March 6, 2015

1,825 years ago
190

Died on this date
Shao, 13 or 14. Emperor of China, 189. Shao, born Liu Bian, succeeded his father Ling as Emperor of the Han dynasty at the approximate age of 13, reigning under a regency from May 15-September 28, 189. He was deposed by warlord Dong Zhuo, who then installed Emperor Shao's half-brother Liu Xie on the throne as Emperor Xian, with the deposed Shao being given the title Prince of Hongnong. In 190, Dong Zhuo became afraid that rebellious warlords would attempt to restore Shao to the throne; Dong Zhuo thus sent his adviser Li Ru to force the Prince of Hongnong to commit suicide by drinking poisoned wine.

1,170 years ago
845

Abominations
42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the Sack of Amorium in 838 were executed by the Abbasid Caliphate for refusing to convert to Islam.

350 years ago
1665

Journalism
The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

100 years ago
1915

Born on this date
Pete Gray. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Gray, born Peter Wyshner, was an outfielder who played major league baseball despite having lost his right arm above the elbow in a childhood accident. Mr. Gray played 77 games with the St. Louis Browns in 1945, batting .218 with no home runs and 13 runs batted in. He had been a successful player in the minor leagues from 1942-1944, but major league pitchers took advantage of his inability to adjust to breaking pitches. Mr. Gray concluded his playing career in the minors in 1946 and 1948-1949. He died on June 30, 2002 at the age of 87.

90 years ago
1925

Labour
12,000 coal miners in Truro, Nova Scotia began a strike that lasted until August 6, 1925.

80 years ago
1935

Died on this date
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 93. U.S. jurist. Mr. Holmes was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902-1932, and acting Chief Justice in February 1930. He was nicknamed "The Great Dissenter," although he usually sided with the majority on the Court. Mr. Holmes rejected the idea of "natural law," arguing in favour of experience as a guide in legal matters. He died two days before his 94th birthday.

75 years ago
1940

War
Reports from Stockholm indicated that new Soviet peace offers had been made to Finland through the Swedish government. Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced plans to recruit an additional 90,000 men for military service by June 1941.

Diplomacy
Charles Rist of France and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the U.K. arrived in Washington for economic conferences with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

Defense
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill providing for increased military plane production by a larger section of industry.

Economics and finance
France and Italy signed a one-year trade agreement.

Agriculture
The wartime Agricultural Supplies Board was founded by the Canadian government of Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

Basketball
NCAA
Stanley Modzeleinski of Rhode Island State University set a new intercollegiate scoring record for a single season with 495 points.

70 years ago
1945

Died on this date
Rudolf Karel, 64. Czech composer. Mr. Karel wrote four symphonies, three operas, and other orchestral and chamber works. He participated in the resistance against German occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War II, and was arrested by the Nazis. Mr. Karel worked on his opera Three Hairs of the Wise Old Man while interned at Pankrác concentration camp, using a pencil or medicinal charcoal to write on toilet paper, and passing the 240 sheets to a friendly warden; his pupil Zbynek Vostrak completed the orchestrations after his death. Mr. Karel was transferred to Theresienstadt concentration camp in February 1945, and died there of dysentery.

War
U.S. forces captured Cologne, Germany's fourth-largest city. After a two-day advance of 29 miles, Soviet troops entered Cammin, 36 miles northeast of Stettin. U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima made small gains on the left and centre flanks of their lines.

Politics and government
Dr. Petre Groza formed a new Romanian cabinet with himself as Prime Minister.

World events
It was reported from Paris that French police had released British author P.G. Wodehouse from "preventive detention." Mr. Wodehouse had been detained for making radio broadcasts while a captive of the Nazis.

Economics and finance
The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee recommended the extension of the Lend-Lease Act for another year beyond its June 30, 1945 expiration date.

Business
The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission ruled illegal Allegheny Corporation's control of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; and Pere Marquette Railroad.

Montgomery Ward and Company filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking a review of the decision handed down in January by the U.S. District Court in Chicago. Federal Judge Philip Sullivan had ruled that the U.S. Army seizure of Montgomery Ward properties in seven localities was illegal. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had ordered the seizure because of Montgomery Ward's refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders.

Football
NCAA
The University of Notre Dame named Hugh Devore as acting head football coach and athletic director.

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Under the Boardwalk/Walking the Dog--The Rolling Stones (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France: Les Filles de mon Pays--Enrico Macias (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Le colline sono in fiore--The New Christy Minstrels (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Kleine Annabell--Ronny (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Letkiss--Gudrun Jankis; Stig Rauno (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): It's Not Unusual--Tom Jones

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): My Girl--The Temptations

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Eight Days a Week--The Beatles
2 This Diamond Ring--Gary Lewis and the Playboys
3 My Girl--The Temptations
4 King of the Road--Roger Miller
5 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'--The Righteous Brothers
6 Tell Her No--The Zombies
7 Downtown--Petula Clark
8 The Jolly Green Giant--The Kingsmen
9 The Birds and the Bees--Jewel Akens
10 Ferry Cross the Mersey--Gerry & the Pacemakers

Singles entering the chart were Red Roses for a Blue Lady by Wayne Newton (#37, charting with the version by Vic Dana); Long Lonely Nights by Bobby Vinton (#68); Come See by Major Lance (#73); Do You Wanna Dance? (#74)/Please Let Me Wonder (#85) by the Beach Boys; Got to Get You Off My Mind by Solomon Burke (#80); Pass Me By by Mike Douglas (#90, charting with the version by Peggy Lee); 4--By the Beatles (EP) (#92); Teasin' You by Willie Tee (#94); You Can't Hurt Me No More by Gene Chandler (#95); Poor Man's Son by the Reflections (#98); Be My Baby by Dick and DeeDee (#99); and Not Too Long Ago by the Uniques (#100). The songs on 4--By the Beatles were Honey Don't; I'm a Loser; Mr. Moonlight; and Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, all taken from the album Beatles '65.

On television tonight
Sherlock Holmes, starring Douglas Wilmer and Nigel Stock, on BBC 1
Tonight's episode: The Copper Beeches

At the movies
Nightmare in the Sun, co-written, co-produced, and directe by Marc Lawrence, and starring Ursula Andress, John Derek, Aldo Ray, and Arthur O'Connell, opened in theatres.



Died on this date
Margaret Dumont, 82. U.S. actress. Miss Dumont, born Daisy Juliette Baker, was known for her supporting performances in seven movie comedies starring the Marx Brothers. She died eight days after taping a broadcast of the television program The Hollywood Palace, in which she was reunited with guest host Groucho Marx.

Politics and government
The Liberal and Country League government of South Australia was defeated by the Labour Party in the state election, ending a reign of 26 years and 4 months, all under Premier Tom Playford. Frank Walsh took office as Premier four days later.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)--Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

On television tonight
Good Night America, hosted by Geraldo Rivera, on ABC

Guests Robert Groden and Dick Gregory showed the film made by Abraham Zapruder of the November 22, 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the first time the film had been shown to a national television audience.

Died on this date
Glenn Hardin, 64. U.S. runner. Mr. Hardin won a silver medal in men's 400-metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a gold medal in the same event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. His death came 18 days after the death of Morgan Taylor, the winner of the gold medal in men's 400-metre hurdles at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and silver medals in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and 1932 in Los Angeles.

Jacque MacKinnon, 36. U.S. football player. Mr. MacKinnon was a tight end and fullback with the San Diego Chargers (1961-1969) of the American Football League and Oakland Raiders (1970) of the National Football League, before coming out of retirement to play briefly with the Southern California Sun of the World Football League in 1974. He was an AFL All-Star in 1966 and 1968, and was a member of the Chargers' 1963 AFL championship team. Mr. MacKinnon was killed when he jumped over a tall fence, not knowing there was a construction site on the other side. He fell 30 feet and suffered fatal head injuries.

Billy Douglas, 19. U.S. football player. Mr. Douglas was a starting defensive back with Newberry College in Newberry, South Carolina. While making a routine tackle during a spring practice scrimmage, he suffered a severed spinal cord resulting from a broken vertebra, and died two days later.

Diplomacy
Iran and Iraq signed the Algiers Agreement, a settlement of their border dispute.

Baseball
The Oakland Athletics released second baseman Dick Green, ending his career. Mr. Green had joined the Kansas City Athletics in 1963 and moved with the team to Oakland in 1968, batting .240 with 80 home runs and 422 runs batted in in 1,288 games. He was the starting second baseman for the Athletics in their World Series championships of 1972-1974, and was almost voted the most valuable player in the 1974 World Series because of his outstanding defensive play, despite batting 0 for 13.

The Kansas City Royals sold utility player Kurt Bevacqua to the Milwaukee Brewers for an undisclosed amount. Mr. Bevacqua was on the roster of the Omaha Royals of the American Association--Kansas City's top farm team--at the time of the deal, and he was assigned to the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League. He had split the 1974 season between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Royals, batting just .114 in 18 games with Pittsburgh and .211 in 39 games with Kansas City.

