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1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to home run on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder)
1995 Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500 1991 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 241 performances 1990 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 241 performances 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 149 performances 1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, and beat Brewers 4-2 1989 U.S. Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die 1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess 1985 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket 1983 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park 1983 Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71 1978 Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) 1977 Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, U.S. actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62 1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances 1976 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 167 performances 1974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) 1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof 1973 Norma Crane, actress, 'Fiddler on the Roof', dies of cancer at 44 1972 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 3242 performances 1969 Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs) 1965 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses and Fiddler on the Roof win 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 3242 performances 1963 Grant Herslov, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof 1960 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' home run over right field roof in Detroit 1959 William Shea shows proposed New York City stadium with transparent roof 1956 Mickey Mantle home run just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances 1949 Mimi Kennedy, born in Rochester, New York, actress, Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof 1949 Paul J Mares, U.S. jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49 1948 James Taylor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, vocalist and guitarist, Up on the Roof 1940 Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist, Come off that Roof 1940 Boston's Jimmie Foxx home run goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof 1935 [Chaim] Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor, Fiddler on the Roof 1931 Rip Torn, born in Texas, actor, Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1928 Jerry Bock, New Haven CT, Broadway composer, Fiddler on the Roof 1928 Norma Crane, born in New York City, New York, actress, 'Tea and Sympathy', 'Fiddler on the Roof' 1924 Sheldon Harnick, born in Chicago, lyricist, Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof 1916 Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies 1915 Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor, Fiddler on the Roof 1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) 1913 Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor, Fiddler on the Roof 1912 Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof 1911 Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 1909 Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st 'Follies' on New York Theater roof 1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France 1859 Sholem Aleichem, Solomon Rabinowitz, author, Fiddler on the Roof |
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