1999 Jay Pritzker, billionaire, founded the Hyatt hotel chain, dies at 76
1997 Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82
1996 Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82
1993 Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
1993 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
1992 Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
1992 "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1,018 performances
1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 41 performances
1991 "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater New York City after 1018 performances
1989 "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 1018 performances
1989 George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1987 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1985 1st hotel strike in New York
1984 IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1981 George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
1981 Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel Kansas City caves in (113 killed)
1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die
1978 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 Angela Goethals, actress, VI Warshawski, Heartbreak Hotel
1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1975 Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84
1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1972 Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72
1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
1966 Charlie Schlatter, New York City, actor, 18 Again, Heartbreak Hotel
1964 Rob Lowe, born in Charlottesville, Virginia, actor, St. Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class
1962 Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida
1961 Paul McCrane, actor, Hotel New Hampshire, We're Fighting Back
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
1959 Elvis Presley's 1st entry on U.K. charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 Amanda Plummer, born in New York City, actress, Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker
1956 Jean Hersholt, actress (Emma, Grand Hotel, Greed), dies at 69
1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
1955 Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress, Hotel, Capt America II
1952 Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies
1949 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
1946 Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire, Dubuque, Iowa
1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois)
1946 Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright, Oviri, Hotel du Lac
1945 Catherine Spaak, born in France, actress, Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love
1943 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
1942 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, U.S., sci-fi author, Hotel Transylvania
1942 Chananjit Vohra, Kenyan/British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1941 Beau Bridges, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer
1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire in Atlanta, Georgia
1935 John B Coleman, Boston, hotel magnate, Ritz Carlton
1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1935 Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44
1934 David Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1934 Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1933 Caroline Blakiston, actress, At Bertram's Hotel
1933 Nurdin Jivraj, Tanzanian/British hotel magnate, Buckingham Intl
1932 Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
1930 WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City
1930 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in New York City
1929 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland, California
1928 Tony Richardson, born in England, director, Delicate Balance, Hotel NH
1927 Kurt Masur, German actor, Hotel Deutschland
1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1925 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
1924 Bobby Short, born in Danville, Illinois, singer/pianist, Carlisle Hotel
1923 Warren Harding, 29th President (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel San Francisco at 57
1920 Anthony Tuke, CEO, Savoy Hotel Groups
1920 Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist, Hotel, Airport
1920 Don Saddler, Van Nuys California, dancer, Holiday Hotel
1913 Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket
1912 Lukas Ammann, Basel, actor, Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1910 Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
1910 Richard Conte, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor, 4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel
1908 Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate, Savoy
1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director
1907 Plaza Hotel (5th Av and 59th Str, New York) opens
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens
1906 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer, Hotel du Nord
1905 Greta Garbo, born in Stockholm, actress, Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille
1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City
1900 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF)
1899 Windsor luxury hotel in New York City catches fire, 92 die
1898 Eugene Dabit, French writer/painter, Hotel du Nord
1894 Georges Feydeaus' "L'hotel du lobre echange," premoeres on Paros
1894 Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist and writer, Hotel Savoy
1890 Marie Lohr, born in Sydney, Australia, actress, Pygmalion, Small Hotel
1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
1887 Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul, Hilton Hotels
1883 Ethel Clayton, Missouri, actress, Hotel Continental
1883 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin, kills 71
1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens
1872 Paul Panzer, actor, Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin
1871 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor and director, Ghost Hotel
1869 Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
1867 Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1837 Astor Hotel opens in New York City, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st U.S. modern hotel opens (Boston)
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1733 Jacques-Denis Antoine, French master builder, Hotel Maillebois Paris
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