2014 Event 17-year-old Katie Ledecky, the current world record holder for fastest 400-meter freestyle, breaks her own record at the Pan Pacific championships 2002 Death Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87 1995 Event PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections 1994 Death Esther Ralston, U.S. actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at 91 1992 Event "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances 1991 Event Pan American World Airways ceased operations 1991 Event "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances 1991 Event Pan Am games closes in Havana 1991 Event Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 1991 Event Pan Am games open in Havana 1991 Event "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City or 45 performances 1990 Event "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 45 performances 1990 Death Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76 1989 Event Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973 1988 Event New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die 1987 Death Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 1982 Event Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 1981 Event "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 578 performances 1979 Event "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances 1977 Death Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80 1977 Birthday Iva Majoli, Zagreb Croatia, tennis star, 1996 Pan Pacific 1977 Event 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 1977 Event 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City 1976 Event Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo 1975 Event Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball 1974 Event Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 1970 Birthday Bill Roth, born in Yonkers, New York, gymnast, Gold Medal 1995 Pan American, 1996 Olympics 1970 Birthday Wesley Barnett, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Olympic weightlifter, Silver medal 1987 Pan American 1968 Event 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1966 Event Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s 1964 Death Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Captain Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 1962 Birthday Jackie Silva, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer, Bronze Pan American 1960 Birthday Linda Jezek, born in California, backstroke swimmer, Pan Am Gold-1979 1959 Event Pan Am begins regular flights around World 1955 Event Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised 1955 Event "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 149 performances 1954 Event "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 149 performances 1953 Event "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City 1952 Birthday Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, born in Tripoli Libya, bomber, Pan Am 103 1951 Event 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) 1951 Event "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 320 performances 1950 Event "Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV 1950 Event "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 320 performances 1947 Birthday Doug Young, rocker, Flash In The Pan 1947 Event Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline 1942 Event 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" 1939 Event Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper 1939 Event Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight 1939 Event Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service 1937 Event Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 Event Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens 1937 Death James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies 1937 Event 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am 1933 Birthday Gerald Masters, South African/British author, Pan Book of Dates 1927 Death Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62 1927 Event Pan American Airlines incorporates 1923 Birthday Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor, Great spiral 1913 Birthday Mary Martin, Weatherford, Texas, actress, Peter Pan, Larry Hagman's mom 1912 Event Pan American Union forms 1912 Birthday Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am 1907 Event 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins 1904 Event Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan) 1901 Event President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1899 Birthday Marnix Gijsen, baron Jan-Albert Goris, Flemish writer, Grote God Pan 1899 Birthday Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways 1898 Birthday Cyril Ritchard, Sydney Australia, actor, Peter Pan, Hans Brinker 1897 Event Peter Pan opens in New York at Empire Theater 1896 Birthday Rex Maupin, St. Joseph, Missouri, orchestra leader, Tin Pan Alley TV 1893 Birthday Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor, Peter Pan, Richard III 1890 Event Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington D.C.) 1889 Event 1st Pan American conference (Washington D.C.) 1860 Birthday James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist, Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan 1798 Birthday Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz 1793 Birthday Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer, Pan Jowiolski
