1990 Event "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 56 performances 1990 Event "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 56 performances 1978 Event Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1970 Event PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan 1963 Event John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery 1960 Event Netherlands - U.S. cemetery Margraten official opens 1944 Event U.S. 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery 1931 Birthday Olympia Dukakis, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, actress, Moonstruck, Cemetery Club 1911 Event 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri 1907 Death Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna. 1864 Event Robert E. Lee's home area, Arlington, Virginia, becomes a military cemetery 1852 Event 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio 1655 Event Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
