July 21, 2013

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Garland Grayston!

220 years ago
1793

Died on this date
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, 55. French military officer, explorer, and politician. Rear Admiral Entrecasteaux served as Governor of Isle de France (now Mauritius), but was best known for exploring the Australian coast in 1792 while searching for the expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse, who had not been heard of since leaving Botany Bay in March 1788. Rear Admiral Entrecasteaux died of scurvy off the Hermit Islands.

Exploration
Alexander Mackenzie arrived at the head of Dean Channel on the Pacific coast after descending the Bella Coola River in what is now British Columbia.

140 years ago
1873

Crime
At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pulled off the first successful train robbery in the United States west of the Mississippi River.

110 years ago
1903

War
Venezuelan federal army forces led by Juan Vicente Gómez defeated forces of general Nicolás Rolando in the Battle of Ciudad Bolívar.

75 years ago
1938

Died on this date
Owen Wister, 78. U.S. author. Mr. Wister was best known for his novel The Virginian (1902), which is largely regarded as the first western novel.

Linus "Skeeter" Ebnet, 23. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Ebnet (whose name has also been recorded as Ebenet), a resident of Albany, Minnesota, played second base with the East Grand Forks Colts (1933); Grand Forks Chiefs (1934-1935); Crookston Pirates (1936); and Winnipeg Maroons (1937-1938) in the Class D Northern League, batting .256 with 6 home runs in 540 games. He was batting .280 with no homers in 39 games in 1938, and was the third batter in the bottom of the 1st inning of a home game against Grand Forks on July 16. Grand Forks pitcher Vince "Dutch" Clawson retired the first two batters, and his first two pitches to Mr. Ebnet were balls. Mr. Clawson tried to throw the third pitch over the plate, but it broke inside, and Mr. Ebnet accidentally leaned into it and suffered a fractured skull. An operation two days later to relieve pressure on his brain was unsuccessful.

70 years ago
1943

Died on this date
William Upshur, 61. U.S. military officer. Major General Upshur served with the U.S. Marine Corps on various foreign shores, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in a campaign against Haitian rebels in 1915. He and Charley Paddock, a member of his personal staff, were on an inspection tour of his command, which included Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, when they were killed in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska.

Charley Paddock, 42. U.S. runner. Mr. Paddock won gold medals in the men's 100-metre and 4 X 100-metre relay and a silver medal in the men's 200-metre events at the 1920 Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp. He won the silver medal again in the men's 200-metre run at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, and gold medals in the 100- and 200-metre runs at the World University Games in 1923.

War
HMCS The Pas was badly damaged in a collision with SS Medina in the western Atlantic Ocean. Allied headquarters in Cairo revealed that British forces now had a military liaison with the Yugoslav partisans and would aid this resistance group as well as General Draja Mikhailovich's Chetniks. U.S. troops captured Sciacca, Menfi, and Castelvetrano, and advanced to the outskirts of Marsala on the western tip of Sicily. More than 150 U.S. planes bombed Bairoko Harbour, New Georgia Island, in the heaviest Allied raid yet in the southwest Pacific.

Economics and finance
Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho authorized the Ministry of National Economy to seize corn hoarded by speculators. U.S. Office of Price Administration inspectors seized poultry trucks on Army requisition orders in the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia area, where black markets prevented Army purchases at the ceiling price of 29.5c per pound.

Labour
United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis signed a two-year contract with the Illinois Coal Operators Association, affecting 30,500 miners.

60 years ago
1953

On television tonight
Suspense, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Pigeons in the Cave, starring John Howard and Jacqueline Susann

50 years ago
1963

Disasters
A British freighter and Bermudan ore carrier collided in the St. Lawrence river in Quebec, leving 18 dead, with 15 missing and presumed dead.

40 years ago
1973

Hit parade
#1 single in the Netherlands (Veronica Top 40): Do You Love Me?--Sharif Dean (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: Welcome Home--Peters and Lee

Australia's top 10 (Go-Set)
1 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree--Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (7th week at #1)
2 Daisy a Day--Jud Strunk
3 The Morning After--Maureen McGovern
4 Heaven is My Woman's Love--Col Joye
5 The Twelfth of Never--Donny Osmond
6 Suzie Darling--Barrie Crocker
7 My Love--Paul McCartney & Wings
8 Get Down--Gilbert O'Sullivan
9 Daniel--Elton John
10 Venus--Jamie Redfern

Singles entering the chart were Well Hello by Yellowstone and Voice (#28); Hound Dog by Sherbet (#35); and The First Cut is the Deepest by Keith Hampshire (#39).

