25 YEARS AGO:
The Globe and Mail reported that Quebec Premier René Lévesque faced more resignations from his governing caucus and from the National Assembly in the wake of a special convention as the Parti Québécois dissidents pondered whether to form a new separatist political party. In Montreal, 495 delegates (35 per cent) voted to hold the forthcoming provincial election on the issue of sovereignty, then marched out of the hall to show their dissent after 921 delegates (65 per cent) endorsed Lévesque's position.
50 YEARS AGO:
The Globe and Mail reported that the United States and Japan signed a historic treaty which President Dwight Eisenhower said would set up a new, indestructible partnership. In Washington, Eisenhower and Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi joined in ushering in the pact which raised Japan - a defeated, disarmed and occupied enemy after the Second World War - to the status of equal partner in the free-world camp. The first in a series of test firings of the Lacrosse missile in Canada was successfully carried out by a joint Canadian-U.S. team near Churchill, Man. The missile did not carry a nuclear warhead. The Whitby Dunlops threw an "iron checking curtain" around the Moscow Selects and trounced them, 9-1 at an international exhibition hockey match in front of 14,182 spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. What Russian officials had termed the Soviet Union's second-best team behind that country's Olympic Games squad, was made to look as intermediate class by the top team in the Ontario Hockey Association Senior A group.
100 YEARS AGO:
The Globe reported that in the British general election, Winston Churchill scored a great triumph in Dundee, Scotland, where he headed the poll with a majority of 6,195 over the highest Unionist candidate. In the by-election of 1908, Churchill's majority was only 2,709. Delegations from Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo urged the passage of a bill to legalize Sunday baseball in Ohio. Famous baseball players Hal Chase and Honus Wagner were to be "heroized" by the great pitcher Christy Mathewson in the first of the Matty Books. The New York Giants star flinger said that he considered Chase and Wagner the greatest in their positions that ever held up an infield.