1968 Death Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 1948 Death Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58 1940 Event Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan 1931 Event 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio 1925 Birthday Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist, Little Orphan Annie 1924 Event "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published 1924 Event 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in New York City Daily News 1924 Event Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts 1922 Birthday Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character 1920 Birthday Mitzi Green, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Little Orphan Annie 1910 Birthday Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist, Orphan of the Desert 1894 Birthday Harold L Gray, creator, Little Orphan Annie 1851 Event SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded
