

Singles entering the chart were Never Been to Spain by Three Dog Night (#66); Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison (#77); That's the Way I Feel About Cha by Bobby Womack and Peace (#79); Stay with Me by Faces (#82); Keep on Keeping On by N.F. Porter (#83); Footstompin' Music by Grand Funk Railroad (#85); Joy by Apollo 100 (#87); What am I Living For by Ray Charles (#89); Open the Door by Judy Collins (#92); If I Could See the Light by the 8th Day (#95); Keep Playin' that Rock 'n' Roll by Edgar Winter's White Trash (#96); Long Time to Be Alone by the New Colony Six (#98); Precious and Few by Climax (#99); and What's Going On by Quincy Jones (#100).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Family Affair--Sly & the Family Stone (2nd week at #1)
2 An Old Fashioned Love Song--Three Dog Night
3 Got to Be There--Michael Jackson
4 The Desiderata--Les Crane
5 Theme from Shaft--Isaac Hayes
6 Brand New Key--Melanie
7 Cherish--David Cassidy
8 Devil You--Stampeders
9 Lonesome Mary--Chilliwack
10 All I Ever Need is You--Sonny & Cher

Singles entering the chart were Happy Xmas (War is Over) by by John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir (#75); Don't Say You Don't Remember by Beverly Bremers (#92); Me and Bobby McGee by Jerry Lee Lewis (#93); Keep on Movin' by Aaron Space (#95); Footstompin' Music by Grand Funk Railroad (#96); Never Been to Spain by Three Dog Night (#97); Drowning in the Sea of Love by Joe Simon (#98); Mexican Lady by Steel River (#99); and Let's Stay Together by Al Green (#100).

Football
NFL
NFC Divisional Playoff
Dallas 20 @ Minnesota 12

The Cowboys led 6-3 at halftime on 2 field goals by Mike Clark to 1 by Fred Cox of the Vikings, and took a 20-3 lead after 3 quarters on a 13-yard touchdown rush by Duane Thomas and a 9-yard touchdown pass from Roger Staubach to Bob Hayes, both converted by Mr. Clark. Alan Page tackled Mr. Staubach in his own end zone for a Minnesota safety touch in the 4th quarter, and the Vikings closed the scoring on a 6-yard pass from quarterback Gary Cuozzo to Stu Voigt, converted by Mr. Cox. 47,307 were in attendance at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.



AFC Divisional Playoff
Miami 27 @ Kansas City 24 (2 OT)

Garo Yepremian's 37-yard field goal at 7:40 of the 2nd overtime period ended the longest game in professional football history to date (see video).

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Ooa hela natten--Attack (6th week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Je chante avec toi, liberté--Nana Mouskouri

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Going Back to My Roots--Odyssey
2 It's You, It's You, It's You--Joe Dolan
3 Endless Love--Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
4 It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin
5 Urgent--Foreigner
6 Prince Charming--Adam & the Ants
7 Dancing on the Floor (Hooked on Love)--Third World
8 Under Pressure--Queen & David Bowie
9 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
10 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones

Singles entering the chart were Action Man by the Village People (#18); and Abacab by Genesis (#19).

Football
NCAA
Blue-Gray Game @ Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama
Blue 21 Gray 9

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Black or White-- Michael Jackson (6th week at #1)

Died on this date
Wilbur Snyder, 62. U.S. football player and wrestler. Mr. Snyder was a tackle and kicker who joined the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Interprovincial Football Union during the 1952 season. He scored just 3 points in the regular season, but scored 29 points in 5 playoff games; with the Eskimos facing elimination in the best-of-three WIFU finals, Mr. Snyder scored 13 points on a touchdown, 2 converts, and 2 field goals to help the Eskimos to an 18-12 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and added 7 points in a 22-11 win in the third game as the Eskimos advanced to the Grey Cup. Mr. Snyder kicked a convert for the Eskimos in their 22-11 loss to the Toronto Argonauts in the 1952 Grey Cup, and began wrestling professionally in the off-season in western Canada. Mr. Snyder scored 51 points in the 1953 regular season and 15 points in 3 playoff games as the Eskimos lost the WIFU finals to the Blue Bombers. He retired from football to wrestle full-time, holding various regional championship belts in National Wrestling Alliance territories until his retirement in 1984. Mr. Snyder was often referred to as "The World's Most Scientific Wrestler," and was particularly known for pioneering the abdominal stretch.

Diplomacy
Canada recognized the independent statehood of 11 member republics of the former U.S.S.R.; Canada had recognized Ukraine on December 2.

Politics and government
As the U.S.S.R. was dissolving, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation.

Football
NCAA
Blue-Gray Game @ Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama
Gray 20 Blue 12

25 years ago
1996

Died on this date
Bill Hewitt, 68. Canadian sportscaster. Mr. Hewitt, the son of legendary hockey broadcaster Foster Hewitt, began working with his father on Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts in the mid-1950s, and eventually succeeded Foster Hewitt as the television voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs, retiring in 1981. Bill Hewitt died of heart failure 17 days after his 68th birthday.

