May 14, 2013

380 years ago
1633

Canadiana
Olivier Le Jeune, a slave left in Quebec by the Kirkes, was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. He was the first Negro recorded in Canada.

370 years ago
1643

Died on this date
Louis XIII, 41. King of France, 1610-1643; King of Navarre, 1610-1620. A monarch of the House of Bourbon, Louis XIII succeeded his father Henry IV at the age of 8, replacing his mother as regent in 1617.
He died, apparently of intestinal tuberculosis, 33 years to the day of his succession to the throne, and was succeeded by his 4-year-old son Louis XIV.

180 years ago
1833

Died on this date
Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, 88. Composer. I don’t know who he was, but I do know this...

Law
In England, the Whig government introduced the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery, formally saluting William Wilberforce in the process. Mr. Wilberforce, by then on his deathbed, had been leading the political battle in Britain against slavery for several decades.

150 years ago
1863

War
In the U.S. Civil War, Union Army forces commanded by General U.S. Grant defeated Confederate forces led by General Joseph Johnston in the Battle of Jackson in Mississippi.

100 years ago
1913

Americana
New York Governor William Sulzer approved the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which began operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

90 years ago
1923

Died on this date
Charles de Freycinet, 94. Prime Minister of France, 1879-1880; 1882; 1886; 1890-1892. Mr. Freycinet belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. The governments he led were defeated either in parliament or in elections.

80 years ago
1933

Baseball
With rain pelting down at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn‚ Hack Wilson pounded a 9th-inning pinch grand slam‚ the first in Brooklyn Dodgers' history‚ to beat the Philadelphia Phillies’ Ad Liska 8-6. The home run was inside-the-park‚ just the third pinch inside-the-park grand slam homer in history‚ and the first since 1910.

75 years ago
1938

Died on this date
Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, 81. Actor. Mr. Hermans appeared in a production called Ghetto; other than that, I know nothing about him.

Soccer
England defeated Germany 6-3. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was presumably unhappy with the result.

Baseball
After a 7-6 10-inning loss to the St. Louis Cardinals‚ the Cincinnati Reds filed a protest regarding a disputed hit by the Reds’ Dusty Cooke. Mr. Cooke hit a ball that bounced off the part of the right field pavilion at Sportsman's Park that jutted out over the playing field. The ball bounced back in play, and Mr. Cooke reached third base. Reds’ manager Bill McKechnie contended that it should have been a home run‚ stating that if it had been hit lower it would have missed the pavilion and been a homer. On June 3‚ National League President Ford Frick ruled that the game should be replayed as part of an August 20 doubleheader. The Reds went on to win the first game 4-2‚ then lost the nightcap 5-4.

70 years ago
1943

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

Died on this date
Henri La Fontaine, 89. Belgian politician. Mr. La Fontaine, a Socialist, was a member of the Belgian Senate from 1895-1932. He was president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 until his death, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913.

War
The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, with the loss of 268 lives. The 64 survivors had to wait for 36 hours before they were rescued.

50 years ago
1963

On television tonight
The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Line of Fire

Radio
Edmonton station CHED moved from 1080 to 630 on the AM dial.

Space
After a wait of six hours in his Faith 7 spacecraft, U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper had his Mercury-Atlas 9 mission scrubbed until the next day because of an engine with a dirty fuel line that failed to pull away the gantry, and a defective radar computer in Bermuda.

Diplomacy
Kuwait joined the United Nations.

Politics and government
The Social Credit Party of Canada split into two wings, as Réal Caouette led a Quebec breakaway group known as Ralliement des Creditistes. The remaining party continued to be led by Robert Thompson.

Economics and finance
India purchased 16 Caribou transport planes from Canada.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Top of the World--Carpenters (4th week at #1)

#1 single in France: Et surtout ne m'oublie pas--Crazy Horse (2nd week at #1)

Space
The first U.S. space station, Skylab, was launched from Pad A at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 in Cape Kennedy, Florida atop a Saturn V rocket. 63 minutes after launch, the craft's solar-powered wings failed to deploy (during launch the micrometeoroid shield had separated from the workshop and torn away, taking one of two main solar panel arrays with it and jamming the other), delaying the launch of the station's three-man crew--Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz--until May 25. The rocket that carried Skylab into space was the 13th and last Saturn V ever used.





30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in France: Let's Dance--David Bowie

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Beat It--Michael Jackson (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): True--Spandau Ballet

#1 single in the U.K.: True--Spandau Ballet (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Beat It--Michael Jackson (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Beat It--Michael Jackson (2nd week at #1)
2 Let's Dance--David Bowie
3 Come On Eileen--Dexys Midnight Runners & the Emerald Express
4 Mr. Roboto--Styx
5 Der Kommissar--After the Fire
6 She Blinded Me with Science--Thomas Dolby
7 Flashdance...What a Feeling--Irene Cara
8 Overkill--Men at Work
9 Even Now--Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
10 Little Red Corvette--Prince

Singles entering the chart were Inside Love (So Personal) by George Benson (#80); Easy for You to Say by Linda Ronstadt (#85); Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) by A Flock of Seagulls (#89); and Where Everybody Knows Your Name (The Theme from "Cheers") by Gary Portnoy (#97). Cheers was a popular television comedy series that ran from 1982-1993.

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Beat It--Michael Jackson
2 Let's Dance--David Bowie
3 She Blinded Me with Science--Thomas Dolby
4 Sex (I'm a...)--Berlin
5 Rio--Duran Duran
6 Jeopardy--Greg Kihn Band
7 Billie Jean--Michael Jackson
8 Mr. Roboto--Styx
9 Midnight Blue--Louise Tucker
10 Always Something There to Remind Me--Naked Eyes

Singles entering the chart were Too Shy by Kajagoogoo (#44); I'm Still Standing by Elton John (#48); So Wrong by Patrick Simmons (#49); and Change by Tears for Fears (#50).

Died on this date
Roger J. Traynor, 83. U.S. jurist. Dr. Traynor obtained doctorates in both political science and jurisprudence, and was a law professor and California government bureaucrat in the 1930s. He was Deputy Attorney General of California from January-August 1940, and was then appointed to the California Supreme Court, serving as an Associate Justice (1940-1964), and Chief Justice (1964-1970). Justice Traynor believed in using the power of the judiciary to redress social problems, and was perhaps best known for his 1963 ruling creating true strict liability in product liability cases. His liberal activism on the court led him to be viewed by the legal community as one of the greatest justices in American history, and perhaps the greatest not to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Traynor died of cancer.

Miguel Aleman Valdes, 82. President of Mexico, 1946-1952. Before becoming President, Mr. Aleman was a Senator from the state of Veracruz (1934-1936), Governor of Veracruz (1936-1939), and Minister of the Interior (1940-1945). His presidential administration pursued improvements in transportation and industrial development, and made Baja California a state, but was characterized by corruption and crony capitalism. As well, Mr. Aleman made the horrible mistake of allowing women to vote in municipal elections.

Protest
About 1,000 people were arrested in Santiago for demonstrating against the Chilean government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet; many were soon released.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Edmonton 1 @ New York Islanders 5 (Mew York led best-of-seven series 3-0)

Baseball
Ben Oglivie slugged 3 home runs as the Milwaukee Brewers came from behind to beat the Boston Red Sox 8-7 in 10 innings. Mr. Oglivie’s third homer tied the score at 6-6 in the bottom of the 9th.

Luis Leal and Roy Lee Jackson of the Toronto Blue Jays combined to one-hit the Cleveland Indians 8-1‚ allowing only an 8th-inning single to Chris Bando. Starter Leal pitched 5 innings‚ and was replaced by Jackson after a 1:42 rain delay.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): I'm Not Scared--Eighth Wonder

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Gimme Hope Jo'anna--Eddy Grant (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Yé ké yé ké--Mory Kanté

#1 single in France (SNEP): N'importe quoi--Florent Pagny (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Perfect--Fairground Attraction (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Perfect--Fairground Attraction

This was the last week in which New Musical Express published its own chart.

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Perfect--Fairground Attraction

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Anything for You--Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Anything for You--Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
2 Wishing Well--Terence Trent D'Arby
3 Angel--Aerosmith
4 Where Do Broken Hearts Go--Whitney Houston
5 Pink Cadillac--Natalie Cole
6 One More Try--George Michael
7 Always on My Mind--Pet Shop Boys
8 Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)--Samantha Fox
9 Shattered Dreams--Johnny Hates Jazz
10 Electric Blue--Icehouse

Singles entering the chart were New Sensation by INXS (#71); I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue (#73); Paradise by Sade (#77); Blue Monday 1988 by New Order (#80); Broken Land by the Adventures (#83); Route 66/Behind the Wheel by Depeche Mode (#85); Love Changes (Everything) by Climie Fisher (#86); Just Got Paid by Johnny Kemp (#87); Forgive Me for Dreaming by Elisa Fiorillo (#88); Rooty Toot Toot by John Cougar Mellencamp (#89); Wild, Wild West by Kool Moe Dee; and My Love by Julio Iglesias featuring Stevie Wonder (#91).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Wishing Well--Terence Trent D'Arby (2nd week at #1)
2 Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car--Billy Ocean
3 Devil Inside--INXS
4 Always on My Mind--Pet Shop Boys
5 I'm Still Searching--Glass Tiger
6 Where Do Broken Hearts Go--Whitney Houston
7 Push It--Salt-N-Pepa
8 I Saw Him Standing There--Tiffany
9 Never Gonna Give You Up--Rick Astley
10 Electric Blue--Icehouse

Singles entering the chart included Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson (#76); Rooty Toot Toot by John Couger Mellencamp (#87); and Magic Carpet Ride by Bardeux (#96).

