March 17, 2014

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Kathy Fisher!

175 years ago
1839

Born on this date
Josef Rheinberger. Liechtensteinian-born German musician and composer. Professor Rheinberger was an organist who taught organ and composition at Munich Conservatorium for many years. His compositions included 12 masses and several dozen works for organ. After years of declining health, Prof. Rheinberger died on November 25, 1901 at the age of 62.

120 years ago
1894

Born on this date
Paul Green. U.S. playwright. Professor Green taught drama at the University of North Carolina for many years, and was known for his historical dramas about North Carolina. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for In Abraham's Bosom (1926), and The Lost Colony (1937) is still regularly performed in North Carolina. Prof. Green died on May 4, 1981 at the age of 87.

Hockey
AHAC
Stanley Cup
Montreal Hockey Club 3 Montreal Victorias 2

Billy Barlow scored 2 goals and Archie Hodgson scored the other to enable Montreal H.C. to edge the Victorias at Victoria Rink in the first Stanley Cup playoff game in history. Shirley Davidson and Bob MacDougall scored for the Victorias. Montreal H.C., Victorias, Ottawa Hockey Club, and Quebec Hockey Club had finished in a four-way tie for first place in the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada with records of 5-3. Quebec withdrew from the playoffs and Ottawa was given a bye into the finals, to play the winner of the game between Montreal H.C. and the Victorias.

100 years ago
1914

Born on this date
Sammy Baugh. U.S. football player and coach. Mr. Baugh was a quarterback, punter, and defensive back with the Washington Redskins from 1937-1952, leading them to NFL championships in 1937 and 1942. At the rime of his retirement he held 13 league records at all three positions that he played. Mr. Baugh was head coach of the New York Titans (1960-1961) and Houston Oilers (1964) of the American Football League. He was a member of the charter class of the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1963. Mr. Baugh died on December 17, 2008 at the age of 94.

75 years ago
1939

War
The Battle of Nanchang began between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army in the area around Nanchang, the capital of the province of Jianxi in southeastern China.

70 years ago
1944

War
Soviet troops in central Ukraine gained 19 miles, capturing Klembovka and Olshanka, only 10 miles above the Dnieper River.

Law
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved the "GI Bill of Rights"--an omnibus measure providing for hospitalization, education, vocational training, unemployment benefits, and loans for war veterans.

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted to defer action on a resolution recommending continued Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Journalism
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities announced that it would investigate the radio activities of broadcaster and newspaper columnist Walter Winchell, accused by committee chairman Martin Dies (Democrat--Texas) of personal attacks and attacks upon Congress.

Labour
Cuban government employees demonstrated in Havana in support of a 20% wage increase.

Aviation
The International Air Transport Authority was created to regulate air traffic among nations; its headquarters were to be in Montreal.

60 years ago
1954

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy defended the war on Communism in an address to the Irish Fellowship Club in Chicago.

Crime
Alberta Attorney General Lucien Maynard announced that "ghost cars" would be used on Alberta highways to trap speeding drivers.

50 years ago
1964

On television tonight
The Fugitive, on ABC
Tonight's episode: Taps for a Dead War, with guest stars Tim O'Connor, Lee Grant, and Flip Mark

30 years ago
1984

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy (FIMI): Ci Sarà--Albano Carrisi; Romina Power

#1 single in Flanders (VRT Top 30): Radio Ga Ga--Queen (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in the Netherlands (De Nederlandse Top 40): Love Is a Battlefield--Pat Benatar

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): 99 Red Balloons--Nena (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.K.: 99 Red Balloons--Nena (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Jump--Van Halen (4th week at #1)

U.S.A. top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Girls Just Want to Have Fun--Cyndi Lauper
2 99 Luftballons--Nena
3 Somebody's Watching Me--Rockwell
4 Thriller--Michael Jackson
5 Jump--Van Halen
6 Footloose--Kenny Loggins
7 I Want a New Drug--Huey Lewis and the News
8 Here Comes the Rain Again--Eurythmics
9 Nobody Told Me--John Lennon
10 New Moon on Monday--Duran Duran

Singles entering the chart were No More Words by Berlin (#61); Head Over Heels by the Go-Go's (#67); Authority Song by John Cougar Mellencamp (#71); Show Me by the Pretenders (#77); Sister Christian by Night Ranger (#80); Illegal Alien by Genesis (#84); White Horse by Laid Back (#87); and Baby Come Back by Billy Rankin (#89).

