January 6, 2010

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!

470 years ago
1540

Brittanica
King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

450 years ago
1560

Religion
Giovanni Angelo Medici was installed as Roman Catholic Pope Pius IV, 12 days after his election. He succeeded Paul IV, who had died in August 1559.

140 years ago
1870

Born on this date
Gustav Bauer. Chancellor of Germany, 1919-1920. Mr. Bauer, leader of the Social Democratic Party, succeeded Philipp Scheidemann as Chancellor and held the office for 219 days until his government was forced to resign. He was succeeded as Chancellor by Hermann Müller. Mr. Bauer died on September 16, 1944 at the age of 74.

Music
The Musikverein in Vienna was inaugurated.

130 years ago
1880

Born on this date
Tom Mix. U.S. actor. Mr. Mix was a skilled horseman before he became the first star of Western movies. He appeared in 291 films from 1909-1935, almost all of them silent Westerns through 1929. Mr. Mix was killed in a highway accident at the age of 60 on October 12, 1940.

110 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Maria. Queen consort of Yugoslavia, 1922-1934. Marija Karađorđević, a native of Germany and the daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania, married King Alexander I in 1922, and was queen consort until his assassination in 1934. Their son was the last King of Yugoslavia, reigning as King Peter I from 1934-1945. Queen mother Maria moved to England in 1941, and died in London on June 22, 1961 at the age of 61. She was stripped of her Yugoslavian citizenship in 1947, but was officially rehabilitated in 2014.

War
Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attacked it, but were driven back by British defenders.

Journalism
The first issue of the newspaper The Freeman appeared in Saint John, New Brunswick.

100 years ago
1910

Born on this date
Kid Chocolate. Cuban boxer. Kid Chocolate, whose real name was Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo, compiled a record of 136-10-6 in a professional career from 1927-1938. He was world junior lightweight champion from 1931-1933, and held New York State Athletic Commission recognition as world featherweight champion from 1932-1934, while losing a 15-round split decision to Tony Canzoneri in a bout for the world lightweight title in 1931. Kid Chocolate enjoyed the night life in New York during his career, and contracted syphilis. He retired to Cuba, and lived a quiet life there until his death on August 8, 1988 at the age of 78. Kid Choclate was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.

Yiannis Papaioannou. Greek composer and teacher. Mr. Papaioannou had a long career as a music teacher, who wrote five symphonies and other orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and vocal works. He died on May 19, 1989 at the age of 79.

Wright Morris. U.S. writer and photographer. Mr. Morris twice won the National Book Award, for The Field of Vision (1956) and Plains Song: For Female Voices (1980). His books The Inhabitants (1946) and The Home Place (1948) combined photographs and fiction in a genre which Mr. Morris called "photo-text." Mr. Morris’s 33 books didn’t sell well, making him a much-honoured but little-read writer. He died on April 25, 1998 at the age of 88.

80 years ago
1930

Transportation
The first diesel-powered automobile trip was completed, from Indianapolis to New York City.

75 years ago
1935

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Louis Hector and Leigh Lovell, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: The Singular Affair of the Aluminum Crutch

Died on this date
Martin Archer-Shee, 61. U.K. military officer and politician. Sir Martin served with the Royal Navy (1886-1890) before becoming an officer in the British Army, winning the Distinguished Service Order in the Boer War and commanding three battalions in World War I, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. A Conservative, he represented Finsbury in the House of Commons (1910-1923). Sir Martin was the half-brother of George Archer-Shee, whose acquittal on a charge of theft provided the basis for Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy. Sir Martin died after a long illness.

70 years ago
1940

Born on this date
Van McCoy. U.S. musician. Mr. McCoy wrote songs and produced records for a number of artists in the 1960s and ‘70s, but is best remembered for his one big hit as an artist, The Hustle, one of 1975’s biggest hits. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1979.

Diplomacy
The Dutch government of Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer announced that there could be no negotiation regarding the Netherlands' neutrality.

Cuban presidential candidate General Fulgencio Batista urged his nation to maintain strict neutrality in international affairs.

Addressing the National Conference of the United Palestine Appeal in Washington, New York, New York Governor Herbert Lehman said that Palestine must become a refuge for the estimated 3 million Jews in Poland.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that protectionist international trade tendencies would have to be abolished in the interest of postwar peace.

Japan was reportedly seeking a most-favored-nation treaty with the United State upon the expiration of the current trade pact on January 26, 1940.

Because of World War II, the New Zealand government of Prime Minister Michael Savage announced the postponement of a $25-million steel plant at Onekaka.

Business
The United States Justice Department granted the Bata Shoe Company a 20-day extension to terminate the employment of 62 Czech nationals illegally in the United States.

Scandal
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Meyer Ellenstein and six others were acquitted on charges of conspiracy in city purchases of meadowlands.

70 years ago
1950

Died on this date
Isaiah Bowman, 71. Canadian-born U.S. geographer. Dr. Bowman, a native of Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, moved to Michigan as an infant with his family. He graduated from Harvard University, taught at Yale University, and became the first director of the American Geographical Society (1915-1935). He served as an adviser on national boundaries at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and became a director of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921. Dr. Bowman was President of Johns Hopkins University (1935-1948), taking time out during World War II to participate in the Dumbarton Oaks Conference (1944) and the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco (1945). Dr. Bowman was known for his anti-Semitism; when U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to lead a search for appropriate places to settle European Jewish refugees, Dr. Bowman's team looked on five continents, but ignored the United States. He fired a promising Jewish historian in 1939, and imposed a quota on the admission of Jews to Johns Hopkins in the 1940s. When he was asked to investigate the status of geography at Harvard, Dr. Bowman, apparently motivated by dislike for the department's only tenured professor, criticized the department, which had a negative effect on the field throughout the United States.

War
The United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan named General H.H. Angle of Canada to succeed Gen. Maurice Delvoie of Belgium as chief military observer of the Kashmir truce.

Diplomacy
The Organization of American States Council in Washington launched an investigation of a dispute between Haiti and the Dominican Republic as each country accused the other of harbouring revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the other's government.

Defense
The North Atlantic Council in Washington formally approved a secret defense plan for Western Europe, clearing the way for the release of $1 billion in U.S. aid to Europe under the Military Assistance Program.

Politics and government
United Nations Trusteeship Council President Roger Garreau urged the UN to abandon its efforts to internationalize Jerusalem and restrict its role to protecting religious shrines in the city.

U.S. Senate Internal Security subcommittee Chairman Patrick McCarran (Democrat--Nevada) charged that the displaced persons law had permitted the immigration of "persons who will become ready recruits in subversive organizations."

Journalism
The Czechoslovakian government expelled four Western correspondents, including two Americans, for writing reports critical of events in the country.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Harry Truman presented his annual Economic Report to Congress, claiming that the nation had overcome its post-World War II economic difficulties, and calling for a 7% increase in production and employment.

50 years ago
1960

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sheila Hellevang and Johanna Wegner!

40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Kvällstoppen): Sugar, Sugar--The Archies

#1 single in Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade): Venus--The Shocking Blue

Space
On the second day of a four-day conference on lunar science in Houston, Dr. Robert Pepin of the University of Minnesota told the 800 scientists in attendance that an unknown component, perhaps the radioactive decay product of a now-extinct "big nuclei" element which had disappeared some time after the Earth was formed, may be responsible for the amount of krypton discovered in meteorites and, to a lesser degree, in moon rocks brought back by Apollo 11. Dr. Pepin favoured the proposal that the mystery component was formed in an exploding star billions of years ago elsewhere in the Milky Way, and that the shock waves from the explosion pushed fine dust particles across light years to reach our solar system. According to Dr. Pepin's model, the maverick meteorites and perhaps the moon's surface picked up some of the mysterious component, which over eons decomposed into the special varieties of krypton which had been causing the puzzle.

Crime
1,200 pages of transcripts and logs compiled by FBI of conversations among reputed Mafia leaders were made public at the opening session of the trial of Angelo "Gyp" De Carlo in U.S. federal court in Newark. The tapes disclosed boasts by Mafiosi of dealings with politicians and law enforcement officials.

Scandal
Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback Len Dawson, who was preparing to lead his team into the Super Bowl against the Minnesota Vikings in New Orleans five days hence, was reported to be linked to a U.S. federal investigation of gambling improprieties in Detroit. He was eventually cleared of any charges.

Boxing
Australia's Johnny Famechon (55-4-6) retained his World Boxing Council featherweight title with a knockout of Fighting Harada (55-7) at 1:09 of the 14th round at Metropolitan Gym in Tokyo. Mr. Famechon had won a 15-round decision over Mr. Harada in a title defense on July 28, 1969 in Sydney. For Mr. Harada, who had been the World Boxing Association flyweight champion from October 1962-January 1963 and WBA and WBC bantamweight champion from May 1965-February 1968, this was his last fight.



Heavyweight contender George Foreman improved his record to 14-0 with 12 knockouts with a 4-round knockout of Charley Polite (11-15-3) at Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston.

30 years ago
1980

World events
Afghan President Babrak Karmal reportedly released 2,000 political prisoners. The United Nations reported that 15,000 Afghan refugees had fled to Pakistan in the last two weeks of December 1979, bringing to 402,000 the number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Protest
Three days of domestic unrest in Tabriz, Iran concluded with at least 43 deaths.

Defense
U.S. Defense Secretary Harold Brown began several days of talks with Chinese military officials.

Politics and government
Indira Gandhi led her Congess-I Party to an overwhelming victory in India’s parliamentary elections, taking 351 of 542 seats. Although Congress-I won nearly 70% of the seats, they took just 42% of the vote. A division of opposition votes among the Janata (32 seats), Lok Dal (41 seats), and Congress (13 seats) Parties was held responsible for Mrs. Gandhi’s victory. Mrs. Gandhi’s son Sanjay, who had been blamed for many of the excesses of Mrs. Gandhi’s emergency rule in the late 1970s, won a seat. During the campaign, Mrs. Gandhi had stressed the need to cut inflation and restore law and order within India and called for recognition of the new Vietnamese-backed Heng Samrin government in Cambodia, and closer relations with Third World countries. It was expected that she would crack down on hoarders of sugar and kerosene, important commodities in India.

