November 11, 2011

520 years ago
1491

Born on this date
Martin Bucer. French-born German religious reformer. Rev. Bucer joined the Dominican Order in 1507, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1516, based in Heidelberg. After meeting Martin Luther in 1518, he arranged for his monastic vows to be annulled, and joined the Protestant Reformation. Mr. Bucer attempted to reform the church in Wissembourg, but he was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, and was forced to flee to Strasbourg. He acted as a mediator between Mr. Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, who differed on the doctrine of the Eucharist, and tried to unite Protestants and Catholics in a national German church separate from Rome. In 1549, Mr. Bucer was ultimately forced into exile in England, where he influenced the second revision of the Book of Common Prayer. He died in Cambridge on February 28, 1551 at the age of 59.

220 years ago
1791

Born on this date
Josef Munzinger. Swiss politician. Mr. Munzinger was one of the first seven councillors elected to the Swiss Federal Council in 1848. He was President of the Confederation in 1851. Mr. Munzinger died on February 6, 1855 at the age of 63.

190 years ago
1821

Born on this date
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Russian author. Mr. Dostoyevsky (or Dostoevsky) wrote 12 novels, four novellas, 16 short stories, and numerous other works, and is regarded as one of the world's greatest psychological novelists, exploring philosophical and religious themes in novels such as Crime and Punishment (1866); The Idiot (1869); The Devils (1872); and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). He died on February 9, 1881 at the age of 59, 15 days after suffering a pulmonary hemorrhage.

180 years ago
1831

Died on this date
Nat Turner, 31. U.S. slave. Mr. Turner led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21 that resulted in the deaths of 60 white people and at least 100 Negroes. He remained a fugitive for more than two months before being found on October 30. Mr. Turner was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, and his body was flayed, beheaded, and quartered.

140 years ago
1871

Defense
The Royal Canadian Rifles departed Québec for Britain.

Journalism
La Tribune de la presse du Parlement de Québec, possibly the oldest press ombudsman in the world, was founded.

120 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Rabbit Maranville. U.S. baseball player. Walter Maranville was a shortstop with the Boston Braves (1912-1920, 1929-1935); Pittsburgh Pirates (1921-1924); Chicago Cubs (1925); Brooklyn Robins (1926); and St. Louis Cardinals (1927-1928), batting .258 with 28 home runs and 884 runs batted in in 2,670 games. He was with the Braves when they won the World Series in 1914, and with the Cardinals when they won the National League pennant in 1928, batting .308 in both World Series. Mr. Maranville managed the Cubs for part of the 1925 season, compiling a 23-30 record. He was one of the most colourful characters in baseball history, inspiring anecdotes too numerous to be mentioned here. Mr. Maranville died of a heart attack at the age of 62 on January 6, 1954; he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame later that year.

110 years ago
1901

Born on this date
F. Van Wyck Mason. U.S. historian and author. Francis Van Wyck Mason wrote pulp adventure and historical short stories and novels. 25 of his novels featured a character named Hugh North, a prototype for James Bond. Mr. Mason drowned while swimming off the coast of Bermuda on August 28, 1978 at the age of 66.

Sam Spiegel. Austro-Hungarian-born U.S. movie producer. Mr. Spiegel worked in Germany before emigrating to Mexico in 1933 and the United States in 1938. He was an independent movie producer, using the alias S.P. Eagle until 1954, and winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for On the Waterfront (1954); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Mr. Spiegel was a notorious sexual degenerate, and died on December 31, 1985 at the age of 84.

100 years ago
1911

Weather
Many cities in the Midwestern United States broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolled through. At least 13 tornadoes struck the Great Lakes, killing at least nine people and injuring 50 more.

Transportation
The Dominion Atlantic Railway (DAR) was formally leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) for 999 years, effective January 1, 1912.

Football
CRU
ORFU
Toronto Amateur Athletic Club (3-2) 11 @ Hamilton (5-0) 18

90 years ago
1921

Americana
President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.





80 years ago
1931

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Three Gables

Died on this date
Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa, 91. Japanese businessman. Mr. Eiichi was known as the "Father of Japanese capitalism," founding hundreds of corporations as well as the First National Bank.

Canadiana
Remembrance Day was observed under that name for the first time; since 1921 it had been known as Armistice Day.

Football
NFL
Staten Island (2-5-1) 12 @ Portsmouth (9-2) 14

70 years ago
1941

War
The British government claimed that seven more Italian ships had been sunk by British submarines in the Mediterranean Sea following the sinking of two convoys on November 9.

Diplomacy
The Finnish government sent a note to Washington rejecting the U.S. warning to halt the Finnish invasion of Russia or lose American friendship.

Politics and government
Manuel Quezon, running on the Nacionalista Party ticket, was re-elected by a wide margin to another four-year term as President of the Philippines.

Labour
The day after the U.S. National Defense Mediation Board rejected the Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America's demand for a closed shop, CIO President Philip Murray and UMW Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy resigned from the NDMB in protest. They had cast the only dissenting votes on the closed shop matter.

American Federation of Labor building craftsmen were ordered by their leaders to return to work at noon on November 12 after striking on $23 million worth of U.S. Navy and Marine construction in San Diego the previous day.

Boxing
Lenny Mancini (31-6-3) won a 10-round split decision over Canadian lightweight champion Dave Castilloux (92-16-7) before 4,000 fans at the Montreal Forum. It was Mr. Mancini's last fight before entering the U.S. Army.

Football
CRU
WIFU
Finals
Regina 12 @ Winnipeg 18 (Best-of-three series tied 1-1)

Quarterback Wayne Sheley scored 2 touchdowns to lead the Blue Bombers past the Roughriders at Osborne Stadium. Ches McCance scored the other Winnipeg touchdown and converted all 3 scores.

Baseball
The Baseball Writers Association of America named New York Yankees' center fielder Joe DiMaggio as the American League's Most Valuable Player for 1941. He batted .357 with 30 home runs and a league-leading 126 runs batted in as the Yankees won the World Series. The highlight of Mr. DiMaggio's season was a 56-game hitting streak, which remains the major league record.

60 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Out There, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Sense of Wonder, starring Casey Allen, Paul Anderson, and Russell Collins

Music
The single Cry, backed with The Little White Cloud that Cried, performed by Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads, was released on Okeh Records. Cry became one of the biggest hits of the 1950s, reaching #1 on the charts of both Billboard and Cash Box magazines. The Little White Cloud that Cried, which was written by Mr. Ray, reached #2 in Billboard.

War
U.S. delegates at Panmunjom listed their "non-negotiable" demands for a Korean truce, including a cease-fire line on the actual fighting front; safeguards against a Communist buildup during the cease-fire; and "quick and satisfactory" arrangements for a prisoner of war exchange.

Politics and government
Juan Perón and Hortencio Quijano were re-elected President and Vice President of Argentina, respectively, receiving 63.51% of the vote to 32.33% for the closest challenger, Unión Cívica Radical (Radical Civic Union) candidates Ricardo Balbín and Arturo Frondizi. The UCR boycotted a number of the elections to the Chamber of Deputies and all of the Senate races. The Peronist Party won 135 of 149 Chamber seats, with the UCR taking the remaining 14. The Peronists won all 15 Senate seats and all 14 provincial gubernatorial elections.

Former U.S. Senator Millard Tydings (Democrat--Maryland) offered Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Republican--Wisconsin) $10,000 if he could prove there were "57 card-carrying Communists" in the State Department.

Labour
Ronald Reagan was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor Screen Actors Guild.

Football
NFL
Chicago Cardinals (1-6) 21 @ Los Angeles (5-2) 45
Detroit (4-2-1) 41 @ Chicago Bears (5-2) 28
Green Bay (3-4) 7 @ Pittsburgh (2-4-1) 28
New York Yanks (0-6-1) 14 @ San Francisco (4-3) 19
Philadelphia (3-4) 17 @ Cleveland (6-1) 20
Washington (2-5) 14 @ New York Giants (5-1-1) 28

50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Crying/Candy Man--Roy Orbison (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: La novia--Domenico Modugno (6th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Weiße Rosen aus Athen--Nana Mouskouri (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Dutch Top 40): Och was ik maar bij moeder thuis gebleven--Johnny Hoes (8th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame--Elvis Presley

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Big Bad John--Jimmy Dean (2nd week at #1)
2 Runaround Sue--Dion
3 Bristol Stomp--The Dovells
4 Please Mr. Postman--The Marvelettes
5 Hit the Road Jack--Ray Charles and his Orchestra
6 This Time--Troy Shondell
7 I Love How You Love Me--The Paris Sisters
8 Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)--Sue Thompson
--The Lennon Sisters
9 The Fly--Chubby Checker
10 Fool #1--Brenda Lee

Singles entering the chart were Language of Love by John D. Loudermilk (#71); Smile by Timi Yuro (#85); It's All Because by Linda Scott (#91); Up a Lazy River by Si Zentner and his Orchestra (#98); and Turn Around, Look at Me by Glen Campbell (#100). It's All Because was the B-side of I Don't Know Why, which charted at #51.