Football
NCAA
Blue-Gray Game @ Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama
Blue 44 Gray 34

20 years ago
2001

Baseball
Outfielder Hideki Matsui became the highest-paid player in Japanese baseball when he signed a contract with the Yomiuri Giants for the equivalent of U.S.$4.7 million.

Football
NCAA
Blue-Gray Game @ Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama
Blue 28 Gray 10

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 21, 2021

1,010 years ago
1011

Died on this date
Reizei, 61. Emperor of Japan, 967-969. Reizei, born Norihira-shinnō, acceded to the throne shortly after the death of his father Murakami. He abdicated in favour of his younger brother En'yū, and lived in retirement until his death.

160 years ago
1861

Politics and government
Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Judah Benjamin as Secretary of War.

150 years ago
1871

Diplomacy
Grand Duke Alexei, a son of Czar Aleksandr II of Russia, arrived in New York Harbor as the head of a delegation of the Imperial Russian Navy. The Grand Duke spent three months in the United States, with a six-day visit to Canada in December.

130 years ago
1891

Football
Dominion Final
Osgoode Hall 21 @ Montreal 10

125 years ago
1896

Football
CRU
Dominion Final
Ottawa College 12 @ University of Toronto 8

100 years ago
1921

Born on this date
Donald Sheldon. U.S. aviator. Mr. Sheldon, a native of Colorado, grew up in Wyoming and flew 26 missions as a gunner aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress with the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and four other decorations. He settled in Talkeetna, Alaska, from where he operated Talkeetna Air Service as a bush pilot, pioneering the technique of glacier landings on Mount McKinley. Mr. Sheldon died of cancer on January 26, 1975 at the age of 53.

Canadiana
King George V proclaimed Canada's Coat of Arms: he designated white and red as the official Canadian colours; on the crest, a red maple leaf was added in the right paw of the lion and three maple leaves joined by one stem in the crest.

90 years ago
1931

Football
CRU
Eastern Semi-Final
University of Western Ontario 7 @ Sarnia (ORFU) 1

The Mustangs punted for 5 singles and added a safety touch as they upset the Imperials before 4,500 fans at Davis Field. Bummer Stirling's single gave the Imperials a 1-0 lead, but that was all the scoring Sarnia managed.

IRFU
Exhibition
Montreal 7 @ Toronto 0

NFL
Cleveland (2-6) 7 @ Providence (4-3-2) 13

NCAA
Southern California 16 @ Notre Dame 14

Johnny Baker's last-minute field goal gave the Trojans the victory over the Ramblers before 52,000 fans in South Bend, Indiana. It was Notre Dame's first loss in three years and their first in their new stadium, which had been dedicated the previous year to their late coach, Knute Rockne.

80 years ago
1941

Died on this date
Henrietta Vinton Davis, 81. U.S. actress and social activist. Miss Davis was the most prominent Negro actress of the 19th century before becoming the first international organizer for the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), an organization founded by Marcus Garvey promoting the interests of Negroes and their return to Africa. She broke with Mr. Garvey in 1932 and became first Assistant President General of the rival UNIA, Inc., becoming its president in 1934.

War
German forces captured Rostov, at the mouth of the Don River.

Defense
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Icelandic Minister to the United States Thor Thors signed a Lend-Lease agreement, with the United States assuming the United Kingdom's financial obligations to Iceland, amounting to $20 million per year. The 35,000-ton battleship Indiana, the third to be launched in 1941 and 20th in the United States Navy, was launched six months ahead of schedule at Newport News, Virginia.

Oil
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey President W.S. Farish announced that the American oil companies whose properties had been expropriated by the Mexican government in 1938 had rejected the U.S.-Mexican oil pact.

Labour
11 pickets were wounded when non-strikers opened fire on 150 strikers at a coal mine in Edenborn, Pennsylvania.

Philip Murray was unanimously re-elected President of the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations, and declared that labour would fight any legislative attempt to bar strikes or freeze wages.

75 years ago
1946

At the movies
The Best Years of Our Lives, directed by William Wyler and starring Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, and Virginia Mayo, opened in theatres.



War
23 German doctors pled not guilty before an American court in Nuremberg to charges of torturing thousands of concentration camp inmates in medical "experiments" during World War II.

The Greek government announced that Communist guerrillas had been defeated in a nine-day battle at Skra near the Yugoslavian border.

Politics and government
General Nuri Pasha took office as Prime Minister of Iraq.

Muslim League leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah revealed in New Delhi that the League would not participate in the Indian Constituent Assembly meeting scheduled for December 9, 1946 due to continued killing of Indian Muslims in clashes with Hindus.

Religion
The North Carolina Baptist Convention in Asheville defeated a resolution banning racial segregation in churches.

Labour
A strike of 400,000 coal miners in the United States began when Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis refused to obey a court order for postponement of the contract termination date. Mr. Lewis was ordered to appear at federal district court in Washington, D.C. and "show cause" why he should not be prosecuted for contempt of court.

70 years ago
1951

War
U.S. Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg told a Pentagon press conference that the Communists were making a "massive effort" to challenge U.S. air superiority in Korea and had about 1,400 planes (including 700 MiG jets) in the area.