30 years ago
1985

Theatre
Yul Brynner, 64, played his 4,500th performance as the king in The King and I at the Broadway Theatre on Broadway in New York. Mr. Brynner first played the role on March 29, 1951 at St. James Theatre.

Boxing
Mike Tyson (1-0) made his professional debut, scoring a technical knockout of Hector Mercedes (0-4) 1:47 into the 1st round of a heavyweight bout at Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York.

25 years ago
1990

Aviation
Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set a transcontinental speed record, flying an SR-71 Blackbird 2,404 miles from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.

World events
The United States said that poison gas was being produced at a plant at Rabta, Libya, about 50 miles southwest of Tripoli.

Protest
Two days after the president of the South African "homeland" of Ciskei had been overthrown, protests had spread to four other homelands, led by activists sympathetic to the African National Congress. The militants clashed with police in the "homelands."

Diplomacy
Nicaraguan President-elect Violetta Chamorro met with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in Costa Rica to discuss repatriation of the Nicaraguan Contras. Mrs. Chamorro said after the meeting that she would solve the Contra problem by declaring an amnesty, called for demilitarization of Central America, and said she would reduce Nicaragua’s army to a small police force.

Tennis
13-year-old Jennifer Capriati made her professional debut, defeating 28-year-old Mary Lou Daniels 7-6, 6-1 in Boca Raton, Florida.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: No More "I Love You's"--Annie Lennox

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Zombie--Ororo (8th week at #1)

#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): Think Twice--Celine Dion

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Conquest of Paradise--Vangelis (4th week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Take a Bow--Madonna
2 Bang and Blame--R.E.M.
3 Strong Enough--Sheryl Crow
4 Mishale--Andru Donalds
5 When I Come Around--Green Day
6 She's a River--Simple Minds
7 The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead--Crash Test Dummies
8 Buddy Holly--Weezer
9 Better Man--Pearl Jam
10 I Know--Dionne Farris

Singles entering the chart were No More "I Love You's" by Annie Lennox (#54); Can't Stop Lovin' You by Van Halen (#71); Hold On by Jamie Walters (#83); Believe by Elton John (#84); Wonderdrug by Jann Arden (#85); If You Love Me by Brownstone (#88); Nautical Disaster by the Tragically Hip (#89); Lightning Crashes by Live (#90); For Your Love by Stevie Wonder (#93); Life, in a Nutshell by Barenaked Ladies (#94); and Mannequin by Wild Strawberries (#95).

War
Russian military headquarters claimed that Russian troops had pushed Chechen rebels from their last stronghold in Grozny, capital of the rebel republic of Chechnya.

Crime
Mexican officials charged former Mexican Deputy Attorney General Mario Ruiz Massieu with obstructing the investigation into the 1994 murder of his brother Jose, deputy leader of Mexico's governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Business
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. agreed to pay U.S. $810 million for Texasgulf Inc. of North Carolina.

10 years ago
2005

Died on this date
Hans Bethe, 98. German-born U.S. physicist. Dr. Bethe began his career in his native country, but left after the Nazis came to power in 1933, and within two years had settled in the United States, becoming a professor at Cornell University. He made important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars." Dr. Bethe worked on the development of the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb, but later spoke out against nuclear weapons, while advocating the peaceful use of nuclear energy. He continued to publish scientific papers well into his 90s; physicist Freeman Dyson, one of his students, referred to Dr. Bethe as the "supreme problem-solver of the 20th century."

Teresa Wright, 86. U.S. actress. Miss Wright was one of the most appealing actresses of the 1940s, winning the Academy Award for her supporting performance in Mrs. Miniver (1942). Her other movies included The Little Foxes (1941); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); Shadow of a Doubt (1943); and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

Danny Gardella, 85. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Gardella was a left fielder with the New York Giants (1944-1945) and St. Louis Cardinals (1950), batting .267 with 24 home runs and 85 runs batted in in 169 games. In 1946 he was one of several major league players who jumped to the Mexican League, which was offering more money than the major leagues. Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler responded with a five-year ban on players who jumped to the Mexican League for violating the reserve clause of their contracts. Mr. Gardella challenged the legality of the reserve clause in court, but accepted an offer of amnesty from Mr. Chandler in 1949. Mr. Gardella appeared in 1 game with the Cardinals in 1950, but was then sent back to the minor leagues, where he finished his career in 1951. He died eight days after his 85th birthday.

March 5, 2015

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Olivia Mananquil!

200 years ago
1815

Born on this date
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha. Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, 1852, 1855-1856, 1858-1859, 1861, 1867-1871. Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha was a prominent official during the Tanzimat period (1839-1876) of reform within the Ottoman Empire. He was best known as the architect of the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856, and for his role in the Treaty of Paris (1856) that ended the Crimean War. Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha alternated between the offices of Grand Vizier and Foreign Minister from 1855 until his death on September 7, 1871 at the age of 56, after a three-month bout with tuberculosis.

Died on this date
Franz Mesmer, 80. German physician and astrologist. Dr. Mesmer was known for his belief that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called animal magnetism. His method of treating patients was later called mesmerism, but is better known today as hypnosis.

125 years ago
1890

Born on this date
John Aasen. U.S. actor. Mr. Aasen was a 7'2" sideshow performer who appeared in 14 movies, including Why Worry? (1923); Should Married Men Go Home? (1928); and Bengal Tiger (1936). He died from pneumonia on August 1, 1938 at the age of 48.

120 years ago
1895

Died on this date
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet Rawlinson, 84. U.K. military officer, archaeologist, and politician. Sir Henry was a British East India Company officer in Persia, India, and Ottoman Arabia from the late 1820s through the mid-1850s. While in Baghad in the 1840s, he studied cuneiform, and became known as the Father of Assyriology. Sir Henry spent most of his last 40 years in London. A Liberal, he represented Reigate (1858) and Frome (1865-1868) in the House of Commons, and was President of the Royal Geographical Society (1871-1873, 1874-1876). Sir Henry died a month before his 85th birthday.

Nikolai Leskov, 64. Russian writer. Mr. Leskov wrote novels, short stories, plays, and journalism, mainly about contemporary Russian society. He was held in high esteem by more famous authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, and Anton Chekhov. Mr. Leskov's included the novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865) and the novels The Cathedral Clergy (1872) and The Enchanted Wanderer (1873). He died 17 days after his 64th birthday, after a period of declining health.

100 years ago
1915

Born on this date
Henry Hicks. Canadian politician. Mr. Hicks, a Liberal, was a Member of the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly for Annapolis from 1945-1960 and Premier of Nova Scotia from 1954-1956. He represented Nova Scotia in the Canadian Senate from 1972-1990. Mr. Hicks was killed at the age of 75, along with his wife Rosalie, in a car accident on December 9, 1990.

75 years ago
1940

Music
John Henry: A Railroad Ballad for Orchestra by Aaron Copland received its premiere performance on NBC radio.

Abominations
Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Josef Stalin, signed an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish prisoners of war, in what would become known as the Katyn massacre.

War
British naval forces intercepted seven Italian coal-carrying ships from Rotterdam and took them into British ports.

Politics and government
William George Clark of Fredericton was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.

A Gallup Poll reported that American voters now favoured political candidates who urged economy over those who urged government spending programs.

Economics and finance
Uruguayan President Alfredo Baldomier said that the United States should assist Latin American nations to relieve their dependence on European trade markets.

El Salvador's Finance Ministry announced its intention to establish a branch of the Inter-American Bank in San Salvador.

70 years ago
1945

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Rum and Coca-Cola--The Andrews Sisters (2nd week at #1)
--Abe Lyman and his Orchestra
--Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
2 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive--Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
--Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
3 Don't Fence Me In--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
--Kate Smith
--Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights
4 Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)--Frank Sinatra
--Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra
5 I Dream of You (More than You Dream I Do)--Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
--Andy Russell
--Frank Sinatra
--Perry Como
6 A Little on the Lonely Side--Frankie Carle and his Orchestra
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
7 Sleigh Ride in July--Dinah Shore
--Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
--Bing Crosby
8 Cocktails for Two--Spike Jones and his City Slickers
9 I'm Beginning to See the Light--Harry James and his Orchestra
--Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
10 My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time--Les Brown and his Orchestra
--Phil Moore Four

The only single entering the chart was Dream by the Pied Pipers (#37).

On the radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on MBS
Tonight's episode: The Doomed Sextet

Died on this date
János Garay, 56. Hungarian fencer. Mr. Garay won a silver medal in team saber at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and a gold medal in the same event at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary after the country was occupied by German forces in 1944, and was murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Oberösterreich, Austria.