Died on this date
Willem Drees, 101. Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1948-1958. Mr. Drees was leader of the Dutch Labour Party. His government presided over decolonization and the introduction of the modern welfare state.

Diplomacy
The Soviet commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Boris Gromov, said that one fourth of the Soviet force would be pulled out of the country by the end of May in order to create "an atmosphere of trust" at the summit between U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, scheduled to begin May 29 in Moscow.

Politics and government
French President Francois Mitterand dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled parliamentary elections for June.

Crime
A pickup truck and a bus returning from a church outing crashed head-on near Carrollton, Kentucky, causing the deaths of 27 of the 67 people on the bus. Most of the dead were teenagers; all the deaths were attributed to smoke inhalation. The truck had been travelling north in a southbound lane of Interstate 71; the truck’s driver, Larry Mahoney, was found to be legally drunk at the time of the crash. Two days later, he was charged with 27 counts of murder.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Finals
New Jersey 2 @ Boston 6 (Boston won best-of-seven series 4-3)

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Detroit 101 @ Chicago 79 (Detroit led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Denver 107 @ Dallas 105 (Denver led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Baseball
St. Louis Cardinals’ infielder Jose Oquendo became the first non-pitcher in 20 years to get a major league decision in the Cardinals' 7-5 19-inning loss to the Atlanta Braves. St. Louis had used 7 pitchers when Mr. Oquendo came in to pitch the 16th inning. He shut out the Braves for 3 innings before surrendering the game-winning runs.

20 years ago
1993

Died on this date
William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 85. U.S. journalist and publisher. Mr. Hearst, the son of magnate William Randolph Hearst, became editor-in-chief of his father's newspaper chain after the death of the elder Mr. Hearst in 1951. Mr. Hearst, Jr. won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for his interview with U.S.S.R. leader Nikita Khrushchev and associated commentaries.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Division Finals
New York Islanders 4 @ Pittsburgh 3 (OT) (New York won best-of-seven series 4-3)

David Volek scored at 5:16 of the 1st overtime period to give the Islanders the win at Civic Arena and end the Penguins' two-year reign as Stanley Cup champions. New York led 3-1 late in the 3rd period, but Ron Francis scored with 3:47 remaining to reduce the deficit to 3-2, and Rick Tocchet tied the score with 1 minute remaining to send the game into overtime. It was the second time the Islanders had upset the Penguins in a seventh game in Pittsburgh; the first time was in 1975, when the Islanders lost the first 3 games of their quarter-final series and won the last 4, winning the final game 1-0 on a goal by Ed Westfall with less than 5 minutes remaining in regulation time.



Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
New York 106 @ Charlotte 110 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-1)

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Wendy Hiller, 91. U.K. actress. Miss Hiller won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Separate Tables (1958), but was best known as a stage actress in London's West End and on Broadway.

Robert Stack, 84. U.S. actor. Mr. Stack appeared in movies such as The Mortal Storm (1940); Written on the Wind (1956); and Airplane! (1980), but was best known as the star of the television crime series The Untouchables (1959-1963)--for which he won an Emmy Award in 1960--and as host of the television documentary series Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2002).

Dave DeBusschere, 62. U.S. basketball and baseball player. Mr. DeBusschere was a forward with the Detroit Pistons from 1962-68 and New York Knickerbockers from 1968-74, winning all-star honours in 8 of his 12 seasons and playing for NBA championship teams in 1969-70 and 1972-73. He also coached the Pistons from 1964-67, becoming the youngest coach in NBA history (24 when he assumed the position), but resigned as coach to resume being a full-time player. Mr. DeBusschere served as the American Basketball Association's commissioner in 1975-76, the ABA's last season. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993, and his jersey #22 was retired by the Knickerbockers. Before playing in the NBA, Mr. DeBusschere was a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox in 1962 and 1963, posting a 3-4 record with a 2.90 earned run average in 36 games. His best game was a 6-hit shutout of the Cleveland Indians on August 13, 1963.

Abominations
Sheriff's deputies outside Victoria, Texas stopped a van, and opened it to find it packed with 70-100 illegal aliens from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. 19 of those inside were found dead, or died later, from heat. The driver and three others were charged the next day with conspiracy to smuggle, transport, and conceal undocumented immigrants.

Terrorism
In Illiskhan-Yurt, Chechnya, a woman detonated explosives apparently intended to kill Akhmed Kadyrov, Russian administrator in Chechnya. He survived, but 16 others, including 4 of his bodyguards, were killed.

Politics and government
Carlos Menem, who had been President of Argentina from 1989-1999, withdrew from the current presidential runoff election, leaving Peronist candidate Nestor Kirchner as the winner.

Health
The World Health Organization removed Toronto from the list of places where severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was spreading.

May 13, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Evgeniya!

640 years ago
1373

Religion
English mystic Julian of Norwich fell ill and supposedly received visions which were later published as Revelations of Divine Love.

140 years ago
1873

Disasters
In Canada's first major mining disaster, 69 coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Drummond Mine, the country's largest colliery, in Westville, Nova Scotia.

125 years ago
1888

Law
Brazil passed the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), abolishing slavery. The law contained only two clauses:

Article 1: From this date, slavery is declared abolished in Brazil.
Article 2: All dispositions to the contrary are revoked.

110 years ago
1903

Died on this date
Apolinario Mabini, 38. Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1899. Mr. Mabini, a lawyer by training, was the Philippines' first Prime Minister, serving from January 23-May 7, 1899. He resigned that position, but continued to serve as his country's foreign minister until April 1, 1901, when he and other revolutionists who refused to swear loyalty to American imperialist rule were exiled to Guam. Mr. Abini returned to the Philippines on February 26, 1903 and did take an oath of loyalty to the Americans, but he was in ill health, and died of cholera.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
William R. Tolbert, Jr. President of Liberia, 1971-1980; Vice-President of Liberia, 1952-1971. Mr. Tolbert entered Liberia's House of Representatives in 1943 as a member of the True Whig Party. He succeeded William Tubman as President. Mr. Tolbert, who became president of the Baptist World Alliance in 1965, was the first Liberian president in almost a century to allow opposition parties to exist, and succeeded in seeing a constitutional amendment passed limiting the president's term to eight years. On April 12, 1980, Mr. Tolbert and 27 others were assassinated in an army coup d'etat led by Samuel Doe.

80 years ago
1933

Died on this date
Paul Ernst, 67. German writer. Mr. Ernst was a journalist, essayist, dramatist and short story writer who became attracted to Marxism as a young man, after abandoning theology studies. Dr. Ernst’s dramas included Demetrios; Canossa; Brunhild; and Ariadne auf Naxos. Dr. Ernst’s later writings, such as The Emperor Book; The Saviour; and Pray and Work, dealt mainly with historical and religious themes.

75 years ago
1938

Died on this date
Charles Édouard Guillaume, 77. Swiss physicist. Dr. Guillaume was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.

Music
Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra recorded When the Saints Go Marching In for Decca Records.

60 years ago
1953

On the radio
I Was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews
Tonight’s episode: My Friend the Enemy

50 years ago
1963

Edmontonia
City planning commissioner G.C. Hamilton revealed plans for a downtown subway system to be in place by 1980.

Law
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Brady v. Maryland that withholding exculpatory evidence violated an accused's right of due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

40 years ago
1973

On television tonight
Rod Serling's Night Gallery, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Whisper, starring Dean Stockwell and Sally Field

Tennis
Former champion Bobby Riggs, 55, who had come out of retirement to prove male superiority over female players, defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Let's Dance--David Bowie (4th week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Bruttosozialprodukt--Geier Sturzflug (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Lerton Pinto, 85. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Pinto pitched in 9 games with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1922, and 3 games in 1924. His only decision, a loss, came in 1922. His career earned run average was 5.65.

Diplomacy
U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned the U.S.S.R. and Syria against making any military moves in Lebanon.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Heart--Pet Shop Boys (4th week at #1)

Died on this date
Chet Baker, 58. U.S. musician and singer. Mr. Baker, a jazz trumpeter and singer, was a leading name in "cool jazz" in the 1950s, but his career was destroyed by excessive drug abuse. He made a comeback in later years, which included performances at Edmonton’s Jazz City festival in the early 1980s. Mr. Baker died in a fall from a hotel room window in Amsterdam; there were no witnesses, and his death was ruled accidental. Heroin and cocaine were found in his body. A documentary movie about Mr. Baker, Let’s Get Lost, was released in 1989.

War
A cease-fire between Hezbollah and Amal militia in Lebanon broke down, and Syrian forces became directly involved in the fighting.

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Atlanta 97 @ Boston 108 (Boston led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Los Angeles Lakers 89 @ Utah 96 (Utah led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Baseball
Barry Bonds hit a leadoff home run for the seconnd day in a row as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Cincinnati Reds 6-5. Barry's father Bobby accomplished the same feat in 1973.

At Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners combined to hit nine home runs as the Red Sox outlasted the Mariners 14-8. Mike Greenwell of the Red Sox hit two of the homers; Oil Can Boyd was kicked around, but emerged with the win.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Tribal Dance--2 Unlimited

Defense
The U.S. administration of President Bill Clinton announced a downgrade of the Strategic Defense Initiative missile shield program, which had cost $30 billion over the previous 10 years. Research was to continue on a small-scale program, which would be renamed.

Environment
Canadian Public Works Minister Elmer MacKay dismissed concerns over the environmental impact of a proposed bridge between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, stating that reports indicated that all effects would be either insignificant or could be dealt with by existing technology.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Division Finals
Toronto 1 @ St. Louis 2 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)
Vancouver 3 @ Los Angeles 5 (Los Angeles won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Cleveland 85 @ Chicago 104 (Chicago led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
San Antonio 103 @ Phoenix 109 (Phoenix led best-of-seven series 2-0)

10 years ago
2003

World events
U.S. officials in Iraq announced that the former police chief in the Iraqi regime of deposed President Saddam Hussein was now in custody.

Diplomacy
The United States expelled 14 Cuban diplomats for "inappropriate and unacceptable activities," i.e., spying.

Protest
More than 850,000 public workers in France participated in a one-day strike to protest the government's proposed pension reform plan.

Health
China ordered local officials to prompty and accurately report threats to public health from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

May 12, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Gifty Boateng!

1,010 years ago
1003

Died on this date
Sylvester II, 57 (?) . Roman Catholic Pope, 999-1003. Sylvester, born Gerbert d'Aurillac (Gerbert of Aurillac), was the first French pope. He was said to be among the most noted scientists of his time, but was accused by his enemies of studying magical arts and astrology in the Islamic cities of Cordoba, Seville, and Morocco. Sylvester II was preceded as pope by Gregory V and was succeeded by John XVII.

425 years ago
1588

War
In the French Wars of Religion, King Henry III of France fled Paris after Henry of Guise entered the city and a spontaneous uprising occurred.

270 years ago
1743

World events
Maria Theresa of Austria was crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII.

125 years ago
1888

Britannica
North Borneo was established as a British protectorate.

Track and field
A crouching start was first used in a race by Charles Sherrill of Yale University.

110 years ago
1903

Born on this date
Wilfrid Hyde-White. U.K. actor. Mr. Hyde-White was a character actor on stage, screen, and television in both the United Kingdom and United States for more than 60 years. He played Colonel Pickering in the movie My Fair Lady (1964). Mr. Hyde-White died on May 6, 1991, six days before his 88th birthday.

Canadiana
Niagara Falls, Ontario was incorporated as a city.

Americana
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt paid an official visit to San Francisco, where his arrival parade was captured for motion pictures by cinematographer H.J. Miles.

80 years ago
1933

Economics and finance
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration were formed to help the needy and farmers in the United States. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies to not plant on part of their land. The act was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1936.

75 years ago
1938

Medicine
Sandoz Labs in Switzerland first manufactured lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), synthesized by Albert Hoffman.

70 years ago
1943

Hit parade
Variety reported the most popular songs in the United States as:
1 As Time Goes By
2 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
3 It Can't Be Wrong

Died on this date
Albert Stoessel, 48. U.S. musician, composer, and conductor. Mr. Stoessel was a concert violinist who wrote numerous pieces for violin, piano, orchestra, and chorus, as well as the opera Garrick (1936). He conducted various ensembles, and died of a heart attack while on stage in New York conducting an orchestra for the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

War
The Third Anglo-American Conference (Trident) opened in Washington with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and their staffs. Mr. Churchill opposed any diversion of strength in the Pacific theatre. With the exception of isolated pockets of resistance, Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered to the Allies. The secret German radio station Gustav Siegfried I reported that Marion Badoglio, son of Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio, had discussed plans for a separate Italian peace with U.S. represntatives in Tangier and Madrid. British troops withdrew from Maungdaw, Burma without interference from Japanese forces and moved north toward the Indian border. Japanese troops in China established a foothold on the southern end of Lake Tungting, 50 miles north of Changsha, capital of Hunan Province.

Diplomacy
Bolivian President Enrique Penaranda del Castillo arrived in Ottawa to begin a state visit, becoming the first Latin American president to visit Canada.

Uruguay severed relations with the Vichy French government.

U.S. President Roosevelt nominated Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as Ambassador to the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile in London.

World events
Gazette de Lausanne reported that 150 Frenchmen, including many government officials and Admiral Rene Platon, former Secretary of State, had been arrested in Vichy for plotting against Vichy Prime Minister Pierre Laval.

Economics and finance
The U.S. War Production Board announced that ample plant and macine facilities now existed in the United States to defeat the Axis. The U.S. Senate passed and sent to the House of Representatives a bill authoriaing the appropriation of $25 million for the next two years to continue federal works in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after the Works Progress Administration expired on July 31, 1943.

60 years ago
1953

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: The Death of an Editor, starring Wolfe Barzell, Mario Gallo, Frank Marth, and Anthony Ross

Died on this date
Jean "Skip" Ziegler. U.S. aviator. Mr. Ziegler was a test pilot who was in the cockpit of the Bell X-2 as it was in the bomb bay of the EB-50A mothership over Lake Ontario, preparing to fly the X-2 after it was dropped from the mothership. The X-2 exploded in the bomb bay, killing Mr. Ziegler and EB-50A crew member, observer Frank Wolko.

50 years ago
1963

Religion
The Congress on Prophecy, convened by the American Board of Missions to the Jews (known today as Chosen People Ministries), began at Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. The congress was convened out of a concern that the hope of the premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ was being lost. Messages presented at the conference were published in the book Focus on Prophecy (1964).

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): Power to All Our Friends--Cliff Richard (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (4th week at #1)

Australia's top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Killing Me Softly with His Song--Roberta Flack (4th week at #1)
2 Funny Face--Donna Fargo
3 Top of the World--Carpenters
4 Dueling Banjos--Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell
5 Last Song--Edward Bear
6 You're So Vain--Carly Simon
7 I'd Love You to Want Me--Lobo
8 Crocodile Rock--Elton John
9 Wedding Song--Petula Clark
10 Everything is Out of Season--Johnny Farnham

Singles entering the chart were Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (#22); Roll Over Beethoven by Electric Light Orchestra (#33); and You are What I Am by Gordon Lightfoot (#37).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (4th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (3rd week at #1)
2 The Cisco Kid--War
3 You are the Sunshine of My Life--Stevie Wonder
4 Frankenstein--The Edgar Winter Group
5 The Twelfth of Never--Donny Osmond
6 Stuck in the Middle with You--Stealers Wheel
7 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia--Vicki Lawrence
8 Drift Away--Dobie Gray
9 Reeling in the Years--Steely Dan
10 Little Willy--The Sweet

Singles entering the chart were You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) by the Stylistics (#73); Give Me Love--(Give Me Peace on Earth) by George Harrison (#78); Satin Sheets by Jeanne Pruett (#79); Fool by Elvis Presley (#86); Swamp Witch by Jim Stafford (#92); Behind Closed Doors by Charlie Rich (#93); I'm Leavin' You by Engelbert Humperdinck (#95); Come Live with Me by Roy Clark (#96); and What it Takes to Get a Good Woman (That’s What It’s Gonna Take To Keep Her) by Denise LaSalle (#99). Fool was the B-side of Steamroller Blues, which charted at #21.

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 The First Cut is the Deepest--Keith Hampshire
2 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
3 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia--Vicki Lawrence
4 The Cisco Kid--War
5 Stuck in the Middle with You--Stealers Wheel
6 Little Willy--The Sweet
7 I'm a Stranger Here--Five Man Electrical Band
8 The Twelfth of Never--Donny Osmond
9 Drift Away--Dobie Gray
10 You Don't Know What Love Is--Susan Jacks

Singles entering the chart were Bit of Both/Underneath the Twilight Canopy by David George (#76); Pillow Talk by Sylvia (#78); Funky Worm by the Ohio Players (#82); What About Me by Anne Murray (#86); Run Along Baby by Pagliaro (#90); Behind Closed Doors by Charlie Rich (#92); And I Love You So by Perry Como (#93); Roll Over Beethoven by Electric Light Orchestra (#94); Lately Love (Laughter Don't Come Easy) by Bob Ruzicka (#95); Working Class Hero by Tommy Roe (#96); Isn't it About Time by Stephen Stills and Manasses (#97); Lady True by A Foot in Coldwater (#98); Bondi Junction by Peter Foldy (#99); and All I Really Need by Rose (#100).

Calgary’s Top 10
1 The Twelfth of Never--Donny Osmond
2 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
3 Drift Away--Dobie Gray
4 Stuck in the Middle with You--Stealers Wheel
5 You are the Sunshine of My Life--Stevie Wonder
6 Out of the Question--Gilbert O'Sullivan
7 Sing--Carpenters
8 Walk on the Wild Side--Lou Reed
9 Peaceful--Helen Reddy
10 The Cisco Kid--War
Pick hit of the week: Lady Run, Lady Hide--April Wine

Died on this date
Art Pollard, 46. U.S. auto racing driver. Mr. Pollard was killed in a crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway while practicing for the 1973 Indianapolis 500. In 84 races on the United States Auto Club circuit from 1965-1973 Mr. Pollard had 30 top-ten finishes, including wins at Milwaukee and Dover in 1969. His best Indianapolis 500 result came in 1970, when he finished 7th.





