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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