The Palestine Conciliation Commission reported that it had given up its present effort to promote a permanent peace between Israel and the Arab states since neither side would "substantially" compromise on its peace demands.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. protested the inclusion of funds for anti-Communist underground movements in the latest U.S. Mutual Security Act, charging that this was a violation of the 1933 Litvinov agreement under which Soviet-American relations were established.

Law
The Ohio State Supreme Court upheld a loyalty oath program in the Cleveland public schools.

Energy
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Patent Compensation Board made its first award to Cyril McClellan, who received $7,500 for developing a method of separating isotopes used at Brookhaven Natonal Laboratory.

Disasters
A typhoon swept the central Philippines, causing 60 deaths.

Football
CRU
Eastern Final
Sarnia (ORFU) 17 @ Ottawa (IRFU) 43

Only 4,361 fans showed up at Lansdowne Park on a Wednesday afternoon to see the Rough Riders rout the Imperials to advance to the Grey Cup. Pete Karpuk and Matt Anthony scored 2 touchdowns each for Ottawa. Steve Hatfield of the Rough Riders scored the game's first major, and other Ottawa touchdowns were scored by Bob Simpson and Howie Turner. Bob Gain converted all 7 and added a field goal. Jack "Corky" Duchene rushed for 3 touchdowns for Sarnia; Johnny Chorostecki converted one of them, and added a single.

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart--Cliff Richard and the Norrie Paramor Orchestra

When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart was from the movie The Young Ones (1961).

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on NBC
Tonight's episode: You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life, starring Dick York and Carolyn Kearney

Americana
The Ala Moana Office Building opened in Honolulu; La Ronde, the first revolving restaurant in the United States, was on the 23rd floor.

40 years ago
1971

War
Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeated the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur in Bangladesh.

Hockey
NHL
Toronto 4 @ Buffalo 3

This was the Sunday broadcast on CBC radio.

Football
NFL
San Diego (4-6) 33 @ Oakland (7-1-2) 34
San Francisco (6-4) 6 @ Los Angeles (6-3-1) 17
Dallas (8-2) 13 @ Washington (6-3-1) 0
Denver (1-8-1) 10 @ Kansas City (7-2-1) 28
New York Jets (4-6) 20 @ Buffalo (0-10) 7
Minnesota (8-2) 23 @ New Orleans (3-5-2) 10
New York Giants (4-6) 13 @ Pittsburgh (5-5) 17
Philadelphia (3-6-1) 37 @ St. Louis (3-7) 20
Houston (1-8-1) 13 @ Cincinnati (3-7) 28
New England (4-6) 7 @ Cleveland (5-5) 27
Detroit (6-3-1) 28 @ Chicago (6-4) 3
Baltimore (7-3) 14 @ Miami (8-1-1) 17

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Bette Davis Eyes--Kim Carnes

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Tainted Love--Soft Cell (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Under Pressure--Queen & David Bowie

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police (3rd week at #1)
2 Pretend--Alvin Stardust
3 R.R. Express--Rose Royce
4 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
5 Super Freak--Rick James
6 Let's Groove--Earth Wind & Fire
7 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Remember Me--Boys Town Gang
8 Love Games--Level 42
9 O Superman--Laurie Anderson
10 Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees--Marcia Hines

Singles entering the chart were Should I Do It by the Pointer Sisters (#30); Comin' in and Out of Your Life by Barbra Streisand (#31); Good Year for the Roses by Elvis Costello (#33); Teenage Queenie by Pussycat (#36); and Jantje Beton by Willeke Alberte (#39).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
2 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
3 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
4 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
5 Here I Am (Just When I Thought I was Over You)--Air Supply
6 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
7 The Night Owls--Little River Band
8 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
9 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
10 The Theme from Hill Street Blues--Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton

Singles entering the chart were Shake it Up by the Cars (#76); She's Got a Way by Billy Joel (#79); Let Me Love You Once by Greg Lake (#83); If I Were You by Lulu (#85); Blaze of Glory by Kenny Rogers (#86); WKRP in Cincinnati by Steve Carlisle (#87); Come Go with Me by the Beach Boys (#89); and Falling in Love by Balance (#90). WKRP in Cincinnati was the title song from the television comedy series that had been running on CBS since 1978.

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
2 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
3 Arthur's Theme--Christopher Cross
4 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
7 Here I Am--Air Supply
8 Oh No--Commodores
9 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
10 The Night Owls--Little River Band

Singles entering the chart were Shake it Up by the Cars (#77); She's Got a Way by Billy Joel (#82); Let Me Love You Once by Greg Lake (#83); If I Were You by Lulu (#84); Come Go with Me by the Beach Boys (#86); My Kinda Lover by Billy Squier (#88); Blaze of Glory by Kenny Rogers (#89); and WKRP in Cincinnati by Steve Carlisle (#93).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
2 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
3 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
4 Here I Am (Just When I Thought I was Over You)--Air Supply
5 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
6 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
7 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
8 The Night Owls--Little River Band
9 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
10 Oh No--Commodores

