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1994 William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69

1993 IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed

1992 Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies

1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China

1985 Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a New York City restaurant

1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant

1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches

1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75

1969 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"

1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in New York City

1961 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens

1957 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant

1947 Arlo Guthrie, Brooklyn, singer, Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans

1933 Wilson Mizner, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner, dies

1922 Poodle Dog Restaurant closes

1922 Vinnette Carroll, born in New York City, actress, Alice's Restaurant, Reivers

1915 Lester Garfield Maddox, Gov-D-Ga, restaurant owner

1906 William C Pahlmann, interior decorator, 4 Season restaurant, New York City

1902 1st Automat restaurant opens, 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia

1880 Duncan Hines, U.S., restaurant guide writer, Out of Kentucky Kitchens

1876 Wilson Mizner, born in Benicia, California, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner


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