Football
NFL
AFC Championship
Houston 13 @ Pittsburgh 27

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NFC Championship
Los Angeles 9 @ Tampa Bay 0



25 years ago
1985

Personal
This blogger was one of those in attendance at the CPR Stockholders of Edmonton Sherlock Holmes birthday dinner at 9th Street Cafe.

Football
NFL
AFC Championship
Pittsburgh 28 @ Miami 45

Miami quarterback Dan Marino completed 21 of 32 passes for 421 yards and 4 touchdowns in front of an Orange Bowl crowd of 76,029.

NFC Championship
Chicago 0 @ San Francisco 23





20 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Love Shack--The B-52's (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Lambada--Kaoma (15th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): That's What I Like--Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Hélène--Roch Voisine (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (CIN): Do They Know it's Christmas?--Band Aid II (3rd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 All Around the World--Lisa Stansfield
2 Homely Girl--UB40
3 Lily was Here--David A. Stewart and featuring Candy Dulfer
4 Dançando Lambada--Kaoma
5 Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins
6 Sit and Wait--Sydney Youngblood
7 Don't Know Much--Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville
8 Eleni--Cees Tol & Thomas Tol
9 Listen to Your Heart--Roxette
10 Got to Get--Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K

Singles entering the chart were Me So Horny by the 2 Live Crew (#22); Words by the Christians (#23); Everlasting Love by U2 (#26); and The Miracle by Queen (#30).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (4th week at #1)
2 Rhythm Nation--Janet Jackson
3 Don't Know Much--Linda Ronstadt (featuring Aaron Neville)
4 Pump Up the Jam--Technotronic featuring Felly
5 With Every Beat of My Heart--Taylor Dayne
6 How am I Supposed to Live Without You--Michael Bolton
7 This One's for the Children--New Kids on the Block
8 Just Like Jesse James--Cher
9 We Didn't Start the Fire--Billy Joel
10 Everything--Jody Watley

Singles entering the chart were All or Nothing by Milli Vanilli (#51); Going Home by Kenny G (#71); Sometimes She Cries by Warrant (#81); No Myth by Michael Penn (#85); and Black Velvet by Alannah Myles (#86).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Cash Box): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Canada (RPM): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (4th week at #1)

Died on this date
Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, 85. U.S.S.R. physicist. Dr. Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect."

Ian Charleson, 40. U.K. actor. Mr. Charleson was known for his co-starring roles in the movies Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982). He was a sodomite and died of AIDS.

Personal
This blogger was one of those in attendance at the CPR Stockholders of Edmonton Sherlock Holmes birthday dinner at the Faculty Club.

Diplomacy
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, visiting Romania, said that the U.S.S.R. would support any kind of political system that emerged in Romania.

Football
NFL
AFC Divisional Playoff
Buffalo 30 @ Cleveland 34

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NFC Divisional Playoff
Minnesota 13 @ San Francisco 41

Hockey
NHL
Los Angeles 4 @ Toronto 7

10 years ago
2000

Died on this date
Don Martin, 68. U.S. cartoonist. Mr. Martin joined Mad magazine in 1956, and eventually was rewarded with his own department in the magazine and became known as "Mad’s Maddest Artist." He was known for using unusual words in his cartoons to represent sound effects, e.g., "Kloon!;" "Sploidoing!;" "Shpritz!" In the late 1980s he had a falling out with Mad over royalties and jumped to Cracked magazine, spending six years there. Mr. Martin died of cancer.

Abominations
As hundreds of Cuban Americans in Miami protested, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno backed the decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to return six-year-old Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba.

Crime
A mother and son were charged with trying to smuggle 10 teenage Chinese girls into the United States. Their van was stopped in Wallaceburg, Ontario on its way to Detroit.

Politics and government
At a debate in Durham, New Hampshire among Republican Party candidates for the 2000 U.S. presidential nomination, Texas Governor George W. Bush pledged to cut taxes if elected, and also argued that Senator John McCain’s plan to do away with so-called "soft money" in campaigns would "hurt Republicans."

January 5, 2010

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Laura-Belle Robinson and Nadia!

370 years ago
1640

Born on this date
Paolo Lorenzani. Italian composer. Mr. Lorenzani was a Baroque composer who wrote sacred and secular works. He went to France in 1678, and his motets received the approval of King Louis XIV of France, who appointed him music master to Queen Maria Theresa. However, Mr. Lorenzani's influence was undermined by rival composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Mr. Lorenzani returned to Rome in 1695. He died on October 28, 1713 at the age of 73.

270 years ago
1740

Died on this date
Antonio Lotti, 73. Italian composer. Mr. Lotti was a Baroque composer who served as organist and music master at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. He wrote about 30 operas, as well as other choral and instrumental works, and died on his 73rd birthday.

130 years ago
1880

Born on this date
Nikolai Medtner. Russian-born composer and pianist. A close friend of Sergei Rachmaninov, Mr. Medtner taught at Moscow Conservatory and then fled his homeland in 1921. He and his family lived in several European cities over the year before finally settling in London. Mr. Medtner was best-known for his piano concertos, which are excellent examples of late Romantic music. He died on November 13, 1951 at the age of 71.

110 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Yves Tanguy. French-born U.S. artist. Mr. Tanguy was a surrealist painter of abstract landscapes and abstract shapes in a career spanning 30 years. He moved to the United States in 1940, and became an American citizen in 1948. Mr. Tanguy died from a stroke on January 15, 1955, 10 days after his 55th birthday.

100 years ago
1910

Born on this date
Jack Lovelock. N.Z. runner and physician. Dr. Lovelock set a British Empire record for the one-mile run in 1932, and set a world record of 4:07.36 in the mile in 1933. He won the gold medal in the mile at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, and won the gold medal in the men's 1,500-metre run at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Dr. Lovelock was thrown from a horse in 1940, and was thereafter subject to attacks of dizziness. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II, and moved to the United States after the war, practicing medicine at Manhattan Hospital in New York City. Dr. Lovelock fell onto subway tracks while waiting for a train on December 28, 1949, apparently after suffering another dizzy spell, and was killed, eight days before his 40th birthday.

Defense
The dreadnought Minas Geraes was commissioned by the Brazilian Navy.

Hockey
Stanley Cup challenge
Game 1 (2-game total goals series)
Galt (OPHL) 3 @ Ottawa (CHA) 12

Marty Walsh scored 6 goals to lead the defending champion Ottawa Hockey Club, formerly of the Eastern Canada Hockey Association and now a founding member of the new professional league known as the Canadian Hockey Association, to victory at The Arena. Bruce Stuart and Hamby Shore each scored twice for Ottawa, with single goals coming from Fred Lake and Bruce Ridpath. Mr. Doherty, Mr. Manson, and J. Mallen scored for Galt, champions of the Ontario Professional Hockey League.

NHA
Cobalt 6 @ Montreal Canadiens 7 (OT)

The Canadiens started their history on a winning note as Didier Pitre scored 5 minutes into overtime against the Silver Kings at Jubilee Arena on the first day of play in the new professional league known as the National Hockey Association. The league had 5 teams: Montreal Canadiens; Montreal Wanderers; Renfrew Creamery Kings; Cobalt Silver Kings; and Haileybury Comets. On January 15 the NHA admitted the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Shamrocks from the rival Canadian Hockey Association, and the season began anew with 7 teams. The results of all games played prior to January 15, including the Canadiens’ win over the Silver Kings, were thrown out.

90 years ago
1920

Baseball
The New York Yankees announced the purchase of outfielder-pitcher Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for $125,000. Mr. Ruth had set a major league single-season record with 29 home runs in 1919, while posting a pitching record of 9-5. The sale had been made on December 26, 1919, but the details hadn't been finalized until early in January 1920.

70 years ago
1940

War
The United Kingdom warned Norway that "illegal" use of Norwegian territorial waters by Germany to ship iron ore would make it necessary for the Royal Navy to enter Norwegian waters. The Swedish government demanded that the U.S.S.R. investigate the shelling of a Swedish steamer in the Gulf of Bothnia.

The China Affairs Board in Tokyo approved the peace proposals of Wang Ching-wei, who was scheduled to head the Japanese-sponsored Chinese government in Nanking.

Politics and government
Oliver Stanley succeeded Leslie Hore-Belisha as Secretary of State for War in the British cabinet of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

Defense
Sir Charles Burnett took charge of the Royal Australian Air Force.

Diplomacy
The U.S.A. and Canada agreed to discuss a possible accord on completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway project.

60 years ago
1950

On the radio
Springbok Radio, South Africa’s first commercial station, began broadcasting.

Dragnet, starring Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: Big Escape

On television tonight
Escape, on CBS
Tonight’s episode: Rugged Journey, starring Charita Bauer, Charles Eggleston, Lawrence Fletcher, and Richard McMurray

This was the first episode of the televised version of the popular radio program.

War
U.S. President Harry Truman announced that the United States would take no military action to help the Nationalist Chinese government defend Taiwan against Communist attack.

Diplomacy
The British government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced plans to recognize the People's Republic of China, withdrawing recognition from the Nationalist government in Taiwan.

Politics and government
11 Liberal ministers quit the coalition cabinet of Greek Prime Minister Alexander Diomedes, charging that Populist leader Constantin Tsaldaris had violated the coalition agreement by conducting political campaigns in the countryside.