Vancouver's Top 10 (CFUN)
1 Flying Blue Angels--George, Johnny and the Pilots (2nd week at #1)
2 Goodbye Cruel World--James Darren
3 Language of Love--John D. Loudermilk
4 Blue Hawaii (LP)--Elvis Presley
5 Town Without Pity--Gene Pitney
6 God, Country and My Baby--Johnny Burnette
7 Let Me Tell You About Johnny--Dodie Stevens
8 Tower of Strength--Gene McDaniels
9 Runaround Sue--Dion
10 Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen--Neil Sedaka

Singles entering the chart were Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen; Walkin' with My Angel by Bobby Vee (#13); The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens (#27); Never Take it Away by the Redwoods (#43); Burma Shave by Roger Miller (#46); and I Don't Know Why by Linda Scott (#49).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKWX)
1 Blue Hawaii (LP)--Elvis Presley
2 Goodbye Cruel World--James Darren
3 Language of Love--John D. Loudermilk
4 Flying Blue Angels--George, Johnny and the Pilots
5 God, Country and My Baby--Johnny Burnette
6 Walk on By--Leroy Van Dyke
7 Tower of Strength--Gene McDaniels
8 Big Bad John--Jimmy Dean
9 In the Middle of a Heartache--Wanda Jackson
10 English Country Garden--Jimmie Rodgers

Singles entering the chart were Moon River, with versions by Jerry Butler; and Henry Mancini, his Orchestra and Chorus (#18); Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen by Neil Sedaka (#25); September in the Rain by Dinah Washington (#31); Dreamin' About You by Annette and the Vonnair Sisters (#35); Trade Winds by Dodie Stevens (#38); Walkin' with My Angel/Run to Him by Bobby Vee (#39); and Crazy by Patsy Cline (#40).

On television tonight
The Roaring 20's, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Everybody Loves Benny

Abominations
13 Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to Congo (Leopoldville) as a part of the United Nations peacekeeping force, were massacred by a mob in Kindu.

Football
CFL
Eastern Semi-Final
Toronto 43 @ Ottawa 19

Western Semi-Finals (First game of 2-game total points series)
Edmonton 8 @ Calgary 10

Toronto quarterback Tobin Rote threw 4 touchdown passes to Ron Morris and rushed for 2 more touchdowns himself as the Argonauts ended the Rough Riders' reign as Grey Cup champions before 19,151 fans at Lansdowne Park. Ottawa trailed 21-0 at halftime, but quarterback Ron Lancaster threw touchdown passes of 7 yards to Bill Sowalski and 72 yards to Bob Simpson in the 3rd quarter to reduce the deficit to 21-13 before the Argonauts put the game away with 3 touchdowns in a span of just 3 minutes and 37 seconds. Russ Jackson relieved Mr. Lancaster late in the game and rushed 3 yards for the game's final touchdown.



Harvey Wylie returned an interception 70 yards for a touchdown in the last minute of the game to give the Stampeders the win over the Eskimos before 20,000 fans at McMahon Stadium. The Eskimos, who had trailed 4-1 after 3 quarters, had just taken the lead moments before Mr. Wylie's score on a touchdown pass from Don Getty to Bobby Walden, converted by Jackie Parker. Edmonton linebacker Al Ecuyer then intercepted a pass from Calgary quarterback Eagle Day, but Mr. Getty threw his interception to Mr. Wylie on the next play.

Canadian university
SIFL
Queen's (5-1) 7 @ McGill (4-2) 15
Western Ontario (2-4) 21 @ Toronto (1-5) 14

Tom Skypeck threw touchdown passes of 27 yards to Willie Lambert and 8 yards to Don Taylor as the Redmen defeated the Golden Gaels at Molson Stadium to end the regular season. Under the rules then in place, if the second-place team had beaten the first-place team at least once during the season, the second-place team had a right to request a playoff game to decide the league championship. The rematch was to take place a week later at Richardson Stadium in Kingston.

Whit Tucker rushed 54 yards for the winning touchdown, his second of the game, as the Mustangs beat the Varsity Blues before 7,136 fans at Varsity Stadium.

AFL
Oakland (2-7) 12 @ New York (5-4) 23

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in France (IFOP): Mamy Blue--Pop-Tops (4th week at #)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Did You Ever--Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (6th week at #1)

Politics and government
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin resigned in order to become vice-chairman of the Ralston-Purina Company. U.S. President Richard Nixon named Earl Butz, dean of continuing education at Purdue University and an Agriculture Department official in the administraton of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, to replace Mr. Hardin as Agriculture Secretary.

30 years ago
1981

Diplomacy
Antigua and Barbuda, which had recently obtained its independence from the United Kingdom, joined the United Nations.

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Alone--B'z

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Onnellinen perhe--Ne Luumنet (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (5th week at #1)

10 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Volker Handloik 40. German journalist. Johanne, Sutton, 34; Pierre Bilaud, 31. French journalists. Messrs. Handloik and Billaud and Miss Sutton were covering the war in Afghanistan and travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier and were killed in an ambush in Dashti Qaleh, Takhar Province when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack.

Football
CFL
Eastern Semi-Final
Montreal 12 @ Hamilton 24

Archie Amerson scored 2 touchdowns and amassed 250 yards on pass receptions and kick returns to lead the Tiger-Cats past the Alouettes at Ivor Wynne Stadium. Quarterback Danny McManus scored the other Hamilton touchdown as they handed the Alouettes their eighth straight loss. One of the Montreal players whose career ended with this game was slotback Jock Climie, who was in his 12th season in the CFL.



Western Semi-Final
British Columbia 19 @ Calgary 28

Marcus Crandell threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to offensive lineman Marc Pilon, who was lined up as an eligible receiver, to put the Stampeders ahead of the Lions in the 4th quarter at McMahon Stadium, and they held on to end the Lions' reign as Grey Cup champions (see video). Earlier in the game, Mr. Crandell had connected with Marc Boerigter on a 68-yard touchdown pass. Mel Long scored the only B.C. touchdown on a pass from quarterback Damon Allen. B.C. kicker Matt Kellett missed 3 of 6 field goal attempts.

CIS
Hardy Cup
Regina 17 @ Manitoba 23

Ken Vermette rushed 30 times for 218 yards and a touchdown to help the Bisons defeat the Rams at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg to win their first western title since 1973.

November 10, 2011

1,550 years ago
461

Died on this date
Leo I, 61 (?). Roman Catholic Pope, 440-461. Leo "the Great" was a Roman aristocrat who was a deacon by 431, and succeeded Sixtus III as pope. He significantly contributed to the centralization of spiritual authority in the papacy, and it was during his reign that the term "Pope", which previously meant any bishop, came to exclusively mean the Bishop of Rome. Pope Leo issued the Tome of Leo, which asserted that Christ has two natures, and is not of or from two natures. Pope Leo I is perhaps best known for meeting Attila the Hun in 452 and persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy. Leo I was the first pope to be buried in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. He was succeeded by Hilarius.

770 years ago
1241

Died on this date
Celestine IV. Roman Catholic Pope, 1241. Celestine IV, born Goffredo da Castiglione, became a cardinal in 1227 and succeeded Gregory IX as pope after a contentious election, with the conclave taking place in a building where the roof leaked, and dripping water, mixed with urine from the guards on the roof, contributed to the death of one of the cardinals, and may have contributed to the death of the new pope. Pope Celestine IV took office on October 25, 1241--more than two months after the death of Gregory IX--and died of wear and age just 16 days later. He was succeeded on the papal throne by Innocent IV.

190 years ago
1821

World events
Rufina Alfaro, 22, led an improvised group of soldiers in La Villa de Los Santos, Panama in the seizure of the local barracks and seized the weapons of Spanish soldiers. The protesters issued the Grito de La Villa de Los Santos (Cry From the Town of Saints), declaring their independence from the Spanish Empire.

140 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Winston Churchill. U.S. author. Mr. Churchill, no relation to Sir Winston Churchill, was one of the most popular American novelists in the early years of the 20th century. His works included Richard Carvel (1899); The Crisis (1901); and The Crossing (1904). Mr. Churchill abandoned writing in 1919, and withdrew from public life. He died of a heart attack on March 12, 1947 at the age of 75.

Exploration
Journalist and explorer Henry Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa and uttered the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Scandal
A New Zealand parliamentary committee exonerated the Telegraph Department of intercepting telegrams for political gain; the accusations had been made by George Barton, editor of the Otago Daily Times.

120 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Carl Stalling. U.S. composer. Mr. Stalling wrote scores for hundreds of cartoons, first with the Walt Disney studio and then with Warner Brothers, with whom he worked from 1936-1958. He died on November 29, 1972 at the age of 81.

Died on this date
Arthur Rimbaud, 37. French poet. Mr. Rimbaud was known for his contributions to symbolism, prefiguring surrealism. He led a dissolute life and had many adventures in Europe and Asia. Mr. Rimbaud died three weeks after his 37th birthday and shortly after having his right leg amputated, probably as the result of bone cancer.

80 years ago
1931

Movies
The Academy Awards for 1930-31 were presented at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The winners included: Picture--Cimarron; Director--Norman Taurog (Skippy); Actor--Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul); Actress--Marie Dressler (Min and Bill).

70 years ago
1941

War
U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill said that "should the U.S. become involved in war with Japan, a British declaration of war will follow within the hour, " adding that the "Lend-Lease bill must be regarded as the most unsordid act in the whole of recorded history." General Sir Archibald Wavell said in New Delhi that he was fully responsible for the British retreat in Libya the previous spring when "the enemy attacked at least a month before I had expected it possible." Japanese Finance Minister Okinori Kaya told the National Financial Council that Japan aimed "to force Britain and the United States to reteat from East Asia." Chinese government spokesman T.T. Tsiang said that the U.S., U.K., China, and the Netherlands had agreed on measures to meet "Japan's next move in the Pacific."