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Bad, Bad Leroy Brown--Jim Croce

U.S. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Shambala--Three Dog Night
2 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown--Jim Croce
3 Yesterday Once More--Carpenters
4 Smoke on the Water--Deep Purple
5 Natural High--Bloodstone
6 Will it Go Round in Circles--Billy Preston
7 Playground in My Mind--Clint Holmes
8 Kodachrome--Paul Simon
9 Get Down--Gilbert O'Sullivan
10 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy--Bette Midler

Singles entering the chart were We're an American Band by Grand Funk (#86); Half-Breed by Cher (#89); Theme from Cleopatra Jones by Joe Simon (#92); Didn't I by Sylvia (#94); Sweet Harmony by Smokey Robinson (#95); The Long Way Home by Neil Diamond (#96); Freedom for the Stallion by Hues Corporation (#97); Mr. Skin by Spirit (#99); and Sunshine Ship by Arthur, Hurley and Gottlieb (#100). Theme from Cleopatra Jones was from the movie.

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 Yesterday Once More--Carpenters
2 Kodachrome--Paul Simon
3 Playground in My Mind--Clint Holmes
4 Shambala--Three Dog Night
5 Will it Go Round in Circles--Billy Preston
6 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown--Jim Croce
7 Monster Mash--Bobby (Boris) Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
8 Smoke on the Water--Deep Purple
9 Give Me Love--(Give Me Peace on Earth)--George Harrison
10 My Love--Paul McCartney & Wings

Singles entering the chart were Young Love/A Million to One by Donny Osmond (#57); Misdemeanor by Foster Sylvers (#96); Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (#97); Searchin'/So Fine by Johnny Rivers (#98); Send a Little Love My Way by Anne Murray (#99); and Find Yourself a Boy by Tammy Rafferty (#100).

Calgary's top 10
1 Playground in My Mind--Clint Holmes
2 The Morning After--Maureen McGovern
3 Will it Go Round in Circles--Billy Preston
4 It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference--Tom Middleton
5 Kodachrome--Paul Simon
6 Shambala--Three Dog Night
7 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy--Bette Midler
8 I'm a Stranger Here--Five Man Electrical Band
9 Soul Makossa--Manu Dibango
10 Give Me Love--(Give Me Peace on Earth)--George Harrison
Pick hit of the week: Glamour Boy--The Guess Who

Died on this date
Ahmed Bouchiki. Moroccan waiter. Mr. Bouchiki was an innocent man working in Lillehammer, Norway, when he was killed by Israeli Mossad agents. The Israeli agents had mistaken their target for Ali Hassan Salameh, the chief of operations for Black September, the organization involved in the 1972 massacre of 11 members of the Israeli team at the Summer Olympic games in Munich.

Terrorism
The five members of the "Red Japanese Army" who had hijacked a Japanese Air Lines jet the previous day to Dubai demanded the release of Kozo Okamoto, a "Red Army" member serving a life sentence in Israel for his part in the Tel Aviv airport massacre in 1972.

Defense
France exploded the first nuclear device in a series of such tests over the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa. In so doing, France ignored an interim injunction against the tests granted at the request of Australia and New Zealand by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. New Zealand sent their frigate Otago, with cabinet minister Fraser Colman aboard, into the test area to symbolize their protest.

Diplomacy
Following complaints by the Egyptian government, 30,000 Libyans who had marched to Cairo to demand immediate merger between Libya and Egypt heeded pleas from Libyan dictator Muammar el-Gaddafi and headed home.

Politics and government
Libyan dictator Muammar el-Gaddafi announced that he had resigned 10 days earlier as head of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council. The Council had rejected his resignation.

Scandal
Gordon Strachan, a former aide to U.S. presidential aide Bob Haldeman, testified before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities that Mr. Haldeman had been told that the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) had set up "a sophisticated political intelligence gathering system" two months before the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. Mr. Strachan said that two or three days after the break-in and after talking with Mr. Haldeman, he had destroyed a memo informing Mr. Haldeman of the intelligence system.