Crime
Dr. Carl Binger, a psychiatrist testifying at the New York perjury trial of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss, described prosecution witness Whittaker Chambers, a former Time magazine editor and confessed ex-Communist, as a "psychopathic personality," given to "repetitious lying, stealing and deception."

Journalism
Brazilian police seized Communist newspapers in Rio de Janeiro and halted their publication in Sao Paulo for printing stories praising Communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes in his birthday.

Disasters
All 19 people on board--including almost the entire national hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force--were killed in the crash of a Lisunov Li-2 transport plane on its fifth approach to landing at Koltsovo Airport in Sverdlovsk.

50 years ago
1960

On television tonight
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, hosted by John Newland, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Justice Tree, starring Sally Brophy, Charles Herbert, and Frank Overton



40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Suspicious Minds--Elvis Presley (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Kuroneko no Tango--Osamu Minagawa (9th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Sugar, Sugar--The Archies (8th week at #1)

On the radio
The Challenge of Space, on Springbok Radio
Tonight’s episode: The Seven Ages of Man

Died on this date
Max Born, 87. German-born physicist and mathematician. Dr. Born began his career in his native Germany, but was forced to flee to the United Kingdom shortly after the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933. He was awarded a share of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction." Dr. Born returned to West Germany in 1954, and remained active there until his death, 25 days after his 87th birthday.

Roberto Gerhard i Ottenwaelder, 73. Spanish composer. Mr. Gerhard was a Catalan composer who moved to England after the Fascists won the Spanish Civil War in 1939. He wrote several symphonies, ballets, and operas, and other instrumental and vocal works. Mr. Gerhard died as a the result of a long-standing heart condition.

Space
A four-day conference on lunar science opened in Houston with 800 scientists in attendance. Studies of the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts had led to the revision of theories of the moon's origin. Professor Harold C. Urey, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist from the University of California who for decades had argued that the moon had been formed as a dead body and had been dead ever since, now said that he wanted to think about a new model for the formation of the moon. University of Chicago mineralogist Joseph C. Smith proposed that the moon was formed much like the Earth from a molten core of iron and titanium-rich liquid. Dr. Smith described his discovery of an unnamed mineral, a yellowish substance unknown on Earth in any natural form, that had been found in the moon rocks.

Crime
The bodies of Jock Yablonski, his wife, and their 25-year-old daughter were found shot to death in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania home. It was estimated that the murders had taken place on December 31. Mr. Yablonski, 59, had lost a bitterly-fought election on December 9 to Tony Boyle for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America. The election was widely believed to be corrupt, and on December 18, Mr. Yablonski had asked the United States Department of Labor to investigate. Mr. Yablonski’s two sons, both lawyers, charged that the murders were committed by "professional assassins." An FBI investigation of the crime was ordered after demands from Mr. Yablonski’s lawyer. The UMWA denied any connection with the killings and offered $50,000 for capture and conviction of the killer or killers.

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy spent nearly two hours testifying under oath about his movements before and after the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne the previous July, as a long-delayed inquest into Miss Kopechne’s death on Chappaquiddick Island began in Edgartown, Massachusetts. The inquest was closed to the public and press.

War
The South Vietnamese Senate decided that the My Lai massacre in March 1968 was "an isolated act by an American unit and not the policy of the United States armed forces." Despite a committee report that at least 47 people had been killed in the village, the senators did not label the incident a massacre.

Society
As 30 Mississippi schools began to end their dual school systems under orders of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, many white parents shifted their children from the integrated schools in predominantly Negro areas to private, all-white schools.

Weather
The Edmonton Journal reported that the federal Department of Transport’s meteorological branch had opened its first Meteorological Automatic Reporting Station (MARS) at Liard River on the Alaska Highway. Data including hourly changes in cloud, visibility, temperature, dewpoint, windspeed and direction, barometer reading and precipitation was carried by the Canadian National Telecommunications system 134 miles to the main terminal at Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, and then was relayed to Toronto.

Disasters
An earthquake registering Mw 7.1 struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing 10,000-15,000 people, injuring 26,000 others, and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported that seven people had drowned during a boat outing in the Georgia Strait in British Columbia.

At least 36 perished when a dam broke and flooded Mendoza, Argentina.

30 years ago
1980

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Disco Bambina--Heather Parisi

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Een Bakske Vol Met Stro--Urbanus

#1 single in Ireland: Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)--Pink Floyd (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)--Pink Floyd (4th week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Weekend--Earth and Fire (4th week at #1)
2 Love and Understanding--Mac Kissoon and Family
3 I Have a Dream--ABBA
4 David's Song (Who'll Come with Me)--Kelly Family
5 Thema Uit "De Verlaten Mijn" - Einsamer Hirte--Gheorghe Zamfir met Orkest o.l.v. James Last
6 Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)--Pink Floyd
7 Please Don't Go--KC and the Sunshine Band
8 Gonna Get Along Without You Now--Viola Willis
9 Get Up and Boogie--Freddie James
10 Ooh, Yes I Do--Luv'

Singles entering the chart were Sara by Fleetwood Mac (#22); It Will Come in Time by Billy Preston featuring Syreeta (#35); Off the Wall by Michael Jackson (#36); and Carrie by Cliff Richard (#39).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Please Don't Go--KC and the Sunshine Band
2 Escape (The Pina Colada Song)--Rupert Holmes
3 Rock with You--Michael Jackson
4 Send One Your Love--Stevie Wonder
5 Do That to Me One More Time--Captain & Tennille
6 Babe--Styx
7 Still--Commodores
8 Coward of the County--Kenny Rogers
9 Ladies Night--Kool & The Gang
10 We Don't Talk Anymore--Cliff Richard

Singles entering the chart were I'm Alive by Gamma (#81); Flirtin' with Disaster by Molly Hatchet (#83); Make Believe it's Your First Time by Bobby Vinton (#85); Goodnight My Love by Mike Pinera (#86); and Bad Times by Tavares (#93).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Cash Box): Escape (The Pina Colada Song)--Rupert Holmes (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Record World): Escape (The Pina Colada Song)--Rupert Holmes (3rd week at #1)

Hockey
Chicago 4 @ Montreal 3
Edmonton 3 Los Angeles 3

Bowling
Mark Roth became the first bowler to pick up a 7-10 split on television when he accomplished the feat in a win over Bill Straub in the ARC Alameda Open at Mel's Southshore Bowl in Alameda, California.



25 years ago
1985

World events
Press leaks forced the Israeli government to admit that about 8,000 Ethiopians fleeing their famine-struck country had arrived in Israel. Operation Moses, which had been taking place in secret since November 21, 1984, was suspended when news of the covert airlift became public.

Hockey
NHL
Vancouver 4 @ Toronto 1

This match between two terrible teams may have been the worst NHL game ever televised (it gets my vote). It was the national Hockey Night in Canada telecast, and at the end Dave Hodge said "Thanks for watching" in a way that sounded as if he wondered why or if anyone still would be watching.

20 years ago
1990

Died on this date
Arthur Kennedy, 75. U.S. actor. Mr. Kennedy was a dependable supporting actor who usually played morally upright characters. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the supporting actor category for Champion (1949); Trial (1955); Peyton Place (1957); and Some Came Running (1958). Mr. Kennedy was nominated in the Best Actor category for one of his few starring roles, in Bright Victory (1951). He also enjoyed a fine career on Broadway, earning a Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for Death of a Salesman (1949).

War
General Colin Powell, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that with Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in custody, American troops could be withdrawn from Panama within a few weeks.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate had held steady in December at 5.3%.

Politics and government
Many parties had declared their intention to run candidates in Romanian elections scheduled for April. Today was the deadline that had been imposed by the government for declaring such intentions.

10 years ago
2000

Abominations
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered that six-year-old Elian Gonzalez be returned to his father in Cuba, stating that "U.S. and international law recognize the unique relationship between parent and child.." U.S. President Bill Clinton said that he supported the ruling. The boy had been one of the few survivors of a boat that had capsized on the way from Cuba to Florida several months earlier. Elian’s mother, who had taken him along, was one of those who died.

Politics and government
U.S. Vice President Al Gore and U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, his main challenger for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States in 2000, debated in Durham, New Hampshire. Both supported the right of sodomites to serve openly in the military. Mr. Gore said that he would insist that his appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff support his position, but later said this would not be a "litmus test."

January 4, 2010

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Angela Ieriti, Agness Nyambe, and Aydee Ramirez!

300 years ago
1710

Born on this date
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Italian composer. Mr. Pergolesi, born Giovanni Battista Draghi, was a violinist and organist who wrote orchestral, keyboard, and chamber works, as well as operas and sacred music. He died from tuberculosis on March 16 or 17, 1736 at the age of 26.

290 years ago
1720

Born on this date
Johann Friedrich Agricola. German composer. Mr. Agricola was an organist who wrote keyboard works, operas, and church music, but was better known for his theoretical and critical writings on music. He died on December 2, 1774 at the age of 54.

125 years ago
1885

Medicine
Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is thought to be the first appendectomy.

120 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. U.S. publisher. Mr. Wheeler-Nicholson was a writer for pulp magazines who founded National Allied Publications and created the comic book New Fun in 1935, pioneering the publication of comic books that contained all original material rather than reprints of comic strips from newspapers. In 1937 NAP published the first issue of Detective Comics, which eventually became the new name of the company. Mr. Wheeler-Nicholson was soon forced out of his position with Detective Comics, Inc. because of financial difficulties, and returned to writing, spending his later years writing on military-related topics. He died in 1965 at the age of 75.

110 years ago
1900

Born on this date
James Bond. U.S. ornithologist. Mr. Bond was curator of ornithology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He was expert on Caribbean birds, and wrote the book Birds of the West Indies (1936). British writer Ian Fleming was a birdwatcher, and came across Mr. Bond's book while working in Jamaica. He obtained Mr. Bond's approval to use his name for the main character of Mr. Fleming's spy novels. Mr. Bond won several awards in ornithology before his death on February 14, 1989 at the age of 89.

