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2013 Event - UK's oldest music retailer HMV calls in administrators after talks to rescue the company fail; the company which has over 4,500 employees, opened its first shop on Oxford Street in 1921

2012 Event - Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street

2012 Event - The Rolling Stones, English rock band, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London

2012 Event - In Rio de Janeiro, a record 2.2 million people attend the Bola Preta street party during Rio's carnival

2012 Event - Nearly 2,000 Malawi women protest against attacks on women wearing trousers by unemployed youths and street vendors

2011 Event - New York's Police Department clears Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park, the public space they have occupied to stage their protest

2011 Event - Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement

2011 Event - Over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested when they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic

2010 Event - Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown

2010 Event - Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison

2002 Death - Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38

2001 Event - Tony Awards, The Producers, Proof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest revival and 42nd Street revival won major awards

1998 Death - Jeff Moss, writer/composer, Sesame Street, dies at 56

1998 Event - "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf

1997 Event - "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 79 performances

1997 Event - New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988

1997 Death - Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98

1997 Death - Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86

1996 Event - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends

1996 Death - 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 Event - Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City

1994 Death - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95

1994 Death - Dennis Morgan, Stanley, U.S. actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83

1993 Event - British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination

1993 Death - Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83

1993 Event - Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City

1993 Event - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street

1993 Death - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82

1993 Death - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83

1993 Death - Chris Street, basketball player, dies at 20

1992 Event - Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot

1991 Death - Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45

1991 Event - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City

1990 Death - Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46

1990 Event - Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum

1990 Event - "Street Scene" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 6 performances

1990 Event - "Street Scene" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 6 performances

1990 Death - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53

1989 Event - New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority opens 63rd street extension to subway

1989 Event - "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres

1989 Event - U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value)

1989 Death - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51

1989 Event - "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances

1987 Event - On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56

1986 Event - RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs

1986 Death - Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62

1985 Death - Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13

1984 Event - "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)

1984 Event - Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack

1984 Death - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69

1984 Death - Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99

1984 Death - Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78

1983 Death - Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58

1982 Event - FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

1981 Event - 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus and 42nd Street win

1981 Event - "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

1980 Event - "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 3486 performances

1980 Event - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in New York City

1980 Death - Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies

1979 Death - Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52

1977 Birthday - Maia Brewton, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Margaret-Lime Street

1977 Event - Main Street Electrical Parade premieres at Disney

1977 Event - Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt)

1973 Birthday - David Blaine, born in Brooklyn, New York, illusionist, endurance artist, considered a modern-day Houdini, first television special titled, 'David Blaine; Street Magic'

1972 Birthday - Samantha Smith, born in Houlton, Missouri, actress, Elizabeth-Lime Street

1972 Death - Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88

1971 Death - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76

1971 Birthday - Picabo Street, skier, 1984 Olympic gold

1970 Death - Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies

1970 Event - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street

1969 Event - "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV

1969 Death - Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56

1969 Death - Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63

1968 Birthday - Patricia Arquette, born in New York City, actress, Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3

1967 Event - Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens

1967 Event - Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS

1967 Birthday - Michael Bendetti, actor, Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street

1967 Event - Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)

1967 Death - 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 Birthday - Peter DeLuise, born in Hollywood, California, actor, 21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV

1965 Event - "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 313 performances

1965 Birthday - Richard Grieco, born in Waterton, New York, actor, 21 Jump Street, Booker

1965 Event - "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 313 performances

1964 Birthday - Holly Robinson, Philadelphia, actress, 21 Jump Street

1963 Death - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon

1963 Birthday - Johnny Depp, born in Queensboro, Kentucky, actor, 21 Jump Street, Ed Wood

1962 Event - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission

1962 Birthday - Dustin Nguyen, born in Saigon, Vietnam, actor, Harry-21 Jump Street

1962 Birthday - Elizabeth Daily, actress, Street Music

1960 Event - 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV

1960 Death - Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48

1959 Death - Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75

1959 Birthday - 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 Death - Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42

1957 Death - Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67

1957 Event - Cavern Club (Beatle's) opens on Matthews Street in England

1956 Birthday - Doris EHP Baaten, Dutch actress, Sesame Street, Fien

1955 Death - Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65

1955 Event - 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed

1955 Birthday - Paul Rodriguez, born in Culiacan, Mexico, comedian, actor, films include, 'A Cinderella Story', 'Lonely Street', 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'

1954 Event - "Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances

1954 Birthday - Sandra Cisneros, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, wrote, 'The House on Mango Street', 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories', a figure in Chicana literature

1954 Birthday - Ken Olin, Chicago, actor, Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street

1954 Birthday - Anne Kirkbridge, actress, Deidre-Coronation Street

1952 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist, singer and songwriter, East Street Band