30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
Canada’s Top 30
1 Beat It--Michael Jackson
2 Let’s Dance--David Bowie
3 Midnight Blue--Louise Tucker
4 Jeopardy--Greg Kihn Band
5 I Won’t Hold You Back--Toto
6 Even Now--Bob Seger
7 Overkill--Men at Work
8 Some Kind of Friend--Barry Manilow
9 Little Red Corvette--Prince
10 Time (Clock of the Heart)--Culture Club
11 Safety Dance--Men Without Hats
12 She Blinded Me with Science--Thomas Dolby
13 Always Something There to Remind Me--Naked Eyes
14 Affair of the Heart--Rick Springfield
15 Mr. Roboto--Styx
16 Rio--Duran Duran
17 Twistin’ By the Pool--Dire Straits
18 It Might Be You--Stephen Bishop
19 Mornin’--Al Jarreau
20 Solitaire--Laura Branigan
21 Too Shy--Kajagoogoo
22 So Wrong--Patrick Simmons
23 Electric Avenue--Eddy Grant
24 Love Me Today--Corect Spelling
25 Don’t Let it End--Styx
26 Straight From the Heart--Bryan Adams
27 White Wedding--Billy Idol
28 Flashdance (What a Feeling)--Irene Cara
29 My Love--Lionel Richie
30 Lean On Me--Chilliwack

Died on this date
Hank Schenz, 69. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Schenz, an infielder, played 207 major league games with the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and New York Giants from 1946-1951, batting .247 with 2 home runs. His best season was with the Cubs in 1948, when he hit .261 with 1 home run and 14 runs batted in. Despite playing just 8 games for the Giants as a late-season acquisition, Mr. Schenz was on the roster for the World Series, and ended his career by making one appearance in the Series as a pinch runner.

Weather
It was a beautiful, hot day in Edmonton, the nicest day of the year so far.

Politics and government
The United States Senate voted to reject a budget proposal for fiscal 1984 that was backed by the Reagan Administration, as well as another plan supported by moderate Republicans and some Democrats.

Defense
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a letter to the U.S. Senate, said that he would seek new approaches to arms talks with the Soviet Union and that he would bring the U.S. negotiating position in line with the recommendations of the Scowcroft commission. The Senate committee voted to release funds for research and development of the MX missile.

Americana
Julie Lynne Hayek of California was crowned Miss USA.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
New York Islanders 6 @ Edmonton 3 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-0)

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Always on My Mind--Pet Shop Boys (11th week at #1)

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Mahtisonni--Aki & Turo

War
A cease-fire between Hezbollah and Amal militia went into effect in Lebanon. At least 172 people had been killed in the previous six days of fighting.

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze concluded a two-day meeting in Geneva, resolving some questions on the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty, prior to the summit between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, scheduled for later in the month. The two sides exchanged notes agreeing that the treaty banned the use of lasers, particle beams, and other futuristic weapons on medium- and short-range missiles. Problems relating to verification were also resolved.

Politics and government
The White House said that it was "mortified" that some people thought that President Ronald Reagan’s endorsement of Vice-President George Bush as the Republican Party presidential candidate was lukewarm, and that President Reagan, in fact, was "enthusiastic" and "fully committed" to Mr. Bush.

Quebec's National Assembly, with the majority composed of members of the Liberal government of Premier Robert Bourassa, passed a law allowing the creation of le Conseil de la famille (Family Council) with a mandate to explore and investigate major issues interest to families, such as developing the child care system and the automatic payment of child support.

Health
Dr. Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, announced that the United States government would cease to finance research on artificial hearts. He said that the human body "just couldn’t seem to tolerate" an artificial heart. All five recipients of permanent implants, which were made between 1982 and 1985, died. William Schroeder, who died in 1986, survived the longest with an artificial heart, 620 days. The HLBI planned to focus its resources on implantable devices that worked with part of the real heart.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Finals
Boston 3 @ New Jersey 6 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Chicago 105 @ Detroit 95 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Dallas 112 @ Denver 108 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Informer--Snow (4th week at #1)

On television tonight
The Wonder Years, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Summer; Independence Day

Although listed as two episodes, they were shown consecutively in one hour as the last episodes of the series.

Died on this date
Omond Solandt, 83. Canadian physician. Dr. Solandt, a native of Winnipeg, served as the founding chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board from 1947-1956 and was founding chairman of the Science Council of Canada from 1966-1972.

Zeno Colò, 72. Italian skier. Mr. Colò won two gold medals and one silver medal in the 1950 World Championships, and won the gold medal in the men's downhill event at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games in Oslo. He died of lung cancer.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Bill Clinton endorsed a proposal that money raised by tax increases and saved by spending cuts be put into a trust fund used solely to cut the federal deficit.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Division Finals
Pittsburgh 5 @ New York Islanders 7 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Charlotte 101 @ New York 105 (New York led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Houston 100 @ Seattle 111 (Seattle led best-of-seven series 2-0)

10 years ago
2003

Terrorism
Explosives detonated from a truck in Znamenskoye, Chechnya killed at least 59 people and destroyed 6 apartment houses and 3 government buildings.

Four bomb attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by the al-Qaeda terrorist organization killed 9 of the attackers and 26 others, 9 of them Americans. Three of the targets were residential compounds inhabited by foreigners. The attackers got past guards, rammed their vehicles through gates, and set off explosives. Among the terrorists killed was the mastermind of the attacks, Khalid al-Juhani, 28 (?), a Saudi member of al-Qaeda.

World events
U.S. officials in Iraq said that they had custody of Rihab Rashjid Taha, a microbiologist nicknamed Dr. Germ who had played a major role in Iraq's biological waepons program.

Politics and government
Clare Short, U.K. first secretary for international development and an opponent of Britain's war in Iraq, resigned from the cabinet of Prime Minister Tony Blair. She criticized Mr. Blair's support for what she considered an insufficient role for the United Nations in the reconstruction of Iraq. Mr. Blair named Baroness Valerie Amos to succeed Ms. Short; Baroness Amos became the first Negro woman to serve in a British cabinet.

Health
Taiwanese officials fired the head of a hospital for failing to deal with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic properly.

May 11, 2013

200 years ago
1813

Exploration
IIn Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth led an expedition westwards from Sydney, opening up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.

180 years ago
1833

Disasters
The immigrant ship Lady of the Lake, bound from Belfast to Quebec, struck an iceberg about 500 miles from Newfoundland and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 215.

125 years ago
1888

Born on this date
Irving Berlin. U.S. songwriter. Born Israel Beilin near Mogilev in what is now Belarus, Mr. Berlin came to the United States with his family in the early 1890s, settling in New York City. He became one of the most renowned songwriters in American history, composing about 1,500 songs, and the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 movies. His first major hit song was Alexander's Ragtime Band (1911), which created an international dance craze. Other notable hit songs included What'll I Do (1924); Blue Skies (1926); Marie (1929); Puttin' on the Ritz (1930); I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (1937); God Bless America (1938); and White Christmas (1942). He died on September 22, 1989 at the age of 101.

75 years ago
1938

Died on this date
George S. Lyon, 79. Canadian golfer. Mr. Lyon, a native of Richmond, Ontario, won the gold medal in golf at the 1904 Summer Olympic games in St. Louis, won the Canadian amateur championship eight times between 1898 and 1914, and finished in second place in the U.S. Amateur championship in 1906. He was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.

Buzz Murphy, 43. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Murphy, an outfielder, played 9 games with the Boston Red Sox in 1918, and 79 games with the Washington Nationals in 1919, batting .275 with one home run in 88 major league games.

Danny Boone, 43. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Boone played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, and Cleveland Indians from 1919-1922, compiling a record of 8 wins and 13 losses.

70 years ago
1943

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Nancy Greene Raine! Miss Greene, the best female skier in Canadian history, won the gold medal in giant slalom and the silver in slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympic games in Grenoble, France. During the 1968 season, she won 9 straight races to win the World Cup. Miss Greene, who married ski coach Al Raine, was voted Canada's female athlete of the 20th century, and is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Since 2009 she's been representing British Columbia in the Senate as a member of the Conservative Party.

War
U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his aides arrived in Washington to confer with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the progress of World War II. American troops invaded Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. Allied planes from Tunisia, Libya, and Malta heavily bombed Marsala and Catania, Sicily, and Pantellaria Island. The United Kingdom sent troops from Barbados to Dominica Island in the West Indies "in connection with the Martinique situtation."

Labour
The U.S. House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee voted to revise the Connally bill forbidding war plant strikes until workers were polled, banning jurisdictional strikes, and making it illegal to prevent workers from accepting jobs in strike-bound plants.

60 years ago
1953

Disasters
An F5 tornado hit downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114 people.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Pipeline--Chantays
(3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France: L'école est Finie--Sheila (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Come te non c'è nessuno--Rita Pavone (8th week
at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Wini-Wini--Die Tahiti-Tamourés
(2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): From Me to You--The
Beatles (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): I Will Follow Him--Little
Peggy March (3rd week at #1)

U.S. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 I Will Follow Him--Little Peggy March (2nd week at #1)
2 Puff the Magic Dragon--Peter, Paul and Mary
3 Can't Get Used to Losing You--Andy Williams
4 If You Wanna Be Happy--Jimmy Soul
5 Pipeline--Chantays
6 Surfin' U.S.A.--Beach Boys
7 He's So Fine--The Chiffons
8 Foolish Little Girl--The Shirelles
9 Reverend Mr. Black--The Kingston Trio
10 Two Faces Have I--Lou Christie

Singles entering the chart were Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer by Nat King Cole (#63); The Good Life (#70)/Spring in Manhattan (#94) by Tony Bennett; 18 Yellow Roses by Bobby Darin (#87); Wildwood Days by Bobby Rydell (#88); Needles and Pins by Jackie DeShannon (#90); Gravy Waltz by Steve Allen (#92); Teenage Heaven by Johnny Cymbal (#93); Little Latin Lupe Lu by the Righteous Brothers (#99); Your Old Stand By by Mary Wells (#100); and My Summer Love by Ruby and the Romantics (also #100).