Singles entering the chart included Shake it Up by the Cars (#78); and Let Me Love You Once by Greg Lake (#89).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 The Friends of Mr. Cairo--Jon and Vangelis (2nd week at #1)
2 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
3 Arthur's Theme--Christopher Cross
4 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
7 No Reply at All--Genesis
8 My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)--Chilliwack
9 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
10 Physical--Olivia Newton-John

Singles entering the chart were More Stars on 45 by Stars on 45 (#39); Leather and Lace by Stevie Nicks with Don Henley (#41); I've Done Everything for You by Rick Springfield (#42); Why Do Fools Fall in Love by Diana Ross (#44); The Love of a Woman by Klaatu (#45); Desire by Roni Griffith (#46); Lovin', Kissin' and Huggin' by Powder Blues (#47); and Don't Let Him Know by Prism (#49).

Died on this date
Harry von Zell, 75. U.S. announcer and actor. Mr. von Zell was an announcer for various radio programs, including The March of Time and the shows of comedians such as Eddie Cantor and George Burns in a career spanning more than 40 years. He worked in television in its early years, and starred in his own series of comedy short films for Columbia Pictures (1946-1950). Mr. von Zell died of cancer.

Football
CIAU
Atlantic Bowl
Queen's 14 Acadia 40 @ Halifax

Larry Priestnall rushed for 220 yards and 2 touchdowns to lead the Axemen to an easy win over the Golden Gaels at Huskies Stadium. Acadia scored 17 points in the first 10 minutes of the game and led 40-0 until Queen's scored 2 converted touchdowns late in the 4th quarter.

Western Bowl
Western Ontario 31 @ Alberta 32

Reg Gilmour's 32-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining in regulation time enabled the defending national champion Golden Bears to advance to the College Bowl again. Mr. Gilmour's kick came on a second-down play, immediately after quarterback Jaimie Crawford had thrown a short sideline pass into the arms of UWO defensive back Bill Harshaw, who dropped it. Mr. Crawford completed 21 of 40 passes for 320 yards and touchdowns of 53 and 55 yards to Troy Ciochetti, and another touchdown to Peter Eshenko. Mr. Gilmour converted all 3 touchdowns and added 2 more field goals and 2 singles. Western running back Greg Marshall rushed for 206 yards and 1 touchdown and was voted the game's most valuable player. Mike Kirkley also rushed for a Mustang touchdown. Western quarterback Andy Rossit completed just 4 of 15 passes for 48 yards, but was able to connect for touchdowns to Craig Board and Ryan Potter. Kevin Rydeard added 4 converts and a field goal. Western scored 21 of its points in the 2nd quarter and 10 in the 3rd. 1,317 fans, including this blogger, were in attendance at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. The Golden Bears haven't won such an important game since that cloudy Saturday afternoon. For Mr. Marshall, it turned out to be his last complete game.

NCAA
Utah 28 @ Brigham Young 56

Brigham Young quarterback Jim McMahon passed for 565 yards and 4 touchdowns to lead the Cougars to victory.

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Zigzagging--Zig and Zag (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Sonny Werblin, 81. U.S. entertainment and sports executive. David Abraham Werblin began working as an agent with the Music Corporation of America in 1932, and led MCA's television division in the 1950s and '60s. He and partners bought the American Football League's New York Titans in 1963 and renamed them the Jets. In 1965, the Jets signed rookie quarterback Joe Namath to a then-unheard of salary of $427,000 over three years, paving the way for modern highly-paid athletes. Mr. Werblin was bought out by his partners before the 1968 season, just before the Jets went on to win their only (so far) Super Bowl championship. Mr. Werblin built the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey and ran it from 1971-1977, and headed Madison Square Garden and its properties--including the New York Rangers and New York Knickerbockers--from 1978-1984. He died of a heart attack just a few days after the death of his third and youngest son Hubbard, 46.

Diplomacy
The United Nations Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali to be the new Secretary-General of the UN.

Football
CFL
Thanks to the generosity of Mike "Pinball" Clemons of the Toronto Argonauts, this blogger was in attendance at the Manitoba Cenennial Concert Hall in downtown Winnipeg as the outstanding player awards were handed out. Dan Gallagher was the emcee, and Argonauts' co-owner John Candy made a cameo appearance. Burton Cummings performed, as did Maestro Fresh Wes. British Columbia Lions' quarterback Doug Flutie was named the league's Most Outstanding Player, and Lions' running back Jon Volpe was named Most Outstanding Rookie, beating out Raghib "Rocket" Ismail of the Toronto Argonauts. Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon was among those in attendance. 25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Where Do You Go--No Mercy (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Breathe--The Prodigy

Died on this date
Abdus Salam, 70. Pakistani physicist. Dr. Salam, the most prominent physicist in Pakistani history, shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current." He died of progressive supranuclear palsy.

Politics and government
The Canadian Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples released its report. The RCAP recommended that the federal government set up 60-80 new First Nations bodies with self-government, pegging the cost at $30 billion. The RCAP sat for five years and cost $51.2 million.

