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1996 Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights), dies at 88

1993 Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80

1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights and play up to 18 night games

1987 Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77

1984 Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85

1984 Jack La Rue, TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 81

1981 Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds

1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship

1979 "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56

1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

1975 Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78

1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure

1957 Cathy Reynolds, born in Kansas City, Missouri, LPGA golfer, 1981 Golden Lights

1956 Jay McInerney, writer, Bright Lights, Big City

1955 Jay McInerney, author, Bright Lights, Big City

1952 "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV

1951 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games

1951 Ray Benson, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, country singer, House of Blue Lights

1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

1950 Teddy Pendergrass, born in Philadelphia, singer, Turn Off the Lights

1949 Richard Thompson, vocalist and guitarist, Shoot Out the Lights

1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II

1938 Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field

1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater

1930 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC

1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

1930 1st red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan New York City)

1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York)

1928 Tony Williams, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, singer, Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights

1926 Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus

1910 Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)

1910 Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park

1909 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights

1908 Virginia Cherrill, actress, Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights, Delicious

1902 Jack Larue, New York City, actor, Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette

1889 Charlie Chaplin, Tramp, comedian, City Lights, IBM salesman

1887 Hank Mann, New York City, actor, City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road

1883 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights

1883 1st night baseball under lights, Ft. Wayne Indiana

1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison

1878 1st U.S. store to install electric lights, Philadelphia

1876 Theodor Daubler, German writer, Northern Lights

1848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)

1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson, born in New Hampshire, writer, Jupiter Lights

1817 1st U.S. gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)



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