Lena Baker, 44. U.S. convicted criminal. Ms. Baker, a Negress from Georgia, worked as a maid to support her family. In 1944, she began working for Ernest Knight, an older white man who had broken his leg. Mr. Knight kept Ms. Baker in a condition of virtual slavery, and committed multiple sexual assaults against her. One night, an argument between the two escalated, and she shot him while they were struggling over his gun. Ms. Baker reported the incident to police and claimed to have acted in self-defense, but an all-white, all-male jury convicted her of capital murder on the first day of her trial. She was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison, becoming the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution. In 2005, the Georgia Parole Board granted Ms. Baker a full and unconditional posthumous pardon.

War
Three U.S. troops columns smashed into Cologne, pushing toward the city's centre. Soviet forces took Stettin's outer bastions of Stargard and Naugard.

Diplomacy
The Inter-American Conference in Mexico City decided that Argentina must adhere to the Act of Chapultepec, declare war on the Axis, and sign the declaration of the United Nations before she could be restored to the American family of nations.

Politics and government
The New York State Senate completed work on the Ives-Quinn anti-discrimination bill and sent it to Governor Thomas Dewey.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Fred Vinson to succeed Jesse Jones as Federal Loan Administrator in charge of the RFC.

Labour
7,000 London dock workers who had gone on strike two days earlier because they had been asked to report to work at an outside rather than an inside place, refused to follow the orders of their union leaders to resume work.

60 years ago
1955

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Hold My Hand--Don Cornell; Nat "King" Cole (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): Give Me Your Word--Tennessee Ernie Ford (3rd week at #1)

#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Sincerely--The McGuire Sisters (Best Seller--4th week at #1; Disc Jockey--4th week at #1; Jukebox--1st week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Melody of Love--Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra (5th week at #1)
--David Carroll and his Orchestra
--The Four Aces
2 Sincerely--The McGuire Sisters
3 Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)--The Penguins
--The Crew-Cuts
4 Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)--Perry Como
--The Crew-Cuts
5 Hearts of Stone--The Fontane Sisters
--The Charms
6 Tweedlee Dee--Georgia Gibbs
--LaVern Baker and the Gliders
7 The Crazy Otto--Johnny Maddox and the Rhythmasters
8 Mr. Sandman--The Chordettes
--The Four Aces
9 The Ballad of Davy Crockett--Bill Hayes
10 Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)--Cowboy Church Sunday School

Singles entering the chart were It May Sound Silly by the McGuire Sisters (#26); The Fish by Mindy Carson (#32); Softly, Softly by Jaye P. Morgan (#42); Lazy Gondolier by Mantovani and his Orchestra (#44); I've Been Thinking by the Four Lads (#45); My Anxious Heart by the Four Coins (#48); Foolishly by the Three Chuckles (#49); and Bubbles by Frankie Laine (#50).

Died on this date
Antanas Merkys, 68. Prime Minister of Lithuania, 1939-1940. Mr. Merkys, leader of the Lithuanian Nationalist Party, was the last Prime Minister of an independent Lithuania before its annexation by the U.S.S.R. He was captured while attempting to flee Lithuania and was deported to Russia, where he was imprisoned until 1954. When Mr. Merkys was released from prison, he was not allowed to return to Lithuania.

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Eight Days a Week--The Beatles (2nd week at #1)
2 Ferry Cross the Mersey--Gerry & the Pacemakers
3 King of the Road--Roger Miller
4 The Birds and the Bees--Jewel Akens
5 This Diamond Ring--Gary Lewis and the Playboys
6 Little Things--Bobby Goldsboro
7 Goldfinger--Shirley Bassey
8 Can't You Hear My Heartbeat--Herman's Hermits
9 Easy Come, Easy Go--Barry Allen
10 The Jolly Green Giant--The Kingsmen
Pick hit of the week: (Here They Come) From All Over the World--Jan & Dean
New this week: I'll Never Find Another You--The Seekers
That'll Be the Day--The Everly Brothers
Baby the Rain Must Fall--Glenn Yarbrough
The Woman from Liberia--Unit Four plus Two
Long Lonely Nights--Bobby Vinton
Me and You--The Regents

Baby the Rain Must Fall was the title song of the movie.

Music
The single The Minute You're Gone by Cliff Richard was released in the United Kingdom and on Capitol Records in Canada. The B-side, Just Another Guy, was written by the then-unknown Neil Diamond.

Died on this date
Pepper Martin, 61. U.S. baseball player. Johnny Leonard Roosevelt Martin, "The Wild Horse of the Osage," was an outfielder with the St. Louis Cardinals (1928, 1930-1940, 1944), batting .298 with 59 home runs and 501 runs batted in in 1,189 games. He was best known for his World Series play, batting .500 (12 for 24) with 5 stolen bases in the Cardinals' seven-game upset of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1931, and .355 (11 for 31) in the Cardinals' seven-game win over the Detroit Tigers in 1934.

Protest
A Leftist uprising erupted in Bahrain against British colonial presence.

Boxing
Ernie Terrell (37-4) won a unanimous 15-round decision over Eddie Machen (47-6-2) at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago to win the vacant World Boxing Association world heavyweight title. The WBA had stripped Muhammad Ali of the title for agreeing to a rematch with former champion Sonny Liston.



40 years ago
1975

Terrorism
18 people in Tel Aviv were killed in an attack by eight Palestinian guerrillas.

Technology
The first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club took place in Gordon French's garage in Menlo Park, California.

Hockey
NHL
Detroit 3 @ Toronto 4

Darryl Sittler scored his 29th goal of the season and third of the game with 22 seconds remaining in the 3rd period to give the Maple Leafs their win over the Red Wings before 16,392 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens in the Wednesday Hockey Night in Canada telecast on CTV. Blaine Stoughton opened the scoring for Toronto in the 1st period and Mr. Sittler scored his first goal of the game before Bart Crashley got Detroit on the scoreboard. Mike Korney scored twice in the 2nd period to give the Red Wings a 3-2 lead, but Mr. Sittler scored at 4:13 of the 3rd period to tie the game. Gord McRae made 31 saves in goal for Toronto, while Jim Rutherford made 43 saves in a losing effort for Detroit.

Baseball
The Pawtucket Red Sox of the International League signed outfielder Tony Conigliaro, who was attempting a comeback after almost four years of retirement. Mr. Conigliaro had played for the Boston Red Sox--parent club of the Pawtucket Red Sox--from 1964-1970, and was one of the top sluggers in the game until a severe beaning in August 1967 left him with damaged vision in his left eye. He missed the rest of the 1967 season and all of 1968, but made a successful comeback in 1969. Mr. Conigliaro was traded to the California Angels after the 1970 season, but his vision began to deteriorate, and he retired in July 1971 and was put on the Angels' voluntary retired list until being released on November 25, 1974.

The San Diego Padres opened their training camp in Scottsdale, Arizona, about 10 days later than most other major league teams, saving the club $30,000.

30 years ago
1985

Hockey
NHL
Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons. Wayne Gretsky and Guy Lafleur each accomplished the feat in six straight seasons.

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Kiss Me Now (今すぐＫｉｓｓ　Ｍｅ)--Lindberg

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor

Died on this date
Gary Merrill, 74. U.S. actor. Mr. Merrill was known for supporting roles in movies such as Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and All About Eve (1950), and for appearances in numerous television programs. He was married to actress Bette Davis from 1950-1960.

Canadiana
Tonya Goss, Miss Niagara Region, was chosen Miss Teen Canada 1990. She turned out to be the last winner; the pageant was becoming too expensive for the sponsors, and there were no more Miss Teen Canadas after this year.

World events
A day after Negro nationalists believed to be sympathetic to the African National Congress had overthrown the president of the South African "homeland" of Ciskei, South Africa sent soldiers and police into Ciskei. Looting and arson had become widespread, and 27 people had been killed.

Scandal
Eight Canadian flour mills were charged with rigging prices for food aid in the amount of $500 million over 12 years.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): Old Pop in an Oak--Rednex (6th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Conquest of Paradise--Vangelis

Defense
The Canadian Airborne Regiment was officially disbanded at a laying-up of the colours ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, Ontario; 660 paratroopers were dismissed.

Politics and government
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ended his two-day hunger strike after current President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon said that he would absolve Mr. Salinas of sole responsibility for the current economic crisis and of having obstructed the investigation into the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s original nominee for President in 1994.

March 4, 2015

350 years ago
1665

War
King Charles II of England declared war on the Netherlands, marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

225 years ago
1790

Franciana
France was divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.

210 years ago
1805

Politics and government
Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated into his second term as the 3rd President of the United States of America.

190 years ago
1825

Politics and government
John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as the 6th President of the United States of America.

170 years ago
1845

Politics and government
James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States of America.

150 years ago
1865

Americana
The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America was adopted by the Confederate Congress.

Politics and government
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated into his second term as the 16th President of the United States of America.

Samuel Leonard Tilley was defeated in New Brunswick elections in what was seen as a vote against Confederation with Canada.

130 years ago
1885

Politics and government
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as the 22nd President of the United States of America.

