March 12, 2015

220 years ago
1795

Born on this date
George Tyler Wood. Texas and U.S. politician. Mr. Wood, a Democrat, represented Liberty County in the Texas House of Representatives (1841-1845) when Texas was a republic. After Texas joined the Union in 1845, he represented District 7 in the Texas Senate (1846-1847) and served as Governor of Texas (1849-1858). Mr. Wood campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor in 1853 and 1855, and died on September 3, 1858 at the age of 63.

William Lyon Mackenzie. U.K.-born Canadian journalist and politician. Mr. Mackenzie, a native of Scotland, moved to Lower Canada and then to Upper Canada in the early 1820s. He founded the weekly newspaper Colonial Advocate in 1824, using the newspaper to attack Tory politicians and express admiration for American institutions. Mr. Mackenzie was a Reform politician, and represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1827-1834; he was expelled three times, and re-elected three times. Mr. Mackenzie was elected an alderman and then as Mayor of Toronto, serving from 1834-1835. While Mayor of Toronto in 1834, he was re-elected to the Legislative Assembly, which repealed his previous expulsions. Mr. Mackenzie lost his seat in the 1836 election, the year he founded another newspaper, the Constitution. His attempts at obtaining constitutional reforms were unsuccessful, and led him to favour armed rebellion against British authority. Mr. Mackenzie led the unsuccessful Upper Canada Rebellion in December 1837, and fled to Buffalo, New York, where he declared himself the President of the "Republic of Canada." An attempt to invade Canada from Navy Island failed, and Mr. Mackenzie founded other newspapers, and also served a year in prison in New York for violating U.S. neutrality laws. He worked as a journalist in New York before returning to what was now Canada West after responsible government was enacted, and an amnesty was granted to the 1837 rebels. Mr. Mackenzie returned permanently to Toronto in 1850, and represented Haldimand County in the Parliament of the Province of Canada (1851-1858), pursuing further reform. He retired in 1858 because of declining health, and died in Toronto after an apoplectic seizure on August 28, 1861 at the age of 66.

125 years ago
1890

Born on this date
William Dudley Pelley. U.S. writer and political activist. Mr. Pelley was a journalist and writer of novels, short stories, and screenplays, who claimed to have a near-death experience in 1928 in which he saw God and Jesus Christ and received a commission to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. His travels in Russia as a correspondent during the Russian Civil War had left him with a hatred of Communism, and the beginning of the Depression in 1929 and Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933 led Mr. Pelley to create the Silver Legion of America, also known as "Silver Shirts," an extremist organization whose ideology included anti-Semitism, isolationism, pyramidology, and British Israelism. Mr. Pelley founded the Christian Party and ran as its candidate for President of the United States in 1936. Mr. Pelley's criticism of the U.S. administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, especially in the aftermath of the December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese forces on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, led to charges of high treason and sedition against Mr. Pelley. The Silver Legion disappeared into obscurity as Mr. Pelley was imprisoned until being granted parole in 1952. Mr. Pelley himself became an increasingly obscure figure until his death at the age of 75 on June 30, 1965.

Evert Taube. Swedish musician. Mr. Taube was a singer-songwriter and lutanist who was regarded as the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century, with a career spanning almost 60 years. He died on January 31, 1976 at the age of 85.

90 years ago
1925

Died on this date
Sun Yat-sen, 58. 1st President of the Republic of China, 1912; Premier of China, 1919-1925. Dr. Sun, a physician, is regarded as the father of modern China because of his leadership in the revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty. He co-founded the governing political party Kuomintang (KMT), and served as its first leader. Dr. Sun died of liver cancer; his death led to a power struggle between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei.

Arkady Averchenko, 43. Russian author. Mr. Averchenko was a liberal satirist whose work was published in about 20 books. He fled Russia in November 1920, and settled in Prague in 1922. Mr. Averchenko took ill after an eye operation and died 15 days before his 44th birthday.

75 years ago
1940

War
Finland and the U.S.S.R. signed the Moscow Peace Treaty to end the Winter War, with Finland ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia and the shores of Lake Ladoga to the U.S.S.R. Finnish troops and the remaining population were immediately evacuated. French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier states that the Allies had agreed on February 6 to send troops to aid Finland if publicly asked.

Diplomacy
Japanese Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai announced his government's intention to recognize and support the Wang Ching-wei regime in China. Mr. Wang, who was based in central China, was the longtime rival of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.

Politics and government
The Country Party accepted Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies' offer to create a coalition cabinet.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the New Hampshire primary in the contest for the 1940 Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.

The U.S. House of Representatives Census Committee approved a congressional reapportionment bill that could exclude the counting of alien residents in determining the number of House members from each state.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported an increase in business inventories and an 8% decrease in industrial orders for the first two months of 1940.

70 years ago
1945

Hit parade
U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Rum and Coca-Cola--The Andrews Sisters (3rd 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 I'm Beginning to See the Light--Harry James and his Orchestra
--Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
7 Cocktails for Two--Spike Jones and his City Slickers
8 Candy--Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
--Dinah Shore
9 More and More--Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
--Perry Como
10 A Little on the Lonely Side--Frankie Carle and his Orchestra
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

Singles entering the chart were Just a Prayer Away, with versions by Bing Crosby and Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" Orchestra (#38); and He's Home for a Little While by Dinah Shore (#40). He's Home for a Little While was the B-side of Candy.

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

War
Soviet troops in Germany captured Kuestrin, the Oder River fortress 38 miles east of Berlin.

Society
New York Governor Thomas Dewey signed the Ives-Quinn Act, making New York the first U.S. state to set up a permanent commission to eliminate discrimination in employment on the basis of race or creed.

Law
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the suit of the Shoshone Indians for $15 million in damages because of occupation by white settlers of lands in Idaho, Utah, and Nevada, on the grounds that the Box Elder Treaty left them no cause for claiming the land.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the U.S. government's appeal for any early review of the Montgomery Ward case, pending circuit court action. On January 27, U.S. Federal Judge Philip Sullivan had ruled in Chicago that the U.S. Army seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company properties in seven localities was illegal. The Army had acted on directions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt after Montgomery Ward had refused to obey National War Labor Board orders.

Business
Three judges of the U.S. Circuit Court of New York declared Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) to be a participant in a monopolistic aluminum conspiracy, violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

60 years ago
1955

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Need You Now--Eddie Fisher

#1 single in the U.K. (Record Mirror): Softly, Softly--Ruby Murray

#1 singles in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Sincerely--The McGuire Sisters (Best Seller--5th week at #1; Disc Jockey--5th week at #1; Jukebox--2nd week at #1)

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

Singles entering the chart were There Goes My Heart by the Four Aces (#24); Chow Mein by the Gaylords (#28); Honestly by Kitty Kallen (#31); Dance with Me Henry (Wallflower) by Georgia Gibbs (#32); and Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean) by the Dinning Sisters (#36).

Died on this date
Charlie Parker, 34. U.S. musician. Mr. Parker, nicknamed "Bird," was an alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, and was highly influential in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique and improvisation. Years of drinking and drug abuse contributed to his death.

Music
The Dave Brubeck Quartet appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York for first time, with Mr. Brubeck on vibes; Paul Desmond on alto saxophone; Joe Morello on drums; and Eugene Wright on bass.

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 Eight Days a Week--The Beatles (3rd week at #1)
2 Ferry Cross the Mersey--Gerry & the Pacemakers
3 The Birds and the Bees--Jewel Akens
4 King of the Road--Roger Miller
5 This Diamond Ring--Gary Lewis and the Playboys
6 Goldfinger--Shirley Bassey
7 Little Things--Bobby Goldsboro
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: That'll Be the Day--The Everly Brothers
New this week: The White Cliffs of Dover--Sir Raleigh
Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup--Pierre Lalonde
I Made My Choice--Sylvie Vartan
The Greatest Love--Marty Hill
Land of 1000 Dances--Cannibal and the Headhunters
My Own Two Feet--Kenny Lynch

Space
The U.S.S.R. launched the satellite Cosmos 60.

40 years ago
1975

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Aurora!

Died on this date
Olga Hepnarová, 23. Czechoslovakian criminal. Miss Hepnarová was executed for deliberately driving a truck into a crowd of 25 people in Prague waiting for a tram on July 10, 1973, killing 8. She was the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia, and the last person to be executed in that country by short-drop hanging.

Politics and government
Portugal's 200-member Armed Forces Movement (MFA), the junta that had seized power on April 25, 1974, set up a Supreme Revolutionary Council with full legislative powers.

Scandal
13 companies and 14 people were charged in Hamilton, Ontario with conspiring to defraud the governments of Canada and Ontario of $4 million in what became known as the Hamilton Harbour dredging scandal.

