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1997 Death - Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up, dies at 66

1995 Death - John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48

1995 Event - Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat Los Angeles Lakers 103-89

1992 Event - New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key

1992 Death - Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79

1992 Death - Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies

1981 Event - Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London

1975 Death - Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies

1974 Death - Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74

1973 Event - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1969 Event - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium

1965 Death - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79

1964 Birthday - Amanda Sandrelli, Rome, Italy, actress, The Key

1961 Birthday - Jimmy Key, born in Huntsville, Alabama, pitcher, Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Orioles

1960 Event - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park

1959 Death - Maxwell Anderson, U.S. dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70

1958 Event - Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM

1954 Death - Lionel Barrymore, Blythe, actor (Dr. Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76

1953 Death - Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73

1949 Birthday - Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End'

1949 Birthday - Kalevi Aho, born in Forssa, Finland, composer, large-scale works, symphonies, vocal works, concertos, operas, including 'The Key', 'Insect Life'

1947 Birthday - John Trevor Key, photographer

1946 Birthday - Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr, STS-28, 41, 50, 64

1946 Birthday - Stefania Sandrelli, born in Viareggio, Italy, actress, Afredo, Key

1945 Birthday - Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage

1939 Event - Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in New York City

1938 Event - Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts

1930 Birthday - Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up

1926 Death - Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76

1924 Birthday - Lauren Bacall, born in New York City, actress, Dark Passage, Key Largo

1922 Event - President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1912 Event - Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres

1905 Birthday - Thomas Gomez, born in New York City, actor, Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout

1903 Event - Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay

1901 Birthday - Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor, Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island

1900 Birthday - Edna Best, born in Hove, England, actress starred in Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo

1899 Birthday - Maxwell Maltz, born in America, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals

1895 Birthday - Susanne Langer, U.S., philosopher/educator, Philosophy in a New Key

1875 Death - Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer

1866 Event - J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener

1849 Birthday - Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman

1843 Death - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63

1814 Event - Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"

1799 Birthday - Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer

1779 Birthday - Francis Scott Key, composer, Star-Spangled Banner

1627 Death - Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67

1568 Death - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47


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