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2003 Death - Dorothy Loudon, actress, Original Broadway production of Annie, dies at 70

2002 Death - Keene Curtis, actor, starred in original Broadwayproduction of Annie, dies at 77

1998 Event - Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards

1997 Event - "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City

1997 Death - Reid Shelton, actor, Daddy Warbucks in Annie

1997 Event - "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City

1997 Death - Gail Davis, actress, TV's Annie Oakley

1995 Death - Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87

1995 Death - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104

1993 Death - Janet Margolin, U.S. actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer

1991 Death - Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, New York Stories), dies at 74

1990 Death - Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16

1983 Event - "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 2,377 performances

1982 Event - Movie "Annie" premieres

1981 Death - Brad Johnson, actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56

1978 Event - 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win

1978 Death - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at 83

1978 Event - Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"

1977 Event - 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box and Annie win

1977 Event - "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 2377 performances

1977 Event - Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2,377 performances

1977 Event - C Strouse and M Charnins musical "Annie," premieres in New York City

1977 Event - Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres

1974 Death - Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85

1973 Death - William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at 73

1973 Birthday - Annie Pelletier, born in Montreal, Quebec, 3m diver 1996 Olympics bronze

1972 Birthday - Alyssa Milano, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, singer, appeared in Broadway production, 'Annie', appeared in 'Who's the Boss' television sitcom

1972 Death - Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65

1971 Birthday - Aileen Quinn, born in Yardley, Pennsylvania, actress, graduate of Drew University, noted for playing title role in 1982 film, Annie

1970 Birthday - Anne "Annie" Summertime Kakela, U.S. rower, Olympics-4th-96

1968 Death - Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74

1966 Death - Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71

1963 Birthday - Andrea McArdle, Philadelphia, actress, Annie

1961 Birthday - Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess, Roue de la Fortune

1961 Death - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies

1959 Death - Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54

1955 Death - Charley Toorop, Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop, Dutch painter, dies at 64

1954 Birthday - Annie Lennox, Aberdeen, Scotland, vocalist, Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams, Why

1952 Birthday - Annie Potts, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actress, Mary Jo-Designing Women

1951 Birthday - Annie Golden, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Forever Lulu, Hair

1949 Birthday - Annie Leibovitz, photgrapher, Rolling Stones

1949 Death - Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59

1949 Birthday - Anita Dobson, born in England, actress, Annie Watts-EastEnders

1949 Event - "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1147 performances

1948 Death - Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58

1946 Event - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1147 performances

1946 Event - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City

1946 Birthday - Diane Keaton, born in Louisiana, actress, Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl

1945 Birthday - Annie Dillard, American writer, An American Childhood

1943 Birthday - Tony Joe White, born in Oak Grove, Louisiana, nickname, 'The Swamp Fox', singer, guitarist, songwriter, known for hit 'Polk Salad Annie', swam rock genre

1941 Death - Annie Jump Cannon, U.S. astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77

1940 Death - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, revue-artists/singer/actress, dies at 58

1939 Birthday - Tony Roberts, New York City, actor, Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show

1937 Death - Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76

1935 Birthday - Woody Allen, Allen Konigsberg, Brooklyn, actor, Zelig, Annie Hall

1934 Birthday - Martin Charnin, Broadway lyricist, Annie, West Side Story

1933 Death - Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies

1933 Birthday - Carol Burnett, born in San Antonio, Texas, comedian/actress, Annie, 4 Seasons

1931 Birthday - Annie Giradot, Paris, France, actress, Gypsy, Jacko and Lise

1931 Event - 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio

1930 Birthday - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor, Annie, The Wiz

1929 Event - Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx

1926 Death - Annie Oakley, U.S. sharp shooting star, dies at 66

1926 Birthday - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian

1925 Birthday - Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist, Little Orphan Annie

1925 Birthday - Gail Davis, Little Rock, Arkansas, actress, Annie Oakley

1925 Birthday - Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer, Scenes and Arias

1924 Event - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published

1924 Event - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts

1922 Birthday - Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character

1922 Event - Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row

1920 Birthday - Mitzi Green, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Little Orphan Annie

1917 Birthday - Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. poet, Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950

1911 Birthday - Annie M G Schmidt, writer, Fam Doorsnee, Jip and Janneke

1911 Birthday - Benay Venuta, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister

1906 Birthday - Annie Hermes, Dutch singer

1904 Birthday - Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor, Oklahoma, Annie

1901 Birthday - Fuzzy Knight, Fairmont, West Virginia, actor, Oklahoma Annie, Cowby and the Lady

1900 Birthday - William Haines, Staunton, Virginia, actor, Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney

1895 Birthday - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian, Erflaters

1894 Birthday - Harold L Gray, creator, Little Orphan Annie

1892 Birthday - Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie

1891 Birthday - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer

1891 Birthday - Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter, 3 Generations

1890 Birthday - Frank Morgan, Francis P Wupperman, New York City, actor, Annie Get Your Gun

1889 Birthday - Moroni Olsen, born in Ogden, Utah, actor, Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White

1888 Birthday - Almira Sessions, Washington D.C., actress, Oklahoma Annie

1881 Birthday - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, Dutch revue-artist/singer/actress

1878 Birthday - Conway Tearle, U.S. actor, Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?

1876 Birthday - Charles Halton, born in Washington D.C., actor, Dr. Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again

1865 Birthday - Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady

1863 Birthday - Annie Jump Cannon, U.S., stellar spectroscopist, Harvard-classification

1860 Birthday - Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner, Abbey Theatre, Dublin

1860 Birthday - Annie Oakley, born in Drake, Ohio, frontierswoman, Buffalo Bill's Wild West

1858 Birthday - May Robson, Mary J Robison, born in Melbourne, Australia, actress, Apple Annie

1853 Event - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348

1850 Birthday - Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat

1847 Birthday - Annie Besant, Wood, England, philosopher, Esoteric christianity


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