100 years ago
1910

Hockey
CHA
Montreal Shamrocks 6 @ All-Montreal 3

90 years ago
1920

Died on this date
Benito Pérez Galdós, 76. Spanish author. Mr. Pérez Galdós was a realist novelist who wrote 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. The Episodios Nacionales were novels about famous episodes in Spanish history. In Spain, Mr. Pérez Galdós is regarded as he equal of Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy.

80 years ago
1930

At the movies
Peacock Alley, directed by Marcel de Sano, and starring Mae Murray, George Barraud, and Jason Robards, Sr., received its premiere screening. It was a sound remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name, which also starred Miss Murray.



70 years ago
1940

Died on this date
Flora Finch, 72. U.K.-born U.S. actress. Miss Finch was born into a theatrical family in England and moved to the United States as a child. She worked in theatre and vaudeville, but made her mark in cinema, appearing in more than 300 silent films, including more than 200 with Vitagraph Studios. Miss Finch teamed up with John Bunny to star in 160 short comedy films from 1910-1915, and they became the first popular comedy team in movie history. Mr. Bunny died in 1915, and Miss Finch was never able to recapture her former popularity. She died of blood poisoning, after accidentally cutting her arm.

Diplomacy
British Ambassador to the United States Lord Lothian said in Chicago that a federation of European states must follow the war if peace were to be maintained.

Brazil protested French seizure of Brazilian mail addressed to Germany.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed James Cromwell as Minister to Canada; George Messersmith as Ambassador to Cuba; John Cudahy as Ambassador to Belgium; and Henry Norweb as Ambassador to Peru.

Politics and government
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson to be Attorney General.

Law
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Attorney General Frank Murphy as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve a budget of $8.424 billion for fiscal 1941 and to legislate $460 million in new taxes.

60 years ago
1950

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Ben Wright and Eric Snowden, on ABC
Tonight’s episode: The Case of the Unholy Three

The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Jackson Beck, on ABC

Journalism
The New York World-Telegram merged with the New York Sun to form the New York World-Telegram and The Sun.

Literature
The God that Failed by Richard Crossman, a study of six prominent writers who had lost their faith in Communism, was published in New York by Harper.

Died on this date
George P. Putnam, 61. U.S. publisher and promoter. Mr. Putnam was the grandson of George Palmer Putnam, the founder of the publishing firm that became G.P. Putnam's Sons. The younger Putnam was Mayor of Bend, Oregon (1912-1913) and publisher and editor of the Bend Bulletin before entering the family business in New York City, where he achieved success with the publication of We (1927), Charles Lindbergh's autobiography. Mr. Putnam left the firm after a merger in 1930, and married aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1931, two years after his divorce from his first wife. He publicized Ms. Earhart's exploits until her disappearance in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. Mr. Putnam founded the publishing firm George Palmer Putnam Inc. in 1938. He died shortly after falling ill with kidney failure.

War
The United Kingdom reinforced its garrison in Eritrea to prevent clashes between rival bands favouring Italian rule and union with Ethiopia.

U.S.S.R. representative Kuzma Derevyanko walked out of the Allied Far Eastern Council in Tokyo for the second time in two weeks to avoid discussing U.S. charges that many missing Japanese soldiers were in Soviet hands.

Diplomacy
Pakistan recognized the People's Republic of China.

Politics and government
U.S. President Harry Truman delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, calling for the passage of his Fair Deal legislative program and a "moderate increase" in federal tax revenue. The speech was interrupted by boos from Republicans, the first instance of such behaviour in congressional history.



Law
Observers in Prague reported a purge of non-Communist lawyers from professional organizations. 50 purged lawyers were reported to have been sent to labour camps.

Economics and finance
The U.S.A. requested all recipients of Marshall Plan aid except Greece to cut their third-year aid requests by 25%.

Labour
The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a 25% reduction in passenger service on coal-burning railroads, due to the shortened coal miners' work week ordered by United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis.

50 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Lonely Boy--Paul Anka

#1 single in France (IFOP): Le marchand de bonheur--Les Compagnons de la chanson (8th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 El Paso--Marty Robbins
2 Why--Frankie Avalon
3 The Big Hurt--Miss Toni Fisher
4 Running Bear--Johnny Preston
5 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans--Freddie Cannon
6 Heartaches by the Number--Guy Mitchell
7 It's Time to Cry--Paul Anka
8 Among My Souvenirs--Connie Francis
9 Pretty Blue Eyes--Steve Lawrence
10 Go, Jimmy, Go--Jimmy Clanton

Singles entering the chart were Crazy Arms by Bob Beckham (#68); Skokiaan (South African Song) by Bill Haley and his Comets (#78); Rockin' Little Angel by Ray Smith (#82); Tracy's Theme by Spencer Ross (#84); Riverboat by Faron Young (#87); Little Coco Palm by Jerry Wallace (#95); One Mint Julep by Chet Atkins (#97); and Smokie (Part 2) by Bill Doggett (#99).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Music Vendor)
1 El Paso--Marty Robbins
2 Why--Frankie Avalon
3 The Big Hurt--Miss Toni Fisher
4 Running Bear--Johnny Preston
5 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans--Freddie Cannon
6 Heartaches by the Number--Guy Mitchell
7 Among My Souvenirs--Connie Francis
8 It's Time to Cry--Paul Anka
9 The Village of St. Bernadette--Andy Williams
10 Pretty Blue Eyes--Steve Lawrence

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKWX)
1 El Paso--Marty Robbins (3rd week at #1)
2 The Big Hurt--Miss Toni Fisher
3 Hound Dog Man/This Friendly World--Fabian
4 Heartaches by the Number--Guy Mitchell
5 Marina--Willy Alberti
--Rocco Granata and the International Quintet
6 Pretty Blue Eyes--Steve Lawrence
7 Living Doll--Cliff Richard and the Drifters
--David Hill
8 In the Mood--Ernie Fields Orchestra
9 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans--Freddie Cannon
10 Among My Souvenirs/God Bless America--Connie Francis

Singles entering the chart were You're My Love by Della Reese (#15, charting with its A-side, Not One Minute More); A Year Ago Tonight by the Crests (#30); No Love Have I by Webb Pierce (#50); Swinging on a Rainbow by Frankie Avalon (#51); Living Dangerously by the McGuire Sisters (#58); The Happy Muleteer by Ivo Robic (#59); and Hear Them Bells by Bobby Darin (#60).

Died on this date
Dudley Nichols, 64. U.S. screenwriter. Mr. Nichols was at his peak in the 1930s and '40s, winning an Academy Award for The Informer (1935), and receiving Oscar nominations for The Long Voyage Home (1940); Air Force (1943); and The Tin Star (1957). He died of cancer.

Albert Camus, 46. Algerian-born French author and philosopher. Mr. Camus, born to French parents, grew up in Algeria, moving to Paris just before World War II. He joined the French Communist Party in 1935 and the Algerian Communist Party in 1936, but eventually opposed Soviet totalitarianism. Mr. Camus was unsuccessful in attempting to flee France when German forces invaded in 1940, but participated in the French Resistance during the war. He was frequently regarded as an existentialist, but rejected the term, and was regarded as a major contributor to the philosophy known as absurdism. Mr. Camus expressed his views in books such as L'Étranger (The Stranger) (1942); Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) (1942); and La Peste (The Plague) (1947), which resulted in him receiving the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was killed in an accident, when a car in which he was a passenger struck a tree.

40 years ago
1970

War
The second investigation in four months into charges of censorship on the military radio and television network in Vietnam was begun by the American command after an Army broadcaster unexpectedly ended a news report with the statement that he and his colleagues were "not free to tell the truth." Specialist Robert Lawrence, 27, of Atlanta and Marine Corporal Thomas Sinkovitz, 21, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania both claimed that they had been ordered not to discuss the case publicly until the investigation was completed.

Violent clashes erupted between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland, notably in the Bogside district of Londonderry.

Disasters
Fire swept through a house in St. Roche de L’Achigan, Quebec, killing 13 at a family reunion.

A driver blinded by a snowstorm in Vercelli, Italy plowed into a funeral procession, killing 5 and injuring 17.

Football
NFL
Championship @ Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington
Cleveland 7 @ Minnesota 27

The Vikings used the 8 degree F. cold to their advantage, scoring touchdowns on their first two possessions, and coasting to an easy victory before 46,503 fans for their first NFL title. Joe Kapp rushed 7 yards for the first Minnesota touchdown 3:48 into the game. Just 3 minutes and 19 seconds later Mr. Kapp completed a 75-yard touchdown bomb to Gene Washington. Fred Cox converted both scores and added a 30-yard field goal 1:07 into the second quarter to make the score 17-0. Dave Osborn, who rushed 18 times for 108 yards, ran 20 yards for a touchdown, converted by Mr. Cox, at 10:15 to give the Vikings a 24-0 halftime lead. Mr. Cox added a 32-yard field goal at 11:18 of the third quarter to make the score 27-0. The Browns finally scored on a 3-yard pass from Bill Nelsen to Gary Collins at 1:24 of the fourth quarter. Don Cockroft’s convert made the final score 27-7. The Vikings rushed 45 times for 222 yards. Mr. Kapp rushed 8 times for 57 yards, while completing 7 of 13 passes for 169 yards. Bo Scott picked up just 17 yards on 6 carries for the Browns, but caught 5 passes for 56 and returned 4 kickoffs for 60. His teammate Leroy Kelly carried 15 times for 80 yards, caught 2 passes for 17, and returned 2 punts for 10. Mr. Nelsen completed 17 of 33 passes for just 181 yards and 2 interceptions.