Education
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canadian provincial governments weren't constitutionally obliged to fund religious schools; the funding of Roman Catholic schools in Ontario was a separate matter because it was guaranteed at Confederation.

Disasters
33 people were killed and more than 80 injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak at a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

20 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Gardner McKay, 69. U.S. actor. Mr. McKay was a sculptor and photographer before taking up acting. He was best known for co-starring in the television series Boots and Saddles (1958-1959) and Adventures in Paradise (1959-1962). Mr. McKay quit acting in the late 1960s, and resumed his career as an artist, in addition to writing plays and novels, and teaching writing at several universities. He died of prostate cancer.

Abominations
U.K. singer and music producer Jonathan King was sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on teenage boys between 1982 and 1987.

10 years ago
2011

Died on this date
Anne McCaffrey, 85. U.S.-born authoress. Miss McCaffrey was a science fiction and fantasy writer who was best known for the Dragonriders of Pern, a series of novellas and novels that she began in 1967, and was contined with and by her son Todd McCaffrey. She moved to Ireland in 1970, and became an Irish citizen.

November 3, 2021

310 years ago
1711

Died on this date
Ferdinand Tobias Richter, 60. Austrian musician and composer. Mr. Richter became court organist in the imperial court in 1683, and was organist in the court chapel from 1690 until his death. His compositions included several toccatas, five suites, and other pieces for keyboard, as well as works for the stage.

220 years ago
1801

Born on this date
Vincenzo Bellini. Italian composer. Mr. Bellini wrote eight symphonies, seven piano works, an oboe concerto, and 40 sacred works, but was best known for his 11 operas, which were characterized by flowing melodies, earning him the nickname "The Swan of Catania." He died after an intestinal and liver illness on September 23, 1835 at the age of 33.

Karl Baedeker. German publisher. Mr. Baedeker founded Verlag Karl Baedeker in 1827, becoming world famous as a publisher of travel guides. He died from the strain of overwork on October 4, 1859, 30 days before his 58th birthday.

140 years ago
1881

War
The Mapuche uprising against Chilean forces began when group of Arribanos attacked the fort of Quillem, two days earlier than the date agreed upon at a meeting of chiefs earlier in the year.

125 years ago
1896

Politics and government
Republican Party candidates William McKinley and Garret Hobart were elected President and Vice President, respectively, of the United States, defeating the Democratic Party ticket of William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall. Mr. Bryan was also the presidential candidate of the People's (aka Populist) Party, although that party chose Tom Watson as its vice presidential candidate. The Democratic ticket received 271 electoral votes. Mr. Bryan received 176 electoral votes, but the electoral vote total for his running mates was split--149 for Mr. Sewall, and 27 for Mr. Watson.

120 years ago
1901

Born on this date
Lionel Hitchman. Canadian hockey player. Mr. Hitchman, a native of Toronto, was a defenceman with the Ottawa Senators (1922-25) and Boston Bruins (1925-34), scoring 62 points on 28 goals and 34 assists in 417 regular season games and 2 goals and 2 assists in 35 playoff games. He played on Stanley Cup championship teams in 1926 and 1929, and was regarded as one of the best defensive defencemen of his era. His jersey #3 was the first to be retired by the Bruins. Mr. Hitchman worked as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer during off-seasons, and continued that work after his playing career. He died on January 12, 1999 at the age of 67.

André Malraux. French author and politician. Mr. Malraux explored foreign continents and fought in the Spanish Civil War and World War II, but was best known for novels such as La condition humaine (published in English as Man's Fate) (1933). He served in the cabinet of President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945-1946) and Minister of Cultural Affairs (1959-1969). Mr. Malraux died on November 3, 1976, 20 days after his 75th birthday.

Leopold III. King of the Belgians, 1934-1951. Leopold III succeeeded to the throne upon the death of his father Albert I. He was King during World War II, and led his troops when the Nazis attacked Belgium. King Leopold surrendered to the Nazis on May 27, 1940, a move which was heavily criticized by the Allies. Leopold spent most of the war as a prisoner of the German occupation before being deported to Germany in 1944 and to Austria in 1945. He and his family spent the next five years in exile in Switzerland, returning to Belgium in 1950 after a referendum favoured his return. He soon abdicated in favour of his son Baudoin. King Leopold III died on September 25, 1983 at the age of 81.

110 years ago
1911

Business
The Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.

100 years ago
1921

Born on this date
Charles Bronson. U.S. actor. Mr. Bronson, born Charles Buchinsky, was known for rugged action roles in movies such as Machine-Gun Kelly (1958); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Great Escape (1963); The Dirty Dozen (1967); and Death Wish (1974). He died on August 30, 2003 at the age of 81.

90 years ago
1931

Died on this date
Robert Williams, 37. U.S. actor. A stage actor on Broadway in the 1920s, Mr. Williams went to Hollywood in 1931, and appeared in supporting roles in several films before being cast as the male lead opposite Jean Harlow and Loretta Young in Platinum Blonde (1931), directed by Frank Capra. Mr. Williams projected definite star power, but he died of peritonitis just three days after the movie's release, shortly after falling ill while rehearsing for his next picture, Lady with a Past (1932); he was replaced in the latter picture by Ben Lyon.