Politics and government
Chilean President Pedro Aguirre Cerda temporarily resigned his office because of ill health and turned over his executive powers to Vice President Geronimo Mendez, leader of the Radical Party.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution instructing Rep. Hamilton Fish (Republican--New York) to ignore a summons to appear before a federal grand jury investigating Nazi propaganda until the House Judiciary Committee ruled on whether it "invades the rights and privileges of the House."

The Indian government announced that Subhas Chandra Bose, leftist leader of Mohandas Gandhi's All-India Congress Party, was now believed to be in Berlin or Rome.

Labour
More than 2,000 American Federation of Labor construction workers struck in San Diego for a $1-per-day wage increase, tying up work on $23 million worth of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps projects.

The U.S. National Defense Mediation Board voted 9-2 to reject the Congress of Industrial Organizations United Mine Workers of America's demand for a closed shop in mines struck October 27-30.

AFL Teamsters President Daniel Tobin ordered striking Teamsters to return to work at the Detroit Railway Express Agency.

60 years ago
1951

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): The Loveliest Night of the Year--Mario Lanza; Ann Blyth

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Cold, Cold Heart--Tony Bennett (Best Seller--2nd week at #1); Because of You--Tony Bennett (Disc Jockey--8th week at #1; Jukebox--7th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 (It's No) Sin--The Four Aces (2nd week at #1)
--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 Whispering--Les Paul
10 Undecided--The Ames Brothers and Les Brown and his Band of Renown

Singles entering the chart were Unforgettable by Nat "King" Cole (#18); Domino by Tony Martin (#22); Out in the Cold Again by Richard Hayes (#29); Jazz Me Blues by Les Paul (#30); Meanderin' (#33)/They Call the Wind Maria (#41) by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra; Slow Poke by Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys (#34); and They Call the Wind Maria, with versions by Voices of Walter Schumann; and the Mariners (#41).
They Call the Wind Maria was from the musical play Paint Your Wagon, which was about to open on Broadway.

At the movies
Mujeres de teatro (Women of the Theatre), directed by René Cardona, and starring Emilia Guiú, Rosita Fornés, and María Victoria, opened in theatres in Mexico.



Diplomacy
The United Nations Security Council asked mediator Frank Graham to continue his efforts to settle the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan and to report in six weeks.

Crime
A coroner's jury in Eustis, Florida ruled that Sheriff Willis McCall, a white man, had fired in self-defense four days earlier when he shot and killed Negro prisoner Samuel Shepherd and wounded Negro prisoner Walter Lee Irvin while transporting them from Railford State Prison to Lake County Jail in Tavares.

Transportation
Africa's biggest airfield, capable of handling the latest jet planes, was opened at Entebbe in the British colony of Uganda.

Communications
With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, American Telephone and Telegraph Company inaugurated U.S. coast-to-coast long distance telephone service without operator assistance; the first call was between the mayors of Englewood, New Jersey and Alameda, California.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Semi-Finals
Toronto 21 @ Hamilton 7 (Hamilton won 2-game total points series 31-28)

Toronto quarterback Nobby Wirkowski threw touchdown passes to Doug Pyzer and Al Pfeifer and pitched out to Mr. Pyzer for another major as the Argonauts erased a 17-point deficit to take a 28-26 lead in total points after 3 quarters, but Hamilton quarterback Bernie Custis, who had been having a poor game, put together a drive that ended with a 28-yard touchdown pass to Spider Gibson with 4 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter. The Argonauts had another chance with less than 2 minutes remaining when they took possession of the ball at the Hamilton 30-yard line after a poor punt by Cam Fraser. Bob McDonald of the Tiger-Cats intercepted a pass in his own end zone, and Dick Brown rushed 70 yards from his own 10-yard line to the Toronto 30 with time for just one more play. 15,000 were in attendance at Civic Stadium.

WIFU
Finals
Edmonton 5 @ Saskatchewan 12 (Best-of-three series tied 1-1)

Sully Glasser and Ken Charlton scored touchdowns for the Roughriders, both converted by Red Ettinger, before 12,000 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. Annis Stukus led the Eskimos with a field goal and single.

ORFU
Finals
Toronto 7 @ Sarnia 26 (Sarnia won 2-game total points series 41-30)

John "Corky" Duchene scored 2 touchdowns to lead the Imperials to their first ORFU title since 1939. Sarnia quarterback George Curtis threw just 2 passes, but completed both, one for a 75-yard touchdown to Jack Glendenning in the 3rd quarter.

Canadian university
Western Ontario (2-3-1) 20 @ Queen's (0-6) 13
McGill (4-2) 7 @ Toronto (5-0-1) 11

Bill McFarlane scored 2 touchdowns as the Varsity Blues defeated the Redmen before 21,138 fans at Varsity Stadium to capture the Yates Cup for the third straight year.

50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame--Elvis Presley

On television tonight
The Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Deaths-Head Revisited, starring Oscar Beregi, Joseph Schildkraut, and Kaaren Verne

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Coz I Luv You--Slade

On television tonight
Rod Serling's Night Gallery, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Diary, starring Patty Duke, Virginia Mayo, and David Wayne; A Matter of Semantics, starring Cesar Romero and E.J. Peaker; Big Surprise, starring John Carradine and Vincent Van Patten; Professor Peabody's Last Lecture, starring Carl Reiner

Died on this date
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, 62. U.S. author. Mr. Clark, a native of Maine, moved to Nevada in his youth, and remained associated with that state for the rest of his life. He was known for his Western novels The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) and The Track of the Cat (1949), and for his numerous short stories, winning the O. Henry Award five times. Mr. Clark abandoned writing fiction in his last 20 years, concentrating on teaching creative writing at the University of Montana (1954-1956); San Francisco State University (1956-1962); and University of Nevada at Reno (1962-1971). He died of cancer.

War
Khmer Rouge forces attacked the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44 people, wounding at least 30, and damaging nine aircraft.

Japanica
The U.S. Senate voted 84-6 to ratify the treaty under which Okinawa and other Ryukyu Islands would revert to Japan in 1972.

Disasters
A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount en route from Jakarta to Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Padang, killing all 69 people on board. The crew had notifed air traffic controllers that they would be unable to reach their destination because of bad weather.

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)--Chilliwack
2 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
3 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
4 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
5 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
6 Sausalito Summernight--Diesel
7 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner
8 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
9 Wired for Sound--Cliff Richard
10 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

Singles entering the chart were Young Turks by Rod Stewart (#15); Hard to Say by Dan Fogelberg (#17); and Twilight by Electric Light Orchestra (#20).

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): The Fly--U2 (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (15th week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (7th week at #1)
2 Let's Talk About Sex!--Salt-N-Pepa
3 Do the Limbo Dance--David Hasselhoff
4 Any Dream Will Do--Jason Donovan
5 Something Got Me Started--Simply Red
6 Jambo--Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
7 Pandora's Box--OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
8 Now that We Found Love--Heavy D & the Boyz
9 Set Adrift on Memory Bliss--PM Dawn
10 The Fly--U2

Singles entering the chart were The Fly; Can't Stop this Thing We Started by Bryan Adams (#20); Falling (The Theme from Twin Peaks) by Julee Cruise (#24); and Generations of Love by Jesus Loves You (#30). As the title indicates, Falling (The Theme from Twin Peaks) was from the television series.

Died on this date
Robert McClure, 90. U.S.-born Canadian physician. Dr. McClure, a native of Portland, Oregon, was raised in China by missionary parents before moving to Canada. He obtained a medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1922, and served as a medical missionary in Henan, China from 1923-1948. Dr. McClure became the first lay moderator of the United Church of Canada, holding the position from 1968-1971. He died 13 days short of his 91st birthday.

William Afflis, aka Dick the Bruiser, 62. U.S. football player and wrestler. Mr. Afflis was a lineman with Purdue University and the Green Bay Packers (1951-1954) before embarking on a professional wrestling career as Dick the Bruiser. He wrestled from 1954-1986, winning numerous titles. Mr. Afflis settled in Indianapolis, and in 1964 purchased the National Wrestling Alliance's Indianapolis promotion and renamed it the World Wrestling Association (WWA), operating it until it ceased operations in 1989. He died of internal bleeding after rupturing a blood vessel in his esophagus while weightlifting at his home.

Football
CFL
East Semi-Final
Ottawa 8 @ Winnipeg 26

The Blue Bombers had an easy time defeating the Rough Riders before 22,799 fans at Winnipeg Stadium in the game that ended the career of Joe Faragalli as Ottawa's head coach. The teams combined for 8 turnovers, 7 sacks, and less than 300 yards in net offense. Former Blue Bomber Jeff Smith, playing his only game of the season, caught a pass late in the game for the only Ottawa touchdown, and Mr. Faragalli was not pleased with Mr. Smith's touchdown celebration.



West Semi-Final
British Columbia 41 @ Calgary 43

Only 14,026 fans--including this blogger--were in attendance on a beautiful Sunday afternoon at McMahon Stadium, but they saw a great game. The Lions, led by quarterback Doug Flutie, led 31-16 at halftime, but the Stampeders, quarterbacked by Danny Barrett, took control in the 2nd half and directed the team to 4 converted touchdowns in the 3rd quarter. Mr. Flutie was handicapped by the fact that two of his starting receivers--Matt Clark and Mike Trevathan--were absent because of injury, and were replaced by rookies Spencer McLennan and Kevin Thompson. When the Lions fell behind, Mr. Flutie was unable to mount one of his patented late-game comebacks because the Calgary offense was able to maintain control of the ball, led by the rushing of former Lion Keyvan Jenkins. Mr. Barrett finished the game with 5 touchdown passes. The win was Calgary's first in a playoff game since 1979.