AFL
Championship @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
Kansas City 17 @ Oakland 7

Charlie Smith rushed 3 yards for a touchdown, converted by George Blanda, with 46 seconds remaining in the first quarter to give the Raiders a 7-0 lead, but they were unable to generate much offense after that (see video). Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson threw 7 straight incomplete passes in the first half, but late in the second quarter he completed a 41-yard bomb to Frank Pitts to the Oakland 1-yard line. Wendell Hayes carried from there for the touchdown at 13:10 of the second quarter; Jan Stenerud’s convert made the score 7-7 at halftime. Oakland quarterback Daryle Lamonica hurt his passing hand early in the third quarter when he banged it against the helmet of Chiefs’ defensive end Aaron Brown and had to leave the game. Mr. Blanda, who had thrown only 13 passes during the regular season and 5 in the previous week’s playoff victory over the Houston Oilers, completed just 2 of 6 passes and gave up an interception in the Chiefs’ end zone before Mr. Lamonica, the AFL’s Most Valuable Player, re-entered the game. Mr. Blanda also missed 3 field goals, which didn’t help the Raiders’ cause. Mr. Blanda’s interception was returned by Emmitt Thomas to the Chiefs’ 6-yard line, from where Mr. Dawson moved the team downfield. Robert Holmes finished the 94-yard drive with a 5-yard touchdown run at 11:17 of the third quarter; Mr. Stenerud’s convert made the score 14-7. Mr. Lamonica, unable to throw effectively because of his injury, gave up 3 interceptions in the fourth quarter. Mr. Stenerud kicked a 22-yard field goal with 4:48 remaining in the game to make the score 17-7. 53,564 were in attendance at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum to see the Raiders suffer just their second loss of the season in the final game of the 10-year existence of the American Football League. In a game that featured little offense, Mr. Holmes rushed 18 times for just 14 yards. He added 16 yards on 2 pass receptions and returned 1 kickoff for 28. Mr. Hayes carried 8 times for 35 yards and picked up 17 yards after taking a lateral from Dave Hill on a kickoff return. Otis Taylor led the Chiefs in receiving with 3 receptions for 62 yards. Mr. Dawson completed 7 of 17 passes for 129 yards. Mr. Thomas made 2 of the Chiefs’ 4 interceptions and picked up 69 yards in returns. Mr. Smith led the Raiders with 86 yards on 8 pass receptions and 31 yards on 12 rushes. Hewritt Dixon carried 12 times for 36 yards. Warren Wells, who had led the AFL with 1,260 yards receiving and 14 touchdown receptions during the regular season, was held to 1 reception for 24 yards. George Atkinson of the Raiders returned 3 kickoffs for 95 yards, but lost 1 yard on 2 punt returns. Mr. Lamonica completed just 15 of 39 passes for 167 yards. Both punters had excellent games: Oakland’s Mike Eischeid punted 6 times for a 48.5-yard average, while Kansas City’s Jerrel Wilson punted 8 times for a 42.9-yard average.

30 years ago
1980

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Oh! Susie--Secret Service (12th week at #1)

#1 single in France (IFOP): Video Killed the Radio Star--The Buggles (8th week at #1)

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 She's in Love with You--Suzi Quatro (7th week at #1)
2 Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough--Michael Jackson
3 The Part of Me that Needs You Most--Exile
4 Half the Way--Crystal Gayle
5 Crazy Little Thing Called Love--Queen
6 I Have a Dream--ABBA
7 Boy Oh Boy--Racey
8 If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold it Against Me)--Bellamy Brothers
9 We Don't Talk Anymore--Cliff Richard
10 Breakfast in America--Supertramp

The only single entering the chart was Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Roy Bulkin (#20).

Diplomacy
U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a cutoff of high technology sales to the U.S.S.R.; a limitation of fishing privileges; a grain embargo; and a deferral of any new cultural and economic exchanges between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.

Hockey
NHL-U.S.S.R.
Exhibition
Super Series ‘80
Moscow Dynamo 4 @ Edmonton 1



25 years ago
1985

Crime
Scotland Yard began investigating a surrogate mother in London following reports she was to receive £6,500 for her baby from a childless couple.

20 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Ryyd-joulu--Bat & Ryyd (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Do They Know It's Christmas?--Band Aid II (4th week at #1)

Died on this date
Harold Eugene Edgerton, 86. U.S. engineer. Dr. Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He was also involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, devising equipment that was used by oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Dr. Edgerton died of a heart attack while having lunch at the MIT Faculty Club.

Henry Bolte, 81. Australian politician. Sir Henry, a Liberal, represented Hampden in the Victorian Parliament from 1947-1972 and was Governor of Victoria from 1955-1972.

Chuck Stuart, 30. U.S. murder suspect. Mr. Stuart jumped to his death from a bridge in Boston Harbor after learning he had become the prime suspect in the murder of his wife. In October 1989, Mr. Stuart called from a phone in his car to report that his pregnant wife Carol had been shot and that he had been shot. The tapes of his pleas for help were played on radio and television stations, and attracted widespread sympathy. Mr. Stuart recovered from a serious wound but Carol died in hospital. Her baby, delivered prematurely, also died. Mr. Stuart said that a Negro man was their assailant; the Stuarts were white. On January 3, Mr. Stuart’s brother Matthew told investigators that he had driven to the neighbourhood where the shooting occurred and that Charles had given him his wife’s bag and a gun, which Matthew threw into the Pines River. Matthew said he had decided to come forward after his brother had identified a Negro man in a police lineup as resembling the gunman. Based on Matthew’s information, police divers recovered both the handbag and a .38 calibre revolver from the river. It was reported that Charles Stuart had taken out large insurance policies on his wife. Some Negro leaders objected to the intensity with which police had conducted investigations in Negro neighbourhoods when it was believed that a Negro was the culprit.

Abominations
A rebel radio broadcast in Sudan reported that a pro-government Arab militia had killed 2,000 Negro villagers at the end of December 1989. Reportedly, two members of the Shilok tribe killed their Muslim employer in a dispute, and local militiamen armed with machine guns then destroyed the entire village. Western diplomats and relief officials put the death toll at 300-1,500. The Muslim central government of Sudan was in a sustained war against Negro Christians and animists.

Disasters
A passenger train crashed into a stopped freight train in Sangi, Pakistan, killing 307 people and injuring 700 others.

Hockey
World Junior Championships
Final
Canada 2 Czechoslovakia 1

10 years ago
2000

Died on this date
Spyros Markezinis, 90. Prime Minister of Greece, 1973. Mr. Markezinis was first elected to Parliament in 1946 as a member of the United Nationalist Party, but he soon left and founded the New Party, and later founded several other parties. He held several cabinet posts in the 1950s, and was praised for his economic reforms. Mr. Markezinis served as Prime Minister from September-November 1973 during an attempt to democratize the military dictatorship that was then governing Greece, but the government was overthrown. Mr. Markezinis was involved in the negotiations that saw the return of democratic government to Greece in 1974.

Tom Fears, 77. U.S. football player and coach. Mr. Fears was a star receiver with the Los Angeles Rams from 1948-1956. His 77 receptions in 1949 and 84 in 1950 were NFL records at the time, and his 18 receptions in one game on November 12, 1950 still stands as a record. His 73-yard touchdown on a pass from Norm Van Brocklin midway through the fourth quarter gave the Rams a 24-17 win over the Cleveland Browns in the 1951 NFL championship game. He spent several years as an assistant coach under Vince Lombardi with the Green Bay Packers, and became the first head coach of the New Orleans Saints in 1967. Mr. Fears was fired midway through the 1970 season, leaving with a record of 13-34-2. He was head coach of the Southern California Sun in the World Football League in 1974-1975. Mr. Fears was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1970 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976. He died after a six-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Crime
Larry Fisher was sentenced to life in prison for the Canadian 1969 sex-slaying of Gail Miller, a crime for which David Milgaard had been wrongly convicted and for which he had served more than 20 years in prison.

Adventure
The first British women to walk across Antarctica to the South Pole arrived safely, more than two months after starting their record-breaking journey.

Economics and finance
Alan Greenspan was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton for a fourth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

Diplomacy
Israeli Prime Minister and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara, meeting in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, agreed to simultaneous consideration of the securing of Israel’s borders and the return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967, to Syria.

Football
NCAA
Sugar Bowl
Florida State 46 Virginia Tech 29

The teams, both unbeaten going into the game, was for the championship of the Bowl Championship Series. Florida State quarterback Chris Weinke passed for 329 yards and 4 touchdowns. Peer Warrick of the Seminoles caught touchdown passes of 64 and 43 yards and returned a punt 59 yards for another touchdown. Georgia Tech quarterback Michael Vick passed for 229 yards and rushed for 97. The Hokies trailed 28-7 at one point before rallying to take a 29-28 lead. For Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden, it was the first undefeated season in his 34 years as a head coach.

January 3, 2010

1,760 years ago
250

Abominations
Emperor Decius issued an edict ordering everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.

410 years ago
1600

Canadiana
Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit, founded the first trading post in what is now Quebec, on Indian territory that they named Tadoussac.

170 years ago
1840

Born on this date
Father Damien. Belgian clergyman. Father Damien, born Jozef De Veuste, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1864; in 1873 he began working among the quarantined lepers on the island of Moloka'i, ministering to their physical needs as well as teaching them the Roman Catholic faith. Fr. Damien eventually developed leprosy himself, and died of the disease on April 15, 1889 at the age of 49; he was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.

140 years ago
1870

Americana
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.

110 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Donald J. Russell. U.S. railroad executive. Mr. Russell began working with the Southern Pacific Railroad as a timekeeper in 1920, and eventually served as the railroad's president (1952-1964) and chairman of the board (1964-1972). He died on December 13, 1985, three weeks before his 86th birthday.