Canada's top 10 (RPM)
1 Jump--Van Halen
2 99 Red Balloons--Nena
3 Thriller--Michael Jackson
4 Girls Just Want to Have Fun--Cyndi Lauper
5 Karma Chameleon--Culture Club
6 Red Red Wine--UB40
7 I Want a New Drug--Huey Lewis and the News
8 Here Comes the Rain Again--Eurythmics
9 Talking in Your Sleep--The Romantics
10 Rebel Yell--Billy Idol

Singles entering the chart were Eat It by "Weird Al" Yankovic (#41); Holiday by Madonna (#45); Runner by Manfred Mann (#46); Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler (#47); Please Don't Make Me Cry by UB40 (#48); and It's My Life by Talk Talk (#50). Holding Out for a Hero was from the movie Footloose (1984).

Politics and government
Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale won the Michigan caucuses in the contest for the Democratic party nominiation for President of the United States in the November 1984 election.

Sport
The 130th annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities was postponed for a day when the Cambridge boat hit a barge and sank, less than an hour before the race was to start.

Hockey
NHL
Montreal 6 Toronto 1

25 years ago
1989

Hit parade
#1 single in West Germany (Media Control): Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart--Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Merritt Butrick, 29. U.S. actor. Mr. Butrick was best known for playing the character Johnny Slash in the television comedy series Square Pegs (1982-1983). His movies included Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1962); Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); and Wired to Kill (1986). Mr. Butrick was a sodomite who died of AIDS.

Music
Tom Cochrane & Red Rider performed the first of two shows with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton. The concerts were later released as the album The Symphony Sessions (1989).

Politics and government
U.S. Representative Dick Cheney (Republican--Wyoming) was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as the new U.S. Secretary of Defense in the administration of President George Bush. Mr. Cheney, who had been unanimously confirmed by the House of Representatives the previous day, was Mr. Bush's second choice for the position. The first choice, former U.S. Senator John Tower, had been rejected by the Senate because of a history of drinking.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that prices paid by producers for finished goods had increased 1% in February.

Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its quarantine on Chilean grapes and berries, four days after the quarantine had been imposed because a search of crates of grapes from Chile had found traces of cyanide in two grapes.

20 years ago
1994

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Look Who's Talking--Dr. Alban (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Mai Zetterling, 68. Swedish-born U.K. actress. Miss Zetterling's movies included Quartet (1948); Knock on Wood (1954); and Only Two Can Play (1962). She later directed several films.

Diplomacy
The Bosnian government and Bosnian Serbs agreed to permit civilians freely to cross siege lines in Sarajevo for the first time in almost two years.

Scandal
In a letter made public by James Miller, who was opposing former National Security Council member Oliver North for the Republican party nomination for a United States Senate seat in Virginia in the November 1994 election, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan said that he was "steamed" by Mr. North's statements that Mr. Reagan "knew everything" about the mid-1980s Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal and that then-President Reagan had told then-Lieutenant Colonel North to lie to Congress. Mr. Reagan, in the letter, denied that he had known about the diversion of money to the Contras--the guerrilla movement opposing the Sandanista regime in Nicaragua--from the sale of arms to Iran, and he denied that he had ever told anyone to mislead Congress.

10 years ago
2004

Died on this date
Rachel Hudson, 20. U.K. murder victim. Mrs. Hudson, a married mother of two, was subjected to regular beatings by her in-laws and then her husband Craig, which finally resulted in her death. Five members of her family, including her husband, were convicted of her murder.

World events
More than 22 were killed and 200 wounded in violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and 2 mosques in Belgrade and Niš were destroyed.

Business
In response to a loss of $448 million in the latest quarter, Bombardier announced that it would close seven rail plants in Europe and cut 6,600 jobs worldwide.