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2002 Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38
2001 Tony Awards, The Producers, Proof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest revival and 42nd Street revival won major awards 1998 Jeff Moss, writer/composer, Sesame Street, dies at 56 1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf 1997 "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 79 performances 1997 New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988 1997 Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98 1997 Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86 1996 After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends 1996 Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City 1994 Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95 1994 Dennis Morgan, Stanley, U.S. actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83 1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination 1993 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City 1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street 1993 Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82 1993 Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83 1993 Chris Street, basketball player, dies at 20 1992 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot 1991 Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45 1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City 1990 Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46 1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum 1990 "Street Scene" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 6 performances 1990 "Street Scene" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 6 performances 1990 Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53 1989 New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority opens 63rd street extension to subway 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres 1989 U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value) 1989 Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances 1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs 1986 Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62 1985 Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13 1984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) 1984 Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack 1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69 1984 Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99 1984 Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78 1983 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58 1982 FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street 1981 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus and 42nd Street win 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV 1980 "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 3486 performances 1980 Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in New York City 1980 Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies 1979 Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52 1977 Maia Brewton, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Margaret-Lime Street 1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres at Disney 1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) 1972 Samantha Smith, born in Houlton, Missouri, actress, Elizabeth-Lime Street 1972 Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88 1971 Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76 1971 Picabo Street, skier, 1984 Olympic gold 1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street 1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV 1969 Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 1969 Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63 1968 Patricia Arquette, born in New York City, actress, Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 1967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens 1967 Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS 1967 Michael Bendetti, actor, Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street 1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) 1967 Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida 1966 Peter DeLuise, born in Hollywood, California, actor, 21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV 1965 "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 313 performances 1965 Richard Grieco, born in Waterton, New York, actor, 21 Jump Street, Booker 1965 "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 313 performances 1964 Holly Robinson, Philadelphia, actress, 21 Jump Street 1963 Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon 1963 Johnny Depp, born in Queensboro, Kentucky, actor, 21 Jump Street, Ed Wood 1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission 1962 Dustin Nguyen, born in Saigon, Vietnam, actor, Harry-21 Jump Street 1962 Elizabeth Daily, actress, Street Music 1960 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV 1960 Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 1959 Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75 1959 Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau 1958 Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42 1957 Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67 1957 Cavern Club (Beatle's) opens on Matthews Street in England 1956 Doris EHP Baaten, Dutch actress, Sesame Street, Fien 1955 Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65 1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed 1954 "Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances 1954 Ken Olin, Chicago, actor, Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street 1954 Anne Kirkbridge, actress, Deidre-Coronation Street 1952 Eddie Manion, born in America, Eddie 'Kingfish' Manion, saxophonist, tenor and baritone sax, session musician, member of Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band Tour, recorded and performed with Diana Ross, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, The E Street Band 1951 Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist, singer and songwriter, East Street Band 1951 Max Weinberg, rock drummer, E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show 1950 Helene Weijel, author, In the Street Without a Coat 1950 Ed Marinaro, actor on Hill Street Blues 1950 Danny Federici, rocker, E Street Band 1949 Garry W Tallent, rocker, E Street Band 1949 Roy Bittan, rocker, E Street Band 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct) 1948 Taurean Blacque, actor, Hill Street Blues 1947 Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues 1947 "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 148 performances 1947 Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist and vocalist, Baker Street 1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances 1946 Michael Warren, born in Indiana, actor, Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues 1945 Julie Goodyear, British actress, Bet Lynch-Coronation Street 1944 Dennis Franz, Maywood, Illinois, actor, Buntz-Hill Street Blues, New YorkPD Blue 1944 Kiel Martin, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues 1944 Frank Oz, muppetteer, Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show 1943 Tison Street, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, violinist, contemporary