10 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Ken Kesey, 66. U.S. writer. Mr. Kesey was a participant in U.S. government experiments involving the use of hallucinogenic drugs (including mescaline and LSD) in the late 1950s, which influenced his most famous work, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). His novel Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) was his other notable book. Mr. Kesey hosted several friends, collectively known as the Merry Pranksters, at his homes in Oregon and California, embarking on a lengthy bus trip in 1964 and engaging in various drug-fuelled experiences. He developed diabetes, had a stroke in 1997, and died several weeks after surgery to remove a tumour from his liver.

Economics and finance
The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.

Football
CIS
Jewett Trophy
Acadia 7 @ St. Mary's 38

Dunsmore Cup
McGill 12 @ Laval 42

Mathieu Brassard rushed 14 times for 80 yards and 2 touchdowns on a snow-covered field at PEPS Stadium before 12,528 fans.



Yates Cup
Ottawa 22 @ McMaster 30

Vaughn Swart caught 7 passes for 201 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Marauders over the Gee-Gees at Les Prince Field in Hamilton. The loss ended Ottawa's reign as Vanier Cup champions.

November 9, 2011

280 years ago
1731

Born on this date
Benjamin Banneker. U.S. mathematician and astronomer. Mr. Banneker, born in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, was one of the first Negro Americans to achieve distinction in science. He was self-taught in astronomy and mathematics, built a clock entirely out of wood that kept accurate time for decades, accurately predicted eclipses, and compiled his Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris… annually from 1791-1802. Mr. Banneker died on October 25, 1806, 15 days before his 75th birthday.

220 years ago
1791

Politics and government
The Society of United Irishmen was founded in Dublin.

210 years ago
1801

Born on this date
Gail Borden. U.S. surveyor and inventor. Mr. Borden worked as a surveyor in Texas in the 1830s, and helped to plan the cities of Houston and Galveston in 1836. In 1853, he created a process to make sweetened condensed milk. Mr. Borden founded the New York Condensed Milk Company in 1857, which became known as Borden Dairy Company after his death on January 11, 1874 at the age of 72.

Died on this date
Carl Stamitz, 56. German composer. Mr. Stamitz was a court violinist who wrote 50 symphonies, 38 symphonies concertantes, numerous concertos for various instruments, chamber works, and two operas. He died after gradually descending into poverty.

170 years ago
1841

Born on this date
Edward VII. King of the United Kingdom and British Dominions and Emperor of India, 1901-1910. Edward VII was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and held various titles, including Prince of Wales. He was generally regarded as a playboy until succeeding to the throne at the age of 59 upon the death of his mother on January 22, 1901. Edward VII was a popular king and an effective diplomat; it's been said that if he had lived much longer, World War I may have been averted. He died on May 6, 1910 at the age of 68 after suffering the last of several heart attacks on his last day.

160 years ago
1851

Crime
Kentucky marshals abducted abolitionist and Methodist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and took him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

150 years ago
1861

Football
The first documented Canadian rugby football game was played, at the University of Toronto, on the present site of University College west of Queen's Park. One participant in the intramural game was a University of Toronto student named William Mulock, the future U of T Chancellor.

130 years ago
1881

War
Mapuche rebels attacked the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

120 years ago
1891

Football
ORFU
Final (Replay of November 6 tie game)
Osgoode Hall 18 @ University of Toronto 2

110 years ago
1901

Football
CRU
ORFU
Ottawa (4-1) 8 @ Kingston (1-4) 1
Hamilton (1-4) 8 @ Toronto (4-1) 19

100 years ago
1911

Died on this date
Howard Pyle, 58. U.S. author and illustrator. Mr. Pyle wrote and illustrated children's novels, including The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) and Men of Iron (1891). he as been credited with creating the modern stereotype of pirate dress. Mr. Pyle founded the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art in the early 1900s, and influenced many subsequent artists. He moved to Florence in 1910, but suffered from poor health, and died from Bright's disease.

70 years ago
1941

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Stockbroker's Clerk

Died on this date
Fakhri Bey Nashashibi. Palestinian politician. Mr. Nashashibi, the mayor of Bethlehem and pro-British Arab leader in Palestine, was assassinated in Baghdad on the orders of Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The Nashashibi and Husseini families were rivals for leadership in the Palestinian Arab community.

War
The British government claimed that two Italian convoys comprising 10 merchant ships and a destroyer had been sunk south of Taranto by British surface vessels after a battle with Italian warships.

Religion
For the first time since the German invasion of Russia on June 22, many Roman Catholic clergymen in Germany denounced Bolshevism in sermons and upheld the war as a drive against Bolshevist ideology.

Education
The Vichy French regime announced new laws granting subsidies to church primary schools.

Economics and finance
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced that 519 pro-Axis firms and individuals in Latin America had been added to the U.S. trade blacklist and that 59 names had been deleted.

Disasters
12 people were killed and 42 injured when the Pennsylvania Railroad's luxury Pennsylvanian passenger train crashed at Dunkirk, Ohio.

Football
NFL
Detroit (2-5-1) 13 @ New York (6-2) 20
Cleveland (2-7) 13 @ Chicago Bears (6-1) 31
Pittsburgh (0-7-1) 7 @ Philadelphia (2-5-1) 7
Washington (5-2) 7 @ Brooklyn (5-3) 13

60 years ago
1951

On television tonight
Tales of Tomorrow, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Search for the Flying Saucer, starring Jack Carter, Olive Deering, Maurice Manson, and Vaughn Taylor



Died on this date
Sigmund Romberg, 64. Hungarian-born U.S. composer. Mr. Romberg was a violinist and pianist who emigrated to New York in 1909. He was known for his musicals and operettas, including The Student Prince (1924); The Desert Song (1926); and The New Moon (1928). Mr. Romberg died from a stroke in his suite at the Ritz Towers Hotel in New York City.

Defense
The U.S.A., U.K., France, and Turkey informed the Arab states and Israel of their desire to proceed with the formation of a Middle Eastern defense organization.

Religion
The unofficial London Church of England Newspaper denounced Pope Pius XII's statement opposing abortion even to save a mother's life as "inhuman, callous and cruel."

Labour
A 25-day-old wildcat dock strike in New York ended as workers returned to their jobs pending an inquiry by a state fact-finding board. Dock workers in Boston and Philadelphia also returned to work.

Boxing
Coley Wallace (15-1) won a 10-round unanimous decision over Aaron Wilson (19-5) in a heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden in New York. On the undercard, Charley Norkus (17-6) won an 8-round decision over Keene Simmons (8-14-1) in a heavyweight bout.



50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade): Johnny Remember Me--John Leyton

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame/Little Sister--Elvis Presley

On television tonight
The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Matt Bass Scheme

Canadiana
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced the construction of a Canadian Museum of History, to be completed by July 1, 1967; it later evolved into the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Football
Canadian university
Saskatchewan (0-4-1) 1 @ British Columbia (3-0-1) 3

In what must rank as one of the worst games of Canadian football ever played, the Thunderbirds, who had already clinched the western championship, ended the season with a win over the Huskies on a Thursday afternoon on a muddy field before 800 rain-soaked fans at Varsity Stadium in Vancouver. Barry Carkner punted 3 times for singles to account for the UBC scoring, while Galen Van Cleave scored for Saskatchewan with a single on a wide field goal attempt in the 4th quarter. Dale West rushed 85 yards for a Saskatchewan touchdown in the 1st quarter, but it was called back on a penalty; he still led all rushers with 92 yards on 12 carries. The teams totalled just 12 first downs, and neither team was able to complete a pass, as UBC was 0 for 3 in pass attempts and Saskatchewan 0 for 4, with each team making an interception. UBC amassed 200 yards rushing to 154 for Saskatchewan, but the teams combined for 5 fumbles and 26 punts.

40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Kvنllstoppen): Anna och Mej--Lalla Hansson (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade): Mamy Blue--Pop-Tops (5th week at #1)

Died on this date
Maude Fealy, 88. U.S. actress. Miss Fealy, born Maude Mary Hawk, began her career on stage in 1896, and toured in the United States and United Kingdom through the 1900s. She appeared in more than 20 movies from 1911-1917, and in minor roles in several movies from 1931-1958, including several directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Miss Fealy taught acting, and wrote several plays that were produced.

Art
The Vancouver Art Gallery opened the Sculpture-Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic exhibition, organized by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council; it later toured Paris, Copenhagen, Leningrad, Moscow, and London, before moving to Philadelphia and then the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Transportation
Canadian Pacific withdrew the liner Empress of Canada from transatlantic route, marking the end of regular passenger service due to cheaper airline flights.

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Start Me Up--Rolling Stones

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Gingiragin ni Sarigenaku--Masahiko Kondō (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Ma Quale Idea--Pino D'Angio (7th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären--Fred Sonnenschein und seine Freunde (3rd week at #1)

25 years ago
1986

Football
CFL
Toronto (10-8) 37 @ Montreal (4-14) 16

William Miller rushed 28 times for 119 yards to help the Argonauts clinch first place in the East Division before 9,045 fans (announced--the actual attendance was closer to 2,000) at Olympic Stadium in what turned out to be the last regular season game played by the Alouettes. It was also the last game for Montreal's Gary Durchik as a head coach in the CFL; he compiled a regular season record of 6-14 and a playoff record of 1-1 after taking over from Joe Galat following Mr. Galat's resignation with 2 games remaining in the 1985 season.



