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1997 Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82

1994 Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75

1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game

1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'

1978 Charles Eames, U.S. chair manufacturer, dies at 71

1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair

1972 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention

1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair

1963 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Hamilton, author (Silver Chair), dies at 64

1963 Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77

1959 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair

1957 Ian Stanley, born in High Wycombe, England, Ian Christopher Stanley, keyboardist, musician, songwriter, record producer, member of Tears for Fears band, made multi-platinum selling album 'Songs from the Big Chair'

1955 Dean Dillon, born in Lake City, Tennessee, country singer, Chair

1954 Chris Hughes, born in London, England, drummer, musician, record producer, played drums for Dalek I Love You, The Blitz Brothers, member, Adam and the Ants, produced Tears for Fears, The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, co-produced Peter Gabriel's 'Red Rain'

1953 Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

1951 Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair

1937 Alain Badiou, born in Rabat, Morocco, influential French philosopher, chair, subscribes to an anti-postmodern form of continental philosophy

1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes

1930 Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

1929 Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person, British Broadcast Standards

1929 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel

1928 Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair

1919 Patricia Louise Dalton, chair, Sherlock Holmes Society of London

1903 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair

1902 Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies

1898 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author, Silver Chair

1890 John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY)

1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair

1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair

1852 Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays'

1848 M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair


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