2013 Event The first federal health study reporting on the use of sleeping pills reveals that 8.6 million Americans take prescription sleeping pills 2013 Event London's Metropolitan police remove belongings and sleeping bags of homeless people as part of 'a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community' 2013 Event Heavy snowfall in Great Britain and Ireland causes Heathrow airport in London to cancel 100 flights; many passengers spend the night sleeping on the floor in the terminal 2012 Event Roy Lichtenstein's picture, 'Sleeping Girl', sells at auction for $44.9 million, a new record for Lichtenstein's artwork 1989 Death Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland 1963 Death Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39 1962 Event "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St. James New York City after 205 performances 1961 Event "Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 205 performances 1961 Event Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres 1959 Death Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54 1959 Event Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released 1959 Birthday Kevin Anderson, Illinois, actor, Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy 1953 Event Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London 1937 Event Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1926 Event A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925 Event Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem New York) 1917 Birthday Mile Yvette Chauvire, born in France, ballerina assoluta, Sleeping Beauty 1906 Birthday Esmond Knight, East Sheen, England, actor, Hamlet, Sleeping Murder 1897 Birthday Louise Bogan, Maine, writer, Sleeping Fury 1894 Event Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 1894 Event American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co 1859 Event 1st Pullman sleeping car in service 1854 Event Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car 1831 Birthday George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car 1725 Event 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for bounty 1646 Event Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church