125 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Norman Bethune. Canadian physician. Dr. Bethune, a native of Gravenhurst, Ontario, was a thoracic surgeon who joined the Communist Party of Canada after visiting the U.S.S.R. in 1935. He aided the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937, where he pioneered a mobile blood transfusion service. Dr. Bethune went to China in 1938, where he aided the forces of Communist leader Mao Zedong. He died of blood poisoning at the age of 49 on November 12, 1939, after cutting his finger while operating on a soldier.

Transportation
The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, a railway bridge measuring 1,710 feet (520 metres) long and connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, was opened by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.

110 years ago
1905

Politics and government
Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated into a term in his own right as the 26th President of the United States of America. Mr. Roosevelt had succeeded William McKinley as President upon Mr. McKinley's death on September 14, 1901.

100 years ago
1915

Died on this date
William Willett, 58. U.K. builder. Mr. Willett was a house builder who was better known for his advocacy of daylight saving time. He died of influenza a year before British Summer Time went into effect during World War I.

90 years ago
1925

Died on this date
John Montgomery Ward, 65. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Ward was a pitcher, outfielder, and shortstop with the Providence Grays (1878-1882); New York Gothams and Giants (1883-1889, 1893-1894); Brooklyn Wonders (1890); and Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1891-1892), batting .275 with 26 home runs and 869 runs batted in in 1,827 games. He pitched from 1878-1884, posting a record of 164-103 with an earned run average of 2.10. Mr. Ward's best season was 1879, when he was 47-19 with an ERA of 2.15, while batting .286 with 2 homers and 41 RBIs. On June 17, 1880 he pitched the second perfect game in major league history as the Grays blanked the Buffalo Bisons 5-0; the game occurred just five days after Lee Richmond had pitched the first perfect game in major league history. Mr. Ward died of pneumonia the day after his 65th birthday; he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.

Politics and government
Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated into a term in his own right as the 30th President of the United States of America. His inaugural address, the first to be broadcast on radio, was carried by 21 stations. Mr. Coolidge had succeeded Warren G. Harding as President upon Mr. Harding's death on August 2, 1923.

75 years ago
1940

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, on NBC
Tonight’s episode: The Beryl Coronet

War
Soviet troops crossed Viborg Bay on the ice to the Finnish mainland west of Viborg, virtually completing the capture of the city.

Diplomacy
Italy protested British orders to seize coal-laden ships leaving German ports.

The Romanian government rejected the Italian offer to join the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Protest
Meeting in Jerusalem, the National Council of Palestinian Jews adopted a resolution stating that it could not accept the new British regulations limiting Jewish land purchases in agricultural areas of Palestine.

Economics and finance
A Gallup Poll reported that 55% of Americans favoured lending the U.K. and France money for arms an supplies should it appear that Germany was going to win the European war.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill extending provisions of the Bankruptcy Act for farmers until March 4, 1944.

New Zealand acting Prime Minister Peter Fraser announced that a $5-million loan by the Bank of New Zealand to the government for war purposes would be interest-free for the war's duration.

Agriculture
H.L. Mitchell of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union declared that nearly one million families had been displaced from southern cotton farms in the United States since 1930 because of mechanization.

Disasters
An ice storm from eastern Pennsylvania to Boston caused greater damage than the 1938 hurricane.

Basketball
NCAA
Purdue University defeated the University of Illinois to win the Big Ten championship.

70 years ago
1945

Died on this date
Lucille La Verne, 72. U.S. actress. Miss La Verne was a noted stage and film actress who is best remembered for providing the voice of the evil stepmother in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Mark Sandrich, 44. U.S. film director. Mr. Sandrich, born Mark Goldstein, directed such movies as The Gay Divorcee (1934); Top Hat (1935); Shall We Dance (1937); and Holiday Inn (1942). He died suddenly of heart failure.

War
Finland, formerly an ally of Germany, declared war on Germany. Reaching to within 2 miles of Cologne, U.S. troops in Germany seized Koenigsdorf and entered Widdersdorf and Loevenich. Soviet troops reached the Baltic coast of Pomerania in the vicinity of Kolberg. The U.S. 6th Army completed clearing Manila of Japanese forces, a month after entering the city. The Japanese garrison, originally consisting of 20,000 naval soldiers, was eliminated.

Diplomacy
The United States invited 39 nations to attend the conference in San Francisco in April to draw up a charter for an international organization.

Economics and finance
The Inter-American Conference in Mexico City approved eight resolutions concerning economic problems of World War II.

60 years ago
1955

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Softly, Softly--Ruby Murray (3rd week at #1)

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): I'll Never Find Another You--The Seekers (2nd week at #1)

Diplomacy
The United States Information Agency announced that it would close its libraries in Indonesia, which had been under attack since 1958.

40 years ago
1975

On television today
Proceedings of a Canadian parliamentary committee in Ottawa were televised for the first time.

Britannica
Movie legend Charles Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Cinderella wa Nemurenai--The Alfee

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Amante Bandido--Miguel Bosé (2nd week at #1)

Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli

#1 single in Switzerland: Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (2nd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor
2 Bakerman--Laid Back
3 Sit and Wait--Sydney Youngblood
4 Get Up! (Before the Night is Over)--Technotronic
5 Got to Get--Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K.
6 All Around the World--Lisa Stansfield
7 Don't Know Much--Linda Ronstadt (featuring Aaron Neville)
8 Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins
9 Rich in Paradise "Going Back to My Roots"--F.P.I. Project
10 The Message is Love--Arthur Baker and the Backbeat Disciples featuring Al Green

Singles entering the chart were Touch Me by the 49ers (#16) and I Don't Wanna Lose You by Tina Turner (#29).

Died on this date
Hank Gathers, 23. U.S. basketball player. Mr. Gathers, a center with Loyola Marymount University, had led the National Collegiate Athletic Association in scoring and rebounding the previous season as a junior, and was averaging 28.8 points in 1989-90, leading the West Coast Conference. He was projected to be a first-round choice in the 1990 National Basketball Association draft. Mr. Gathers, who had collapsed during a game because of a heart arrythmia three months earlier, collapsed again during the 1st half of his team’s game in Los Angeles against Portland. He was rushed to hospital, and died 1 hour and 41 minutes later, three weeks after his 23rd birthday.



World events
Negro nationalists believed to be sympathetic to the African National Congress overthrew the president of the South African "homeland" of Ciskei.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Another Night--Real McCoy (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)--Scatman John

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): A Girl Like You--Edwyn Collins (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Zombie--The Cranberries

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): No Limit--Irene Moors & de Smurfen (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Think Twice--Celine Dion (5th week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Take a Bow--Madonna (2nd week at #1)
2 Creep--TLC
3 On Bended Knee--Boyz II Men
4 Candy Rain--Soul for Real
5 Baby--Brandy
6 Another Night--Real McCoy
7 You Gotta Be--Des'ree
8 If You Love Me--Brownstone
9 Strong Enough--Sheryl Crow
10 Always--Bon Jovi

Singles entering the chart were Red Light Special by TLC (#39); For Your Love by Stevie Wonder (#71); Get Lifted by Keith Murray (#83); Mr. Personality by Gillette (#84); Never Find Someone Like You by Keith Martin (#85); and What I Need by Crystal Waters (#87).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Take a Bow--Madonna (3rd week at #1)
2 Creep--TLC
3 On Bended Knee--Boyz II Men
4 If You Love Me--Brownstone
5 Strong Enough--Sheryl Crow
6 Hold My Hand--Hootie & the Blowfish
7 You Gotta Be--Des'ree
8 Sukiyaki--4 P.M.
9 I Know--Dionne Farris
10 Every Day of the Week--Jade

Singles entering the chart were Foe Tha Love of $ by Bone Thugs N Harmony featuring Eazy-E (#67) and Where I Wanna Be Boy by Missjones (#80).

Died on this date
eden ahbez, 86. U.S. musician. Mr. ahbez, born George Alexander Aberle, was a pianist and dance band leader in Kansas City who moved to Los Angeles and adopted a "nature boy" lifestyle, growing a beard and long hair, living outdoors, studying Oriental mysticism, and observing a vegetarian diet. Mr. ahbez, who believed that God and Infinity were the only words deserving capitalization, was best known for writing the song Nature Boy, which was a major hit for Nat "King" Cole in 1948. Other songs written by Mr. ahbez included End of Desire and Lonely Island. He died from injuries sustained in a car accident.

Matt Urban, 75. U.S. military officer. Lieutenant Colonel Urban, born Matt Urbanowicz, was one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II, performing valiantly despite being wounded several times. Among his dozen personal decorations were seven Purple Hearts, and in 1980, the Medal of Honor. The latter was awarded for action in France in 1944; the initial recommendation for the decoration had been misplaced. Lt. Col. Urban died from a collapsed lung, the result of one of his war wounds.

March 3, 2015

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Sherry and Irishka!