Died on this date
Herbert Spencer Gasser, 74. U.S. physiologist. Dr. Gasser shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph Erlanger "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres." Dr. Gasser was Director of the Rockefeller Institute from 1935-1953.

Married on this date
Future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner married Geills McCrae Kilgour in Montreal.

World events
British businessman Greville Wynne was convicted by a Moscow tribunal of spying for the West and sentenced to three years in prison and five more at a labour camp, while his co-defendant, Soviet scientific official Oleg Penkovsky, was sentenced to death.

Hockey
Memorial Cup
Finals
Niagara Falls 3 @ Edmonton 4 (Edmonton won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Gregg Pilling's goal held up as the winner as the Oil Kings held on to defeat the Flyers before 6,800 fans at the Edmonton Gardens to win the Memorial Cup for the first time. The Oil Kings built a 4-1 lead, but Terry Crisp scored 2 goals for Niagara Falls, the second with a minute remaining in regulation time, to draw the Flyers to within a goal.

Baseball
Sandy Koufax pitched his second career major league no-hitter as the Los Angeles Dodgers blanked the San Francisco Giants 8-0 at Dodger Stadium.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Top of the World--Carpenters

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Get Down--Gilbert O'Sullivan

Died on this date
Lex Barker, 54. U.S. actor. Mr. Barker was best known for playing Tarzan of the Apes in five movies from 1949-1953. He died of a heart attack three days after his 54th birthday.

Diplomacy
The West German Bundestag voted 268-217 to ratify a treaty establishing formal relations with East Germany. The Bundestag also voted 365-121 in favour of both Germanies being members of the United Nations. Although the treaty did not accord full recognition to East Germany, it arranged for the exchange of "permanent representatives" and provided for the opening of new border crossing points.

Scandal
Presiding Judge William Byrne dismissed all U.S. government charges of espionage, theft, and conspiracy against defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, stating, "The conduct of the government has placed the case in such a posture that it precludes the fair, dispassionate resolution of these issues by a jury." Judge Byrne's ruling--"with prejudice"--on the 89th day of the trial precluded a retrial, but did not vindicate the defendants nor resolve the major consitutional issues in the case. Mr. Ellsberg, a former Defense Department employee, had leaked the "Pentagon Papers," regarding U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to Mr. Russo, a reporter with The New York Times, in 1971. In the last two weeks of the trial it had been revealed that E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy had broken into the office of Mr. Ellsberg's psychiatrist with the intention of stealing Mr. Ellsberg's medical records; that Judge Byrne had recently met with presidential adviser John Ehrlichman and had been offered the position of director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation but had turned it down because of the ongoing trial; that Mr. Hunt had testified that the break-in at the office of Mr. Ellsberg's psychiatrist had been conceived and authorized within the White House; and that Mr. Ellsberg's telephone conversations from late 1969 through early 1970 had been wiretapped, and that the records and transcripts based on the wiretaps had disappeared between July and October 1971. Judge Byrne stated that the burden was now on the government to prove that the taped conversations were not used to "taint" the case.

30 years ago
1983

Protest
The copperworkers’ union and five other unions called for a day of protest against the government of Chile, the first such action since the junta headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. The copperworkers’ union stopped short of calling for a general strike when the government showed military force, but the demonstrations, directed primarily at the high cost of living, appeared to be widespread. Tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse crowds in Santiago; police shot and killed 2, and arrested 350.

Defense
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a letter to the House of Representatives, said that he would seek new approaches to arms talks with the Soviet Union and that he would bring the United States negotiating position in line with the recommendations of the Scowcroft commission. In immediate response, the House committee voted to release funds for research and development of the MX missile.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Maybe We're About to Fall in Love--Tommy Nilsson (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Kim Philby, 76. U.K. traitor. Mr. Philby, a British spy, was one of the Cambridge Five, Communists who provided information to the Soviet Union while masquerading as British patriots. The Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 may have been the result of information obtained from Mr. Philby about the limited stockpile of nuclear weapons held by the United States. Mr. Philby alerted two other Cambridge Five members, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, that they were under suspicion, thus allowing them to escape to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. Mr. Philby was frequently under suspicion as the "third man," but was successful in covering his tracks until late 1962, when, at a party in Tel Aviv, a woman named Flora Solomon commented that he was loyal to the Soviets. In January 1963 Mr. Philby defected to the Soviet Union. His remaining years were spent in drunkenness and fornication.

Diplomacy
In Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze began two days of talks aimed at resolving some remaining questions on a treaty between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. on intermediate-range nuclear forces.

Politics and government
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, speaking at a Republican Party fund-raising dinner, endorsed Vice-President George Bush as his successor.

Labour
The Polish parliament approved emergency measures that strengthened the government’s hand in economic matters. The legislation would allow strikes, but only by members of government-supervised unions.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Division Finals
Detroit 4 @ Edmonton 8 (Edmonton won best-of-seven series 4-1)

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Atlanta 101 @ Boston 110 (Boston led best-of-seven series 1-0)

20 years ago
1993

Weather
The temperature reached 88 F. in Edmonton.

Politics and government
Democrats in the United States Senate broke a Republican filibuster and passed a bill to direct states to provide registration facilities at motor vehicle offices, military recruiting offices, and welfare offices.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Division Finals
St. Louis 1 @ Toronto 5 (Toronto led best-of-seven series 3-2)
Los Angeles 4 @ Vancouver 3 (2OT) (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Gary Shuchuck scored at 6:31 of the 2nd overtime period to give the Kings their win over the Canucks at Pacific Coliseum.

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Cleveland 84 @ Chicago 91 (Chicago led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
San Antonio 89 @ Phoenix 98 (Phoenix led best-of-seven series 1-0)

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Noel Redding, 57. U.K. musician. Mr. Redding was best known for playing bass guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1966-1969.

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Mr. Sharon said he would not support the April 30 "Road Map to Peace" until the Palestinian Authority stopped anti-Israel violence, but he supported the plan's goal of a Palestinian state. Mr. Abbas accepted the plan, and Mr. Powell urged him to act decisively to disarm terrorist groups. Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia also supported the plan.

Politics and government
General Tommy Franks, U.S. military commander in Iraq, said that Iraq's former ruling Ba'ath Party had been dissolved.

More than 50 Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives began two days of crossing the state boundary into Oklahoma in order to leave the House without a quorum and thus prevent action on a redistricting bill unfavourable to their party.

Scandal
Peter Hollingworth resigned as Governor General of Australia amid allegations that he had protected pedophiles in the Anglican Church while he had been archbishop of Brisbane, and that he had raped a woman in Brisbane in the mid-1960s.

Journalism
The New York Times devoted more than four full pages to a story documenting major deceptions and inaccuracies, including plagiarism, in half of 73 articles written by reporter Jayson Blair since October 2002. Despite warnings of problems with Mr. Blair, he continued to win top assignments. Critics blamed the Times fo failure to adequately monitor its reporting, and some argued that Mr. Blair had been advanced quickly and had avoided close scrutiny because he was a Negro.

Disasters
A week of tornadoes in the midwestern and southern United States concluded with 400 tornadoes, twice the previous weekly record, resulting in 48 deaths, hundreds of people injured, and hundreds of buildings levelled. President George W. Bush declared disaster areas in six states.

Hockey
IIHF World Men's Championship
Final
Canada 3 Sweden 2 (OT)

May 10, 2013

1,800 years ago
213

Born on this date
Claudius II, aka Claudius Gothicus. Roman Emperor, 268-270. Claudius Gothicus fought successfully against the Germanic tribes known as the Alamanni and crushed the Goths in the Battle of Naissus, but died in January 270 after succumbing to a plague, perhaps smallpox.

1,775 years ago
238

Died on this date
Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, aka Maximinus Thrax (Maximinus the Thracian), Maximinus I. Roman Emperor, 235-238. Maximinus has been described in several ancient sources as the first barbarian emperor of Rome, and the first never to set foot in Rome. His rule is often considered to mark the beginning of the Crisis of the 3rd Century, the period from 235-284 in which the Roman Empire crumbled and nearly collapsed. Maximinus, his son, and his ministers were assassinated by Praetorian guards in his camp. Their heads were cut off, placed on poles, and carried to Rome by cavalrymen.

510 years ago
1503

Exploration
Christopher Columbus visited the Cayman Islands and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.

240 years ago
1773

Law
The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

190 years ago
1823

Politics and government
Louis-Joseph Papineau of Lower Canada and John Neilson of Upper Canada presented a petition to the British parliament in London opposing the proposed Union of Upper and Lower Canada.

170 years ago
1843

Born on this date
Benito Pérez Galdós. 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. He went blind in his later years, and died on January 4, 1920 at the age of 76.