Baseball
Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves became the second player in history, behind Babe Ruth in 1934, to hit 700 career major league home runs when he launched a two-run shot off left-hander Ken Brett of Philadelphia in an 8-4 loss to the Phillies at Atlanta Stadium.

30 years ago
1983

Hit parade
Canada's Top 30 (Weekly Music Magazine)
1 Every Breath You Take--The Police
2 Come Dancing--The Kinks
3 Baby Jane--Rod Stewart
4 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)--Eurythmics
5 Hot Girls in Love--Loverboy
6 Never Gonna Let You Go--Sergio Mendes
7 I'm Still Standing--Elton John
8 1999--Prince
9 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'--Michael Jackson
10 Stand Back--Stevie Nicks
11 Is There Something I Should Know--Duran Duran
12 Total Eclipse of the Heart--Bonnie Tyler
13 China Girl--David Bowie
14 Our House--Madness
15 Wishing--A Flock of Seagulls
16 Flashdance...What a Feeling--Irene Cara
17 Maniac--Michael Sembello
18 Electric Avenue--Eddy Grant
19 Change--Tears for Fears
20 Heartache Avenue--The Maisonettes
21 Moonlight Shadow--Mike Oldfield
22 Best Years of Our Lives--Mens Room
23 It's a Mistake--Men at Work
24 Rock & Roll is King--Electric Light Orchestra
25 Human Touch--Rick Springfield
26 The Haunting--The Front
27 Stop in the Name of Love--The Hollies
28 She Works Hard for the Money--Donna Summer
29 Video Kids--Prototype
30 All This Love--DeBarge

Best Years of Our Lives was the B-side of the recent hit Sign of the Times.

Weather
The world's lowest temperature was recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).

World events
The Communist regime in Poland announced that martial law, in place since December 13, 1981, would be lifted formally at midnight on July 22. The government maintained control over the people by establishing a number of new temporary restrictions. Under a partial amnesty, female prisoners, those under 21, and persons serving short terms were eligible for release. Solidarity trade union movement leader Lech Walesa and U.S. President Ronald Reagan expressed skepticism over the announcement.

Defense
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, addressing a news conference, sought to give assurances that U.S.-Honduran maneuvers near the Nicaraguan border scheduled to begin in Sugust were routine, though they would surpass in scale any previous training exercises in the vicinity. Panama and Venezuela criticized the maneuvers as counterproductive and ill-timed.

The United States House of Representatives approved an amendment to a defense authorization bill cutting production funds for the MX missile from $2.6 billion to $2.2 billion.

Economics and finance
The United States Commerce Department reported that the real gross national product had risen at an annual rate of 8.7% during the second quarter of 1983, compared with a revised rate of 2.6% for the first quarter. The higher rate was about the same as in average recoveries since World War II.

Football
CFL
Calgary (1-1) 27 @ Ottawa (1-2) 16



25 years ago
1988

Hit parade
#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Gimme Hope Jo’anna--Eddy Grant (7th week at #1)

#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Yé ké yé ké--Mory Kanté

Law
In Ottawa, the New Emergencies Act received royal assent, and the War Measures Act of 1914 was set aside. Two other bills designed to weed out bogus refugee claimants also received royal assent.

Politics and government
At the Democratic National Convention at the Omni in Atlanta, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis formally accepted his party's nomination for President of the United States of America in the November election, saying his campaign was not about ideology but about competence. His themes included the importance of the family and traditional values, and of honesty in government.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (1-1) 9 @ Winnipeg (1-1) 21

20 years ago
1993

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): (I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You--UB40 (4th week at #1)

War
Serbian forces closed in on Sarajevo as nationalist forces in Bosnia battled to close off key roads that would cut off the retreat of Muslim defenders.

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (1-2) 3 @ Edmonton (2-1) 35

Damon Allen completed 3 touchdown passes to Eddie Brown and another to Henry "Gizmo" Williams to lead the Eskimos over the Roughriders before 27,894 fans at Commonwealth Stadium. Mr. Williams scored another TD on an 89-yard punt return.

10 years ago
2003

War
A nascent cease-fire in Burundi broke down as rebels shelled the capital city of Bujumbura and fought with the army in the streets. At least 170 were killed and thousands had fled their homes.

Crime
Former Baylor University basketball player Carlton Dodson was arrested for the murder of his roommate, current Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who had been reported missing on June 19.