Hockey
NHL
Montreal 3 @ Toronto 3

Ron Ellis scored his 26th goal of the season with 3 seconds remaining in the game to give the Maple Leafs the tie with the Canadiens before 16,485 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens in the Wednesday Hockey Night in Canada telecast on CTV. Darryl Sittler scored his 30th of the season to open the scoring for Toronto in the 1st period, but Murray Wilson, with his 21st, and Jacques Lemaire with his 29th, scored for Montreal in the 1st period, and Pete Mahovlich scored his 33rd in the 2nd period to give Montreal a 3-1 lead. Tiger Williams scored his 10th of the season for Toronto 48 seconds into the 3rd period to make the score 3-2. Ken Dryden made 40 saves in goal for Montreal, while Toronto goaie Gord McRae stopped 27 shots.

Baseball
First baseman Hal Breeden, this blogger's favourite player, hit what turned out to be his last home run in a major league uniform as he hit a 3-run blast off Steve Carlton in the top of the 4th inning to help the Montreal Expos rout the Philadelphia Phillies 10-1 in a spring training game before 3,734 fans in Clearwater, Florida. Bombo Rivera added a 2-run homer as the Expos scored 5 runs in the 9th off Jim Lonborg. Dennis Blair started on the mound for Montreal and pitched 3 innings to get the win.

Willie Horton hit 2 home runs and a single, batting in 4 runs, as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 6-2 before 2,109 fans in a spring training game in Winter Haven, Florida. The game was a disaster for Boston, as catcher Carlton Fisk, who had missed the last half of the 1974 season because of a knee injury, suffered a broken right arm when hit by a pitch from Fred Holdsworth in his first plate appearance, putting him on the disabled list until mid-season.

Tom Seaver, coming back from a hip injury that had limited his effectiveness in 1974, pitched 4 scoreless innings to get the win and recently-acquired Dave Kingman hit 2 home runs off Catfish Hunter as the New York Mets blanked the New York Yankees 3-0 before 7,195 fans in a spring training game in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was the second appearance in a Yankee uniform for Mr. Hunter, who had signed as a free agent after 10 years with the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics. He allowed 3 hits and 2 runs--both earned--in taking the loss.

30 years ago
1985

Died on this date
Eugene Ormandy, 85. Austro-Hungarian born U.S. musician and orchestra conductor. Mr. Ormandy, born Jenő Blau in Budapest, was a violinist who moved to the United States in 1921. He eventually turned to conducting, leading the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1931-1936, and achieving fame as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1936-1980.

Terrorism
Security guard Claude Brunelle was killed as three Armenian terrorists raided the Turkish embassy in Ottawa.

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Miss Me! (見逃してくれよ！)--Kyōko Koizumi

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

Diplomacy
The United States refused to grant diplomatic recognition to Lithuania, which had declared independence from the U.S.S.R. the previous day. Soviet Politburo member Yegor Ligachev called for a peaceful solution, adding, "Tanks will not help in this matter."

Outgoing Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, meeting with U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle in Santiago, Chile, assured Mr. Quayle that his government would surrender control of the military and the security police to the new administration of Violetta Chamorro.

Nelson Mandela, recently named Deputy President of the African National Congress, met with ailing President Oliver Tambo in Sweden; it was their first visit in 28 years.

Politics and government
A Gallup poll in Canada showed the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's support dropping to 17%; the Liberals, under departing leader John Turner, rose to 50%, while the New Democratic Party, led by Audrey McLaughlin, stalled at 25%.

Jambyn Batmunh, general secretary of the Communist Party of Mongolia, said that the Communists would work with opposition forces to make needed political changes.

Scandal
Testifying at the trial of former U.S. national security adviser Admiral John Poindexter, Oliver North, a former aide to Adm. Poindexter admitted that he had seen Adm. Poindexter destroy an order signed by then-President Ronald Reagan authorizing U.S. participation in arms sales to Iran in the mid-1980s.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Cotton Eye Joe--Rednex (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Austria (Ö3): Old Pop in an Oak--Rednex (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: Conquest of Paradise--Vangelis (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Rick Muther, 59. U.S. auto racing driver. Mr. Muther won the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) National Championship runoffs at Riverside, California in 1964. He raced in the USAC (1967-1975) and CART (1980) championship car series, participating in 46 races, with best finishes of 5th at Riverside in 1968 and Milwaukee in 1972. Mr. Muther drove in the Indianapolis 500 in 1970, 1971, and 1974, with a best finish of 15th in 1970. He died in his sleep of heart failure.

Juanin Clay, 45. U.S. actress. Born Juanin Clay de Zalduondo in Los Angeles, Miss Clay played Raven Alexander in the CBS television soap opera The Edge of Night in the mid-1970s, and married Joe Lambie, who played Logan Swift in the same show. She appeared in the movies The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) and WarGames(1983), as well as various television programs before dying of natural causes.

War
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, meeting with U.S. Vice President Al Gore in Copenhagen, agreed to let 5,000 United Nations peacekeepers--down from the current 15,000--remain in Croatia to patrol its borders with Serbia and Bosnia.

Curling
Brier @ Metro Centre, Halifax
Final
Manitoba (Kerry Burtnyk) 10 Saskatchewan (Heidt) 8

Hockey
CIAU
University Cup
Final
Moncton 5 Guelph 1

10 years ago
2005

Died on this date
Bill Cameron, 62. Canadian journalist. Mr. Cameron, a native of Vancouver, wrote for the Toronto Star and Maclean's magazine before moving into television, with the Global network in Ontario, CITY-TV in Toronto, and finally, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he hosted various news programs on television and radio from 1983-1999. He taught at Ryerson University in Toronto and occasionally substituted as a host on CBC radio until his death from throat cancer.

Politics and government
Karolos Papoulias, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, took office as President of Greece, succeeding Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.

March 11, 2015

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Tim Sproule!

270 years ago
1745

Born on this date
Bodawpaya. King of Burma, 1782-1819. Bodawpaya, born Maung Shwe Waing, became king of the Konbaung dynasty after deposing his nephew Phaungkaza Maung Maung, son of his oldest brother Naungdawgyi. Bodawpaya added Arakan to his territory and successfully invaded Assam, but was unsuccessful in attempts to conquer Siam. He fathered 62 sons and 58 daughters by about 200 consorts, and died on June 5, 1819 at the age of 74. Bodawpaya claimed to be the next Buddha or Maitreya, but the claim was rejected by the Sangha (leaders of the Buddhist community).

230 years ago
1785

Born on this date
John McLean. U.S. judge and politician. Mr. McLean was a member of several political parties, and was a Democratic-Republican when he represented Ohio's 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1813-1816). While still a Congressman, he was elected an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, and resigned his seat, serving on the court from 1816-1822. Mr. McLean subsequently served as Commissioner of the General Land Office (1822-1823); U.S. Postmaster General (1823-1829); and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1829-1861). His opinions favoured economic nationalism and opposed slavery; he was one of the two dissenting justices in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), in which the majority ruled that Negroes were not citizens of the United States and had no rights that white men were bound to respect. Mr. McLean died on April 4, 1861, 24 days after his 76th birthday, and was the last surviving member of the cabinets of U.S. Presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams.

170 years ago
1845

War
Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori forces, led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke, chopped down the British flagpole for a fourth time, and drove settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.

150 years ago
1865

War
In the American Civil War, Union troops commanded by General William T. Sherman captured Fayetteville, North Carolina and destroyed the Fayetteville arsenal.

Politics and government
The Assembly of Canada voted 91-33 to proceed with Confederation.

125 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Vannevar Bush.. U.S. engineer. Dr. Bush was head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II, and thus oversaw almost all military research and development. He co-founded Raytheon Company and devised the memex, a forerunner of the World Wide Web. Dr. Bush died on June 28, 1974 at the age of 84.

120 years ago
1895

Born on this date
Shemp Howard. U.S. actor. Mr. Howard, born Samuel Horwitz, was a member of the Three Stooges comedy team. He was a founding member with brother Moe and Larry Fine, but left in 1932 to pursue a solo career, and was replaced by his brother Jerome, better known as "Curly." Apart from the Three Stooges, Shemp appeared in comedy movies starring the teams Abbott and Costello, and Olsen and Johnson, and had a notable supporting role in The Bank Dick (1940), starring W.C. Fields. When Curly suffered a stroke in 1946 that forced him into retirement, Shemp rejoined the team, and was still active at the age of 60 when he died of a heart attack in the back of a taxi while returning home from attending a boxing card on November 22, 1955.

110 years ago
1905

Hockey
Stanley Cup
Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles 4 @ Ottawa Silver Seven 5 (Ottawa won best-of-three challenge series 2-1)

The Silver Seven retained the Cup, which they had first won in 1903.

