1996 Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
1996 "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 118 performances
1996 "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 118 performances
1994 "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 165 performances
1993 Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88
1993 "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 165 performances
1990 Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial
1990 Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82
1988 Frederick Loewe, U.S. composer (My Fair Lady), dies at 84
1984 "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
1983 George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens
1982 Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
1981 "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 119 performances
1981 "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 119 performances
1978 Lorrie Fair, born in Los Altos, California, soccer defender 1996 Olympics
1977 "My Fair Lady" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 384 performances
1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 384 performances
1976 Johan[nes A] Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1976 Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1975 Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (All's Fair), dies at 64
1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1969 Victoria Fair, Jackson Michigan, Miss Michigan-America 1991
1968 Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
1965 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd and final season
1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win
1964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York) opens
1963 Norman Alvis, born in Fair Oaks, California, cyclist 1996 Olympics
1962 "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 2,715 performances
1958 Keith Haring, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, graffiti artist, Vanity Fair, Paris Review
1958 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens
1957 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
1957 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win
1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 2,715 performances
1955 Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
1950 Joan Lunden, Fair Oaks California, news host, Good Morning America
1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
1948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman, born in London, England, actor, Fair Exchange
1946 Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 New York World's Fair reopens
1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair
1939 Judy Carne, born in Northhampton, England, comedienne, Laugh-in, Fair Exchange
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)
1938 Susan Hampshire, born in London, England, actress, Vanity Fair, Living Free
1937 World's fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1933 Jeremy Brett, actor, Sherlock Holmes, Freddie-My Fair Lady
1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1933 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1931 E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow, New York City, novelist, World's Fair
1929 Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady
1925 World's fair opens in Chicago
1924 Jeffrey Segal, actor and playwright, Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces
1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
1918 Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist composer, Lerner and Loewe-My Fair Lady
1917 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer and actor, My Fair Lady
1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
1915 World's Fair in San Francisco opens
1915 Jann Willem Holsbergen, author, Zakenmensen Fair as Gold
1914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator, Fair Employment Practices
1912 Alice Faye, [Ann Leppert], New York City, actress, Barricade, State Fair
1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1908 Rex Harrison, [Reginald Carey], England, actor, My Fair Lady, Cleopatra
1908 Rex Harrison, born in England, actor, My Fair Lady, Dr. Doolittle
1908 Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
1905 Myrna Loy, Helena, Montana, actress, Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair
1903 Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor, My Fair Lady, Peyton Place
1900 World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors
1899 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Texas, actor, Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail
1897 Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager, My Fair Lady
1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1893 Isobel Elsom, actress, My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger
1892 Emory Parnell, St. Paul Minnesota, actress, Rocket Man, County Fair
1891 Fay Bainter, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair
1888 Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress, My Fair Lady
1888 Emile van Bosch, Dutch revue/operetta-artist, Fair Folks
1883 Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1880 Donald Meek, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actor, Stage Fair, Stagecoach
1876 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna
1864 Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties
1864 Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmont
1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, TN
1863 Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S. Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
1862 Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties)
1862 Battle of Seven Pines Virginia (Fair Oaks)
1854 Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1853 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York
1852 John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist, Vanity Fair
1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
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