80 years ago
1941

War
The German command announced the splitting of the Soviet forces in Crimea into two groups, both attempting to escape. Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich announced in Prague that he had "completed" his campaign to end Czech resistance, during which about 300 Czechs had been executed.

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull said that if Finland wished to maintain American friendship, she must halt her invaion of Russia and withdraw her troops from Russian soil. The Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution urging other American nations to protest jointly to Germany against the killing of civilians in occupied countries.

Defense
The U.S. Navy Department announced that it would build 50 convoy-escort warships in Navy yards for Britain out of Lend-Lease funds, at a total cost of $300 million.

U.S. Senators Francis Maloney (Democrat--Connecticut) and Theodore Bilbo (Democrat--Mississippi) announced their opposition to amending the Neutrality Act.

Scandal
James Mulloy, a former associate of U.S. Senator William Langer (Republican--North Dakota), testified before the Senate Elections Committee that he had acted as Sen. Langer's intermediary in a 1935 attempt to bribe a federal judge.

Howard Hopson, former president of Associated Gas & Electric System, pled guilty in New York to income tax evasion and was sentenced to two years in prison.

75 years ago
1946

War
Jawaharlal Nehru and three other Hindu and Muslim leaders appealed from Calcutta for an end to civil strife in India.

Politics and government
Emperor Hirohito of Japan read an Imperial Rescript officially promulgating Japan's new constitution.

Gabriel Gonzalez Videla was inaugurated in Santiago as President of Chile.

Sir John Shaw was named Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.

Aviation
U.S. Navy airship XM1 landed in Glynco, Georgia after setting a record of 170.3 hours in the air without refuelling.

Football
NFL
Green Bay (2-3) 7 @ Chicago Bears (4-1-1) 10
Los Angeles (3-2-1) 41 @ Detroit (0-6) 20
New York (4-2) 14 @ Philadelphia (4-1) 24
Washington (3-2-1) 7 @ Pittsburgh (4-1-1) 14
Chicago Cardinals (4-3) 28 @ Boston (0-5) 14



AAFC
Cleveland (7-2) 16 @ Los Angeles (4-3-1) 17
Miami (1-7) 21 @ New York (6-2-1) 24

70 years ago
1951

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Too Young--Nat "King" Cole; Toni Arden (9th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Cold, Cold Heart--Tony Bennett (Best Seller--1st week at #1); Because of You--Tony Bennett (Disc Jockey--7th week at #1; Jukebox--6th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 (It's No) Sin--The Four Aces
--Eddy Howard and his Orchestra
2 Because of You--Tony Bennett
--Les Baxter and his Orchestra
3 Cold, Cold Heart--Tony Bennett
4 I Get Ideas--Tony Martin
--Louis Armstrong
5 The World is Waiting for the Sunrise--Les Paul and Mary Ford
6 Down Yonder--Del Wood
--Joe "Fingers" Carr
--Champ Butler
7 And So to Sleep Again--Patti Page
8 The Loveliest Night of the Year--Mario Lanza
9 Undecided--The Ames Brothers and Les Brown and his Band of Renown
10 Turn Back the Hands of Time--Eddie Fisher

Singles entering the chart were Just One More Chance by Les Paul and Mary Ford (#34); and I Ran All the Way Home, with versions by Buddy Greco and Sarah Vaughan (#40).

On television tonight
Sherlock Holmes, starring Alan Wheatley and Raymond Francis, on BBC
Tonight's episode: The Dying Detective

Diplomacy
A Soviet note to Turkey protested Turkish entry into "the aggressive Atlantic bloc."

U.K. authorities in Suez evacuated 1,000 British women and children from Port Said.

Defense
The Egyptian government ordered all Egyptians employed by the British Army in the Suez to quit their jobs by the end of the month or face treason charges.

Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower began a four-day round of consultations with U.S. President Harry Truman and military leaders.

United Press reported that recent nuclear tests in Nevada showed that the United States had a tactical atomic bomb that could be used in the field without harming friendly troops in foxholes little more than half a mile away.

Politics and government
The Minnesota State Republican Convention endorsed former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen for the 1952 Republican Party U.S. presidential nomination.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Montreal (3-9) 6 @ Hamilton (7-5) 31
Ottawa (7-5) 18 @ Toronto (7-5) 23

The game between the Rough Riders and Argonauts at Varsity Stadium included an unusual incident when Ottawa's Pete Karpuk, who was standing on the sidelines, ran onto the field during a play and tackled Toronto's Uly Curtis in order to prevent a touchdown. The tackle took place at the Ottawa 24-yard line, and referee Seymour Wilson penalized the Argonauts half the distance to the goal line, and forced the Rough Riders to play with just 11 men while Mr. Karpuk sat out a 3-minute penalty.

Unlike the Western Interprovincial Football Union, the Big Four had no formula for breaking a three-way tie for first place at the end of the regular season. Coin tosses resulted in the Ottawa Rough Riders winning a bye into the 2-game total points finals, while the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats would play 2-game total points semi-finals.