80 years ago
1935

Economics and finance
The Bank of Canada began operations under Governor Graham Towers, with a mandate to issue currency and regulate the money supply.

75 years ago
1940

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

This was the final episode of the season.

War
Brazilian President Getulio Vargas announced his nation's neutrality in the European war. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the Allies would immediately help Finland in her war against the U.S.S.R. if asked to do so by the Finnish government. Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita announced that he had abandoned the idea that he could alter America's attitude toward Japan's aims in China.

Diplomacy
U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles met in London with King George VI and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

Economics and finance
Diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires indicated that Japan and Argentina would sign a trade treaty within a month.

Politics and government
The United States Senate defeated the proposed Brown amendment to extend coverage of the Hatch Act, whose main provision prohibited most employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in certain political activities.

U.S. Postmaster General James Farley withdrew his name from the Ohio primary for the 1940 Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.

Law
The United Kingdom announced that it would no longer submit to the judgement of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned an Alabama court decision to execute David Canty, a Negro, for the murder of a white woman, on the grounds that he had been coerced into confessing.

Labour
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering the American Manufacturing Company of New York to dissolve a company union.

Medicine
Doctors at Montefiore Hospital in New York reported the development of a hormone to prevent surgical shock.

70 years ago
1945

Literature
The New York Herald Tribune reported the bestselling books to be Cannery Row by John Steinbeck and Great Son by Edna Ferber (fiction), and Brave Men by Ernie Pyle and The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber (non-fiction).

War
1,000 allied bombers harassed the German city of Essen, dropping 4,662 1-ton bombs. The American bridgehead opposite Remagen on the Rhine River was extended to a length of 9 miles and a depth of 3 miles. In Operation Tan No. 2, the Imperial Japanese Navy attempted a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll. U.S. troops landed secretly on Rombion and Simara Islands in the central part of the Philippines. U.S. forces captured Zamaboanga on Mindanao Island and occupied San Rocque airfield, 4 miles from the town. Chinese troops recaptured Suichwan in the province of Kiangsi, the first former air base in China to be retaken from Japanese forces.

World events
The Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese puppet state, was established, with Bảo Đại as Emperor and Trần Trọng Kim as Prime Minister.

Economics and finance
U.S. Office of War Mobilization Director James Byrnes announced the formation of an interagency committee to coordinate foreign shipments under the direction of Leo Crowley.

Golf
Byron Nelson began a PGA-record 11-tournament winning streak as he teamed with Jug McSpaden in the Miami Four-Ball tournament at Miami Springs Golf Club in Miami, Florida.

60 years ago
1955

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Give Me Your Word--Tennessee Ernie Ford

Died on this date
Oscar Mayer, 95. German-born U.S. businessman. Mr. Mayer founded a butcher shop and sausage-making business in Chicago in 1883, which eventually became the firm that still bearts his name today. He died 18 days before his 96th birthday.

Alexander Fleming, 73. U.K. biologist and pharmacologist. Sir Alexander shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases."

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (Record Retailer): It's Not Unusual--Tom Jones

Diplomacy
Tunisia refused to join the United Arab Republic's boycott of West Germany.

40 years ago
1975

Died on this date
Dave Mishel, 69. U.S. football player. Mr. Mishel was a halfback with the Brown University Bears when they had their only undefeated season in 1926, and played in the National Football League with the Providence Steam Roller in 1927 and Cleveland Indians in 1931.

Gilbert "Buster" Sanchez, 48. Mexican-born U.S. baseball umpire. Mr. Sanchez umpired in the minor professional leagues beginning with the Florida State League in 1962. He worked in the Carolina, Southern, International, and Pacific Coast Leagues, and was in the Texas League from 1971-1974. Mr. Sanchez was scheduled to umpire in the Mexican League in 1975, when he died of a heart attack in Mexico City.

Mike Hardy, 20. U.S. football player. Mr. Hardy was a wide receiver with North Carolina State University. In 1974, is junior year, he caught 13 passes and scored 2 touchdowns. If the Darwin Awards had been in existence in 1975, Mr. Hardy would have been a contender; he was hanging outside of a moving car, holding onto the window with his hands, when he lost his grip and fell onto the road.

War
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces established control over the Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army.

World events
General Antonio de Spinola, former provisional President of Portugal, fled to Spain after an attempted coup d'etat by forces loyal to him failed.

Economics and finance
The European Economic Community concluded two days of renegotiations of the United Kingdom's membership terms.

Hockey
NHL
Buffalo 2 @ Los Angeles 2

Gerry Desjardins, playing his first game for Buffalo since jumping from the Baltimore Blades of the World Hockey Association, stopped 26 shots as the Sabres tied the Kings before 15,667 fans at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Los Angeles goalie Rogie Vachon stopped 36 shots. The Kings took a 2-0 lead on goals by Don Kozak in the 1st period and Tom Williams in the 2nd, with Gilbert Perreault scoring for Buffalo in the 2nd period and Peter McNab at 4:02 of the 3rd.

Baseball
The Montreal Expos stole 7 bases, with all base stealers coming around to score, as they beat the Boston Red Sox 9-3 before 2,286 fans in a spring training game in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tony Scott hit a home run for Montreal, while Rich Coggins and Gary Carter each had 2 hits. Mr. Carter had 2 stolen bases. Boston catcher Carlton Fisk, playing for the first time since suffering a season-ending knee injury the previous June, batted 0 for 3. Don DeMola started on the mound for Montreal and pitched 4 innings to get the win; Luis Tiant started for Boston and allowed 2 runs--1 earned--in 3 innings before giving way to Roger Moret, who allowed 8 runs--all earned--in 3 innings to take the loss.

Bobby Bonds and Bob Oliver each hit 2-run home runs as the New York Yankees blanked the New York Mets 4-0 in a spring training game before 3,847 fans in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dave Pagan started on the mound for the Yankees and allowed 1 hit in 3 innings before giving way to Ed Ricks, who allowed 4 hits in 3 innnings to get the win. Scott McGregor pitched the final 3 innings for the Yankees, allowing 3 hits. None of the Yankees' pitchers allowed a base on balls. Harry Parker started for the Mets and allowed 2 hits in 3 scoreless innings before giving way to Mac Scarce, who allowed all 4 runs in 3 innings to take the loss.

The Philadelphia Phillies scored 4 runs in the last 2 innings to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-5 in a spring training game before 1,520 fans in Bradenton, Florida. Former Pittsburgh ace Steve Blass, whose career had been derailed by severe wildness beginning in 1973, pitched the final 3 innings, allowing 2 hits, 4 runs--all earned--and 6 bases on balls to take the loss. George Culver, the second of four Philadelphia pitchers, was the winner. Andy Kosco hit a home run for the Phillies, with Al Oliver and Willie Stargell homering for the Pirates. Former American League strikeout king Sam McDowell started on the mound for Pittsburgh and pitched 3 scoreless innings, striking out 4 Phillies.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Sotsugyō: Graduation--Momoko Kikuchi

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Woodpeckers from Space--VideoKids

Politics and government
Mikhail Gorbachev, who at 54 was the youngest member of the Politburo, succeeded the late Konstantin Chernenko as leader of the U.S.S.R.

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Don't Make Me Over--Sybil

#1 single in Switzerland: Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (3rd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (2nd week at #1)
2 Get Up! (Before the Night is Over)--Technotronic
3 Bakerman--Laid Back
4 Sit and Wait--Sydney Youngblood
5 Got to Get--Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K.
6 Rich in Paradise "Going Back to My Roots"--F.P.I. Project
7 The Message is Love--Arthur Baker and the Backbeat Disciples featuring Al Green
8 All Around the World--Lisa Stansfield
9 Easy--Ice MC
10 Another Day in Paradise--Phil Collins

Singles entering the chart were Fandango by Boris Bukowski (#11); I Don't Know Anybody Else by Black Box (#14); and How am I Supposed to Live Without You by Michael Bolton (#29).

World events
The Supreme Soviet of Lithuania voted 124-0 with 6 abstentions to declare independence from the Soviet Union. Vytautas Landsbergis, a professor of music history, was elected President by the deputies.

