TODAY IN HISTORY

1894

Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.

1958

Movie producer Mike Todd, the husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd’s private plane in New Mexico.

1968

The first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Florida.

1978

Karl Wallenda, the 73-yearold patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.