Saskatchewan (6-11-1) 14 @ Edmonton (13-4-1) 42

In one of the coldest games this blogger has ever attended (-17 C, 1 F), Damon Allen quarterbacked the Eskimos to a lopsided win over the Roughriders before 44,000 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in a game that ended the career of Jack Gotta as head coach of the Roughriders. Mr. Gotta, in his 11th season as a CFL head coach, never coached in professional football again; he compiled a record of 11-22-1 in 2 seasons as Saskatchewan's head coach. Brian Kelly caught 2 touchdown passes for the Eskimos; rookie Tom Richards caught passes for 188 yards and returned kicks for another 54; Henry "Gizmo" Williams amassed 239 yards rushing, receiving, and returning kicks; defensive end Stew Hill caught a 36-yard touchdown pass from Mr. Allen; James Zachery blocked a convert attempt; and third-string quarterback Brad Taylor entered the game in the 4th quarter and completed 6 of 9 passes. Mr. Taylor directed the Eskimos' best time-consuming drive of the season: The Eskimos took possession on their own 10-yard line with 4:41 remaining in the game, and Mr. Taylor marched them down the field and handed off to Larry Mohr for a 1-yard touchdown run as time expired. For Mr. Mohr, it was his first CFL touchdown, and the only one he ever scored as an Eskimo. Tron Armstrong played his first CFL game for the Roughriders and caught 5 passes for 144 yards and both Saskatchewan touchdowns.

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): I'm Too Sexy--Right Said Fred

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): The Fly--U2 (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): The Fly--U2

#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Spread Love--Cut 'N' Move

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Crucified--Army of Lovers

#1 single in France (SNEP): (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (CIN): Dizzy--Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Let's Talk About Sex!--Salt-N-Pepa
2 James Brown is Dead--L.A. Style
3 Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)--Rozalla
4 Hail Hail Rock 'n Roll--Garland Jeffreys
5 35 Koeien--André Van Duin
6 (Everything I Do) I Do it for You--Bryan Adams
7 Kon Ik Maar Even Bij Je Zijn--Gordon
8 Can't Stop this Thing We Started--Bryan Adams
9 The Fly--U2
10 I Adore Mi Amor--Color Me Badd

Singles entering the chart were James Brown is Still Alive!! by Holy Noise featuring the Global Insert Project (#22); The Show Must Go On by Queen (#29); Caribbean Blue by Enya (#32); Radio Wall of Sound by Slade (#35); and Over and Over Again by Robby Valentine (#39).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Cream--Prince and the New Power Generation
2 Romantic--Karyn White
3 Can't Stop this Thing We Started--Bryan Adams
4 Real Real Real--Jesus Jones
5 When a Man Loves a Woman--Michael Bolton
6 O.P.P.--Naughty by Nature
7 Emotions--Mariah Carey
8 It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday--Boyz II Men
9 Do Anything--Natural Selection featuring Niki Haris
10 Set the Night to Music--Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest

Singles entering the chart were All 4 Love by Color Me Badd (#37); Wildside by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (#47); 2 Legit 2 Quit by MC Hammer (#61); Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue (#72); The Fly by U2 (#74); Send Me an Angel by the Scorpions (#82); Just a Touch of Love by C + C Music Factory presents Zelma Davis (#87); Tell Me What You Want Me to Do by Tevin Campbell (#93); and Double Good Everything by Smokey Robinson (#99).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Can't Stop this Thing We Started--Bryan Adams
2 Cream--Prince and the New Power Generation
3 Romantic--Karyn White
4 Emotions--Mariah Carey
5 Hole Hearted--Extreme
6 That's What Love is For--Amy Grant
7 Real Real Real--Jesus Jones
8 Don't Cry--Guns 'N' Roses
9 Set the Night to Music--Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest
10 When a Man Loves a Woman--Michael Bolton

Singles entering the chart were Change by Lisa Stansfield (#75); Send Me an Angel by the Scorpions (#82); Feels Like Another One by Patti LaBelle (#86); In My Dreams by the Party (#89); and I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt (#90);

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Can't Stop this Thing We Started--Bryan Adams (2nd week at #1)
2 Emotions--Mariah Carey
3 Life is a Highway--Tom Cochrane
4 Calling Elvis--Dire Straits
5 What About Now--Robbie Robertson
6 Get a Leg Up--John Mellencamp
7 Love...Thy Will Be Done--Martika
8 My Town--Glass Tiger
9 Cream--Prince and the New Power Generation
10 The Real Love--Bob Seger

Singles entering the chart were Keep Coming Back by Richard Marx (#36); No Son of Mine by Genesis (#37); You May Be Right by the Grapes of Wrath (#51); Say You Don't Love Me by Honeymoon Suite (#84); Copperline by James Taylor (#95); All I Need is You by Blue Train (#96); You're the Voice by Heart (#97); Change by Lisa Stansfield (#98); and Groovy Train by the Farm (#99).

Died on this date
Yves Montand, 70. Italian-born French actor and singer. Mr. Montand, born Ivo Levi, moved to France with his parents in 1923. He became a popular music hall singer and recording artist, and appeared in movies such as Let's Make Love (1960); Z (1969); Jean de Florette (1986); and Manon des Sources (1986). Mr. Montand died of a heart attack, 27 days after his 70th birthday, and hours after completing the filming of IP 5 - L'île aux pachydermes (1992), a film about a man having a heart attack.

10 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Giovanni Leone, 93. Prime Minister of Italy, 1963, 1968; 6th President of Italy, 1971-1978. Mr. Leone, a Christian Democrat, sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948-1963, and was President of the Chamber from 1955-1963, followed immediately by six months as Prime Minister from June-December 1963. He was made a Life Senator in 1967 and served as Prime Minister again from June-December 1968. Mr. Leone was elected President by the Parliament in 1971, and served until he was forced to resign in June 1978 over unproven allegations of involvement in bribery by Lockheed Aircraft of Italian politicians to purchase Hercules planes for the military. Mr. Leone died six days after his 93rd birthday.

Niels Jannasch, 77. German-born Canadian historian and curator. Mr. Jannasch was a mariner with the Kriegsmarine in World War II who emigrated to Halifax after the war. In 1959, he became the first director of the Maritime Museum of Canada--renamed the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in 1981, overseeing its growth until his retirement in 1985. Mr. Jannasch died at his home in Seabright, Nova Scotia.

War
The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the Northern Alliance in the first major territorial advance for the rebels against the ruling Taliban.

November 8, 2011

180 years ago
1831

Born on this date
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton. U.K. diplomat, politician, and poet. Lord Lytton joined the Diplomatic Service in 1849 and held posts in numerous European countries before serving as Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1876-1880). He was criticized for his handling of the Great Famine (1876-1878), with his policies said to be influenced by his social Darwinism. Lord Lytton ordered an invasion that began the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878; the war was short and bloody, although the British ended up winning. Lord Lytton was elevated to the House of Lords in 1881, and returned to diplomacy in 1887, serving as British Ambassador to France until his death in Paris on November 24, 1891, 16 days after his 60th birthday. Lord Lytton wrote several volumes of poetry under the pseudonym Owen Meredith, but was accused of plagiarizing several of his works.

175 years ago
1836

Born on this date
Milton Bradley. U.S. businessman. Mr. Bradley was a draftsman and lithographer before founding the Milton Bradley Company, maunfacturer of board games, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1860. He died on May 30, 1911 at the age of 74, and was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame in 2004 and the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006.

150 years ago
1861

World events
An international incident between the U.K. and U.S.A. was created when U.S. Navy Captain Charles Wilkes ordered the crew of U.S.S. San Jacinto to intercept the British ship R.M.S. Trent and arrest C.S.A. commissioners James Mason and John Slidell.



110 years ago
1901

Died on this date
James Agnew, 86. U.K.-born Australian physician and politician. Sir James, a native of Ireland, received his medical education in London and Glasgow before emigrating to Australia in 1839. He had a medical and surgical practice in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart (1841-1877), leaving medicine to enter politics. Sir James was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1877-1881, 1884-1887), serving as a cabinet minister and then as Premier of Tasmania (1886-1887). He resigned from politics after just a little more than a year in office as Premier.

Protest
Bloody clashes took place in Athens, following the publication in the newspaper Akropolis of a translation into modern spoken Greek of the Gospel of Matthew.

100 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Al Brosch. U.S. golfer. Mr. Brosch played professionally from the early 1930s through the early '60s, primarily as a club pro. He won 25 tournaments, including the Long Island Open ten times, the Long Island PGA nine times, and the Metropolitan PGA six times. Mr. Brosch died on December 10, 1975 at the age of 64.

80 years ago
1931

Football
NFL
Frankford (1-6-1) 0 @ New York (5-3) 13
Brooklyn (2-9) 0 @ Providence (2-3-2) 7
Staten Island (2-4-1) 0 @ Green Bay (9-0) 26
Chicago Cardinals (2-3) 14 @ Cleveland (2-4) 6
Portsmouth (8-2) 6 @ Chicago Bears (4-3) 9



75 years ago
1936

War
In the Spanish Civil War, Francoist troops failed in their effort to capture Madrid, but began the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterward.

70 years ago
1941

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Piano Concerto in B Flat--Freddy Martin (6th week at #1)

War
German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, speaking in Munich, said that he had ordered German warships to fire on American ships only if attacked, declaring, "The German officer who does not defend himself, I will place before a court martial." The United Kingdom announced that British bombers had carried out the greatest aerial offensive of the war the previous night and today, ranging from Oslo to the Italian air base at Brandisi. 500 planes took part in raids on Germany.

Diplomacy
The Japanese government announced that it had protested to Panama against "discriminatory racial treatment" in the closing of Japanese businesses there.