Politics and government
General Augusto Pinochet stepped down after 16½ years as dictator of Chile. He was succeeded by Patricio Aylwin.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (ARIA): Another Night--Real McCoy (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Denmark (Nielsen Music Control & IFPI): Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)--Scatman John (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (VRT): A Girl Like You--Edwyn Collins (4th week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Zombie--The Cranberries (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Alice, Who the X is Alice--Gompie

#1 single in the U.K. (BMRB): Think Twice--Celine Dion (6th week at #1)

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

Singles entering the chart were Run Away by Real McCoy (#30); Dear Mama/Old School by 2Pac (#32); Believe by Elton John (#52); No More "I Love You's" by Annie Lennox (#78); People Don't Believe by Scarface featuring Ice Cube (#83); Let Her Cry by Hootie & the Blowfish (#90); I'd Rather Be Alone by IV Xample (#92); Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex (#94); and Let's Get it On by Shabba Ranks (#97).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Take a Bow--Madonna (4th week at #1)
2 Creep--TLC
3 If You Love Me--Brownstone
4 On Bended Knee--Boyz II Men
5 Strong Enough--Sheryl Crow
6 Baby--Brandy
7 Hold My Hand--Hootie & the Blowfish
8 You Gotta Be--Des'ree
9 I Know--Dionne Farris
10 Candy Rain--Soul for Real

Singles entering the chart were Believe by Elton John (#34); Mr. Personality by Gillette (#65); Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex (#66); What I Need by Crystal Waters (#67); This is How We Do It by Montell Jordan (#75); Move it Like This by K7 (#79); For Your Love by Stevie Wonder (#83); What Would You Say by Dave Matthews Band (#84); and Dear Mama by 2Pac (#85).

Skiing
Picabo Street of Sun Valley, Idaho became the first American to clinch a World Cup downhill championship, winning at Lenzerheide, Switzerland to capture her fourth straight victory and fifth of the season.

Hockey
NHL
Chicago 2 @ Toronto 2

March 10, 2015

600 years ago
1415

Born on this date
Vasily II. Grand Prince of Moscow, 1425-1433; 1435-1446; 1447-1462. Vasily II's reign was plagued by civil war, and he was captured, blinded, and exiled to Uglich in 1446. Vasily II returned to power, and died on March 27, 1462, 17 days after his 47th birthday. He was succeeded as Grand Prince of Moscow by his son Ivan III.

230 years ago
1785

Diplomacy
Thomas Jefferson was appointed U.S. minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.

170 years ago
1845

Born on this date
Aleksandr III. Czar of Russia, 1881-1894. Aleksandr III acceded to the throne upon the assassination of his father Aleksandr II. He reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, and governed in an autocratic manner until his death from nephritis on November 1, 1894 at the age of 49.

125 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Albert Ogilvie. Australian politician. Mr. Ogilvie, a member of the Labour Party, represented the Division of Franklin in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1919 until his death. He became Leader of the Opposition in 1929, and Premier of Tasmania from 1934. Mr. Ogilvie's government modernized Tasmania's health care system and embarked on other economic reforms. He was in office at the time of his death on June 10, 1939 at the age of 49, which took place a few hours after he took ill while playing golf.

100 years ago
1915

War
Canadian soldiers saw action in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in France.

80 years ago
1935

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

75 years ago
1940

On television tonight
In the first televised opera, W2XBS-TV in New York City broadcast members of the Metropolitan Opera Company in scenes from I Pagliacci.

Died on this date
Mikhail Bulgakov, 48. Russian author and playwright. Dr. Bulgakov was a surgeon who abandoned his medical career after a near-fatal attack of typhus in 1919. He then began another career, writing journalism, novels, short stories and plays. Dr. Bulgakov had difficulty getting his writing published or his plays produced, but Soviet dictator Josef Stalin saved him from arrest and execution. Dr. Bulgakov died after a long battle with the inherited kidney disorder nephrosclerosis. His best-known work, the novel The Master and Margarita, which satirized the atheism of the Soviet Union, was written between 1928-1940, but wasn't published until the late 1960s.

War
Diplomatic sources in Washington reported the scuttling of the German steamer Hanover near Puerto Rico, near the American safety zone.

World events
A Hindu-Muslim riot in Calcutta claimed the lives of six people.

Economics and finance
A United States Commerce Department survey indicated that trade with the Netherlands East Indies would increase because of the European war.

Labour
The International Labor Organization announced the postponement of its annual meeting for one year.

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--5th week at #1; Juke Box--5th week at #1); Don't Fence Me In--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra (Airplay--7th week at #1)

War
The First Canadian Army forced German troops across the Rhine River opposite Wesel, the last Nazi bridgehead west of the Rhine, ending a month-long campaign. Soviet troops captured Lauenburg and Kartuzy on the road to Danzig, and split the enemy lines on the city's outskirts. More than 300 Marianas-based U.S. Army Air Forces Superfortresses dropped 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo in the heaviest raid on the city to date. Casualties were estimated at 125,000, with 40% of Tokyo destroyed and one million residents left homeless. U.S. troops in the Philippines entered Antipolo, the southern anchor of the Japanese defense line east of Manila. Lord Louis Mountbatten completed three days of talks in Chungking, where complete agreement on cooperation of the various commands was reportedly reached.

World events
A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removed the French from power, placing Governor General Hean Decoux and other French leaders in "protective custody."

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius returned from Mexico City and said that Americans must share in the responsibility of establishing and maintaining world peace.

Economics and finance
Beacuse of low civilian supplies of meats, sugar, butter, and canned fruits and vegetables, the U.S. Office of Price Administration announced reduced allotments of rationed foods for industrial users.

50 years ago
1965

Theatre
The Odd Couple, written by Neil Simon, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau, opened at the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in New York.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): 22-sai no Wakare--Kaze (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Todo El Tiempo Del Mundo--Manolo Otero (12th week at #1)

Died on this date
Clint Evans, 85. U.S. baseball coach. Mr. Evans coached at the University of California at Berkeley from 1930-1954, compiling a record of 547-256 and leading the Golden Bears to the first College World Series championship in 1947.

George Stewart, 20. U.S. football player. Mr. Stewart was a defensive tackle with the University of Southern California Trojans, and was in his junior year when he died of a heart attack after lifting weights at the university gym.

War
North Vietnamese troops attacked Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Square Rooms--Al Corley

#1 single in Switzerland: You're My Heart, You're My Soul--Modern Talking

On the radio
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes, starring Graham Armitage and Kerry Jordan, on Springbok Radio
Tonight's episode: An Item of Cartography

Died on this date
Konstantin Chernenko, 73. U.S.S.R. political leader. Mr. Chernenko replaced Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 13, 1984, four days after Mr. Andropov’s death. He also served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from April 11, 1984 until his death, but was widely regarded as just a caretaker until a younger leader was ready to take over. Indeed, that turned out to be the case, when Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded to the U.S.S.R.’s highest office the day after Mr. Chernenko’s death . Mr. Chernenko was a veteran apparatchik whose background was mainly in propaganda. He was in failing health during his time in office; among his few accomplishments as Soviet leader were a trade pact with China and a meeting with British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. In the late fall of 1984 the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. agreed to resume arms reduction talks in early 1985.

Bob Nieman, 58. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Nieman was an outfielder with the St. Louis Browns (1951-1952); Detroit Tigers (1953-1954); Chicago White Sox (1955-1956); Baltimore Orioles (1956-1959); St. Louis Cardinals (1960-1961); Cleveland Indians (1961-1962); and San Francisco Giants (1962), batting .295 with 125 home runs and 544 runs batted in in 1,113 games. On September 14, 1951, he became the first man to hit home runs in each of his first 2 major league at bats. Mr. Nieman finished his major league career with a brief appearance in the 1962 World Series, and concluded his playing career with the Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League, betting .301 with 13 homers and 39 RBIs in 103 games.

Curling
Brier @ Moncton Coliseum
Final
Northern Ontario (Al Hackner) 6 Alberta (Pat Ryan) 5 (11 ends)

N.O. skip Al Hackner made a brilliant double take-out with his final shot in the 10th end to tie the score, and stole the winning point in the 11th when Mr. Ryan was heavy with his last rock. It was the second Canadian championship for Mr. Hacker, having led Northern Ontario to the title in 1982.