WIFU
Finals
Saskatchewan 11 @ Edmonton 15 (Edmonton led best-of-three series 1-0)

Rollie Miles returned the opening kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown to spark the Eskimos to victory over the Roughriders at Clarke Stadium. Jim Chambers scored the winning touchdown on a 95-yard rush in the 4th quarter, wearing a pair of workman's boots he had bought for $3 shortly before game time.

ORFU
Finals (1st game of 2-game total points series)
Sarnia 15 @ Toronto 23

Bobby Lee scored 3 touchdowns to lead Balmy Beach past the Imperials at East York Memorial Stadium. It was general manager Paul McGarry's first game as Balmy Beach coach; he had taken over from quarterback Gerry Tuttle, who had taken the coaching reins just a week earlier after the sudden dismissal of Art West the day before the last game of the regular season.

Canadian university
Queen's (0-5) 2 @ McGill (4-1) 19
Toronto (4-0-1) 13 @ Western Ontario (1-3-1) 13

60 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Walkin' Back to Happiness--Helen Shapiro (4th week at #1)

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight's episode: It's a Good Life, starring Billy Mumy, John Larch, and Cloris Leachman

Diplomacy
U Thant, 52, Burmese Ambassador to the United Nations, was unanimously elected Acting Secretary-General of the UN by the 103-member General Assembly. He replaced Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, who had been killed in a plane crash on September 18.

Football
AFL
Dallas (3-5) 21 @ Boston (5-3-1) 28

On the last play of the game, Texans' quarterback Cotton Davidson threw a pass into the Patriots' end zone, but a fan who had sneaked onto the field ran through the end zone at Boston University Field and knocked the ball away. Game officials chose to do nothing, and the game was over.



50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Maggie May--Rod Stewart (6th week at #1)

On television tonight
Rod Serling's Night Gallery, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Midnight Never Ends, starring Susan Strasberg and Robert F. Lyons; Brenda, starring Laurie Prange, Glenn Corbett, Robert J. Hogan, and Barbara Babcock

40 years ago
1981

Died on this date
Thérèse Casgrain, 85. Canadian politician. Mrs. Casgrain, a native of Saint-Irénée-les-Bains, Quebec, was the daughter of Conservative Member of Parliament Rodolphe Forget, but married Pierre-François Casgrain, a Liberal, who succeeded Mr. Forget in the riding of Charlevoix-Montmorency. She campaigned for women's suffrage and other feminist causes in Quebec, and after suffrage was finally granted in 1941, campaigned unsuccessfully to win her husband's riding after he was appointed to the judiciary. Mrs. Casgrain joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1948, and led its Quebec wing, the Parti social démocratique du Québec (1951-1957). She ran six times in federal elections and by-elections as a candidate of the CCF and its successor, the New Democratic Party, but failed to get elected. Mrs. Casgrain represented the Quebec riding of Mille Isles in the Canadian Senate from October 7, 1970 until her mandatory retirement on July 10, 1971, her 75th birthday. She died in Montreal.

Politics and government
The Ontario government of Premier Bill Davis invoked closure to end debate in the Legislature for the first time since 1874, in order to get access to tax funds.

Oil
Dome Petroleum found huge new oil deposits in the Beaufort Sea, about 68 miles north of the Mackenzie River delta in the Northwest Territories.

30 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): The Fly--U2

#1 single in Switzerland: (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (14th week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (6th week at #1)
2 Do the Limbo Dance--David Hasselhoff
3 Any Dream Will Do--Jason Donovan
4 Bacardi Feeling (Summer Dreamin')--Kate Yanai
5 Wind of Change--Scorpions
6 Love and Understanding--Cher
7 Jambo--Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
8 Ich hab' mich so auf dich gefreut--Matthias Reim
9 Keep Your Love Alive--Bilgeri
10 Something Got Me Started--Simply Red

Singles entering the chart were Send Me an Angel by the Scorpions (#13); and Let's Talk About Sex by Salt-N-Pepa (#17).

Died on this date
Chris Bender, 19. U.S. singer. Mr. Bender was a rhythm and blues singer who released two albums before he was shot to death while sitting in his car outside the housing project in Brockton, Massachusetts where his mother lived.

Music
Neil Young reunited with Crosby, Stills & Nash before 300,000 people in a free concert at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in memory of recently-deceased rock promoter Bill Graham. Other acts included the Grateful Dead; Joan Baez; Santana; and Journey.

Crime
Allan Legere was convicted in Fredericton of four counts of first-degree murder in the beating deaths of three women and a Catholic priest during a reign of terror in the Miramachi region of New Brunswick after his 1989 jail break. He filed a hand-written appeal a few days later.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (7-11) 31 @ Toronto (13-5) 34
Edmonton (12-6) 28 @ Winnipeg (9-9) 18
Saskatchewan (6-12) 27 @ Calgary (11-7) 39

Lance Chomyc kicked a 50-yard field goal on the last play of regulation time to give the Argonauts their win over the Rough Riders before 36,001 fans at SkyDome. Mr. Chomyc finished the season with a CFL record of 236 points.