Defense
U.S. Navy Secretary Frank Knox announced that a Navy base had been established in Iceland with Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman as commandant.

Scandal
U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle asked the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to impeach retired Federal Judge J. Warren Davis on charges of misconduct.

Labour
American Federation of Labor Teamsters President Daniel Tobin rejected U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's appeal that he call off the union's strike in Detroit.

Football
CRU
ERFU
Finals
Toronto Argonauts 16 @ Ottawa 8 (First game of 2-game total points series)

Annis and Bill Stukus each scored a touchdown for the Argonauts, with Annis adding 2 converts and a field goal. Jimmy Folwell punted for a single to complete the Toronto scoring. Tony Golab scored the Rough Riders' touchdown, converted by George Fraser. Arnie McWatters punted for 2 singles to complete the Ottawa scoring.

WIFU
Finals
Winnipeg 6 @ Regina 8 (Regina led best-of-three series 1-0)

Ken Charlton scored a touchdown and 2 singles for the Roughriders, while Toar Springstein converted Mr. Charlton's touchdown. Ches McCance converted his own touchdown for the Blue Bombers.

60 years ago
1951

At the movies
Quo Vadis, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, and Peter Ustinov, opened in theatres.





Television
The first Sylvania Awards for television achievement were presented in New York City. Your Show of Shows won four awards, and Fireside Theatre won three. The "grand award" was not awarded, as the committee found no program that measured up to its concept of "truly outstanding entertainment."

Defense
Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinski rejected U.S. President Harry Truman's latest arms control proposal and reiterated Soviet demands for the complete destruction of existing atomic weapons stocks.

The Canadian Defense Ministry announced that the U.S.A. planned to increase its military orders in Canada to help offset Canadian purchases in the United States.

Crime
Negro prisoner Walter Lee Irvin charged in a Eustis, Florida hospital that Sheriff Willis McCall had deliberately killed prisoner Samuel Shepherd and had then shot him (Mr. Irvin) twice while transporting them from Railford State Prison to Lake County jail in Tavares.

Economics and finance
The U.S. National Production Authority barred major changes in models of automobiles, television sets, refrigerators, and other civilian items for the next year in an order prohibiting the purchase of machine tools for such changes.

50 years ago
1961

At the movies
Susan Slade, written, produced, and directed by Delmer Daves, and starring Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, and Lloyd Nolan, opened in theatres.



World events
The day after Ecuadorean President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra had been forced to resign, the Ecuadorean Air Force attacked Quito and forced army leaders to accept leftist Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy as President. Army units had favoured Supreme Court Chief Justice Camillo Gallegos Toledo as President.

Politics and government
John Robarts was sworn in as Premier of Ontario, succeeding Leslie Frost as head of the province's Progressive Conservative government.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressed various issues in a press conference at the State Department Auditorium in Washington.



40 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Banks of the Ohio--Olivia Newton-John (3rd week at #1)

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

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops (3rd week at #1)

Montrealana
According to the 1971 Canadian census, Metropolitan Montréal had a population of 2,720,413.

Hockey
NHL
The National Hockey League approved franchises in Long Island and Atlanta, to begin play in the 1972-73 season.

Football
NFL
Los Angeles (4-3-1) 17 @ Baltimore (6-2) 24



30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Say I Love You--Renée Geyer (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Japanese Boy--Aneka (3rd week at #1)

Disasters
Aeroméxico Flight 110, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 jet en route from Acapulo to Guadalajara, crashed near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

Football
CFL
Eastern Semi-Final
Montreal 16 @ Ottawa 20

Backup quarterback Kevin Starkey completed a pass to Tony Gabriel for the winning touchdown for the Rough Riders in the 4th quarter of an entertaining game at Lansdowne Park. It was the last game as Montreal's head coach for Jim Eddy, and the last game for a number of Montreal players, such as tight end Peter Dalla Riva and linebacker Wally Buono. It was the last game played by the Montreal team as the Alouettes until 1986; from 1982-1985, the Montreal team was known as the Concordes.



Western Semi-Final
British Columbia 15 @ Winnipeg 11

The Blue Bombers had beaten the Lions 46-10 and 49-22 in their two regular season games and jumped out to an 8-0 lead on a cold Sunday afternoon at Winnipeg Stadium, but the B.C. defense was able to keep Winnipeg quarterback Dieter Brock from completing long passes. Rookie B.C. defensive tackle Rick Klassen helped the cause by outplaying Winnipeg guard Larry Butler. John Henry White had a good game on the ground for the Lions, including a 54-yard run in the 4th quarter to move the Lions out of danger when they appeared to be losing the battle of field position. The Blue Bombers' only touchdown came early, on a pass from Mr. Brock to Eugene Goodlow. The Lions scored their only touchdown in the 2nd quarter on a pass from quarterback Joe Paopao to Ricky Ellis.

25 years ago
1986

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Holiday Rap--M.C. Miker G & D.J. Sven (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Take My Breath Away--Berlin (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Don't Leave Me This Way--The Communards (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Take My Breath Away--Berlin (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Every Loser Wins--Nick Berry (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Amanda--Boston

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Amanda--Boston
2 True Colors--Cyndi Lauper
3 Human--Human League
4 True Blue--Madonna
5 I Didn't Mean to Turn You On--Robert Palmer
6 Typical Male--Tina Turner
7 Take Me Home Tonight--Eddie Money
8 You Give Love a Bad Name--Bon Jovi
9 All Cried Out--Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force
10 The Next Time I Fall--Peter Cetera with Amy Grant

Singles entering the chart were Stay the Night by Benjamin Orr (#79); Falling in Love (Uh-Oh) by Miami Sound Machine (#81); Love in Siberia by Laban (#86); Touch Me (I Want Your Body) by Samantha Fox (#87); I Want to Make the World Turn Around by Steve Miller Band (#89); and Coming Around Again by Carly Simon (#90).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 True Colors--Cyndi Lauper
2 The Lady in Red--Chris de Burgh
3 Spirit in the Sky--Doctor and the Medics
4 Human--Human League
5 Rumors--Timex Social Club
6 When I Think of You--Janet Jackson
7 True Blue--Madonna
8 Friends and Lovers--Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson
9 Amanda--Boston
10 Two of Hearts--Stacey Q

Singles entering the chart were Walk Like an Egyptian by the Bangles (#77); Notorious by Duran Duran (#80); Love is Forever by Billy Ocean (#82); Is This Love by Survivor (#86); Foolish Pride by Daryl Hall (#88); Thorn in My Side by Eurythmics (#92); Strangers in Love by Body Electric (#97); and All Along You Knew by Honeymoon Suite (#98).

Died on this date
Vyacheslav Molotov, 96. U.S.S.R. politician. Mr. Molotov, born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin, joined the Bolshevik movement soon after joining the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1906. He played a major role in the early decades of the Soviet Union, holding several positions. Mr. Molotov was probably best known as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) from 1930-1941 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939-1949 and 1953-1956. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi–Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact).

King Clancy, 83. Canadian hockey player, coach, official, and executive. Francis Michael Clancy played in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators from 1921-1930 and the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1930-1936 (including the first 6 games of the 1936-37 season), scoring 136 goals, making him the highest-scoring defenseman in NHL history at the time of his retirement. He was a first-team all-star in 1931 and 1934, and a second-team all-star in 1932 and 1933. Mr. Clancy was a member of Stanley Cup champion teams in 1923, 1927, and 1932, and on March 31, 1923, in a Stanley Cup game against the Edmonton Eskimos, became the first player to play all 6 positions in a single game. He coached the Montreal Maroons of the NHL and the Cincinnati Mohawks and Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League, leading the Hornets to the Calder Cup championship in 1952. Between his NHL and AHL coaching days, Mr. Clancy spent 11 years as an NHL referee. Mr. Clancy coached the Maple Leafs for several seasons in the 1950s, and then was made the team's assistant general manager. He returned to coaching on an interim basis when Punch Imlach fell ill during the 1966-67 season, and when John McLellan fell ill during the 1971-72 season. In both cases, Mr. Clancy helped to calm the Maple Leafs when they were struggling, and the team responded well. Mr. Clancy was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958 and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. He spent his last years in the company of his friend Harold Ballard, not only in attendance at Maple Leafs' home games, but at home games of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. Mr. Ballard had purchased the Tiger-Cats in 1978, and Mr. Clancy died just 22 days before they won the Grey Cup.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (11-7) 24 @ British Columbia (12-6) 36

The Lions scored 26 points off 6 Winnipeg turnovers as they defeated the Blue Bombers before 54,723 fans at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver. It was the Lions' second win over the Blue Bombers in as many games, and clinched second place for the B.C. in the West Division, forcing the Blue Bombers to play the semi-final in Vancouver a week later. It was the only CFL game for Winnipeg defensive back Lyndell Jones.

CIAU
OQIFC
Final
Bishop's 38 Carlton 19

Tom Harris passed for 485 yards to lead the Gaiters over the Ravens.

20 years ago
1991

Defense
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Rome, said that Canada would join the European Community in imposing economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war; Mr. Mulroney confirmed that the NATO alliance was still needed.

November 7, 2011

1,090 years ago
921

Diplomacy
Frankish Kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler signed the Treaty of Bonn, a peace treaty or "pact of friendship" (amicitia) to recognize their borders along the Rhine River.

200 years ago
1811

War
William Henry Harrison led U.S. troops in an attack on Tecumseh's growing American Indian Confederation in the Battle of Tippecanoe, or Prophetstown in present-day Indiana.