Hockey
NHL
Vancouver 6 Edmonton 3
Montreal 5 Hartford 5

CIAU
Western championship
Alberta 6 Manitoba 5 (OT) (Alberta won best-of-three series 2-1)

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Australian Music Report): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Pump Up the Jam--Technotronic (9th week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Get Up! (Before the Night is Over--Technotronic (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in France (SNEP): Les Valses de Vienne--François Feldman (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K. (CIN): Dub Be Good to Me--Beats International (2nd week at #1)

Netherlands Top 10 (De Nederlandse Top 40)
1 Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (4th week at #1)
2 Daar Gaat Ze--Clouseau
3 Sacrifice--Elton John
4 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul
5 I Wish it Would Rain Down--Phil Collins
6 King Kong Five--Mano Negra
7 Live Together (New Version)--Lisa Stansfield
8 Fools Gold--The Stone Roses
9 Look Away--Chicago
10 Here I Am (Come and Take Me)--UB40

Singles entering the chart were Jij Daar! by Petra & Co. (#28); Touch Me--Sexual Version by the 49ers (#30); Put Your Hands Together by D Mob (#31); All My Life by Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville (#32); Dangerous by Roxette (#34); and Arabeat by Bingo! featuring: Serge Gobin (#37).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Billboard)
1 Escapade--Janet Jackson (2nd week at #1)
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Roam--The B-52s
4 Black Velvet--Alannah Myles
5 Price of Love--Bad English
6 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
7 No More Lies--Michel'le
8 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
9 I Go to Extremes--Billy Joel
10 Love Will Lead You Back--Taylor Dayne

Singles entering the chart were The Secret Garden by Quincy Jones (#73); Time After Time by Timmy T. (#80); Room at the Top by Adam Ant (#84); The Way it Is by Tesla (#86); Bad Love by Eric Clapton (#88); Have a Heart by Bonnie Raitt (#92); Hide and Seek by Pajama Party (#93); Expression by Salt-N-Pepa (#95); and Advice for the Young at Heart by Tears for Fears (#96).

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Escapade--Janet Jackson
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair)
4 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli
5 We Can't Go Wrong--Cover Girls
6 Roam--The B-52's
7 Price of Love--Bad English
8 Tell Me Why--Expose
9 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
10 C'mon and Get My Love--D Mob introducing Cathy Dennis

Singles entering the chart were Have a Heart by Bonnie Raitt (#59); Room at the Top by Adam Ant (#64); I Come Off by Young M.C. (#69); Lambada by Kaoma (#73); A Face in the Crowd by Tom Petty (#76); Got to Have Your Love by Mantronix (featuring Wondress) (#82); Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin' by Inner City (#87); and Imagination by Xymox (#90).

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Opposites Attract--Paula Abdul (Duet with the Wild Pair) (2nd week at #1)
2 Dangerous--Roxette
3 Escapade--Janet Jackson
4 I Wish it Would Rain Down--Phil Collins
5 I Go to Extremes--Billy Joel
6 Roam--The B-52's
7 Here We Are--Gloria Estefan
8 Too Late to Say Goodbye--Richard Marx
9 No Myth--Michael Penn
10 All or Nothing--Milli Vanilli

Singles entering the chart were Carry On by the Box (#69); Don't Wanna Fall in Love by Jane Child (#73); A Little Love by Corey Hart (#76); No More Lies by Michel'le (#80); Keep it in Line by Danny Brooks (#83); Just a Friend by Biz Markie (#85); Save this House by Spirit of the West (#87); (My My) Baby's Gonna Cry by Eurythmics (#89); We Almost Got it Together by Tanita Tikaram (#91); Everything You Touch by Smokey Robinson (#93); and I'm Your Man by Joe Cocker (#95).

Died on this date
Pat McDonald, 68. Australian actress. Miss McDonald appeared in radio, stage, screen, and television, and was best known as a longtime cast member of the television soap operas Number 96 (1972-1977) and Sons and Daughters (1981-1987). She died of pancreatic cancer.

World events
Farzad Bazoft, a reporter with the British newspaper The Observer, was sentenced to death by a court in Baghdad after being convicted of espionage on behalf of Israel while working on a story about an explosion at a weapons complex 30 miles (48 kilometres) south of the Iraqi capital. Daphne Parish, a British nurse who was said to have driven Mr. Bazoft to the site, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Politics and government
Haitian President Prosper Avril was forced into exile by street protests, 18 months after seizing power in a coup. Military leader Hérard Abraham then served as acting President for three days before relinquishing the presidency to Jean Rénald Clérismé.

Hockey
NHL
Edmonton 2 @ Toronto 3

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Self Esteem--The Offspring (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Think Twice--Celine Dion (8th week at #1)

Politics and government
U.S. Air Force General (retired) Michael Carns withdrew as President Bill Clinton's nominee for Director of Central Intelligence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in its background check on Mr. Carns, had turned up potential violations of labour and immigration law, involving a young family friend whom Mr. Carns had arranged to bring to America from the Philippines. Mr. Carns denounced the allegations by the man, Elbino Runas, as outrageous. Mr. Clinton nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch for the intelligence post.

Diplomacy
British Prime Minister John Major urged U.S. President Bill Clinton to insist that when he met with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, that the Irish Republican Army, of which Sinn Fein was the political wing, disarm as a step toward negotiations with the United Kingdom over the future of Northern Ireland. The U.S. administration had announced the previous day that Mr. Adams would be permitted an unlimited number of visits to the U.S. over the next three months, and would be allowed to raise money.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate in February was 5.4%, equalling the four-year low reported for December 1994.

10 years ago
2005

Politics and government
Tung Chee-hwa resigned as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong because of widespread public dissatisfaction with his tenure. He had held the office since the soveriegnty of Hong Kong had been transferred from the United Kingdom to China on July 1, 1997.

March 9, 2015

250 years ago
1765

Crime
After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerated Jean Calas of murdering his son Marc-Antoine. Mr. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though Marc-Antoine may have actually committed suicide, which was then a crime.

160 years ago
1855

Transportation
The first Great Western Railway locomotive crossed the Niagara Falls suspension bridge to Niagara Falls, New York, giving Canada West direct rail connection to New York.

125 years ago
1890

Born on this date
Vyacheslav Molotov. U.S.S.R. politician. Mr. Molotov held various positions with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but was best known as the U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister from 1939-1949 and 1953-1956. He died on November 8, 1986 at the age of 96.

120 years ago
1895

Died on this date
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 59. Austrian journalist and author. Mr. Sacher-Masoch was known for promoting socialism and humanism in fiction and non-fiction, and was known for romantic stories of Galician life. His best-known work was the novella Venus im Pelz (Venus in Furs) (1870), in which he expressed his fantasies about being dominated by women. Mr. Sacher-Masoch spent his later years under psychiatric care, and contemporary Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the term "masochism" to describe such fantasies.

Hockey
Stanley Cup
Queen's College 1 @ Montreal Hockey Club 5

Haviland Routh scored 2 goals, with Clarence Mussen, Clarence McKerrow, and Archie Hodgson each scoring a goal, as the 1894 champions defeated Queen's, champions of the Ontario Hockey Association, at Victoria Arena. George McKay scored for Queen's. The Montreal win meant that the Montreal Victorias, who had clinched the 1895 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada championship the previous day, were declared the 1895 Stanley Cup champions, according to a ruling of Stanley Cup trustees.

110 years ago
1905

Hockey
Stanley Cup
Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles 2 @ Ottawa Silver Seven 4 (Best-of-three challenge series tied 1-1)

90 years ago
1925

War
Wing Commander Richard Pink began the first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy, a campaign against rebellious Mahsud tribesmen in northwestern India.

80 years ago
1935

Track and field
Jesse Owens of Ohio State University set a world record in the 60-yard dash with a time of 6.1 seconds at the 25th annual Western Conference indoor meet in Chicago, putting him on the national stage for the first time.

75 years ago
1940

War
The British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Dunedin and Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Assiniboine seized the German merchant ship MV Hannover between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The French and British governments asked Norway and Sweden to permit increased Allied aid to be shipped to Finland. U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman (Democrat-Nevada) urged a 30-day truce in Europe to permit neutrals to negotiate a peace settlement.

Diplomacy
The U.K. released Italian coal ships on Italy's promise not to send any more ships for German coal.

Swimming
Patty Aspinwall, 13, set a 220-yard breaststroke record of 3:01.1 at Miami Beach, Florida.

70 years ago
1945

War
The U.S. 1st Army captured Bonn. Soviet forces drove from three directions at Danzig and reached to within 9 miles of the port. The 19th British Indian Division drove its way into Mandalay, breaking out of its bridgehead on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, as Japanese forces put up fierce resistance. U.S. troops in the Philippines drove 12 miles north along the west coast of Luzon, seizing the town of Aringay.

Diplomacy
The ambassadors to the United Kingdom of both Syria and Lebanon filed protests with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden over the failure to invite their countries to the forthcoming conference in San Francisco for the founding of the United Nations.

A British Foreign Office spokesman said that the U.K. embassy in Bucharest was sheltering former Romanian Prime Minister General Nicolai Radescu.

Americana
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the population of the South and West had increased by nearly four million between 1940-1944.

Politics and government
North Dakota Governor Fred Aandahl (Republican) named State Senator Milton Young (Republican) to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of John Moses (Democrat).

Environment
The Quebec Legislative Assembly passed a Land Drainage Act, which allowed the practice of draining land already delivered for cultivation, but liable to flood. The act also allowed the expansion of the arable area by the drying up of savannahs and swamps.

Economics and finance
Italian Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi and Spurgeon Keeny, chief of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's mission to Italy, signed an agreement governing the use of $50 million worth of relief to Italy.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told a press conference that a voluntary system was inadequate to supply the manpower needed to carry on war production.

