TODAY IN HISTORY: Olympic hockey gold

In 1952, the Edmonton Mercurys won the Olympic hockey title in Oslo, Norway. Canadian teams won six of the seven Olympic hockey tournaments between 1920 and ‘52. They posted a record of 37-1-3, scoring 403 goals and allowing only 34.

In 1956, Cleveland, now the home of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, invoked a 1931 law barring people under 18 from dancing publicly without an adult guardian.

In 1969, Johnny Cash recorded his second live prison performance, this one at San Quentin. It followed a concert the previous year at Folsom Prison. The LP “Johnny Cash at San Quentin” topped the Billboard pop and country charts and included the novelty song “A Boy Named Sue,” which he learned only the night before.

In 1981, Prince Charles became engaged to Lady Diana Spencer. They were married that July 29th.

In 1986, Tommy Douglas, remembered as the father of medicare, died at age 81. As Saskatchewan premier from 1944-61, he implemented Canada’s first public hospital insurance program. In 1962, a year after Douglas became the federal NDP leader, Saskatchewan introduced North America’s first socialized health plan.

In 2002, Canada’s 50-year wait for an Olympic men’s hockey title ended. Joe Sakic scored twice and assisted on two other goals as Canada downed the United States 5-2 in the goldmedal game in Salt Lake City. (Canada won gold again at the 2010 Vancouver Games and the 2014 Sochi Games.)

In 2011, Suze Rotolo, the girl arm-in-arm with Bob Dylan on the 1963 album cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” died of lung cancer in New York at age 67. She was Dylan’s girlfriend for three years and is credited with inspiring him to inject politics into his music.

In 2012, unable to fulfill a Facebook campaign to be his date to his June prom, country music crossover starlett Taylor Swift invited 18-year-old leukemia sufferer Kevin McGuire to be her date to the ACM award show in Las Vegas on April 1. He accepted.