2015 Event A rally calling for removal of the Confederate flag forms at the capitol building of the U.S. state of South Carolina in response to a shooting earlier this week of nine African-Americans by white supremacist Dylann Storm Roof 2013 Event The roof of a Maxima superstore collapses in Latvia's capital, Riga; a least six are killed and 35 injured 2010 Event In New Zealand, 100,000 people are left without water after a large storm; the storm took the roof off of Stadium Southland in Invercargill 1997 Event Mark McGwire, is 4th to home run on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder) 1995 Death Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1993 Event 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 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 241 performances 1990 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 241 performances 1990 Event "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances 1990 Event "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 149 performances 1989 Event 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 Event U.S. Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die 1988 Event Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess 1985 Event 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket 1983 Event Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park 1983 Death Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71 1978 Event Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) 1977 Death Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, U.S. actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62 1977 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances 1976 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 167 performances 1974 Event Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) 1974 Event Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof 1973 Death Norma Crane, actress, 'Fiddler on the Roof', dies of cancer at 44 1972 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 3242 performances 1969 Event Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs) 1965 Event 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses and Fiddler on the Roof win 1964 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City 1964 Event "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 3242 performances 1963 Birthday Grant Herslov, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof 1960 Event New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' home run over right field roof in Detroit 1959 Event William Shea shows proposed New York City stadium with transparent roof 1956 Event Mickey Mantle home run just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 1955 Event Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1955 Event Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances 1949 Birthday Mimi Kennedy, born in Rochester, New York, actress, Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof 1949 Death Paul J Mares, U.S. jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49 1948 Birthday James Taylor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, vocalist and guitarist, Up on the Roof 1940 Birthday Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist, Come off that Roof 1940 Event Boston's Jimmie Foxx home run goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof 1935 Birthday [Chaim] Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor, Fiddler on the Roof 1931 Birthday Rip Torn, born in Texas, actor, Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1928 Birthday Jerry Bock, New Haven CT, Broadway composer, Fiddler on the Roof 1928 Birthday Norma Crane, born in New York City, New York, actress, 'Tea and Sympathy', 'Fiddler on the Roof' 1924 Birthday Sheldon Harnick, born in Chicago, lyricist, Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof 1916 Death Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies 1915 Birthday Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor, Fiddler on the Roof 1914 Event Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) 1913 Birthday Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor, Fiddler on the Roof 1912 Birthday Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof 1911 Birthday Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 1909 Birthday Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1907 Event Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st 'Follies' on New York Theater roof 1885 Event Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France 1859 Birthday Sholem Aleichem, Solomon Rabinowitz, author, Fiddler on the Roof
