2014 Event NFL player Ray Rice will be allowed to resume playing in the league; Rice was suspended in July after video surfaced in which he knocked out his fiancee (now wife) by punching her in an elevator 1995 Event In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident 1981 Event George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator 1980 Event Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die) 1980 Event Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England 1977 Event 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes 1925 Birthday Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor and director, Surprise Attack, Elevator 1917 Birthday Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer, Elevator, Women 1911 Event 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) 1900 Event Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co 1887 Event A Miles patents elevator 1872 Event Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin 1861 Death Elisha G Otis, U.S. elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50 1861 Event Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis 1859 Event Elevator patented 1857 Event Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, New York City) 1811 Birthday Elisha Graves Otis, inventor, safe elevator