classical music, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship 1942 Richard Street, born in Detroit, Michigan, rocker, Temptations 1941 Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in New York City 1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street 1940 Taurean Blacque, actor, Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues 1939 Wes Craven, born in Cleveland, Ohio, director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream 1939 Batman comics hit street 1937 Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter, Sesame Street 1936 Jim Henson, born in Greenville, Mississippi, muppeteer, Sesame Street, Muppet Show 1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches 1935 Sharon Acker, born in Toronto, Canada, actress, Della Street - Perry Mason 1973 1934 John Standing, born in London, England, actor, Edward-Lime Street 1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (New York City) 1934 Meijer Linnewiel, Amsterdam street hawker, dies 1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars 1933 Rene Enriquez, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues 1933 Thelma Barlow, English actress, Mavis-Coronation Street 1933 Keith Baxter, born in South Wales, actor, Barretts at Wimpole Street 1933 Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week 1932 William Roache, born in England, actor, Ken Barlow-Coronation Street 1931 Alex Cord, New York City, actor, Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum 1930 Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who 1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in New York City 1928 Vic Damone, Vito Farinola, Brooklyn, singer, Street Where You Live 1928 John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale 1926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street 1926 Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch 1925 Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician 1924 George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies 1923 Bloody street battles in Aken: pro-French separatists 1923 Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven) 1923 Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna 1922 Lucerne Street in Bronx named 1922 Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress, Window on Main Street 1921 Gower Champion, choreographer, 42nd Street, Showboat 1921 Barbara Hale, born in Dekalb, Illinois, actress, Della Street - Perry Mason 1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30 1918 102 die in a New York City BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn 1918 Tony Mottola, born in Kearney, New Jersey, guitarist/host, Melody Street 1917 Dave Street, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/singer, Broadway Open House 1916 Jack Elam, Miami, Arizona, actor, The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo 1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time 1916 Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies 1916 Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian, Percy-Coronation Street 1914 Bernard Youens, British actor, Coronation Street 1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed 1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens 1913 Ella Logan, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actress, 52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies 1911 Margaret Sullavan, born in Norfolk, Virginia, actress, Back Street 1910 Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisconsin, actor, Dennis-21 Beacon Street 1910 Jill Summers, actress, Agatha Coronation Street 1910 Irene Mayer Selznick, producer, Street Car Named Desire 1909 Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, dancer, Dames, 42nd Street 1908 Ann Lane Petry, U.S. journalist/author, Street 1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF 1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line) 1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated 1905 Thelma Ritter, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Miracle on 34th Street 1904 John Breeden, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street 1903 Una Merkel, Covington, Kentucky, actress, 42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln 1903 Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer 1903 Arthur Tracy, born in Russia, street singer, Vincent Lopez Show, Limelight 1901 East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved and opened 1901 Bebe Daniels, Scotland, actress, 42nd Street, Lonesome Luke 1900 Ralph Graves, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street 1899 Dorothy Devore, Ft. Worth, Texas, actress, Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil 1899 Doris Speed, actress, Annie-Coronation Street 1897 White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City 1895 Cliff Edwards, born in Hannibal, Missouri, singer, 54th Street Revue 1893 Kathleen Smoothy, housewife, last link to Siege of SIdney Street 1892 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio 1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing 1889 Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter 1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia 1885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930 1884 Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street 1883 Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Joyless Street 1883 Estelle Winwood, Goodwin, England, actress, Miracle on 34th Street 1882 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) 1881 George Edmund Street, English Architect 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise 1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens 1875 Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor, Miracle on 34th Street 1875 Roger Babson, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S. 1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street 1873 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones 1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Kentucky 1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars 1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco 1859 Grading started for Market Street RR 1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox 1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections 1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 1834 Henrietta, Hetty, Green, financier, Witch of Wall Street 1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street 1824 George E Street, British architect 1824 George Edmund Street, English Architect 1820 Cato Street conspiracy uncovered 1817 1st U.S. gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 1807 John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London 1807 London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight 1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street 1791 New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street 1735 Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street 1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue 1714 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street 1712 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 1616 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver 1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements |
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