160 years ago
1853

Transportation
Sir Hugh Allan's Genova became the first steamer of the Allan Line to arrive at Quebec, before starting a 14-day Montreal-Liverpool mail run.

Exploration
Gerard Osborn began sailing the Pioneer along the east coast of Bathurst Island in what is now Nunavut. He sailed until July 15, and was forced to winter in Wellington Channel.

150 years ago
1863

Died on this date
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, 39. U.S. and C.S. military officer. General Jackson, the best-known Confederate military leader after General Robert E. Lee, died eight days after being wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. His command of the Valley Campaign in 1862 is regarded as a masterpiece of military tactics.

125 years ago
1888

Born on this date
Max Steiner. Austrian-born composer and conductor. Mr. Steiner, a native of Vienna, was a child prodigy as a pianist and composer, and conducted an operetta when he was 12. He worked in theatrical productions in continental Europe and Britain in the years leading to World War I, but was interned in England as an enemy alien when World War I began in 1914. Mr. Steiner was allowed to emigrate to the United States, and spent 15 years on Broadway in New York before going to Hollywood in 1929, and sound was coming into motion pictures. He composed over 300 film scores for RKO Pictures and Warner Brothers Pictures from 1929-1965 and received 24 Academy Award nominations, winning for The Informer (1935); Now, Voyager (1942); and Since You Went Away (1944). Mr. Steiner's most famous scores included Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Summer Place (1959). He died of congestive heart failure on December 28, 1971 at the age of 88, after years of declining health and poor eyesight.

120 years ago
1893

Law
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato was a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

Horse racing
Lookout, with E. Kunze up, won the 19th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville in a time of 2:39 1/4. Plutus placed second and Boundless finished third in a 6-horse field.

80 years ago
1933

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell, on NBC

War
Paraguay formally declared war on Bolivia. Fighting in the Chaco War, so-called because it was fought for control over the Gran Chaco area of South America, had begun in 1932.

Abominations
In university towns and cities throughout Germany, the Deutsche Studentenschaft (German Student Union) staged public burnings of "un-German" books, including those by such writers as Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, H.G. Wells, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, and Helen Keller. An estimated 25,000 books were destroyed. 40,000 people gathered in the Opernplatz in Berlin to hear Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels proclaim that the era of Jewish intellectualism was now at an end.

Labour
The Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labour Front), the amalgamated National Socialist trade union organization, was formed, replacing the free unions that had been outlawed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler eight days earlier. DAF's leader was Robert Ley, who stated that its aim was "to create a true social and productive community." Theoretically the DAF existed to act as a medium through which workers and owners could mutually represent their interests. However, in reality it was a means by which workers were controlled, ensuring wage demands were not made too often.

Suriname worker's union leader A. de Come was banished to the Netherlands.

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Rhythm of the Rain--The Cascades

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Summer Holiday--Cliff Richard and the Shadows (2nd week at #1)
2 Bachelor Boy--Cliff Richard and the Shadows
3 Dancing Shoes--Cliff Richard and the Shadows
4 Surfin' U.S.A.--Beach Boys
5 I Will Follow Him--Little Peggy March
6 Let's Go Steady Again--Neil Sedaka
7 Mecca--Gene Pitney
8 Pipeline--Chantays
9 Sukiyaki--Kyu Sakamoto
10 Puff the Magic Dragon--Peter, Paul and Mary

On television tonight
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Dear Uncle George, starring Gene Barry, John Larkin, Patricia Donahue, and Dabney Coleman

Died on this date
Eugene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, 31. U.S. football player. Mr. Lipscomb was a defensive tackle with the Los Angeles Rams (1953-1955), Baltimore Colts (1956-1960), and Pittsburgh Steelers (1961-1962), earning All-Pro all-star honours in 1958 and 1959. He died of a heroin overdose in Baltimore. Some people who knew Mr. Lipscomb suspected that he was murdered, as he was said to be afraid of needles.

Edmontonia
Mayor Elmer Roper released city census figures showing a population of 303,756, an increase of 8,789 over 1962. Jasper Place had 35,478 residents, and St. Albert 6,600.

Diplomacy
Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson began a two-day visit to Hyannisport, Massachusetts for talks with U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Canada agreed to get accept nuclear warheads, while the Franklin D. Roosevelt family home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick was to be an international park.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (4th week at #1)

Scandal
Former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, former U.S. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, former New Jersey Senate majority leader Harry Sears, and New Jersey financier Robert Vesco were indicted by a special U.S. federal grand jury in New York on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to obstruct justice in connection with Mr. Vesco's secret 1972 donation of $200,000 to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). Mr. Mitchell, who had headed the committee until July 1972, and Mr. Stans, who had been finance director of the campaign, were also charged with perjury before the grand jury, and faced 50 years in prison and fines up to $75,000. According to the indictment, threatened by a lawsuit from the Securities Exchange Commission, which accused him of looting four mutual funds of $224 million, had agreed to make a contribution to the campaign to re-elect Richard Nixon in return for which Mr. Mitchell would set up a meeting between Mr. Sears, acting as Mr. Vesco's spokesman, and SEC Chairman William Casey, who had later left the SEC to become an undersecretary of State. Mr. Stans had allegedly agreed to shield the contribution from federal examiners at the SEC and the Government Accounting Office. Mr. Sears had allegedly met with Mr. Casey and G. Bradford Cook, SEC general counsel, two hours after the donation had been delivered to Mr. Stans on April 10, 1972. Messrs. Mitchell and Stans both denied any wrongdoing in the case. Mr. Vesco, who had fled the country during the grand jury inquiry, was unavailable for comment.

Politics and government
U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that former Treasury Secretary John Connally would come to the White House as part-time unpaid adviser on domestic and foreign affairs. Mr. Connally, who had served in the cabinet of President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s and then as Governor of Texas, had announced on May 2 that he was joining the Republican Party, asserting that it was more responsive than the Democratic Party to the needs and thoughts of the American people.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Montreal 6 @ Chicago 4 (Montreal won best-of-seven series 4-2)

Yvan Cournoyer scored the winning goal at 8:13 of the 3rd period as the Canadiens defeated the Black Hawks at Chicago Stadium. Mr. Cournoyer's goal, from a rebound of a high shot by Jacques Lemaire, was his 15th of the 1973 playoffs, a single-season playoff record at the time. He finished the playoffs with 25 points in 17 playoff games, and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' most valuable player. Pit Martin scored 3 goals for the Black Hawks. For Montreal captain Henri Richard, it was the 11th time in his career that he'd played on a Stanley Cup-winning team, a record that still stands. The NHL season hasn't ended at such an early date since then.



Vic Stasiuk was fired after two seasons as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks had posted a record of 22 wins, 47 losses, and 9 ties in 1972-73, finishing ahead of only the first-year expansion New York Islanders in the eight-team East Division. The Canucks had yet to make the playoffs after three seasons in the NHL, and a number of their players were reported to be unhappy with Mr. Stasiuk's style of coaching.

Basketball
NBA Finals
New York 102 @ Los Angeles 93 (New York won best-of-seven series 4-1)

Willis Reed scored 18 points and added 12 rebounds and 7 assists to lead the Knickerbockers to victory over the Lakers at the Forum in Inglewood, giving them their second title in the previous four seasons, and their last to date.

30 years ago
1983

On television tonight
Laverne & Shirley, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Here Today, Hair Tomorrow

This was the last episode of the series, which had begun as a spin-off from Happy Days in 1976. I stopped watching it in 1976, so I wasn’t aware that the show was still going that long.

Politics and government
South Africa's ruling National Party suffered setbacks in special parliamentary elections.

Oddities
Lee Chin Yong performed 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
New York Islanders 2 @ Edmonton 0 (New York led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Billy Smith picked up the shutout in goal for the Islanders at Northlands Coliseum in the first Stanley Cup final game ever played in Edmonton. Andy Moog, in goal for the Oilers, gave up just one goal, the winner by Duane Sutter at 5:36 of the 1st period; Ken Morrow scored into an empty net with 12 seconds remaining in the game.



25 years ago
1988

Politics and government
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis won Democratic Party U.S. presidential primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska.

French President Francois Mitterand ended two years of sharing power with Jacques Chirac when he named Michel Rocard as the new Prime Minister.

Labour
Most of the striking shipyard workers in Gdansk, Poland returned to their jobs.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Finals
New Jersey 1 @ Boston 7 (Boston led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Basketball
NBA
Eastern Conference
Semi-Finals
Chicago 82 @ Detroit 93 (Detroit led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Dallas 115 @ Denver 126 (Denver led best-of-seven series 1-0)
Utah 101 @ Los Angeles Lakers 97 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

Baseball
Mark Langston of the Seattle Mariners struck out 16 batters in a 4-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, equalling the 1988 major league high set the previous day by Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox in a 2-0 three-hitter over the Kansas City Royals.

The Oakland Athletics lost 8-2 to the Detroit Tigers, ending their winning streak at 14 games.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Informer--Snow (2nd week at #1)

Diplomacy
European governments rejected the plan of U.S. President Bill Clinton to support arms for the Muslim-dominated regime in Bosnia and to approve a threat to mount an air strike against Bosnian Serb targets.