Labour
The U.S. Southern Coal Producers Association petitioned the National War Labor Board to abandon plans for a strike poll of soft coal miners scheduled for March 28.

Boxing
Rocky Graziano (36-6-5), a 6-1 underdog, knocked Billy Arnold (26-2-1) down 3 times as he scored a technical knockout at 1:54 of the 3rd round of a welterweight bout at Madison Square Garden in New York. Among the 14,037 fans in attendance was U.S. Vice President Harry Truman. The careers of the two boxers went in opposite directions after this fight; Mr. Graziano went on to win the world middleweight title in 1947, while Mr. Arnold retired in 1948 at the age of 22 after losing his last five fights.



60 years ago
1955

At the movies
East of Eden, starring James Dean, Richard Davalos, and Raymond Massey, received its premiere screening in New York City.



Died on this date
Denis Conan Doyle, 45. U.K. literary scion. Mr. Doyle was the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the first child of his second wife Jean. Denis studied medicine at Cambridge University and delivered some speeches in support of the British cause during World War II, but left no published writings behind, as far as I know. He died of a heart attack while on a big game hunt in Africa, eight days before his 46th birthday.

50 years ago
1965

On television tonight
The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometimes, with guest stars Jack Klugman, Geraldine Brooks, Michael Constantine, and Barry Atwater

Economics and finance
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed his first "Great Society" bill, a $1-billion aid program for the 11-state Appalachian area.

40 years ago
1975

Died on this date
Bob Celeri, 47. U.S. football player. Mr. Celeri was a quarterback and punter with the New York Yanks (1951) and Dallas Texans (1952) of the National Football League before moving to Canada, where he played briefly with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1953 before joining the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen of the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1954, leading the Dutchmen to four consecutive ORFU championships from 1954-1957, and winning the Imperial Oil Trophy as the ORFU's Most Valuable Player in all four seasons. He coached the Waterloo Lutheran University Golden Hawks from 1960-1967, leading the team to an appearance in the Canadian College Bowl in 1966. Mr. Celeri joined the Buffalo Bills as a scout in 1968, and died at his home in Williamsville, New York, of an apparent heart attack; his funeral took place in Kitchener.

Hockey
NHL
The Vancouver Canucks traded centre Gerry Meehan to the Atlanta Flames for defenceman Bob Murray. Mr. Meehan, in his sixth NHL season, had been acquired by the Canucks from the Buffalo Sabres on October 14, 1974, and had scored 10 goals and 15 assists in 57 games with Vancouver. Mr. Murray was in his second NHL season, and had scored 3 goals and 3 assists in 42 games with Atlanta in 1974-75.

Montreal 5 @ New York Rangers 3

Pete Mahovlich scored 2 goals and assisted on goals by Guy Lapointe, Yvan Cournoyer, and Steve Shutt as the Canadiens built a 5-0 lead after 2 periods and held on to defeat the Rangers before 17,500 fans at Madison Square Garden in the weekly Sunday CBC radio broadcast. The first 2 goals of the game, by Messrs. Mahovlich and Lapointe, were both on the powerplay, giving Montreal 82 powerplay goals for the season, beating the record set by the Boston Bruins in 1969-70. Steve Vickers scored twice for the Rangers in the 3rd period, and Bert Wilson closed the scoring with 4:11 remaining in the game, scoring just 10 seconds after Mr. Vickers had made the score 5-2.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Noi Ragazzi Di Oggi--Luis Miguel (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Flanders (Ultratop 50): Shout--Tears for Fears (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Shout--Tears for Fears (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): I Know Him So Well--Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson (5th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)--Dead or Alive

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Can't Fight This Feeling--REO Speedwagon

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

Singles entering the chart were Forever Man by Eric Clapton (#62); Scientific Love by Midnight Star (#89); and Emotion by Barbra Streisand (#90).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 I Want to Know What Love Is--Foreigner (3rd week at #1)
2 Neutron Dance--Pointer Sisters
3 Easy Lover--Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins)
4 Careless Whisper--Wham! featuring George Michael
5 Solid--Ashford & Simpson
6 You're the Inspiration--Chicago
7 Method of Modern Love--Daryl Hall John Oates
8 California Girls--David Lee Roth
9 The Heat is On--Glenn Frey
10 One More Night--Phil Collins

Singles entering the chart were All She Wants to Do is Dance by Don Henley (#81); Some Like it Hot by Power Station (#86); Along Comes a Woman by Chicago (#88); Missing You by Diana Ross (#91); Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds (#96); Turn Up the Radio by Autograph (#97); Lucky by Greg Kihn (#98); and Let's Talk About Me by Alan Parsons Project (#99).

25 years ago
1990

Politics and government
Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirmed that his province would be rescinding its approval of the Meech Lake constitutional accord. In the speech from the throne opening the new session of the Newfoundland House of Assembly, Premier Wells, through Lieutenant-Governor James McGrath, said he was taking this action because Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa were unwilling to amend the accord, which Mr. Wells said was unacceptable in its present form. He objected to Meech’s granting of special status to Quebec, and a provision that would make Senate reform more difficult. Federal Trade Minister John Crosbie, a fellow Newfoundlander, accused Mr. Wells of "constitutional vandalism," while federal Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard said that Mr. Wells’ position might force Canada to choose "between Newfoundland and Quebec."

Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first Hispanic and woman to be U.S. Surgeon General.

Scandal
Former U.S. National Security Council staff member Oliver North, testifying as a prosecution witness at the trial of former national security adviser John Poindexter, sought to resist implicating Adm. Poindexter in a cover-up, and said, "No one told me to lie to Congress." Adm. Poindexter was on trial for his role in the Iran-Contra arms deal of 1986.

Economics and finance
The U.S. Labor Department reported that unemployment stood at 5.3% in February.

20 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Club Bizarre--U96 (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Edward Bernays, 103. Austrian-born U.S. publicist. Mr. Bernays, a nephew of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, has been called "the father of public relations" and one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century. He was born in Vienna, and moved with his family to New York City when he was an infant. Mr. Bernays worked with the U.S. Committee on Public Information's Bureau of Latin-American Affairs during World War I, and then worked as a "public relations counsel" in New York from 1919-1963 on behalf of businesses and governments. His advertising campaigns included the "Torches of Freedom" project in the 1920s to induce women to smoke cigarettes, and work on behalf of the United Fruit Company in the 1950s in connection with the Central Intelligence Agency's overthrow of the Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Arbenz. Mr. Bernays' books included Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923); Propaganda (1928); and Public Relations (1945).

Diplomacy
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip paid their first visit to Northern Ireland since the cease-fire between Loyalist forces and the Irish Republican Army had come into effect in 1994.

Canadian Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin ordered a Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit. The boat fired warning shots across bow of Spanish trawler Estai. The incident led to a dispute between Canada and the European Union.

The U.S. administration of President Bill Clinton announced that Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein--the political arm of the Irish Republican Army--would be allowed an unlimited number of visits to the United States over the next three months, and would be permitted to raise money.

Economics and finance
Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon announced new austerity measures in response to conditions tied to the $50 million international aid package. To increase revenue, Mr. Zedillo raised the price of state-produced gasoline and electricity, and increased the value-added tax from 10%-15%. The federal budget would be cut by 10%.

March 8, 2015

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Linda and Diane Woodhams!

160 years ago
1855

Died on this date
William Poole, 33. U.S. boxer and gangster. Mr. Poole, nicknamed "Bill the Butcher," founded the Washington Street Gang--later known as the Bowery Boys--in New York City in the 1840s. He was a bareknuckle boxer whose illegal fights went largely unrecorded; he was known for his dirty fighting style, and was also a skilled knife fighter. Mr. Poole was an opponent of New York's Tammany Hall political machine, and was the local leader of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know Nothing Party. He died several days after being shot by two enforcers of John Morrissey, his Tammany Hall arch rival.

Canadiana
The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, the world's first working railway suspension bridge, opened, connecting Niagara Falls, Canada West, to Niagara Falls, New York. The first train crossed the bridge the following day.

140 years ago
1875

Economics and finance
The first official daily Toronto Stock Exchange report was published in the Toronto Globe.

120 years ago
1895

Hockey
AHAC
Montreal Victorias (6-2) 5 Montreal Crystals (3-4) 2

The Victorias clinched the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada championship with their win over the Crystals.

75 years ago
1940

War
A Finnish delegation headed by Prime Minister Risto Ryti left Helsinki for Moscow for peace negotiations. Japanese forces in China captured Shekki, the chief town of the Chungshan district.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Prentiss Brown (Democrat--Michigan) proposed that every employee of a company receiving federal grants or benefits be barred from making monetary contributions to political campaigns.