210 years ago
1805

Born on this date
Jonas Furrer. President of the Swiss Confederation, 1848-1849, 1852, 1853. Mr. Furrer, a member of the Radical Party, was elected to the Grand Council in 1834, and was President in 1837 and 1839. He was President of the Swiss Diet in 1845, and was one of the first seven members elected to the Federal Council in 1848. Mr. Furrer held several cabinet posts in addition to his three terms as President, and was in his fourth term as Minister of Justice and Police at the time of his death on July 25, 1861 at the age of 56.

170 years ago
1845

Americana
Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th state.

Politics and government
On his last full day in office, John Tyler became the first President of the United States to have a veto of his overridden by Congress.

150 years ago
1865

Business
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group, opened.

140 years ago
1875

Opera
Georges Bizet's opera Carmen received its première performance at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

Hockey
The first ever organized indoor game of hockey is played in Montreal, as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.

130 years ago
1885

Business
American Telephone & Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York.

120 years ago
1895

Born on this date
Ragnar Frisch. Norwegian economist. Dr. Frisch was one of the founders of econometrics, and was credited with coining the term pair macroeconomics/microeconomics. He and Jan Tinbergen shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes." Dr. Frisch died on January 31, 1973 at the age of 77.

Matthew Ridgway. U.S. military officer. General Ridgway had an outstanding career in the United States Army, and was best known for replacing Douglas MacArthur as commander of United Nations forces in Korea in 1951 after General Douglas MacArthur had been fired by U.S. President Harry Truman. Gen. Ridgway died on July 26, 1993 at the age of 98.

110 years ago
1905

Politics and government
Czar Nicholas II of Russia agreed to create an elected assembly, the Duma.

100 years ago
1915

Aviation
The United States Congress, as a rider to the Naval Appropriation Bill, created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill into law the same day.

80 years ago
1935

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Louis Hector and Leigh Lovell, on NBC

75 years ago
1940

War
Soviet forces captured the island of Tuppuransaari, south of Viborg, Finland. Sweden rejected British and French requests that their troops be permitted to cross Swedish territory to aid Finland.

Defense
Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica agreed to permit U.S. military bases on their soil for use in wartime defense of the Panama Canal.

Crime
Five people were killed in an arson attack on the offices of the Communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.

Economics and finance
Hong Kong sources reported that Japan would monopolize all Chinese industry under the peace pact with Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Japanese-sponsored government in central China.

U.S. Senator Charles McNary (Republican--Oregon) charged in a radio address that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies had made the hardships of the Depression a permanent way of life.

70 years ago
1945

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Rum and Coca-Cola--The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra (Best Seller--4th week at #1; Juke Box--4th week at #1); Don't Fence Me In--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra (Airplay--6th week at #1)

War
The British Royal Air Force accidentally bombed the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, killing 511 people. U.S. and Canadian units in Germany effected a junction between Kevelaer and Geldern, and drove eastward in the direction of the Rhine River city of Wesel. The Soviet drive toward the Baltic Sea through Pomerania resulted in the capture of Dargen, Pollnow, and Rummelsburg. American and Filipino troops recaptured Manila. A British motorized force completed an 11-day drive through central Burma to take the communications centre of Meiktila, 80 miles south of Mandalay.

Abominations
A former Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army) unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.

Defense
The Organization Committee of the Inter-American Conference in Mexico City adopted the Act of Chapultepec, which guaranteed mutual aid of American nations against aggressors who impeded the war effort by attacking the territorial integrity or political independence of any of these nations. It provided for a treaty to be drafted extending the guarantee into the postwar period.

Diplomacy
Representatives at the meeting of Arab leaders in Cairo agreed upon a draft constitution of the proposed Arab Federation.

U.S. Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew said that an international organization as proposed at Dumbarton Oaks was the only alternative to world anarchy. He also said that the U.S. still accredited and recognized the representatives of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania stationed in Washington.

The first Syrian diplomatic delegation since the country's recent independence arrived in New York City en route to Washington.

Labour
The U.S. National War Labor Board denied General Motors employees a blanket wage increase, granting only a 2½% rise in differentials for those working the third shift.

60 years ago
1955

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

50 years ago
1965

Politics and government
George C. Price took office as British Honduras' first Prime Minister under the new constitution providing for internal self-government.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): 22-sai no Wakare--Kaze

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Todo El Tiempo Del Mundo--Manolo Otero (11th week at #1)

Environment
Mr. Justice Thomas Berger of British Columbia began holding public hearings in Yellowknife on the impact of a proposed oil pipeline through the Mackenzie River valley in the Northwest Territories.

Track and field
Francie Larrieu, a 22-year-old Californian, set world indoor records in the women's mile (4:28.5) and women's 1,500 metres (4:09.8) in the annual U.S.A.-U.S.S.R. meet in Richmond, Virginia. She had previously set records in the 1,500 metres on February 14 in Toronto and in the mile on February 15 in San Diego--24 hours and 3,500 miles apart.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Ghostbusters--Ray Parker, Jr. (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Shout--Tears for Fears (2nd week at #1)

Labour
The U.K. National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted 98-91 to end their year-long strike without any deal over pit closures.

Disasters
An earthquake of magnitude 8.3 struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 people and leaving nearly a million people homeless.

Horse racing
Bill Shoemaker became the first jockey to surpass $100 million in career earnings.

Hockey
NHL
Winnipeg 6 Edmonton 3
Vancouver 7 Hartford 6 (OT)

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Un' Estate Italiana--Edoardo Bennato; Gianna Nannini (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Pump Up the Jam--Technotronic (8th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Get Up! (Before the Night is Over--Technotronic (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Hélène--Roch Voisine (9th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (CIN): Dub Be Good to Me--Beats International

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (3rd week at #1)
2 Daar Gaat Ze--Clouseau
3 Sacrifice--Elton John
4 I Wish it Would Rain Down--Phil Collins
5 Get Up! (Before the Night is Over)--Technotronic
6 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul
7 King Kong Five--Mano Negra
8 Fools Gold--The Stone Roses
9 Me So Horny--The 2 Live Crew
10 Look Away--Chicago

Singles entering the chart were How am I Supposed to Live Without You by Michael Bolton (#20); Ik Zat Effe Nie Op Te Lette... by Bertus Staigerpaip (#24); Escapade by Janet Jackson (#30); The Healer by John Lee Hooker featuring Carlos Santana & the Santana Band (#32); Standing Outside in the Rain by Skipper Wise (#33); and The King and Queen of America by Eurythmics (#35).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Escapade--Janet Jackson
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
4 Roam--The B-52s
5 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli
6 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
7 Price of Love--Bad English
8 We Can't Go Wrong--The Cover Girls
9 Black Velvet--Alannah Myles
10 No More Lies--Michel'le

Singles entering the chart were How Can We Be Lovers by Michael Bolton (#68); Lambada by Kaoma (#71); A Face in the Crowd by Tom Petty (#73); Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin' by Inner City (#92); and Imagination by Xymox (#95).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Dangerous--Roxette
2 Escapade--Janet Jackson
3 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
4 Two to Make it Right--Seduction
5 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli
6 Tell Me Why--Expose
7 We Can't Go Wrong--Cover Girls
8 What Kind of Man Would I Be?--Chicago
9 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
10 Roam--The B-52's

Singles entering the chart were Heartbeat by Seduction (#59); 99 Worlds by Peter Wolf (#65); Make it Like it Was by Regina Belle (#68); Advice for the Young at Heart by Tears for Fears (#77); Whip Appeal by Babyface (#81); Sending All My Love by Linear (#82); House of Pain by Faster Pussycat (#83); and How Can We Be Lovers by Michael Bolton (#86).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
2 Downtown Train--Rod Stewart
3 Dangerous--Roxette
4 Janie's Got a Gun--Aerosmith
5 Escapade--Janet Jackson
6 I Go to Extremes--Billy Joel
7 I Wish it Would Rain Down--Phil Collins
8 What Kind of Man Would I Be?--Chicago
9 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli
10 How am I Supposed to Live Without You--Michael Bolton

Singles entering the chart were I'll Be Your Everything by Tommy Paige (#74); The Heart of the Matter by Don Henley (#76); Before We Fall by Sheree (#78); Chocolate Box by Bros (#80); Have a Heart by Bonnie Raitt (#82); The Angels by Melissa Etheridge (#84); Heart of Stone by Cher (#86); Battlefield by Paul Carrack (#88); Anything I Want by Kevin Paige (#90); and 99 Worlds by Peter Wolf (#92).

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Self Esteem--The Offspring (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Think Twice--Celine Dion (7th week at #1)

Died on this date
Howard W. Hunter, 87. U.S. religious leader. Mr. Hunter, a lawyer, was the 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from June 5, 1994 until his death. He succeeded Ezra Taft Benson and was succeeded by Gordon Hinckley. Mr. Hunter was the Mormon Church's first president to have been born in the 20th century.