100 years ago
1910

Born on this date
John Sturges. U.S. film director. Mr. Sturges, who directed 45 films, was known for action movies with large all-male (or nearly all-male) casts. His movies included Mystery Street (1950); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Great Escape (1963); The Satan Bug (1965); Ice Station Zebra (1968); Marooned (1969); and The Eagle has Landed (1976). Mr. Sturges died on August 18, 1992 at the age of 82.

Georgios Zoitakis. Greek military officer and politician. General Zoitakis joined the Hellenic Army in 1932, and received the Gold Cross of Valour three times for his service in World War II. He supported the Colonels' coup that toppled King Konstantيnos II in April 1967; after the king failed in a counter-coup attempt in December 1967, Gen. Zoitakis served as Regent of Greece until March 1972, when he was replaced by Prime Minister Georgios Papadopoulos. After Greece returned to democracy in 1975, Gen. Zoitakis was convicted of high treason, and served 13 years in prison. He was released because of poor health, and lived under house arrest until his death on October 21, 1996 at the age of 86.

Frenchy Bordagaray. U.S. baseball player and manager. Stanley George Bordagaray was an outfielder and third baseman with the Chicago White Sox (1934); Brooklyn Dodgers (1935-1936, 1942-1945); St. Louis Cardinals (1937-1938); Cincinnati Reds (1939); and New York Yankees (1941), batting .283 with 14 home runs and 270 runs batted in in 930 games. He played in World Series with the Reds and Yankees, with no plate appearances in 3 games. Mr. Bordagaray batted .344 with 32 homers in 783 games in 7 seasons in the minor leagues. He was known as one of the most colourful players of his time, inspiring numerous anecdotes. Mr. Bordagaray died on April 13, 2000 at the age of 90.

70 years ago
1940

War
The U.S. War Resisters' League charged that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies were aimed at putting the U.S.A. on a war footing. Finnish planes dropped leaflets over Leningrad depicting ill-equipped and freezing Soviet troops in Finland.

Defense
Australia commenced military training for 21-year-old males.

Politics and government
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union address to the opening session of the 76th Congress; he urged increased defense expenditures and warned against isolationism.

According to a Gallup Poll, 78% of registered Democrats favoured Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for an unprecedented third term as President in 1940.

The United States House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities (Dies Committee) accused the Communist Party and the German-American Bund of being anti-American.

Economics and finance
Field Marshal Hermann Goering was placed in charge of Germany's war economy.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the American Farm Bureau Federation that reciprocal trade agreements would not hurt U.S. farmers.

60 years ago
1950

On the radio
Philo Vance, starring Jackson Beck
Tonight’s episode: The Tip Top Murder Case

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Morning Boat to Africa, starring King Calder, Nina Foch, and Jerome Thor

War
Indonesia reported fighting in central Java between government forces and members of Darul Islam, an extreme rightist Muslim sect.

Diplomacy
The United States ordered Hungary to close its New York and Cleveland consulates by January 15 in retaliation for the arrest of International Telephone & Telegraph official Robert Vogeler.

Protest
Mexico City police jailed 800 striking taxi drivers after a leftist-led demonstration ended in a riot, causing two deaths.

Politics and government
The liberal Wafd Party, led by Mustafa el-Nahhas, was restored to power after a five-year absence, winning 225 of 319 seats in Parliament in the Egyptian general election. The Wafd total was an increase of 196 over their total in the most recent election in 1945. The Saadist Institutional Party, led by Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, was second, with 28 seats, a decrease of 97. The Liberal Constitutional Party, led by Ali Mahir Pasha, lost 48 seats, and finished third, with 26.

Colombia merged all local and state police into a national force.

Crime
At the New York perjury trial of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss, his wife denied typing secret State Department documents for Time magazine editor and confessed Communist Whittaker Chambers, and claimed that she had given the typewriter on which the documents were allegedly typed to her maid's family in 1935.

Religion
The Czechoslovakian government confiscated church records of births, marriages, and deaths, after Roman Catholic bishops refused to surrender the records voluntarily.

Transportation
U.S. officials in Vienna announced the opening of the Danube River, controlled by the U.S.S.R. and other Cominform countries, to freight shipments between Yugoslavia and West Germany.

Environment
U.S. President Harry Truman appointed a seven-member Water Resources Commission headed by Morris Cooke to study the nation's water supply problems, including New York's current water shortage.

Economics and finance
Pakistan announced the conclusion of a commercial agreement with Poland, providing for the monthly purchase of 85,000 tons of Polish coal, enough to meet Pakistan's normal requirements.

Baseball
Sport magazine named New York Yankees' first baseman-outfielder Tommy Henrich as "athlete of the year" for 1949. He batted .287 with 24 home runs and 85 runs batted in in 115 games, and made big hits in key situations as he helped the Yankees narrowly edge out the Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant and defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series.

50 years ago
1960

On the radio
Ungdomsteatern, on Sveriges Radio
Today's episode: Den guldbagade pincenen, starring Georg Arlin as Sherlock Holmes and Ragnar Falck as Dr. Watson

This was a Swedish adaptation of A. Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Man from the South, starring Steve McQueen, Peter Lorre, and Neile Adams





Died on this date
Eric P. Kelly, 75. U.S. author. Mr. Kelly was a journalist before serving in Poland with a welfare organization at the end of World War I and during the Polish Soviet War (1919-1920). His experiences led him to write children's novels with Polish themes; his first novel, The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929) won the Newbery Medal.

40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in Rhodesia (Lyons Maid): Abbey Road (LP)--The Beatles (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France: Wight is Wight--Michel Delpech (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Belinda--Gianni Morandi (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Dein schönstes Geschenk--Roy Black

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Two Little Boys--Rolf Harris (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Two Little Boys--Rolf Harris (3rd week at #1)

Australia's Top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Suspicious Minds--Elvis Presley
2 Something/Come Together--The Beatles
3 Penny Arcade--Roy Orbison
4 Picking Up Pebbles--Matt Flinders
5 And When I Die--Blood, Sweat & Tears
6 Take a Letter Maria--R.B. Greaves
7 Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head--Johnny Farnham
8 I'll Never Fall in Love Again--Bobbie Gentry
9 Tracy--The Cuff Links
10 Try a Little Kindness--Glen Campbell

Singles entering the chart were You're Everything by Don Lane (#36); The Hunter by Pacific Gas and Electric (#38); and Nobody's Child by Karen Young (#40).

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Marian--The Cats (3rd week at #1)
2 Mighty Joe--Shocking Blue
3 Another 45 Miles--The Golden Earring
4 The Flood--Ginger Ale
5 Tonight Today--DBM & T
6 One Million Years--Robin Gibb
7 Cha-La-La, I Need You--The Shuffles
8 Marie Jolie--Aphrodite's Child
9 Oh Well!--Fleetwood Mac
10 Whole Lotta Love--Led Zeppelin

Singles entering the chart were Superstar by Murray Head with the Trinidad Singers (#30); Het Zal Je Kind Maar Wezen by Adèle Bloemendaal, Leen Jongewaard, Piet Römer en koor (#31); She Sold Me Magic by Lou Christie (#32); Mijn Stil Verdriet by Corry en de Rekels (#38); and Jin-Go-Lo-Ba by Santana (#40). Superstar was from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1971).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--B.J. Thomas
2 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary
3 Someday We'll Be Together--Diana Ross and the Supremes
4 Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye--Steam
6 Whole Lotta Love--Led Zeppelin
7 I Want You Back--The Jackson 5
8 Venus--The Shocking Blue
9 Holly Holy--Neil Diamond
10 La La La (If I Had You)--Bobby Sherman

Singles entering the chart were Walk a Mile in My Shoes by Joe South and the Believers (#54); Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody is a Star by Sly & the Family Stone (#59); Blowing Away by the 5th Dimension (#77); Hold On by the Rascals (#81); Jennifer Tomkins by Street People (#87); Won't Find Better (Than Me) by the New Hope (#89); Theme Music for the Film "2001: A Space Odyssey" from Also Sprach Zarathustra by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (#94); Want You to Know by Rotary Connection (#96); I'm Just a Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin') by Candi Staton (#97); and Moon Walk Part I by Joe Simon (#100).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Someday We'll Be Together--Diana Ross and the Supremes (2nd week at #1)
2 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--B.J. Thomas
3 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary
4 Holly Holy--Neil Diamond
5 Whole Lotta Love--Led Zeppelin
6 I Want You Back--The Jackson 5
7 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye--Steam
8 Jam Up Jelly Tight--Tommy Roe
9 Venus--The Shocking Blue
10 Down on the Corner--Creedence Clearwater Revival

Singles entering the chart were Blowing Away by the 5th Dimension (#47); How Can I Forget by Marvin Gaye (#56); Love Bones by Johnnie Taylor (#69); Rainy Night in Georgia by Brook Benton (#84); Breaking Up is Hard to Do by Lenny Welch (#86); If Walls Could Talk by Little Milton (#88); My Honey and Me by Luther Ingram (#89); She's Ready by the Spiral Starecase (#92); Won't Find Better (Than Me) by the New Hope (#94); and You Got Me Hummin' by Cold Blood (#96).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--B.J. Thomas
2 Someday We'll Be Together--Diana Ross and the Supremes
3 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary
4 Holly Holy--Neil Diamond
5 Whole Lotta Love--Led Zeppelin
6 Jam Up Jelly Tight--Tommy Roe
7 Venus--The Shocking Blue
8 Jingle Jangle--The Archies
9 I Want You Back--The Jackson 5
10 La La La (If I Had You)--Bobby Sherman

Singles entering the chart included Blowing Away by the 5th Dimension (#59); Everybody is a Star/Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly & the Family Stone (#67); Love Bones by Johnnie Taylor (#68); Moon Walk by Joe Simon (#81); Breaking Up is Hard to Do by Lenny Welch (#82); How Can I Tell My Mom and Dad by the Lovelites (#92); I'll Hold Out My Hand by Wind (#96); Guess Who by Ruby Winters (#97); and Ma Belle Amie by the Tee Set (#100).