Scandal
George Spector, convicted of a bribery conspiracy with former U.S. Federal Judge Martin Morton, surrendered in federal court in New York City.

Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science reported the discovery of pantothenic acid, an essential vitamin for normal growth in animal and plant life.

Economics and finance
The Japanese foreign office stated that the $20-million U.S. loan to China through the Import-Export Bank was an unfriendly act.

A U.S. Federal Reserve Board official predicted that unless long-term credit expansion was obtained, the Board would not be able to cope with inflation.

Labour
American Federation of Labor President William Green called for renewed peace talks with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Swimming
The Yale University team set a world record of 3:54.4 for the 400-metre relays.

70 years ago
1945

Died on this date
Bligh Bond, 80. U.K. archaeologist and architect. Mr. Bond designed schools and large houses. In 1908, he was appointed by the Church of England to direct excavations of the medieval Glastonbury Abbey, and rediscovered the nature and dimensions of a number of buildings that had occupied the site before he was fired in 1921. Mr. Bond claimed to have employed psychical methods to make his discoveries, but his assertions met with much skepticism. He lived in the United States from 1926-1936, working with the American Society for Psychical Research and being consecrated as a bishop in the Old Catholic Church. Mr. Bond returned to England after breaking with the ASPR, and died of a heart attack.

War
Phyllis Mae Daley, the first Negro American nurse to serve in World War II, received her U.S. Navy commission. Soviet forces threw a 40-mile siege arc around Stettin and drove to within 6 miles of the port.

Diplomacy
The Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace closed in Mexico City after approving 60 resolutions strengthening the Western Hemisphere.

Labour
The United States Senate passed the O'Mahoney-Kilgore bill, a committee substitute for the May-Bailey bill, which gave the War Mobilization Commission power to mobilize workers for war production.

Disasters
The flood-swollen Ohio River caused 10 deaths and millions of dollars in damage to Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana.

50 years ago
1965

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): La Yenka--Johnny & Charley (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Born to Be with You--Butch Moore

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Eight Days a Week--The Beatles
2 The Boy from New York City--The Ad Libs
3 Shakin' All Over--Chad Allan and the Expressions (Guess Who?)
4 Little Things--Bobby Goldsboro
5 Go Now!--The Moody Blues
6 My Girl--The Temptations
7 Goldfinger--Shirley Bassey
8 Come Home--The Dave Clark Five
9 It's About Time--Bobby Curtola
10 Ferry Cross the Mersey--Gerry & the Pacemakers

Singles entering the chart were Stop! In the Name of Love by the Supremes (#15); Do the Clam by Elvis Presley (#29); Stranger in Town by Del Shannon (#30); I'll Be the Boy by Jack London & the Sparrows (#31); I Must Be Seeing Things by Gene Pitney (#32); If I Loved You by Chad & Jeremy (#33); Ask the Lonely by the Four Tops (#34); Hobo by Wes Dakus (#35); Don't Mess Up a Good Thing by Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure (#36); Walk That Walk by David Clayton-Thomas (#37); People Get Ready by the Impressions (#38); Shotgun by Jr. Walker and the All Stars (#39); and Baby Ruth by Butterfingers (#40). I'll Be the Boy was the B-side of Dream On Dreamer.

On television tonight
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Death Scene, starring Vera Miles, John Carradine, and James Farentino

Music
Glen Campbell completed recording the song Guess I'm Dumb. Mr. Campbell, who had played on recording sessions with the Beach Boys, had recently toured with the group as a substitute for Brian Wilson, who had decided to quit touring in order to devote more time to writing songs and producing the records. Mr. Campbell had been invited to join the Beach Boys permanently, but turned down the offer in order to continue his pursuit of a career as a solo artist. The Beach Boys offered him the opportunity to record Guess I'm Dumb, written by Mr. Wilson and Russ Titelman, and produced and arranged by Mr. Wilson. The song sounds as though it had been written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; it was shortly thereafter released as a single on Capitol Records but failed to chart. Had Mr. Campbell chosen to remain with the Beach Boys, Guess I'm Dumb would have been a good addition to side 2 of their current album The Beach Boys Today!

War
The first U.S. combat troops--about 3,500 Marines--arrived in Vietnam.

Academia
The Newfoundland government of Premier Joey Smallwood granted free tuition to all Newfoundland first-year students at Memorial University of Newfoundland, becoming the first provincial government in Canada to make such a move.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (Hit Parade Italia): Un corpo e un'anima--Wess & Dori Ghezzi (6th week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): 100 Years--Joey Dyser (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: If--Telly Savalas

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Have You Never Been Mellow--Olivia Newton-John

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

Singles entering the chart were Philadelphia Freedom by the Elton John Band (#50); What am I Gonna Do with You by Barry White (#56); Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan (#80); Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) by Jethro Tull (#83); Beer Barrel Polka by Bobby Vinton (#85); My Little Lady by Bloodstone (#87); He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) by Tony Orlando and Dawn (#88); Swing Your Daddy by Jim Gilstrap (#89); Bump Me Baby (Part 1) by Dooley Silverspoon (#92); Only One Woman by Nigel Olsson (#96); Theme from "The Prophet" (Pleasure is a Freedom Song/On Love) by Richard Harris (#97); Sorry Doesn't Always Make it Right by Diana Ross (#98);and The Pill by Loretta Lynn (#99).

#1 single in Canada (RPM): Best of My Love--The Eagles (2nd week at #1)

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

Winnipeg's Top 30 (CKRC)
1 Black Water--The Doobie Brothers (3rd 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 Changes--David Bowie
6 Lady Marmalade--LaBelle
7 Mandy--Barry Manilow
8 Best of My Love--The Eagles
9 Fire--Ohip Players
10 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You--Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta
11 Poetry Man--Phoebe Snow
12 Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters
13 Bungle in the Jungle--Jethro Tull
14 No No Song--Ringo Starr
15 Morning Side of the Mountain--Donny and Marie Osmond
16 You Beat Me to the Punch--Charity Brown
17 Lady--Styx
18 Some Kind of Wonderful--Grand Funk
19 Can You Give it All to Me--Myles and Lenny
20 Powerful People--Gino Vannelli
21 Up in a Puff of Smoke--Polly Brown
22 Mother Earth--Ian Thomas
23 (Make Me Do) Anything You Want--A Foot in Coldwater
24 Pick Up the Pieces--AWB
25 (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song--B.J. Thomas
26 Nightingale--Carole King
27 I Can Dance--Shooter
28 Sad Sweet Dreamer--Sweet Sensation
29 Lovin' You--Minnie Riperton
30 Part of the Plan--Dan Fogelberg

Died on this date
George Stevens, 70. U.S. film director. Mr. Stevens won Academy Awards for best Director for A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956). His other movies included Gunga Din (1939); Shane (1953); and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959).

Diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger began a five-day trip to Egypt and Israel.

Hockey
Minnesota 3 @ Toronto 5
New York Islanders 7 @ Vancouver 5

Errol Thompson scored 3 goals and assisted on the winning goal by Rod Seiling with 12:42 remaining in the game as the Maple Leafs defeated the North Stars before 16,476 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens in the national Hockey Night in Canada telecast on CBC.

Billy Harris scored 2 goals and Jude Drouin had 3 assists as the Islanders held on to defeat the Canucks before a sellout crowd of 15,570 at Pacific Coliseum in the regional Hockey Night in Canada telecast on CBC, which was also seen in the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Gregg Boddy and Bobby Lalonde each scored a goal and an assist for Vancouver. The teams combined to score 5 goals in the 2nd period and 6 in the 3rd. Bob Nystrom scored with 3:36 remaining in the game to give New York a 7-3 lead, but Mr. Boddy replied just 7 seconds later, and Chris Oddleifson closed the scoring with 1:02 remaining. Billy Smith won the goaltending "duel" over Gary Smith and Ken Lockett.

Baseball
Al Bumbry hit a 2-run inside-the-park home run in the 8th inning and doubled home the first 2 of 4 Baltimore runs in the top of the 9th inning as the Orioles edged the New York Yankees 7-6 in a spring training game before 6,489 fans in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Catfish Hunter started on the mound for New York and allowed 3 hits and 1 run--unearned--in 3 innings. It was his first appearance in a New York uniform since being signed as a free agent after 10 years with the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics. Mike Willis, the third of four Baltimore pitchers, pitched the 7th and 8th innings, and allowed 4 runs--all earned--in the 8th, but was credited with the win. Former Milwaukee Brewer Skip Lockwood allowed 5 hits and 6 runs--all earned--in taking the loss.