Crime
U.S. authorities at Newark International Airport arrested former Mexican Deputy Attorney General Mario Ruiz Massieu, and charged him with not reporting $46,000 in cash that he was carrying. Mr. Ruiz's brother Jose, deputy leader of Mexico's governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), had been murdered in 1994; Raul Salinas de Gortari, brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, had been charged on February 28 with Jose Ruiz Massieu's murder. Carlos Salinas de Gortari began a hunger strike and asked to meet with officials of his successor, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon.

War
The last United Nations peacekeepers left Somalia after two years.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colorado) announced that he was switching his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican. He had disagreed with some of the proposals of the administration of President Bill Clinton, notably its support for higher grazing fees on federal lands.

Society
A private member's bill that would ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales became the first such bill to get a second reading in the British House of Commons.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Federal Reserve and banks of a dozen other nations bought $1 billion in U.S. dollars in an effort to boost the currency.

The United States Commerce Department reported that the index of leading economic indicators had remained unchanged in January.

10 years ago
2005

Died on this date
James Roszko, 46. Canadian criminal. Leo Johnston, 31; Brock Myrol, 29; Anthony Gordon, 28; Peter Schiemann, 25. Canadian police officers. The four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers had gone to Mr. Roszko's property near Mayerthorpe, Alberta to execute a property seizure, when they were ambushed inside a quonset shed and shot to death by Mr. Roszko, who then shot himself to death after being wounded in an exchange of gunfire with another policeman. It was the worst multiple killing of police officers in modern Canadian history.

Aviation
U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refuelling, completing a round trip from Salina, Kansas in the Virgin GlobalFlyer.

March 2, 2015

200 years ago
1815

War
British forces succeeded in establishing sovereignty over the island of Ceylon.

160 years ago
1855

Died on this date
Nikolai I, 58. Czar of Russia, 1825-1855. Nikolai I, the son of Paul I, succeeded his brother Alexander I on the throne. Czar Nikolai's reign was marked my geographical expansion and economic growth, but he centralized administration and suppressed dissent. Czar Nikolai led his country into the Crimean War in 1853, but died of pneumonia while the war was still on, and was succeeded by his son Alexander II.

150 years ago
1865

Died on this date
Carl Völkner, 45 or 46. German missionary. Mr. Völkner was a Protestant missionary in New Zealand who was hanged by his congregation the day after being captured in Opotiki with fellow missionary Thomas Grace. The murder of Mr. Völkner led to hard feelings and severe reprisals from the New Zealand government for many years thereafter.

130 years ago
1885

War
In the Sino-French War, French forces won the Battle of Hoa Moc near Tuyen Quang in northern Vietnam.

100 years ago
1915

War
Vladmir Jabotinsky formed a Jewish military force to fight with the Allies in Palestine.

75 years ago
1940

On television today
New York University won the first televised intercollegiate track meet, broadcast live from Madison Square Garden in New York over New York station W2XBS.

War
Reports from Finland indicated that Soviet forces had occupied Tammisuo, north of Viborg, and Lupin Lahti, east of the city. The government of New Zealand announced that it was supplying men to the British Royal Navy, as well as keeping its own navy at war strength.

Diplomacy
U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles met with German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in Berlin.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill increasing Import-Export Bank capital to $200 million; the U.S. immediately granted credit to Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

Law
The U.S. Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born opened its conference in Washington to protest anti-alien legislation before Congress.

Politics and government
The Rhode Island House of Representatives adopted a resolution asking Congress to prohibit a third term for a President of the United States.

Disasters
2 people were killed as tornadoes swept through the lower Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys.

Tennis
Bobby Riggs won the U.S. indoor title in Chicago.

Basketball
NCAA
Dartmouth College won the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball Conference title, while the University of North Carolina won the Southern Conference title.

70 years ago
1945

Died on this date
Emily Carr, 73. Canadian artist. Miss Carr, a native of Victoria, was known for her paintings of aboriginal themes and landscapes, especially forest scenes.

War
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed the idea that some German ex-soldiers be used in the reconstruction of Russia, although he claimed that the subject had not come up at the recent Yalta Conference with U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S.S.R. dictator Josef Stalin. U.S. troops captured the Dutch cities of Venlo and Roermond. Neuss on the Rhine River opposite Duesseldorf was also taken. U.S. Marines deove a 700-yard salient into the Japanese defense lines on the northern part of Iwo Jima. U.S. troops in the Philippines landed on the islands of Ticao and Burlas off the west side of the long southeast extension of Luzon, in a move to eliminate Japanese forces in southern Luzon.

World events
El Salvador decreed a general amnesty, adding that political exiles could now return home.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill for postwar river and harbour projects.

60 years ago
1955

World events
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicated the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.

50 years ago
1965

On television tonight
The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, on ABC
Tonight's episode: The Survivors, with guest stars Ruth White, Louise Sorel, and Lloyd Gough

At the movies
The Sound of Music received its world premiere screening at the Rivoli Theatre in New York (see video).



Space
AC-5, the fifth flight of the Atlas-Centaur engineering test vehicle, failed when the rocket rose a few feet and then fell back onto the pad at Launch Complex 36A at Cape Kennedy, Florida, and exploded.







War
The U.S. and South Vietnamese Air Force began Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

Scandal
Lucien Rivard, jailed while fighting extradition to the United States on narcotics charges, escaped from a Montreal prison using a garden hose to climb a prison wall. Mr. Rivard had asked to use the hose for the purpose of flooding the prison yard to create an ice rink, although the temperature was well above freezing. He faced charges of bribery connected with the escape, resulting in the resignation of Canadian Justice Minister Guy Favreau.

40 years ago
1975

Died on this date
J.M. Kariuki, 45. Kenyan politician. Mr. Kariuki was a socialist who held various positions in the government of President Jomo Kenyatta from 1963 until his assassination in Nairobi. A Parliamentary Select Committee implicated senior police officers, administrative officers, and politicians in the assassination, but no one was ever punished. Mr. Kariuki had been a vocal critic of government corruption and had often been mentioned as a likely successor to Mr. Kenyatta. Mr. Kariuki's assassination touched off street protests by university students and the subsequent closing of the University of Nairobi for several years.

Heidi Biggs, 14. U.S. cancer patient. Miss Biggs, a resident of Belleville, Illinois, had expressed a desire to visit Hawaii. Russell Perry, a resident of Sudbury, Ontario, had heard of this, and paid for a trip to Hawaii for Miss Biggs and her mother. Mrs. Biggs and Heidi had flown to Hawaii on February 16 and had several enjoyable days before Heidi fell seriously ill, and was confined to her hotel room before returning home. Miss Biggs died shortly after arrival at the hospital in Belleveille, less than an hour after landing.

Boxing
Former world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier (32-2) scored a technical knockout of former World Boxing Association world heavyweight champion Jimmy Ellis (39-12-1) at 59 seconds of the 9th round at St.Kilda Junction Oval in, Melbourne. Mr. Frazier had scored a 5-round TKO of Mr. Ellis 5 years earlier to unify the title after being recognized as champion by the athletic commissions of six U.S. states, including New York.



30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Noi Ragazzi Di Oggi--Luis Miguel (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Shout--Tears for Fears

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Shout--Tears for Fears (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): I Know Him So Well--Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: I Know Him So Well--Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Careless Whisper--Wham! featuring George Michael (3rd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Careless Whisper--Wham! (3rd week at #1)
2 Easy Lover--Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins)
3 California Girls--David Lee Roth
4 Loverboy--Billy Ocean
5 Can't Fight This Feeling--REO Speedwagon
6 Sugar Walls--Sheena Easton
7 I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner
8 The Heat is On--Glenn Frey
9 Mr. Telephone Man--New Edition
10 The Old Man Down the Road--John Fogerty

Singles entering the chart were Crazy for You by Madonna (#45); We Close Our Eyes by Go West (#74); Smooth Operator by Sade (#88); and Change by John Waite (#89). Crazy for You was from the movie Vision Quest (1985).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (2nd week at #1)
2 Easy Lover--Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins)
3 Neutron Dance--Pointer Sisters
4 Careless Whisper--Wham! featuring George Michael
5 You're the Inspiration--Chicago
6 Loverboy--Billy Ocean
7 Method of Modern Love--Daryl Hall John Oates
8 California Girls--David Lee Roth
9 All I Need--Jack Wagner
10 Solid--Ashford & Simpson

Singles entering the chart were Take Me with U by Prince and the Revolution (with Apollonia) (#81); Whose Side are You On? by Matt Bianco (#90); Rhythm of the Night by DeBarge (#91); Obsession by Animotion (#93); Why Can't I Have You by the Cars (#94); Second Nature by Dan Hartman (#95); Keeping the Faith by Billy Joel (#96); Stay in the Light by Honeymoon Suite (#97); and Shades of '45 by Gary O' (#98).

Health
The U.S. government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.

Hockey
NHL
New Islanders 2 @ Toronto 4

Jeff Brubaker scored 2 goals to lead the Maple Leafs to their upset win in the national Hockey Night in Canada telecast.

