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1963 Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39

1962 "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St. James New York City after 205 performances

1961 "Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 205 performances

1961 Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres

1959 Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54

1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released

1959 Kevin Anderson, Illinois, actor, Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy

1953 Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London

1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

1926 A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem New York)

1917 Mile Yvette Chauvire, born in France, ballerina assoluta, Sleeping Beauty

1906 Esmond Knight, East Sheen, England, actor, Hamlet, Sleeping Murder

1897 Louise Bogan, Maine, writer, Sleeping Fury

1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company

1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co

1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service

1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car

1831 George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car

1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for bounty

1646 Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church



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