190 years ago
1821

Born on this date
Andrea Debono. Maltese trader and explorer. Mr. Debono moved with his family as a young man to Alexandria, and then to Cairo, and finally Khartoum in 1848. In 1851, he adopted the name Latif Effendi and began representing Rustum Pasha Jarkas, Governor-General of Sudan when it was under Egyptian control. Mr. Debono made significant profits in the ivory trade and began exploring the Nile River in the early-mid 1850s, becoming the first European to explore the Sobat River tributary of the White Nile. He was British Consular Agent in Khartoum (1855-1856), but was accused by British Consul John Petherick of involvement in slave trading. All charges were later dropped, but Mr. Debono's reputation was ruined. He returned to Cairo, where he died of a heart attack on October 29, 1871, nine days before his 50th birthday.

160 years ago
1851

Born on this date
Chris von der Ahe. Prussian-born U.S. baseball executive. Mr. von der Ahe, a St. Louis saloonkeeper and pleasure resort owner, owned the St. Louis Browns of the American Association from 1882-1891 before joining the National League in 1892. The Browns won four straight AA pennants from 1885-1888, but won only one World Series, defeating the NL champion Chicago White Stockings in 1886. Mr. von der Ahe attracted large crowds to Sportsman's Park by limiting the price of tickets to 25c (the NL charged 50c for its games), selling beer at the games, and playing on Sundays. He liked to lead the parade of players into the ballpark, and had a life-size statue of himself erected outside Sportsman's Park. Mr. von der Ahe was also majority owner of the AA's Cincinnati Porkers, who operated in 1891, the American Association's last season. Mr. von der Ahe took his team into the National League the following year, where he attempted to increase attendance by installing an amusement park surrounding the ballpark. After years of financial problems and personal scandals, Mr. von der Ahe was forced to sell his team after the 1898 season. His fortune disappeared, and he ended up drinking himself to death on June 5, 1913 at the age of 61. The Browns became the Perfectos in 1899, and the Cardinals in 1900.

150 years ago
1861

Born on this date
Jeff Milton. U.S. police officer. Mr. Milton served with the Texas Rangers (1880-1884); U.S. Marshals Service (1884-1887); and the U.S. Customs Service (1887-1889). He participated in the capture of several members of the Jack Taylor Gang in 1887, and after becoming Chief of Police in El Paso, Texas, aided in the killing of Texas outlaws Martin M'Rose in 1895 and "Bronco Bill" Walters in 1898. Mr. Milton was working with the Southern Pacific Railroad when he was seriously wounded in a shootout while trying to prevent a train robbery in 1900. He joined the U.S. Bureau of Immigration in 1904 as a Mounted Chinese Inspector charged with enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and in 1924 became the first officer appointed to the U.S. Immigration Service Border Patrol, working in that office until his forced retirement at the age of 70 in 1932. Mr. Milton was commissioned as lifetime military aide to the Governor of Arizona in 1937, and died on May 7, 1947 at the age of 85.

War
Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overran a Confederate camp but were forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrived in the Battle of Belmont in Missouri.

Horse racing
Archer, with John Cutts up, won the first Melbourne Cup, at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. Mormon placed second, 6 lengths behind Archer, and Prince was third in the 17-horse field. Three horses fell, and Despatch and Medora had to be destroyed.

130 years ago
1881

War
Mapuche rebels destroyed the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial after defenders fled to the hills.

120 years ago
1891

Born on this date
Genrikh Yagoda. U.S.S.R. bureaucrat. Mr. Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda, was a Bolshevik official who moved up through the ranks of the Soviet secret police organization Cheka, and was director of the NKVD (1934-1936). He supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, and also supervised construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using slave labor from the GULAG system, during which 12,000–25,000 laborers died. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin became disenchanted with Mr. Yagoda, and in September 1936 demoted him to People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs. In April 1937, Mr. Yagoda was removed from that post, and ultimately fell victim to the very system he used against others. He was a defendant in the Trial of the Twenty-One, the last of the major Soviet show trials of the 1930s. Mr. Yagoda confessed under torture, and after his conviction, was summarily shot on March 15, 1938 at the age of 46. He was the only defendant not to be posthumously rehabilitated.

100 years ago
1911

Born on this date
Mikhail Yangel. U.S.S.R. engineer. Mr. Yangel was an associate of chief rocket designer Sergei Korolev, and was the Soviet Union's leading fighter plane and missile designer from the 1940s until his death on October 25, 1971 from his fifth heart attack, 13 days before his 60th birthday. He took rocket technology in a new direction, based on the use of high-boiling propellants and an autonomous control system, which significantly increased the combat readiness of strategic missiles.

Science
Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemistry eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. She was awarded the prize "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element." Madame Curie remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.

90 years ago
1921

Football
CRU
ORFU
Ottawa St. Brigid's (1-2) 4 @ Parkdale Canoe Club (4-0) 32

80 years ago
1931

Chinatica
The Chinese Soviet Republic was proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (2-3) 1 @ Montreal (5-0) 4
Ottawa (0-5) 7 @ Hamilton (3-2) 14

75 years ago
1936

Football
CRU
IRFU
Ottawa (3-3) 4 @ Montreal (2-4) 3
Hamilton (3-3) 6 @ Toronto (4-2) 10

ORFU
Sarnia (3-1) 43 Hamilton (0-3) 1

Canadian university
McGill (1-4) 7 @ Western Ontario (3-2) 18
Toronto (3-2) 1 @ Queen's (3-2) 6
Hardy Cup
Saskatchewan 10 @ British Columbia 7

Mr. Weaver kicked a field goal with less than 3 minutes remaining in the game to break a 7-7 tie as the Huskies edged the Thunderbirds before 5,000 fans at Varsity Stadium in Vancouver.

70 years ago
1941

Movies
Actress Bette Davis became the first woman to be elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, California.

War
Helsinki radio rejected U.S. and U.K. demands that Finland end her invasion of Russia. The Soviet hospital ship Armenia was sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals, killing a total estimated at 5,000-7,000 people.

Defense
The United States Senate voted 50-37 to amend the Neutrality Act and permit American merchant ships to arm themselves and enter belligerent ports. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Cuban Ambassador Aurelio Concheso signed a Lend-Lease agreement for an unspecified amount of defense materials.

Scandal
Lackawanna, New York Mayor John Aszkler and four councilmen resigned before they received one-year suspended prison sentences in Buffalo for conspiracy to defraud the city by padding Works Project Administration payrolls.

Labour
Executives of the "Big Five" operating brotherhoods with 350,000 members annunced that they had rejected the recommendations of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fact-finding board for a temporary 7 1/2% wage increase, and would call a railway strike on December 7. Mr. Roosevelt named a fact-finding board to investigate the dispute in Detroit between the Teamsters and the Railway Clerks over jurisdiction in the Railway Express Agency. The United States Navy informed striking American Federation of Labor workers at the San Diego base that if they did not return to work, contractors would be permitted to hire other workers and, if necessary, the government "will take over the entire work."

Cuban President Fulgencio Batista signed decrees granting workers a general wage increase of 10%-25%.

60 years ago
1951

Married on this date
U.S. singer and actor Frank Sinatra and actress Ava Gardner were married in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. protested alleged violation of Soviet air space near Vladivostok by a U.S. Navy Neptune patrol bomber.

A Soviet-Iranian commission in Tehran settled an old dispute over the location of Iran's border with Soviet Turkestan.

Defense
U.S. President Harry Truman, in an international broadcast from Washington, proposed a world arms census and partial disarmament program, which he called a "real, down-to-earth approach" to arms control.

World events
Malaysian security forces arrested all inhabitants of Tras Pahang and destroyed the village, charging that it harboured the assassins of British High Commissioner Henry Gurney.

Politics and government
Citizens' Committee candidate William Hawrelak was elected Mayor of Edmonton, taking 26,858 votes to 8,537 for incumbent mayor Sid Parsons and 5,909 for independent candidate George Gleave. All of the Citizens' Committee candidates who ran for city council were elected.

Economics and finance
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer R.A. Butler called for a 10% reduction in imports over the next year to conserve foreign exchange.

Labour
The new management of the National Theater in Washington, D.C. eliminated the theatre's policy of racial segregation in order to end the Actors Equity boycott which had kept the institution closed for the past 2½ years.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Semi-Finals (First game of 2-game total points series)
Hamilton 24 @ Toronto 7

A snowfall the previous day and heavy rain on game night kept the crowd down to 12,200 at Varsity Stadium. The punting exchange between Joe Krol of the Argonauts and Tom Worthington of the Tiger-Cats went in favour of Mr. Krol until Hamilton coach Carl Voyles substituted rookie Cam Fraser for Mr. Worthington in the 2nd half. Hal Waggoner rushed 72 yards for one touchdown and 22 for another. Eddie Bevan and Bernie Custis also scored Hamilton touchdowns, the first three of which were converted by Tip Logan, who added a single. Art Scullion scored the lone Toronto touchdown late in the 2nd quarter on a 5-yard return of a snap fumbled by Mr. Worthington, who was in punt formation. Mr. Krol added 2 singles. The Tiger-Cats rushed for 273 yards, while Mr. Custis, the quarterback, threw just 4 passes, completing 1. Toronto quarterback Nobby Wirkowski completed 2 of 6 passes.

50 years ago
1961

Hit parade
#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Michael--The Highwaymen (4th week at #1)

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Keep Me Company, starring Anne Francis, Jack Ging, and Edmund Hashim

Politics and government
Three days after nationwide riots in protest against his economic policies had begun and the day after his cabinet had resigned, Ecuadorean President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra was forced to resign his office.