25 years ago
1990

Politics and government
At a meeting in Zambia, the executive committee of the African National Congress named Nelson Mandela the ANC’s Deputy President. Because ANC President Oliver Tambo was ill, Mr. Mandela in effect became the ANC leader.

Law
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Manitoba Metis Federation could go to court to claim Red River Valley land promised in the 1870s.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that the leading economic indicators were unchanged in January.

Swimming
Mark Tewksbury of Canada swam the 50-metre backstroke in a world record time of 25.06 seconds.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Club Bizarre--U96 (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Henry Gregor Felsen, 78. U.S. author. Mr. Felsen wrote numerous books and stories, but was best known for novels such as Hot Rod (1950); Street Rod (1953); Crash Club (1958); and Boy Gets Car (1960), as well as humourous novels featuring the character Bertie Poddle.

War
400 Italian soldiers assisted in the evacuation of United Nations peacekeepers from the Somali capital of Mogadishu. U.S. Marines killed and wounded several Somalis, as clans competed for areas vacated by the UN.

Politics and government
The United States Senate voted 66-34 in favour of an amendment to the Constitution requiring that the federal budget be balanced, one vote short of the two-thirds majority required. 14 Democrats voted with the Republican majority, but Mark Hatfield (Oregon) was the only Republican who voted against the amendment, angering his Republican colleagues.

Scandal
Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti was ordered to stand trial on charges of Mafia membership.

Science
Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced the discovery of the top quark.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York bought up to $300 million worth of U.S. dollars in an effort to boost the currency.

Baseball
The major league spring training exhibition season opened, with all teams except the Baltimore Orioles using replacement players.

10 years ago
2005

Died on this date
Martin Denny, 93. U.S. musician. Mr. Denny was a native of New York who was raised in Los Angeles and moved to Hawaii in 1954 and began using Hawaiian sounds in his music. He became known as the "father of exotica," and had a major hit with his single Quiet Village (1959).

Rick Mahler, 51. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Mahler played with the Atlanta Braves (1979-1988, 1991); Cincinnati Reds (1989-1990); and Montreal Expos (1991), compiling a record of 96-111 with an earned run average of 3.99. His best season was 1985, when he was 17-15 with a 3.48 ERA. Mr. Mahler was 7-6 with 4 saves with the Reds when they won the World Series in 1990. Mr. Mahler's brother Mickey was also a major league pitcher, and the brothers were teammates in 1979. Rick Mahler died of a heart attack at home in Jupiter, Florida, while preparing for his second season as a minor league pitching coach in the New York Mets' organization.

March 1, 2015

450 years ago
1565

Braziliana
The city of Rio de Janeiro was founded.

225 years ago
1790

Americana
The U.S. Congress authorized the first census of the United States.

210 years ago
1805

Scandal
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Chase was acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate. Justice Chase had been impeached for allegedly allowing his political bias to influence his decisions from the bench.

200 years ago
1815

World events
Former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Golfe-Juan on the French mainland in the ship Swiftsure, two days after his escape from exile on the island of Elba off the coast of Tuscany.

180 years ago
1835

Born on this date
Philip Fysh. U.K.-born Australian politician. Sir Philip, a native of England, emigrated to Australia in 1859 and became a successful merchant. A member of the Protectionist Party, he served several terms in the Tasmanian Legislative Council and Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1866-1899, holding several cabinet posts and serving as Premier of Tasmania (1877-1878, 1887-1892). Sir Philip supported federation of the Australian colonies, and after that took effect in 1901, he represented Tasmania (1901-1903) and Denison (1903-1910) in the Australian House of Representatives, serving as Postmaster-General (1903-1904). Sir Philip died on December 20, 1919 at the age of 84.

170 years ago
1845

Americana
Three days before he left office, U.S. President John Tyler signed a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.

130 years ago
1885

Born on this date
Lionel Atwill. U.K.-born U.S. actor. Mr. Atwill had a distinguished career on stage, but is best remembered for his appearances in horror and mystery movies, including Doctor X (1932); Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933); Murders in the Zoo (1933); Son of Frankenstein (1939); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939); and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942). He died of lung cancer and pneumonia on April 22, 1946 at the age of 65.

120 years ago
1895

Died on this date
Pauline Musters, 19. Dutch-born U.S. dwarf. Miss Musters, who stood 1 foot 11.2 inches, was the shortest grown woman ever recorded. She died four days after her 19th birthday, from a combination of pneumonia and meningitis.

100 years ago
1915

Born on this date
Malak Karsh. Ottoman-born Canadian photographer. Malak Karsh was the brother of portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. Malak was known for his photographs of the Ottawa region; Paper and Politics, a photo of logs floating on the Ottawa River, was on the back of the Canadian $1 bill from 1969-1979. Malak Karsh died on November 8, 2001 at the age of 86.

Literature
The March 1915 issue of The Strand Magazine contained the seventh segment of The Valley of Fear, the fourth and last Sherlock Holmes novel by A. Conan Doyle.
In this issue: Part II: The Scowrers: Chapter III. Lodge 341, Vermissa.

75 years ago
1940

At the movies
Charlie Chan in Panama, starring Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Jean Rogers, and Lionel Atwill, opened in theatres.



Died on this date
A.H. Tammsaare, 62. Estonian author. Anton Hansen Tammsaare was a novelist who was best known for the pentalogy Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice) (1926-1933), which has been called "The Estonian Novel." He was hospitalized in 1939 for stomach problems, and died of a heart attack.

Literature
Richard Wright's novel Native Son was published.

War
German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler issued secret orders for the occupation of Denmark and Norway. Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced plans for a sevenfold increase in his country's air force. British planes scattered propaganda leaflets over Germany as far east as Berlin. Soviet troops in Finland made headway toward Viborg, reaching the city's outskirts. The Chinese government in Chungking launched a sweeping evacuation program for the city in anticipation of Japanese air raids.

Diplomacy
U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles met in Berlin with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

In Patna, India, leaders of the Indian Congress threatened a campaign of civil disobedience as the next step toward complete independence from the United Kingdom.

Law
The American Bar Association committee on the Bill of Rights appealed to the public to oppose all illegal methods of suppressing civil rights.

Environment
The United States House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate the Water Pollution Control Act, setting forth a plan for prevention of pollution of navigable waterways.

70 years ago
1945

Theatre
Representatives of theatrical organizations in New York adopted resolutions that included proposed legislation to prevent censorship by administrative officials in reaction to the February 24 closing of the play Trio by Dorothy and Howard Baker, which had played at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway in New York since December 29, 1944. New York License Commissioner Paul Moss had refused to renew the theatre's license if Trio continued to run. The play's subject matter included an older woman's feelings for a girl.

War
Saudi Arabia and Iran notified the United States of their declarations of war against Germany and Japan. The British House of Commons gave unanimous approval to the Yalta Declaration. U.S. troops cleared German forces from the twin cities of Muenchen-Gladbach and Rheydt, 15 miles west of Duesseldorf. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur reported that American troops had practically completed the destruction of about 6,000 Japanese troops on the island of Corregidor. U.S. forces landed on the island of Lubang, which commanded the western exit of Verde Passage, leading from the Sibuyan Sea into the China Sea.

Politics and government
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told a joint session of Congress that the recent Yalta Conference was a success, and that the U.S. would have to take responsibility for world collaboration or bear the responsibility for another world war.

Former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Diplomacy
The Organization Committee of the Inter-American Conference approved a suggestion that the next conference of American Republics be held in Bogota, Colombia.

Economics and finance
Canada reached an agreement with Czechoslovakia to provide the latter with $15 million in credits to purchase Canadian goods to be used in reconstruction.

Labour
The United Mine Workers of America submitted demands for a wage settlement to coal operators, including a proposal for a 10c-per-ton royalty to be used for medical insurance for the miners.

60 years ago
1955

At the movies
The Spanish-language version of Mr. Arkadin, directed by and starring Orson Welles, opened in theatres in Madrid.



Boxing
Sonny Liston (8-1) won an 8-round decision over Neal Welch (13-10-1) in a heavyweight bout at the Masonic Temple in St. Louis.

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): La Yenka--Johnny & Charley (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): The Hucklebuck--Brendan Bowyer (7th week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Yeh, Yeh--Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
2 The Boy from New York City--The Ad Libs
3 Can't You Hear My Heartbeat--Herman's Hermits
4 For Lovin' Me--Peter, Paul and Mary
5 Shakin' All Over--Chad Allan and the Expressions (Guess Who?)
6 Goldfinger--John Barry and his Orchestra
--Shirley Bassey
7 Little Things--Bobby Goldsboro
8 My Girl--The Temptations
9 Come Home--The Dave Clark Five
10 Go Now!--The Moody Blues

Singles entering the chart were Eight Days a Week by the Beatles (#14); Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by the Animals (#27); Girl Don't Come by Sandie Shaw (#30); Come Tomorrow by Manfred Mann (#33); The Race is On by Jack Jones (#34); You'll Be Gone by Elvis Presley (#35); Midnight Special by Johnny Rivers (#36); Easy Come, Easy Go by Barry Allen (#37); Send Me the Pillow You Dream On by Dean Martin (#38); Try to Remember by Ed Ames (#39); and Walk Tall by Val Doonican (#40). You'll Be Gone was the B-side of Do the Clam.