Disasters
156 workers were killed and 500 injured when a doll factory in Thailand collapsed in flames.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Division Finals
New York Islanders 3 @ Pittsburgh 6 (Pittsburgh led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Basketball
NBA
Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Houston 90 @ Seattle 99 (Seattle led best-of-seven series 1-0)

May 9, 2013

425 years ago
1588

War
Henri I , le duc de Guise’s troops occupied Paris, forcing King Henri III to flee.

250 years ago
1763

War
The Siege of Fort Detroit began during Chief Pontiac's war against British forces.

225 years ago
1788

Protest
The British parliament accepted petitions calling for the abolition of the slave trade.

220 years ago
1793

Exploration
Alexander Mackenzie left Fort York at the forks of the Peace and Smoky rivers in what is now Alberta, heading west with a party of nine. They eventually reached the Pacific Ocean via the Bella Coola River, becoming the first Europeans to cross North America using a route north of Mexico.

200 years ago
1813

War
In the War of 1812, U.S. forces commanded by General William Henry Harrison repellled a siege of Fort Meigs, Ohio by Shawnee Indians led by Tecumseh and British forces commanded by General Henry Proctor.

160 years ago
1853

Law
The British parliament approved of Canada's right to dispose of the clergy reserves, portions of land reserved for the Anglican Church.

140 years ago
1873

Economics and finance
The Vienna stock market crashed, setting off the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression, which lasted until 1879.

125 years ago
1888

Baseball
With a twelve-run lead, Louisville Colonels' right-handed pitcher Icebox Chamberlain held the Kansas City Cowboys scoreless, pitching left-handed for the last two innings.

80 years ago
1933

Protest
Spanish anarchists called for a general strike.

Baseball
The Detroit Tigers sold outfielder Earl Webb to the Chicago White Sox. Mr. Webb, who was hitting .273 in 6 games with the Tigers, hit .290 in 58 games with the White Sox, ending his 7-year major league career with a .306 average in 649 games.

75 years ago
1938

Baseball
Jimmie Foxx drove in 5 runs on a pair of home runs to pace the Boston Red Sox to a 15-3 drubbing of the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park. Jim Bagby was the winning pitcher.

60 years ago
1953

Hit Parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes--Red Foley; Perry Como

#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): The Doggie in the Window--Patti Page (Best seller--8th week at #1; Disc Jockey--7th week at #1; Jukebox--6th week at #1)

U.S. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where is Your Heart)--Percy Faith and his Orchestra
2 April in Portugal--Les Baxter and his Orchestra
--[Ralph Marterie and his "Down Beat" Orchestra]
3 The Doggie in the Window--Patti Page
4 I Believe--Frankie Laine
--[Jane Froman]
5 Ruby--Richard Hayman and his Orchestra
6 Pretend--Nat "King" Cole
7 Anna--Silvana Mangano
8 Tell Me a Story--Jimmy Boyd and Frankie Laine
9 Seven Lonely days--Georgia Gibbs
10 Caravan--Ralph Marterie and his "Down Beat" Orchestra

Singles entering the chart were I'm Walking Behind You by Eddie Fisher (#18); My Lady Loves to Dance by Julius LaRosa (#24); Who's Gonna Pay the Check? by Peggy Lee (#26); The Little Red Monkey by the Three Suns (#29, charting with the version by the Harmonicats); and Ramblin' Man by Frankie Laine (#31).

50 years ago
1963

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): From Me to You--The Beatles (2nd week at #1)

On television tonight
Twilight Zone, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Passage on the Lady Anne, starring Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Alan Napier, Don Keefer, and Cyril Delevanti

Music
The Limeliters performed before a capacity crowd at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, earning a rave review from Barry Westgate in The Edmonton Journal.

Crime
A charge of possession of heroin against comedian Lenny Bruce was dismissed when the judge ruled that Mr. Bruce had been subjected to an illegal search and seizure.

40 years ago
1973

Baseball
Cincinnati Reds' catcher Johnny Bench, who had hit a home run in his last plate appearance the night before, hit home runs in each of 3 at bats against Philadelphia Phillies' ace pitcher Steve Carlton, tying the major league record of home runs in 4 consecutive at bats. Mr. Bench batted in 7 runs, but it took a 2-run homer by shortstop Dave Concepcion off relief pitcher Barry Lersch in the 9th inning to give the Reds a 9-7 win.

Rookie outfielders Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins of the Baltimore Orioles each hit their first major league home runs, consecutively off Oakland Athletics' ace Catfish Hunter, but the Athletics won 4-3.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Billie Jean--Michael Jackson (5th week at #1)

Diplomacy
The U.S. administration of President Ronald Reagan told the Sandanista government of Nicaragua that it would cut its sugar imports by 90%, but that economic relations could improve if Nicaragua stopped aiding leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car--Billy Ocean (3rd week at #1)

War
Syria indicated the possibility of sending in troops to halt the bloodshed in the slums of southern Beirut. At least 150 people had been killed in the fighting in the past four days. More than 400 people, many of them civilians, were being treated in hospital.

Politics and government
In Belgium, Premier Wilfried Martens formed his eighth government since taking office in 1981.

Australiana
Australia's new parliament building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sydney.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Finals
Edmonton 4 @ Detroit 3 (OT) (Edmonton led best-of-seven series 3-1)

Jarri Kurri scored at 11:02 of the 1st overtime period to give the Oilers their win over the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.

Baseball
The Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1 to extend their club-record winning streak to 14 games, the longest in the major leagues since 1977. Oakland led the American League West division by 8 games.

Jerry Reuss of the White Sox picked up his 200th career victory with 7 1/3 shutout innings in Chicago's 3-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Informer--Snow

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): What is Love?--Haddaway

#1 single in Switzerland: Informer--Snow

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Five Live (EP)--George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield (2nd week at #1)

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Clarence S. Campbell Conference
Division Finals
Toronto 4 @ St. Louis 1 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)
Vancouver 7 @ Los Angeles 2 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

Basketball
NBA
Playoffs
Eastern Conference
First Round
New Jersey 89 @ Cleveland 99 (Cleveland won best-of-five series 3-2)

Semi-Finals
Charlotte 95 @ New York 111 (New York led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Western Conference
First Round
Los Angeles Lakers 104 @ Phoenix 112 (Phoenix won best-of-five series 3-2)

Baseball
The Atlanta Braves defeated the Colorado Rockies 12-7 at Coors Field in Denver as the Rockies set a record for reaching attendance of 1 million for the season, reaching the mark in just the 17th home game of the season.

Chicago Cubs' first baseman Mark Grace hit for the cycle in the Cubs' 5-4 loss to the San Diego Padres.

10 years ago
2003

Died on this date
Russell Long, 84. U.S. politician. Mr. Long, a Democrat, was the son of Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Long, and represented Louisiana in the United States Senate from 1948-1987, serving as majority whip from 1965-1969 and chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance from 1966-1981.

Diplomacy
The U.S.A., U.K., and Spain submitted a proposal to the United Nations Security Council to give the U.S.A. and U.K. authority over Iraq's government and finances. The proposal also called on the UN to lift sanctions against Iraq.

Economics and finance
The United States House of Representatives voted 222-203 in favour of a tax cut of $550 billion ovber 10 years proposed by President George W. Bush. The plan provided the greatest relief to wealthier Americans, by reducing taxes on dividends and capital gains.

May 8, 2013

1,600 years ago
413

Economics and finance
Roman Emperor Honorius signed an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who were plundered by the Visigoths.

260 years ago
1753

Born on this date
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. Mexican revolutionary leader. Don Miguel Hidalgo was a Roman Catholic priest who, in 1810-1811, led a rebellion of poor farmers and civilians against European-born Spaniards who had overthrown the Spanish viceroy. Don Miguel Hidalgo attracted almost 90,000 followers, but they were untrained and poorly-armed, and were defeated by 6,000 well-armed Spanish troops in the Battle of Calderón Bridge in January 1811. Dom Miguel Hidalgo and his troops fled northward, but he was betrayed, captured, and convicted of treason. He was executed by firing squad and decapitated in Chihuahua City on July 30, 1811 at the age of 58. Dom Miguel Hidalgo is now regarded as the Padre de la Patria (Father of the Nation).

140 years ago
1873

Died on this date
John Stuart Mill, 66. U.K. philosopher. Mr. Mill was regarded as the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century. He was known for his support of individual liberties in opposition to the state, and his belief in utilitarianism--maximizing happiness and avoiding pain.

110 years ago
1903

Died on this date
Paul Gauguin, 54. French artist. Mr. Gauguin was one of the leading painters of the French post-Impressionist era. He became popular after his death, and was an influence on such 20th century artists as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

100 years ago
1913

Born on this date
Sidney James. South African-born U.K. actor. Born Solomon Joel Cohen, Mr. James was a member of the cast of the British radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour in the 1950s, but is best remembered as a star of the "Carry On" series of movies in the 1960s and '70s, and the television comedy series Bless This House (1971-1976). He died at the age of 62 of a heart attack on stage while starring in a revival of The Mating Season in Sunderland, England on April 26, 1976.

80 years ago
1933

Protest
Mohandas Gandhi began a 21-day fast to protest British rule in India.

70 years ago
1943

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): I've Heard That Song Before--Harry James and his Music Makers (10th week at #1)

At the movies
The Ox-Bow Incident, directed by William Wellman and starring Henry Fonda, received its premiere screening in New York City.





The Black Raven, directed by Sam Newfield, and starring George Zucco, Wanda McKay, and Robert Livingston, opened in theatres in Boston.



