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1995 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)

1995 Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, New York Knicks win 98-92

1977 William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer

1948 Michael Houlihan, director, Horniman Museum and Gardens

1941 Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass, Bronx Botanical Gardens

1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat and Skyline in SF

1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1

1928 Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0

1926 Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director, Kew Gardens

1915 William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms

1881 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain, poet, Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956

1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens

1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens

1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public

1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, TN

1828 Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens

1800 Mount Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in U.S.

1793 William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61

1785 William J Hooker, English botanist/director, Kew Gardens

1779 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71

1707 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens


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