Provincial Treasurer Woodrow Lloyd was sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan, succeeding Tommy Douglas as leader of the province's New Democratic Party-Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government. Mr. Douglas had resigned to assume the leadership of the federal NDP.

40 years ago
1971

Radio
Radio Canada International inaugurated two new 250-kilowatt transmitters, which were five times more powerful than the existing units; this significantly improved RCI's broadcast signal quality in Europe and Africa.

Diplomacy
Yugoslavian President Marshal Josip Broz Tito arrived in Ottawa to begin his first visit to Canada.

Football
CFL
Eastern Semi-Final
Ottawa 4 @ Hamilton 23

Wally Gabler, who had been released by the Tiger-Cats in mid-season, returned to quarterback the team to victory, as starter Joe Zuger had suffered a season-ending shoulder separation in the final game of the regular season. Mr. Gabler completed 7 of 15 passes before a crowd of 26,741 on a windy day at Ivor Wynne Stadium, including touchdowns of 14 and 43 yards to Dave Buchanan. Tommy-Joe Coffey converted both touchdowns and added 2 field goals and a single, while Paul McKay, who had assumed Mr. Zuger's punting duties, added 2 singles. Gerry Organ kicked a field goal for the Rough Riders and Marcel de Leeuw, playing his last game, punted for a single to complete the Ottawa scoring. Dick Wesolowski led the Tiger-Cats' rushing attack with 63 yards on 12 carries, while Max Anderson carried 16 times for 61 yards. Mr. Buchanan was the leading Hamilton receiver with 4 receptions for 102 yards. Ottawa quarterback Rick Cassata completed 13 of 29 passes for 149 yards and led the Ottawa ground game with 10 carries for 75. Mr. McKay punted 12 times for a 38.8-yard average, while Mr. de Leeuw punted 9 timed for an average of 37.3 yards per punt.



NFL
Buffalo (0-8) 0 @ Miami (6-1-1) 34
Philadelphia (2-5-1) 7 @ Washington (6-1-1) 7
Atlanta (4-3-1) 9 @ Cincinnati (1-7) 6
San Diego (3-5) 17 @ New York Giants (3-5) 35
Dallas (5-3) 16 @ St. Louis (3-5) 13
San Francisco (6-2) 13 @ Minnesota (6-2) 9
Oakland (5-1-2) 21 @ New Orleans (2-4-2) 21
Cleveland (4-4) 9 @ Pittsburgh (4-4) 26
Detroit (5-2-1) 24 @ Denver (2-5-1) 20
Kansas City (5-2-1) 10 @ New York Jets (3-5) 13
Houston (1-6-1) 20 @ New England (3-5) 28
Green Bay (3-4-1) 17 @ Chicago (5-3) 14

30 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Out Here on My Own--Nikka Costa (13th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Why Tell Me, Why--Anita Meyer (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland: It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Happy Birthday--Altered Images

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): It's My Party--Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin (4th week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
2 Super Freak--Rick James
3 Why Tell Me, Why--Anita Meyer
4 Hurt (Nieuwe Versie)/Hurt (Oude Versie)--Timi Yuro
5 Tainted Love--Soft Cell
6 Pretend--Alvin Stardust
7 Physical--Olivia Newton-John
8 Meer Nederlandse Sterre (Holland Olé)--Rubberen Robbie
9 R.R. Express--Rose Royce
10 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Remember Me--Boys Town Gang

Singles entering the chart were Love Games by Level 42 (#26); Under Your Thumb by Godley & Creme (#34); It's Raining by Shakin' Stevens (#35); I Got the Fire in Me by Guys 'n Dolls (#38); Souvenir by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (#39); and Dead Ringer for Love by Meat Loaf (#40).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
2 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
3 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
4 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
5 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
6 The Night Owls--Little River Band
7 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg
8 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
9 Here I Am (Just When I Thought I was Over You)--Air Supply
10 Waiting for a Girl Like You--Foreigner

Singles entering the chart were Yesterday's Songs by Neil Diamond (#51); Centerfold by J. Geils Band (#70); Wrack My Brain by Ringo Starr (#79); Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie (#80); Cool Night by Paul Davis (#83); Living Eyes by the Bee Gees (#84); Talking Out of Turn by the Moody Blues (#88); and I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Part 1) by Roger (#91).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross (4th week at #1)
2 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
3 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
4 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 Step by Step--Eddie Rabbitt
7 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg
8 The Night Owls--Little River Band
9 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
10 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield

Singles entering the chart were Yesterday's Songs by Neil Diamond (#48); Centerfold by J. Geils Band (#75); Wrack My Brain by Ringo Starr (#76); Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie (#82); Living Eyes by the Bee Gees (#83); Cool Night by Paul Davis (#87); Talking Out of Turn by the Moody Blues (#88); and Key Largo by Bertie Higgins (#98).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Record World)
1 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
2 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
3 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
4 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 I've Done Everything for You--Rick Springfield
7 Tryin' to Live My Life Without You--Bob Seger
8 The Night Owls--Little River Band
9 Here I Am (Just When I Thought I was Over You)--Air Supply
10 Hard to Say--Dan Fogelberg

Singles entering the chart were Yesterday's Songs by Neil Diamond (#48); Centerfold by J. Geils Band (#69); Wrack My Brain by Ringo Starr (#73); Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie (#82); Hooked on Classics by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#84); Cool Night by Paul Davis (#88); and Living Eyes by the Bee Gees (#89).

Canada’s Top 10 (RPM)
1 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic--The Police
2 The Friends of Mr. Cairo--Jon and Vangelis
3 Endless Love--Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
4 Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do)--Christopher Cross
5 Start Me Up--Rolling Stones
6 Private Eyes--Daryl Hall & John Oates
7 No Reply at All--Genesis
8 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
9 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
10 Who's Crying Now--Journey

Singles entering the chart were Young Turks by Rod Stewart (#41); Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie (#42); and Destroyer by the Kinks (#44).

Died on this date
Will Durant, 96. U.S. historian and philosopher. Dr. Durant, whose doctorate was in philosophy, was best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization (1935-1975), co-written with his wife Ariel. He was earlier known for The Story of Philosophy (1926). Dr. Durant attempted in both philosophy and history to unify the body of knowledge, which he thought had become too specialized, and to write for a general audience. The Durants were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for The Story of Civilization X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967) and were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Dr. Durant died two days after his 96th birthday and 13 days after the death of Ariel, who had stopped eating when he entered the hospital.

Politics and government
James Lee won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, succeeding retiring Premier Angus MacLean.

25 years ago
1986

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Coming Home (Jeanny Part II)--Falco

On television tonight
Shaka Zulu, on SABC Tonight's episode: Episode 3



Football
CFL
Ottawa (3-14-1) 19 @ Hamilton (9-8-1) 20

Paul Osbaldiston kicked a 36-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in regulation time to give the Tiger-Cats temporary possession of first place in the East Division, a point ahead of the Toronto Argonauts, who were playing the Alouettes in Montreal two days hence. 14,101 fans at Ivor Wynne Stadium saw the final game for Tom Dimitroff as head coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders; he compiled a record of 0-3-1 after replacing the fired Joe Moss.

CIAU
Hardy Trophy
Calgary 3 @ Britsh Columbia 49
Terry Cochrane rushed 19 times for 122 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught a 22-yard pass from Jordan Gagner for another TD, to help the Thunderbirds rout the defending national champion Dinosaurs before 3,000 fans at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver. UBC quarterback Jordan Gagner completed 14 of 25 passes fo 281 yards and 2 touchdowns.

20 years ago
1991

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): The Fly--U2 (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Carter Cornelius, 43. U.S. singer. Mr. Cornelius, his brother Edward, and sisters Billie Jo and Rose, comprised the trio Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, who had several hit singles in the early 1970s. Treat Her Like a Lady reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in 1971, and Too Late to Turn Back Now reached #2 in 1972, and #1 on the RPM chart in Canada. In 1976, Mr. Cornelius joined the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh sect and became known as Prince Gideon Israel; he worked on the sect's music and videos, and was reportedly working on a comeback song when he died of a heart attack.

Law
The Canadian House of Commons passed Justice Minister Kim Campbell's gun control law by a vote of 189-14. The law banned the importation of military assault guns; raised the age of ownership from 16 to 18; and also contained provisions for a waiting period and storage regulations.

Basketball
Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers announced that he was retiring from basketball because he had HIV.

10 years ago
2001

Died on this date
Anthony Shaffer, 75. U.K. author, playwright, and screenwriter. Mr. Shaffer, the twin brother of author, playwright, and screenwriter Peter Shaffer, was best known for the play (1970) and screenplay (1972) Sleuth. His other screenplays included Frenzy (1972) and The Wicker Man (1973).

Nida Blanca, 65. Filipina actress. Miss Blanca, whose real name was Dorothy Guinto Jones, appeared in more than 160 movies and 14 television programs in a career spanning 50 years. She was frequently paired on screen with Nestor de Villa. Miss Blanca worked for the Philippine Movie and Television Review and Classification Board in later years. She was found murdered; beaten and stabbed 13 times in the back seat of her car in the parking lot of Atlanta Centre in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila; Philip Medel confessed to the crime, saying that he had been hired by Miss Blanca's estranged husband Rod Strunk, who acted under the name Rod Lauren. Several days later, Mr. Medel recanted his confession. Mr. Strunk left the Philippines for the United States in January 2002 and was charged with murder in 2003, but successfully resisted extradition efforts; he committed suicide in 2007. Mr. Medel remained a suspect, and was held in jail until his death in 2010.