Died on this date
Mordechai Anielewicz, 24 (?). Polish resistance fighter. Mr. Anielewicz was the leader of the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Combat Organization), also known as ŻOB, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in January and April 1943, when Jews fought attempts by the Nazi occupiers to deport Jews to extermination camps. Mr. Anielewicz's death was believed to be part of a mass suicide.

War
U.K., U.S., and French troops in Tunisia drove the remnants of Axis troops toward the Cap Bon Peninsula and mop up thousands of trapped men behind the lines.

Environment
Dr. Nabor Carrillo predicted in Puebla, Mexico that Mexico City would sink into the earth in the 20th century unless its continued subsidance into the soft ground was stopped.

Horse racing
Count Fleet, with Johnny Longden up, won his second straight Triple Crown race, winning the 68th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore in a time of 1:57 2/5. Blue Swords placed second.

60 years ago
1953

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): I Believe--Frankie Laine (3rd week at #1)

On television tonight
Tales of Tomorrow, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Vault, starring Dorothy Peterson and Cameron Prud'Homme

50 years ago
1963

Space
The mission of the Soviet satellite Cosmos 16 ended, 10 days after it had been launched.

Protest
South Vietnamese soldiers of President Ngo Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic, opened fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.

World events
Canada evacuated its citizens by air from riot-torn Haiti.

Hockey
WHL

The Calgary Stampeders requested a voluntary suspension of operations from the Western Hockey League. The Stampeders were the farm club of the National Hockey League's Chicago Black Hawks, but relations between the clubs had recently soured.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika--Bernd Clüver (3rd week at #1)

Terrorism
The 71-day occupation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ended when Ogala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists surrendered to U.S. federal authorities.

Mexican officials announced that a ransom of $80,000 had been paid two days earlier to People's Revolutionary Armed Forces guerrillas as part of an arrangement to secure the release of U.S. Consul General Terrance Leonhardy, who had been kidnapped on May 4 near his home in Guadalajara. Mr. Hardy had been released near his home on May 7. U.S. officials denied endorsement of the ransom.

War
A third cease-fire of hostilities in Lebanon between the Lebanese army and Palestinian guerrillas was announced. Syria closed its border with Lebanon, accusing Lebanon of complicity in an anti-Palestinian conspiracy of "foreign design."

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
Chicago 8 @ Montreal 7 (Montreal led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Stan Mikita and Jim Pappin each scored 2 goals for the Black Hawks as they outlasted the Canadiens before 18,950 fans at the Montreal Forum. Other Chicago goals were scored by Dennis Hull, Lou Angotti, and rookies Dave Kryskow and Len Frig. Mr. Frig's goal was his first in the NHL. Claude Larose scored 2 goals for the Canadiens, with other Montreal goals being
scored by Frank and Pete Mahovlich, Yvan Cournoyer, Serge Savard, and Henri Richard. Montreal's Ken Dryden and Chicago's Tony Esposito, the two best goalies in the league, produced the highest-scoring game in the modern history of the Stanley Cup finals.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
#1 single in Switzerland: Let's Dance--David Bowie

Died on this date
John Fante, 74. U.S. author. Mr. Fante was best known for his four novels collectively known as "The Bandini Quartet," especially Ask the Dust (1939).

Politics and government
Spain's ruling socialist party swept municipal elections.

25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): One Tree Hill--U2 (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Heart--Pet Shop Boys

Died on this date
Robert A Heinlein, 80. U.S. author. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers, Mr. Heinlein set a high standard for "hard science" fiction. Mr. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction authors for many years. Among Mr. Heinlein’s novels were Red
Planet (1949); The Puppet Masters (1951); and Starship Troopers (1959). His 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land has been called "The Bible of the hippie movement" for its advocacy of liberal sexual mores. Mr. Heinlein was known for saying that man is not a rational creature, but a rationalizing creature.

Politics and government
Francois Mitterrand was elected to a second seven-year term as President of France, with 54% of the vote.

Scandal
The New York Times reported that U.S. Vice President George Bush had been told in 1985 by Everett Briggs, U.S. Ambassador to Panama, that Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was involved in drug smuggling. Mr. Briggs denied the report; Mr. Bush had repeatedly said that he had no knowledge that early about Mr. Noriega’s activities.

Crime
A jury in Seattle convicted Stella Nickell of two counts of murder. She became the first person to be found guilty of violating the U.S. Federal Anti-Tampering Act after putting cyanide in Excedrin capsules. Mrs. Nickell was convicted of the murders of her husband Bruce and Susan Snow, who had taken a poisoned capsule from a bottle that Mrs. Nickell had tampered with and placed on a store shelf.

Labour
Talks at Gdansk, Poland between workers and the shipyard management broke down over recognition of the independent labour federation Solidarity.

Communications
A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggered an extended 1AESS network outage. It was considered at the time to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in U.S. telephone industry history" and still ranks as the worst to occur on Mother's Day.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Finals
Boston 1 @ New Jersey 3 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

Amateur officials worked the game at Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey as NHL officials walked out to protest a restraining order obtained by the Devils against the suspension of head coach Jim Schoenfeld for allegedly pushing referee "Donut Don" Koharski after the previous game. Little John Ziegler, the President of the National Hockey League, was occupied by a family emergency and was unable to deal with the situation.

Basketball
NBA
Playoffs
Eastern Conference
First Round
Milwaukee 111 @ Atlanta 121 (Atlanta won best-of-five series 3-2)
Cleveland 101 @ Chicago 107 (Chicago won best-of-five series 3-2)
Washington 78 @ Detroit 99 (Detroit won best-of-five series 3-2)

Western Conference
Semi-Finals
Utah 91 @ Los Angeles Lakers 110 (Los Angeles led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Baseball
Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitcher Doug Drabek took a no-hitter into the 9th inning before allowing a pinch single by Randy Ready and a home run by Marvell Wynne, but won a 6-2 two-hitter over the San Diego Padres.

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Are You Gonna Go My Way--Lenny Kravitz (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Italy: Sei un Mito--883 (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Tribal Dance--2 Unlimited

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): All that She Wants--Ace of Base (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): No Limit--2 Unlimited (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Mr. Blue--René Klijn (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Chart Information Network): Five Live (EP)--George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Freak Me--Silk (2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Looking Through Patient Eyes--PM Dawn (2nd week at #1)
2 Freak Me--Silk
3 Love Is--Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight
4 I Have Nothing--Whitney Houston
5 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You--Sting
6 I'm So Into You--SWV
7 That's the Way Love Goes--Janet Jackson
8 Informer--Snow
9 Don't Walk Away--Jade
10 Who is It--Michael Jackson

Singles entering the chart were Have I Told You Lately by Rod Stewart (#52); Bad Boys by Inner Circle (#69); Typical Reasons (Swing My Way) by Prince Markie Dee and Soul Convention (#77); and A Song for You by Ray Charles (#81).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 I Have Nothing--Whitney Houston (2nd week at #1)
2 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You--Sting
3 Love Is--Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight
4 The Crying Game--Boy George
5 Two Princes--Spin Doctors
6 Lost in Your Eyes--The Jeff Healey Band
7 Water from the Moon--Celine Dion
8 Looking Through Patient Eyes--PM Dawn
9 Simple Life--Elton John
10 Will You Remember Me--Jann Arden

Singles entering the chart included Love Don't Live Here Anymore by Sven Gali (#62); The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight by R.E.M. (#92); Worlds Away by the Northern Pikes (#93); Coat of Shame by Mae Moore (#94); and Don't Take Away My Heaven by Aaron Neville (#97).

Died on this date
Avram Davidson, 70. U.S. author. Mr. Davidson was a writer of fantasy and crime fiction who won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards.

Boxing
Lennox Lewis (23-0) retained his World Boxing Council heavyweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Tony Tucker (48-2) at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Mr. Tucker was knocked down in rounds 3 and 9.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Prince of Wales Conference
Division Finals
Montreal 4 @ Buffalo 3 (OT) (Montreal won best-of-seven series 4-0)
Pittsburgh 5 @ New York Islanders 6 (Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)

Kirk Muller scored at 11:37 of the 1st overtime period to give the Canadiens their third straight overtime win, eliminating the Sabres at War Memorial Auditorium. Montreal led 3-1 until Dale Hawerchuk scored on a powerplay with 7:30 remaining in regulation time to reduce the deficit to 3-2, and Yuri Khmylev scored with 10 seconds remaining to send the game into overtime.

Basketball
NBA
Playoffs
Western Conference
First Round
Los Angeles Clippers 80 @ Houston 84 (Houston won best-of-five series 3-2)
Utah 92 @ Seattle 100 (Seattle won best-of-five series 3-2)

10 years ago
2003

Health
The World Health Organization reported that recently-identified severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) had been found in 31 countries, with a total of 7,053 cases and 506 deaths so far. The WHO added the Taiwanese capital of Taipei and two new Chinese areas to the list of places that travellers should avoid. Russia identified its first likely case of SARS
and closed some border crossings with China.

Disasters
An unknown number of people aboard a Russian-built Ilyushin 76 jet flying from Kinshasa to Lubumbashin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were sucked out of the plane to their deaths when the main cargo door opened at an altitude of 33,000 feet. There were estimated to be 200 people on board, with estimates of the death toll ranging from 60-170. Survivors held on to ropes and netting inside the plane.