Calgary’s Top 10 (Glenn's Music)
1 Something--The Beatles (6th week at #1)
2 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--B.J. Thomas
3 Cherry Hill Park--Billy Joe Royal
4 That's Where I Went Wrong--The Poppy Family
5 Holly Holy--Neil Diamond
6 Cold Turkey--Plastic Ono Band
7 Venus--The Shocking Blue
8 Whole Lotta Love--Led Zeppelin
9 Don't Cry Daddy--Elvis Presley
10 The Rainmaker--Tom Northcott
Pick hit of the week: No Time--The Guess Who

Died on this date
Gladys Aylward, 67. U.K. missionary. Miss Aylward served as a Christian missionary in China from 1932-1949 and in Taiwan from 1958 until her death. She founded the Gladys Aylward orphanage in Taiwan. The movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) was based on Miss Aylward and her work, but was heavily fictionalized.

Music
The Beatles, minus John Lennon, went into Abbey Road Studios in London for the last time as a group to record I Me Mine, a song written by George Harrison, with George singing lead. The song, extended and supplemented with strings by producer Phil Spector on April 1, appeared on the Let it Be album, released on May 8, 1970.

Abominations
Congo (Brazzaville) officially changed its name to the People's Republic of Congo and promulgated a new constitution, based on Marxist-Leninist principles. A council of state replaced the cabinet, and the National Assembly was abolished. The Congolese Workers' Party (CWP) became the country's sole political party, and party leader Marien N'Gouabi was sworn in as President of the country.

Society
After a six-month legal struggle, the body of Private Bill Terry was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama, within sight of the soldier’s boyhood home. Private Terry, who had been killed in Vietnam, was originally denied burial in the cemetery because he was a Negro.

Football
NFL
Bert Bell Benefit Bowl (aka Playoff Bowl) @ Orange Bowl, Miami
Los Angeles 31 Dallas 0

Roman Gabriel's 35-yard touchdown pass to Les Josephson on the Rams' second play from scrimmage in the 1st quarter provided the necessary scoring as they shut out the Cowboys before 31,151 fans in the 10th and last Playoff Bowl. The Cowboys responded with a drive to the Los Angeles 9-yard-line, but Mike Clark missed a 16-yard field goal attempt, and Mr. Gabriel connected with a 67-yard TD pass to Jack Snow on just his third pass of the game, with Bruce Gossett's extra point making the score 14-0.

30 years ago
1980

Hit parade
Edmonton’s Top 12 (CHED)
1 Video Killed the Radio Star--The Buggles
2 Chiquitita--Abba
3 Please Don’t Go--KC and the Sunshine Band
4 Babe--Styx
5 Coward of the County--Kenny Rogers
6 We Don’t Talk Anymore--Cliff Richard
7 I Don’t Like Mondays--The Boomtown Rats
8 No More Tears (Enough is Enough)--Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer
9 Escape (The Pina Colada Song)--Rupert Holmes
10 Do That To Me One More Time--Captain & Tennille
11 Cool Change--Little River Band
12 Heartache Tonight--Eagles

Died on this date
Joy Adamson, 69. Austro-Hungarian born Kenyan authoress. Mrs. Adamson, born Friederike Gessner in what is now the Czech Republic, met her third husband, George Adamson, while on safari. The two worked together in Kenya, and became known for their conservation work with Elsa the lioness in the late 1950s. Mrs. Adamson's book Born Free (1960) was an international bestseller, and inspired the 1966 movie of the same name. She remained in Kenya until she was murdered by fired employee Paul Nakware Ekai, 17 days before her 70th birthday.

World events
The new President of Afghanistan, Babrak Karnal, made his first public appearance since the previous week’s coup, and told foreign journalists that Soviet troops were defending his country against "outside threats."

Diplomacy
United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim concluded three days of meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran in an attempt to increase Iranian confidence in the UN as a mediator in the seizure of the U.S. embassy. Although Mr. Waldheim was not allowed to visit the hostages or Ayatollah Khomeini during his visit, he did meet with Iran’s Revolutionary Council.

Economics and finance
The price of gold in Hong Kong reached a high of U.S. $660.

Hockey
NHL-U.S.S.R. (Exhibition)
Super Series '80
Central Red Army 1 @ Buffalo 6



25 years ago
1985

Weather
The temperature hit 46 F. in Edmonton.

20 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins (2nd week at #1)

War
Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. authorities and agreed to give himself up after being assured that he would not face the death penalty. After leaving the Vatican’s diplomatic mission in Panama, where he had been since December 24, Gen. Noriega was taken to a U.S. military base in Panama City and arrested on drug-trafficking indictments by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents.

Business
Merrill Lynch Canada sold its retail arm to Wood Gundy, Inc.

Hockey
NHL
Chicago 3 Edmonton 2

10 years ago
2000

Popular culture
The last daily panel of the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was published in 2,600 newspapers. Mr. Schulz had recently announced his retirement; there were five new Sunday strips remaining to be published.

Diplomacy
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara began several days of talks in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Politics and government
A four-party coalition led by the Social Democratic Party took 71 of 151 seats in the Chamber of Representatives in the Croatian general election, unseating the governing Croatian Democratic Union, who won 46 seats. Another five-party coalition won 24 seats, with another two-party coalition taking 5 seats.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed several members of his staff, including Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of Mr. Putin’s predecessor Boris Yeltsin. She and her husband had been linked to possible financial irregularities.

Football
NFL
San Francisco (4-12) 29 @ Atlanta (5-11) 34

January 2, 2010

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Kathy Fincham!

330 years ago
1680

Died on this date
Trunajaya, 30. Javanese rebel. Trunajaya, aka Panembahan Maduretno, led a successful rebellion of the Madurese people against Sultan Amangkurat I in 1677. The sultan fled to the north coast and died while attempting to ask for Dutch assistance. His son and successor Amangkurat II made substantial concessions to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), who succeeded in defeating Trunajaya's forces in November 1678. Trunajaya was executed in Bantul on the order of Sultan Amangurat II, a month after being captured.

120 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Henrik Visnapuu. Estonian writer. Mr. Visnapuu was one of the most important Estonian poets of the 1920s and '30s, and was a member of the expressionistic and neo-romantic literary group "Siuru." He was also a playwright and journalist, and was culture secretary in the department of the Information Agency of the Estonian state (1935-1944). With Soviet invasion of Estonia looming, Mr. Visnapuu fled to Germany in 1944, and moved to the United States in 1949. He died of a heart attack on April 3, 1951 at the age of 61.

110 years ago
1900

Economics and finance
U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy to prompt trade with China.

90 years ago
1920

Died on this date
Paul Adam, 57. French author. Mr. Adam wrote more than 40 novels, including a series about the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. He died 26 days after his 57th birthday.

Politics and government
Under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, U.S. Department of Justice agents launched its second series of raids against radical leftists and anarchists in more than 30 cities and towns across 23 states, resulting in 6,000 suspected Communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.

70 years ago
1940

War
The Finnish government claimed to have trapped 55,000 Soviet troops on the eastern border between the two countries. Arrests of disaffected Czechs were reported in German-dominated Bohemia-Moravia. British officials announced that the Yangtze River patrol flotilla in China was being reduced from 13 to 3 ships.

Diplomacy
The U.S.A. announced its December 29, 1939 protest to the U.K. for opening mail from the United States to neutral countries, in violation of the 11th Hague Convention.

Defense
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia announced the reorganization of his military and civil aviation, and the establishment of a new air base at Riyadh.

U.S. Senator Robert Taft (Republican--Ohio) said that the Western Hemisphere security zone could not be enforced short of war.

Politics and government
The U.S. National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) announced that it would not support incumbent U.S. Vice President John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner for political office.

Labour
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that National Labor Relations Board decisions making unions collective bargaining agents could not be appealed.

60 years ago
1950

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Riverman, starring Henry Brandon, Athena Lorde, and Elizabeth Moore

Died on this date
James Dooley, 72. U.K.-born Australian politician. Mr. Dooley, a native of Ireland, moved to Brisbane with his family at the age of 8. He eventually settled in New South Wales, and joined the Labour Party. Mr. Dooley was first elected to the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly in 1907, and served as Premier of New South Wales from October 1921-April 1922. Mr. Dooley resigned as party leader in 1923, and ran unsuccessfully three times in federal and state elections from 1931-1940.

Emil Jannings, 65. Swiss-born German actor. Mr. Jannings, born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, moved with his family to Germany in his youth, where he appeared in plays, and movies such as Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) (1924). He went to Hollywood in 1927 and starred in The Way of All Flesh (1927) and The Last Command (1928), and won the first Academy Award for Best Actor (1927-28), being honoured for his performances in both films. Mr. Jannings co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in Der blaue Engel (1930), and its English-language version (The Blue Angel), remained in Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933, and starred in several Nazi-produced propaganda movies. His career ended with the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945, and he was subjected to denazification. Mr. Jannings died of liver cancer.

Robert Ringling, 52. U.S. entertainment executive. Mr. Ringling was an opera singer who was made president of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1944 as part of a power struggle between two branches of the Ringling family. He was president at the time of the circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut on July 6, 1944 that killed 167 people. Mr. Ringling was eventually removed and then reinstated as president, but he suffered a serious stroke in 1947, and was given the mainly honourary titles of executive vice president and chairman of the board. He died from a second stroke.

World events
Hungarian authorities arrested International Telephone & Telegraph executive Robert Vogeler in Budapest on espionage charges.

Economics and finance
The French National Assembly passed Prime Minister Georges Bidault's record 1950 budget of 2.275 trillion francs ($6.5 billion), after Mr. Bidault narrowly survived three votes of non-confidence.