Much of one end zone at Winnipeg Stadium was covered with ice, so CFL officials decided to shorten the length of the field of play. Edmonton quarterback Tracy Ham completed 12 of 29 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown to Chris Armstrong. Mr. Ham, who had rushed for over 1,000 yards in 1990, rushed 5 times for 52 yards and 2 touchdowns, finishing with 998 yards in 1991. 24,240 fans were in attendance.

Danny Barrett threw 3 touchdown passes and Keyvan Jenkins rushed for a TD as the Stampeders clinched second place in the West Division ahead of the British Columbia Lions with their win over the Roughriders before 18,488 fans at McMahon Stadium. For Saskatchewan quarterback Rick Worman, it was the last game of his 6-year CFL career, most of which was spent with the Stampeders.

25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): What's Love Got to Do with It--Warren G featuring Adina Howard (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): How Bizarre--OMC

#1 single in Switzerland: Zehn kleine Jنgermeister--Die Toten Hosen

#1 single in Scotland (OCC): What Becomes of the Brokenhearted/Saturday Night at the Movies/You'll Never Walk Alone--Robson & Jerome

Died on this date
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 75. 2nd President of the Central African Republic, 1966-1976; Emperor of Central Africa, 1976-1979. Captain Bokassa took power in a military coup on January 1, 1966, overthrowing the government of President David Dacko. Mr. Bokassa ruled as a dictator, changing the name of the country to Central African Empire, and declaring himself to be Emperor Bokassa I on December 4, 1976. He was deposed in a French-backed coup on September 20, 1979, Mr. Dacko was reinstated as President, and the country reverted to its former name. Mr. Bokassa was exiled to France but returned to the Central African Republic in 1986, and was tried for treason and murder. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, later commuted to life in solitary confinement. Mr. Bokassa was freed in 1993, and lived in last years in the capital city of Bangui.

Abdullah Çatlı, 40. Turkish gangster. Mr. Çatlı led the Turkish ultra-nationalist organization Grey Wolves in the 1970s and was used by the government as a hired killer in later years. He was killed in a deliberately-arranged car crash in the small town of Susurluk while travelling with state officials. The circumstances surrounding Mr. Çatlı's death prompted investigations leading to the resignation of Turkish Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party (DYP)).

Politics and government
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien accepted the resignation of Québec Lieutenant-Governor Jean-Louis Roux, after revelations that he had worn a swastika while a student.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (5-13) 23 @ Calgary (13-5) 46

Robert Mimbs rushed 1 yard for a touchdown in the 2nd quarter to help the Roughriders take a 13-0 lead, but Danny Barrett relieved Jeff Garcia at quarterback in the 3rd quarter and threw 3 touchdown passes to lead the Stampeders to victory before 19,747 fans at McMahon Stadium. The loss by Saskatchewan clinched fourth place in the West Division for the British Columbia Lions; the Roughriders also finished at 5-13, and each team beat the other once, with the Lions outscoring the Roughriders 41-37 in the two games.

10 years ago
2001

Football
CFL
Toronto (7-11-0-1) 20 @ Hamilton (11-6) 31

Kerwin Bell started at quarterback for the Argonauts on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Ivor Wynne Stadium, and his career ended in memorable fashion when head coach Mike Clemons pulled him from the game and replaced him with Jimmy Kemp. Mr. Bell said something to Mr. Clemons that went beyond the bounds of acceptability, and the coach decided on the spot that Mr. Bell would never quarterback the Argonauts again. It was one of Chris Walby's most entertaining games as a colour analyst on the CBC telecast. Scott Oake reported from the sidelines that Hamilton punter/kicker Paul Osbaldiston was pacing himself after an injury, and the former Blue Bomber tackle said, "I've gotta jump all over that statement...A kicker's gotta pace himself? He plays 10 plays a game..." Later, when Toronto receiver Mookie Mitchell was on the bench when his team had the ball, Mr. Oake reported that the Argonauts were saying that he'd be available "if we need him." Mr. Walby immediately said, "You're down here playing for your playoff lives. What does that mean: 'If we need him?'"



Saskatchewan (6-12) 42 @ British Columbia (7-10) 10

The Roughriders' upset win over the Lions at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver clinched first place in the West Division for the Edmonton Eskimos, and prevented the Lions from clinching the CFL's final playoff spot.

Baseball
World Series
New York Yankees 2 @ Arizona Diamondbacks 15 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)

The Diamondbacks scored all their runs in the first 4 innings as they routed the Yankees before 49,707 fans at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. The big inning was the 3rd, when Arizona scored 8 runs to take a 12-0 lead. Danny Bautista batted 3 for 4 with 5 runs batted in. Winning pitcher Randy Johnson (2-0) struck out 7 in 7 innings. New York starter Andy Pettitte (0-2) lasted just 2+ innings, giving up 6 runs--all earned. The Diamondbacks set a World Series record for a single game with 22 hits.



10 years ago
2011

Football
CFL
Hamilton (8-10) 16 @ Toronto (6-12) 33