On television tonight
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Wally the Beard, starring Larry Blyden, Kathie Browne, and Berkeley Harris

Music
The album The Beach Boys Today! was released on Capitol Records.

Canadiana
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced a $6 million-plan to develop Kejimkujik National Park in southwestern Nova Scotia. The government also unveiled a design for the $18-million Centre for Performing Arts in Ottawa, with a 2,300-seat opera, a 900-seat theatre, and 300-seat studio.

Politics and government
The British African protectorate of Bechuanaland held its first elections, resulting in Seretse Khama's appointment as Prime Minister.

Disasters
A gas explosion killed 28 people in an apartment complex in La Salle, Quebec.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Un corpo e un'anima--Wess & Dori Ghezzi (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): 100 Years--Joey Dyser

#1 single in the U.K.: Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)--Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Best of My Love--The Eagles

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Pick Up the Pieces--Average White Band
2 Have You Never Been Mellow--Olivia Newton-John
3 My Eyes Adored You--Frankie Valli
4 Best of My Love--The Eagles
5 Black Water--The Doobie Brothers
6 Fire--Ohio Players
7 Lady Marmalade--LaBelle
8 Lady--Styx
9 Roll on Down the Highway--Bachman-Turner Overdrive
10 Lonely People--America

Singles entering the chart were L-O-V-E (Love) by Al Green (#74); Living a Little, Laughing a Little by the Spinners (#81); It's a Miracle by Barry Manilow (#84); Reality by James Brown (#85); Dick and Jane by Bobby Vinton (#87); Who's Sorry Now by Marie Osmond (#88); We're Almost There by Michael Jackson (#89); Don't Let Go by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen (#92); Live Your Life Before You Die by the Pointer Sisters (#93); Shaving Cream by Benny Bell (#94); Amie by Pure Prairie League (#95); Sneaky Snake by Tom T. Hall (#96); Step by Step by Kiki Dee Band (#97); Leona by Wet Willie (#98); Midnight Show by Ron Dante (#99); and Like a Sunday Morning by Lana Cantrell (#100). Shaving Cream was a reissue of a song that had originally been released in 1946, with Phil Winston performing the vocals under the name Paul Wynn. When Dr. Demento began playing the song on his syndicated radio show in the 1970s, it was re-released, with Mr. Bell, who sometimes used the name Paul Wynn, credited as the artist. Later pressings of the single credited Paul Wynn as the artist.

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Best of My Love--The Eagles
2 Doctor's Orders--Carol Douglas
3 Mandy--Barry Manilow
4 Pick Up the Pieces--AWB
5 Have You Never Been Mellow--Olivia Newton-John
6 My Eyes Adored You--Frankie Valli
7 Roll on Down the Highway--Bachman-Turner Overdrive
8 Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters
9 You Beat Me to the Punch--Charity Brown
10 Never Can Say Goodbye--Gloria Gaynor

Singles entering the chart were No No Song by Ringo Starr (#97); You're a Part of Me by Susan Jacks (#98); I've Been this Way Before by Neil Diamond (#99); and Let's Live Together by Thundermug (#100).

Winnipeg's Top 30 (CFRW)
1 Changes--David Bowie (3rd week at #1)
2 Mandy--Barry Manilow
3 Have You Never Been Mellow--Olivia Newton-John
4 Some Kind of Wonderful--Grand Funk
5 Black Water--The Doobie Brothers
6 You're No Good--Linda Ronstadt
7 Bungle in the Jungle--Jethro Tull
8 Boogie On Reggae Woman--Stevie Wonder
9 Lonely People--America
10 Roll on Down the Highway--Bachman-Turner Overdrive
11 Dream On--The Righteous Brothers
12 Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters
13 Lady--Styx
14 Best of My Love--The Eagles
15 Get Dancin'--Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
16 Pick Up the Pieces--AWB
17 You're the First, the Last, My Everything--Barry White
18 California Jam--Klaatu
19 Never Can Say Goodbye--Gloria Gaynor
20 My Eyes Adored You--Frankie Valli
21 Morning Side of the Mountain--Donny and Marie Osmond
22 Lady Marmalade--LaBelle
23 She's My Lady--Jayson Hoover
24 Mother Earth--Ian Thomas
25 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You--Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta
26 (Make Me Do) Anything You Want--A Foot in Coldwater
27 Doctor's Orders--Carol Douglas
28 Movin' On--Bad Company
29 You Beat Me to the Punch--Charity Brown
30 Judy Played the Jukebox--The Crescent Street Stompers

Winnipeg's Top 30 (CKRC)
1 Black Water--The Doobie Brothers (2nd week at #1)
2 Have You Never Been Mellow--Olivia Newton-John
3 My Eyes Adored You--Frankie Valli
4 Roll on Down the Highway--Bachman-Turner Overdrive
5 Mandy--Barry Manilow
6 Changes--David Bowie
7 Best of My Love--The Eagles
8 Lady Marmalade--LaBelle
9 Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters
10 Bungle in the Jungle--Jethro Tull
11 Morning Side of the Mountain--Donny and Marie Osmond
12 Fire--Ohip Players
13 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You--Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta
14 Poetry Man--Phoebe Snow
15 You Beat Me to the Punch--Charity Brown
16 Lady--Styx
17 Some Kind of Wonderful--Grand Funk
18 Doctor's Orders--Carol Douglas
19 Pick Up the Pieces--AWB
20 No No Song--Ringo Starr
21 Mother Earth--Ian Thomas
22 Can You Give it All to Me--Myles and Lenny
23 (Make Me Do) Anything You Want--A Foot in Coldwater
24 Powerful People--Gino Vannelli
25 You're No Good--Linda Ronstadt
26 Up in a Puff of Smoke--Polly Brown
27 Never Can Say Goodbye--Gloria Gaynor
28 (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song--B.J. Thomas
29 I Can Dance--Shooter
30 Sad Sweet Dreamer--Sweet Sensation

At the movies
At Long Last Love, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madelina Kahn, and Duilio Del Prete, opened in theatres.

Americana
The American Revolution Bicentennial observance of the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence officially began, 16 months and 3 days before the actual anniversary.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): You're My Heart, You're My Soul--Modern Talking

#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): I Want To Know What Love Is--Foreigner (6th week at #1)

At the movies
The Purple Rose of Cairo, written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello, opened in theatres in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto.



Hockey
NHL
Los Angeles 5 Edmonton 4

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (6th week at #1)

Edmonton's Top 10 (CFRN)
1 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with Wild Pair)
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Two to Make it Right--Seduction
4 Let Your Backbone Slide--Maestro Fresh-Wes
5 Back to Life--Soul II Soul
6 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli
7 Get Up (Before the Night is Over)--Technotronic
8 I Go to Extremes--Billy Joel
9 Principal's Office--Young MC
10 Escapade--Janet Jackson

Weather
It was 66 F. in Edmonton, warm enough for this blogger to wear shorts.

Crime
The United States Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson Games, Inc. in Austin, Texas, seizing, among other things, the master copy of GURPS Cyberpunk, a genre toolkit for cyberpunk games, written by Loyd Blankenship, an employee of the company. The Secret Service believed that Mr. Blankenship had illegally accessed Bell South systems, and uploaded a document possibly affecting 9-1-1 systems onto Steve Jackson Games' public bulletin board system. The Secret Service also believed that GURPS Cyberpunk would help others commit computer crimes. Steve Jackson Games sued the Secret Service for damages arising from lost revenue, and helped to found the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Law
The new Official Secrets Act went into effect in the U.K., making it an offense for any member, or former member, of the security services to disclose official information about their work. It was also an offense for a journalist to repeat any such disclosures.

Football
NFL
Agreeing to television deals that eventually furnished the league about $3.3 billion over the next four years ($30 million per team each year), the National Football League added two wild-card teams to its playoff format, introducing another round of playoff games and extending the season from the first week of September to the last week of January.

20 years ago
1995

Died on this date
Georges J. F. Köhler, 48. West German biologist. Dr. Köhler shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Niels Jerne of Denmark and César Milstein of the United Kingdom "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies."

Politics and government
Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigned from parliament and was replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.

Business
The Internet corporation Yahoo! was incorporated.

For the second time in the 1990s, the Canadian real estate developer Bramalea Inc. sought court protection from its creditors.

10 years ago
2005

Law
The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4, in Roper v. Simmons, that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder was unconstitutional, marking a change in "national standards." The decision overturned the previous ruling of Stanford v. Kentucky (1989).