1988 Death Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies 1944 Birthday Jerry Lawson, U.S. singer, Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk 1943 Birthday Jimmy "Bro" Hayes, U.S. singer, Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk 1870 Event 1st section of Atlantic City Boardwalk opens 1870 Event 1st Boardwalk in America invented