25 YEARS AGO
The Globe and Mail reported that Toronto publisher Ernst Zundel, found guilty of willfully causing harm to racial and social harmony by distributing a booklet that claimed the Holocaust was a Jewish hoax, said he wasn't afraid of the mounting pressure to deport him to West Germany, because such a penalty would be like "being sentenced to paradise." Immigration officials confided they had already opened a file on Zundel and were poised to begin deportation procedures, even as a Toronto jury's guilty verdict was still ringing in the 46-year-old man's ears. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said a baby girl would be his preference for the fourth child he and his wife, Mila, were expecting in early September, 1985. "I'd be delighted with either," said a beaming Mulroney, the father of two sons and one girl already.
50 YEARS AGO
The Globe and Mail reported that an international airlift poured relief supplies into the earthquake-stricken port of Agadir, Morocco, as rescuers digging through the rubble found more dead and injured. Officials estimated more than 1,000 people were killed and as many as 4,000 were injured or were missing following two earthquakes, a fire and a tidal wave two days earlier.
100 YEARS AGO
The Globe reported that a woman had committed suicide in Chesaning, Mich., rather than go with her daughter to the Canadian West. A young man was hypnotized at Saginaw, Mich., by long-distance telephone. The hypnotist declined to revive him until the end of the week, and an order had been issued for his arrest. Indiana game wardens released 8,000 Hungarian quail in pairs on the various preserves of the state, for propagation. The state's General Assembly had enacted a law protecting the birds from hunters at all times for a period of six years. In one of the "most exciting games of basketball ever played on the Paris YMCA gymnasium floor," Galt was defeated by two points the score being 28 to 26 in favour of Paris. The game, witnessed by a crowded house, was lightning fast from start to finish. The Galt team had it over the locals in size and height, but the Paris squad's back-checking was so terrific Galt could hardly get an opportunity to shoot.