30 years ago
1985

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): You're My Heart, You're My Soul--Modern Talking (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): I Want To Know What Love Is--Foreigner (7th week at #1)

Died on this date
Edward Andrews, 70. U.S. actor. U.S. actor. Mr. Andrews was a character actor who was known for playing crooked businessmen or officials in various movies and television programs, especially in the 1960s and '70s.

Terrorism
At least 45 people died and 175 were injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut (see also here).

Economics and finance
The U.S.Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that 407,700 Americans were millionaires.

25 years ago
1990

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

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Love Shack--The B-52's

Literature
Canadian Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn presented the 51st annual Governor General's Literary Awards. The winners included:
English Non-Fiction: Robert Calder (Willie)
English Fiction: Paul Quarrington (Whale Music)
French Fiction: Louis Hamelin (La Rage)
English Drama: Judith Thompson (The Other Side of the Dark)

Economics and finance
The Canadian House of Commons passed the budget of Finance Minister Michael Wilson. Cuts in transfer payments to the provinces led the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario to take the federal government to court.

Protest
29 police officers were injured and 60 people were arrested in the London borough of Hackney during a protest over a new community charge, or poll tax, instituted by the British government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that was to replace the previous system of property taxes. Violence also occurred during protests in Bristol and Southampton.

Figure skating
Kurt Browning of Caroline, Alberta defeated Viktor Petrenko of the U.S.S.R. to become the first Canadian to win the world championship in two consecutive years. The competition took place in Halifax, and was the first world championship to take place after compulsory figures had been eliminated. Jill Trenary of the United States won the women’s title.









Hockey
NHL
Toronto 7 Hartford 6

10 years ago
2005

Died on this date
Aslan Maskhadov, 53. 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, 1997-2005. Mr. Maskhadov, leader of the Vainakh Democratic Party, was the senior military figure in Chechnya's wars of independence against Russia before holding political office. He was killed by a grenade thrown by Russian special forces into a bunker in which he was hiding. Mr. Maskhadov was succeeded as President by Sheikh Abdul Halim.

March 7, 2015

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Carolyn Jagger!

250 years ago
1765

Born on this date
Nicéphore Niépce. French inventor. Mr. Niépce is credited as the inventor of photography, and took the world's first photograph in 1826 or 1827. He died on July 5, 1833 at the age of 68.

110 years ago
1905

Hockey
Stanley Cup
Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles 9 @ Ottawa Silver Seven 3 (Rat Portage led best-of-three challenge series 1-0)

The Silver Seven had held the Cup since 1903, and had most recently defeated a challenge by the Dawson City Klondikers in January 1905.

100 years ago
1915

Born on this date
Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Prime Minister of France, 1969-1972. Mr. Chaban-Delmas, a Gaullist, was Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947-1995, and served as Prime Minister under President Georges Pompidou. He lost the 1974 presidential election to Valery Giscard D'Estaing. Mr. Chaban-Delmas died on November 10, 2000 at the age of 85.

75 years ago
1940

Died on this date
Jacinto Peynado, 62. President of the Dominican Republic, 1938-1940; Vice President of the Dominican Republic, 1934-1938. Mr. Peynado was a figurehead officeholder under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, holding several positions. He died 12 days after resigning the presidency because of ill health.

War
The U.S.S.R. and Finland agreed to armistice negotiations. The U.S.S.R. reported the occupation of several islands in Lake Ladoga and the capture of Nautsi on the Arctic front in the Finnish war. France called U.S. citizens to military service.

Diplomacy
U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles conferred with French President Albert LeBrun and Prime Minister Eduard Daladier in Paris.

Economics and finance
Arrangements were completed for a $20-million American loan to China by the Import-Export Bank.

Scandal
Former U.S. Federal Judge Martin Morton began serving a two-year prison term at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania for "conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the United States."

70 years ago
1945

Literature
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that its Howells Medal, awarded every fifth year for excellence in fiction writing, went to novelist Booth Tarkington. He was the first man to receive the medal since its inception in 1921.

War
The United States House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a bill which would draft all nurses aged 20-44 who were not married before March 15 and had no dependents. The United States Senate defeated the Revercomb-Robertson bill providing for "voluntary" mobilization and deployment of manpower. U.S. troops in Germany established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Rhine River by a surprise crossing at the Ludendorff railroad bridge at Remagen. Erpal, near the eastern end of the bridge, was captured, and German counterattacks were repulsed. On the west side of the Rhine, the U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies effected a junction between Remagen and Coblenz, trapping five or six German divisions. The 1st Army completed the capture of Bonn, 12 miles north of Remagen. The U.S.S.R. launched seven armies in an all-out offensive toward Berlin from the Oder River, 40 miles eastward. Chinese troops seized both New and Old Lashio, where the railroad from Rangoon joined the old Burma Road.

Politics and government
Marshal Josip Tito completed the formation of a new Yugoslavian cabinet of 28 members, with himself as Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense.

Diplomacy
In a letter to The Times of London, Sir William Beveridge denounced the proposed voting procedure in a new international security organization as "a short way to a third world war," arguing that it would place the Big Five powers above the law established for other nations.

Economics and finance
The U.S. House of Representatives Banking and Currency Committee opening hearings on the Bretton Woods Conference heard Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau call the monetary proposals "the first practical test of our willingness to cooperate in the work of world reconstruction and stabilization.

U.S. National War Labor Board Chairman Davis was named by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be economic stabilization director. NWLB Vice Chairman Dr. George Taylor was named to succeed Mr. Davis.

Medicine
The U.S. War Production Board announced that after March 15, more than three times the former supply of penicillin for public use would be available to hospitals and physicians.

60 years ago
1955

On television tonight
Sherlock Holmes, starring Ronald Howard and H. Marion Crawford
Tonight's episode: The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter



Producers' Showcase, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard

This was the first broadcast of the Broadway musical, and was the first full-length Broadway production to be telecast in colour.



Humour
Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her stage debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco.

50 years ago
1965

Space
The U.S.S.R. launched the satellite Cosmos 59.

Protest
A group of 600 civil rights marchers was brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama while marching 54 miles to the state capital of Montgomery. At least 50 people were injured, and 17 hospitalized. See also here and here.

Religion
Roman Catholic churches in Canada celebrated Mass in English or French for the first time.

40 years ago
1975

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand: Please Mr. Postman--Carpenters

#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Griechischer Wein--Udo Jürgens (4th week at #1)

#1 single in Switzerland: I Can Help--Billy Swan (6th week at #1)

Died on this date
Ben Blue, 73. Canadian-born U.S. comedian. Mr. Blue, born Benjamin Bernstein in Montreal, moved to Baltimore at the age of 9, and was in a touring company by the age of 15. He appeared on stage, screen, and television in a career spanning more than 60 years, often playing a dumb-bell with a goofy expression.

Crime
The body of 17-year-old English heiress Lesley Whittle was found at the bottom of a drain shaft, 52 days after she had been kidnapped from her Shropshire home.

Politics and government
The United States Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

25 years ago
1985

On television tonight
The first episode of Television Parts, a comedy and music series starring former Monkee Michael Nesmith, was broadcast on NBC. The series evolved from Mr. Nesmith’s video Elephant Parts, which won the first Grammy Award for video for 1980-81. The featured music video in the first episode of Television Parts was for a song called Eldorado to the Moon. It was one of the best music videos I’ve ever seen; the song wasn’t released on a record until it appeared on the album The Newer Stuff, released in 1989.

Music
The single We are the World by USA for Africa received its international release.

Technology
IBM released its PC DOS Version 3.1 update.

25 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Nothing Compares 2 U--Sinéad O'Connor (3rd week at #1)

World events
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that evidence indicated that a plant in Rabta, Libya--50 miles southwest of Tripoli--was producing chemical weapons. He called on the "international community" to "step up its efforts to deny the ability to continue operating the plant." Libya claimed that the plant was a pharmaceutical factory.

Protest
7 people were killed and 450 injured when local police opened fire on a crowd of 50,000 that had marched on a government office in the South African "homeland" of Bophuthatswana.

Law
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled that Nova Scotia Micmac Indians had a constitutional right to hunt and fish for food as long as they obeyed conservation guidelines.

Business
British Gas bid $1.1 billion for Consumers Gas from the Reichmann family.

Figure skating
Lloyd Eisler and Isabelle Brasseur of Canada won the silver medal in the pairs competition at the World Championships at Halifax Metro Centre. Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov of the U.S.S.R. won the gold medal; it was their fourth straight world championship, in addition to an Olympic gold medal.







20 years ago
1995

Economics and finance
The U.S. dollar hit a post-World War II low of 90.05 yen after a decline of 5% in just one week. It also fell to 1.3705 against the Deutschmark, a 12% decline in three months to another postwar low.

10 years ago
2005

Diplomacy
John Bolton was nominated by President George W. Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.