Football
NCAA
Gator Bowl
Maryland 20 Missouri 7

Orange Bowl
Santa Clara 21 Kentucky 13

Sugar Bowl
Oklahoma 35 Louisiana State 0

Cotton Bowl
Rice 27 North Carolina 13

Sun Bowl
Texas Western 33 Georgetown 20

Rose Bowl
Ohio State 17 California 14



50 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Joey's Song/Ooh! Look-a-There, Ain't She Pretty?--Bill Haley and his Comets (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: Oh! Carol--Neil Sedaka

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Marina--Rocco Granata and the International Quintet

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): What Do You Want?--Adam Faith (5th week at #1)

U.S. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Why--Frankie Avalon
2 The Big Hurt--Miss Toni Fisher
3 El Paso--Marty Robbins
4 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans--Freddie Cannon
5 Heartaches by the Number--Guy Mitchell
6 Among My Souvenirs--Connie Francis
7 It's Time to Cry--Paul Anka
8 Uh! Oh!--The Nutty Squirrels
9 Mack the Knife--Bobby Darin
10 Running Bear--Johnny Preston

Singles entering the chart were Do-Re-Mi by Anita Bryant (#61, charting with the version by Mitch Miller and the Sing-Along Chorus); Tracy's Theme by Spencer Ross (#81); He'll Have to Go by Jim Reeves (#89); Climb Ev'ry Mountain by Tony Bennett (#93); Rockin' Little Angel by Ray Smith (#96); Teenage Hayride by Tender Slim (#98); What in the World's Come Over You by Jack Scott (#99); and Lonely Blue Boy by Conway Twitty (#100).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Why--Frankie Avalon
2 Running Bear--Johnny Preston
3 Go, Jimmy, Go--Jimmy Clanton
4 Hound Dog Man--Fabian
5 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans--Freddie Cannon
6 First Name Initial--Annette with the Afterbeats
7 Pretty Blue Eyes--Steve Lawrence
8 This Friendly World--Fabian
9 It's Time to Cry--Paul Anka
10 Bonnie Came Back--Duane Eddy and the Rebels

Singles entering the chart were If I Had a Girl by Rod Lauren (#12); Lonely Blue Boy by Conway Twitty (#19); Lucky Devil by Carl Dobkins, Jr. (#27); Where or When by Dion and the Belmonts (#31); Don't Destroy Me by Crash Craddock (#33); Rockin' Little Angel by Ray Smith (#35); The Village of St. Bernadette by Andy Williams (#37); Forever by the Little Dippers (#39); and You Got What it Takes by Marv Johnson (#40). Rockin' Little Angel was the other side of That's All Right, charting at #11.

At the movies
Ice Palace, directed by Vincent Sherman, and starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, and Jim Backus, opened in theatres.

Died on this date
J.-M.-Paul Sauvé, 52. Canadian politician. Mr. Sauvé, first elected to the Quebec National Assembly as a Conservative in 1930, was defeated in 1935, but helped to create the Union Nationale Party and served as an MNA from 1936 on. He became Premier of Quebec in September 1959 upon the death of Maurice Duplessis, and used the word "desormais" (henceforth) to serve notice that things would be changing in Quebec. Mr. Sauvé’s "hundred days" were seen as the beginning of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution of modernization. Hospital insurance and university subsidies were among the matters "on hold" that were settled by his government. Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker took Mr. Sauvé’s death from a stroke as a great blow.

40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ):

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Two Little Boys--Rolf Harris (2nd week at #1)

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother--The Hollies
2 (Call Me) Number One--The Tremeloes
3 Suspicious Minds--Elvis Presley
4 Down on the Corner--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 Theresa--Dave Mills
6 Cry to Me--The Staccatos
7 Tracy--The Cuff Links
8 Pretty Belinda--Chris Andrews
9 Jam Up Jelly Tight--Tommy Roe
10 La-Dee-Doo-Down-Down--The Archies

Singles entering the chart were Smile a Little Smile for Me by the Flying Machine (#18); Without Love (There is Nothing) by Tom Jones (#19); and Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) by Steam (#20).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Holly Holy--Neil Diamond
2 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--B.J. Thomas
3 Jam Up Jelly Tight--Tommy Roe
4 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary
5 Don't Cry Daddy--Elvis Presley
6 Midnight Cowboy--Ferrante & Teicher
7 That's Where I Went Wrong--The Poppy Family
9 Whole Lotta Love--Led Zeppelin
10 Someday We'll Be Together--Diana Ross and the Supremes

Singles entering the chart were Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me by the Four Tops (#25); Without Love (There is Nothing) by Tom Jones (#26); Hold On by the Rascals (#27); You Got Me Hummin' by Cold Blood (#28); I'm Tired by Savoy Brown (#29); and One Way Ticket by McKenna Mendelson Mainland (#30).

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Something/Come Together--The Beatles (9th week at #1)
2 Don't Cry Daddy--Elvis Presley
3 Leaving on a Jet Plane--Peter, Paul and Mary
4 Fancy--Bobbie Gentry
5 One Tin Soldier--The Original Caste
6 Cold Turkey--Plastic Ono Band
7 Arizona--Mark Lindsay
8 Holly Holy--Neil Diamond
9 Take a Letter Maria--R.B. Greaves
10 That's Where I Went Wrong--The Poppy Family

Society
U.S. Federal Bureau Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover, in his year-end report for 1969, cited more than 100 attacks on police by Negro extremists in the second half of 1969 and warned: "Extremist, all-Negro, hate-type organizations, such as the Black Panther party, continued to fan the flames of riot and revolution." At least 7 of the police officers attacked died and more than 120 were injured in the six-month period. Mr. Hoover noted a changing pattern in racial turmoil from "large-scale riots of previous years," to "attacks on police officers and disturbances in high schools and even elementary schools." Stressing the growth of revolutionary militancy among student agitators, Mr. Hoover pointed out that there had already been 215 campus demonstrations in the current school year, as compared to 225 in the entire 1968-1969 period.

Crime
U.S. federal authorities announced that raids the previous day on what was said to be a nationwide gambling syndicate involving widely known sports figures had netted gambling records, more than $450,000 in cashier’s and business cheques, and $172,000 in cash. Ten men were arrested. The operation was said to have taken bets on horse races and football, basketball, baseball, and hockey games.

30 years ago
1980

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)--Pink Floyd (3rd week at #1)

World events
Babrak Karmal, installed as President of Afghanistan after the U.S.S.R. invaded the country and assassinated his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin, six days earlier, appealed for public support of the change of government.

Nobel Prize-winning Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, in an interview, called for the United Nations to put pressure on the U.S.S.R. to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, and came out in support of boycotting the summer Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Moscow. The Soviet news agency Tass charged that Dr. Sakharov "has been conducting subversive activities against the Soviet state for a number of years," and "lately embarked on the road of open calls to reactionary circles of imperialist states to interfere in the U.S.S.R.'s internal affairs."

Diplomacy
U.S. President Jimmy Carter recalled the U.S. Ambassador from Moscow and said he would ask the Senate to delay consideration of the SALT-II arms limitation treaty.

Economics and finance
The International Monetary Fund held its monthly gold auction and sold its gold at $562.85 U.S. per ounce, $136.48 per ounce higher than at its previous auction on December 5, 1979.

Labour
British steelworkers staged their first national strike in over 50 years.

Hockey
NHL
Edmonton 3 Hartford 3

20 years ago
1990

On television tonight
The Wonder Years, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Rock 'n Roll

Died on this date
Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas, 79. Greek politician and historian. Mr. Averoff was a major public figure in Greece for almost 50 years. He led resistance against Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, and against the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967-1974. Mr. Averoff was first elected to Parliament in 1946, and held several cabinet posts, including Foreign Minister (1956-1963) and Defense Minister (1974-1981). He was involved with the New Democracy movement from 1974-1984, and was the party's president from 1981-1984. Mr. Averoff wrote more than a dozen books dealing with Greek historical and political issues. In accord with the wishes of Baron Michael Tositsas, he added Tositas to his own surname in later years. In her novel A Man (1979), Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci alleged, among other things, that Mr. Averoff had been an Axis collaborator rather than a resistance leader, and that he had been a link between the Greek military junta and the subsequent democratic government led by Konstantinos Karamanlis.

Alan Hale, Jr., 68. U.S. actor. Mr. Hale, born Alan Hale MacKahan, Jr. and son of the character actor Alan Hale, played the Skipper on the popular television comedy series Gilligan's Island (1964-1967).

Economics and finance
The Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high of 2810.15.

10 years ago
2000

Crime
25 Chinese men were discovered aboard a cargo ship in Vancouver, British Columbia; the illegal migrants were locked inside two canvas-covered containers buried beneath thousands of tons of other cargo. The men, who were en route to Seattle when they were discovered, had been on the boat for two weeks.

Football
NFL
Indianapolis (13-3) 6 @ Buffalo (11-5) 31
Arizona (6-10) 24 @ Green Bay (8-8) 49
Baltimore (8-8) 3 @ New England (8-8) 20
New Orleans (3-13) 13 @ Carolina (8-8) 45
Tampa Bay (11-5) 20 @ Chicago (6-10) 6
Cincinnati (4-12) 7 @ Jacksonville (14-2) 24
New York Giants (7-9) 18 @ Dallas (8-8) 26
San Diego (8-8) 6 @ Denver (6-10) 12
Detroit (8-8) 17 @ Minnesota (10-6) 24
Miami (9-7) 10 @ Washington (10-6) 21
Seattle (9-7) 9 @ New York Jets (8-8) 19
Oakland (8-8) 41 @ Kansas City (9-7) 38 (OT)
St. Louis (13-3) 31 @ Philadelphia (5-11) 38
Tennessee (13-3) 47 @ Pittsburgh (6-10) 36