1951 Birthday - Max Weinberg, rock drummer, E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show

1950 Birthday - Helene Weijel, author, In the Street Without a Coat

1950 Birthday - Ed Marinaro, actor on Hill Street Blues

1950 Birthday - Danny Federici, rocker, E Street Band

1949 Birthday - Garry W Tallent, rocker, E Street Band

1949 Birthday - Roy Bittan, rocker, E Street Band

1949 Event - 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)

1948 Birthday - Taurean Blacque, actor, Hill Street Blues

1947 Birthday - Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues

1947 Event - "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 148 performances

1947 Birthday - Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist and vocalist, Baker Street

1947 Event - "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances

1946 Birthday - Michael Warren, born in Indiana, actor, Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues

1945 Birthday - Julie Goodyear, British actress, Bet Lynch-Coronation Street

1944 Birthday - Dennis Franz, Maywood, Illinois, actor, Buntz-Hill Street Blues, New YorkPD Blue

1944 Birthday - Kiel Martin, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues

1944 Birthday - Frank Oz, muppetteer, Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show

1943 Birthday - Tison Street, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, violinist, contemporary classical music, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship

1942 Birthday - Richard Street, born in Detroit, Michigan, rocker, Temptations

1941 Event - Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in New York City

1941 Event - Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street

1940 Birthday - Taurean Blacque, actor, Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues

1939 Birthday - Wes Craven, born in Cleveland, Ohio, director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream

1939 Event - Batman comics hit street

1937 Birthday - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter, Sesame Street

1936 Birthday - Jim Henson, born in Greenville, Mississippi, muppeteer, Sesame Street, Muppet Show

1935 Event - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches

1935 Birthday - Sharon Acker, born in Toronto, Canada, actress, Della Street - Perry Mason 1973

1934 Birthday - John Standing, born in London, England, actor, Edward-Lime Street

1934 Event - 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (New York City)

1934 Death - Meijer Linnewiel, Amsterdam street hawker, dies

1934 Event - Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars

1933 Birthday - Rene Enriquez, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues

1933 Birthday - Thelma Barlow, English actress, Mavis-Coronation Street

1933 Birthday - Keith Baxter, born in South Wales, actor, Barretts at Wimpole Street

1933 Birthday - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week

1932 Birthday - William Roache, born in England, actor, Ken Barlow-Coronation Street

1931 Birthday - Alex Cord, New York City, actor, Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum

1930 Birthday - Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who

1929 Event - Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in New York City

1928 Birthday - Vic Damone, Vito Farinola, Brooklyn, singer, Street Where You Live

1928 Birthday - John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale

1926 Event - Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street

1926 Event - Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch

1925 Birthday - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician

1924 Death - George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies

1923 Event - Bloody street battles in Aken: pro-French separatists

1923 Event - Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven)

1923 Event - Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna

1922 Event - Lucerne Street in Bronx named

1922 Birthday - Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress, Window on Main Street

1921 Birthday - Gower Champion, choreographer, 42nd Street, Showboat

1921 Birthday - Barbara Hale, born in Dekalb, Illinois, actress, Della Street - Perry Mason

1920 Event - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30

1918 Event - 102 die in a New York City BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn

1918 Birthday - Tony Mottola, born in Kearney, New Jersey, guitarist/host, Melody Street

1917 Birthday - Dave Street, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/singer, Broadway Open House

1916 Birthday - Jack Elam, Miami, Arizona, actor, The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo

1916 Event - Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time

1916 Death - Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies

1916 Birthday - Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian, Percy-Coronation Street

1914 Birthday - Bernard Youens, British actor, Coronation Street

1914 Event - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed

1914 Event - Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens

1913 Birthday - Ella Logan, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actress, 52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies

1911 Birthday - Margaret Sullavan, born in Norfolk, Virginia, actress, Back Street

1910 Birthday - Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisconsin, actor, Dennis-21 Beacon Street

1910 Birthday - Jill Summers, actress, Agatha Coronation Street

1910 Birthday - Irene Mayer Selznick, producer, Street Car Named Desire

1909 Birthday - Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, dancer, Dames, 42nd Street

1908 Birthday - Ann Lane Petry, U.S. journalist/author, Street

1908 Event - 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2

1907 Event - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF

1906 Event - London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)

1905 Event - Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated

1905 Birthday - Thelma Ritter, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Miracle on 34th Street

1904 Birthday - John Breeden, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street

1903 Birthday - Una Merkel, Covington, Kentucky, actress, 42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln

1903 Birthday - Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer

1903 Birthday - Arthur Tracy, born in Russia, street singer, Vincent Lopez Show, Limelight

1901 Event - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved and opened

1901 Birthday - Bebe Daniels, Scotland, actress, 42nd Street, Lonesome Luke

1900 Birthday - Ralph Graves, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street

1899 Birthday - Dorothy Devore, Ft. Worth, Texas, actress, Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil

1899 Birthday - Doris Speed, actress, Annie-Coronation Street

1897 Event - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City

1895 Birthday - Cliff Edwards, born in Hannibal, Missouri, singer, 54th Street Revue

1893 Birthday - Kathleen Smoothy, housewife, last link to Siege of SIdney Street

1892 Event - 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio

1889 Event - Wall Street Journal begins publishing

1889 Birthday - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter

1886 Event - Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia

1885 Birthday - Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930

1884 Birthday - Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street

1883 Birthday - Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Joyless Street

1883 Birthday - Estelle Winwood, Goodwin, England, actress, Miracle on 34th Street

1882 Event - 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)

1881 Death - George Edmund Street, English Architect

1876 Event - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

1875 Event - Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens

1875 Birthday - Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor, Miracle on 34th Street

1875 Birthday - 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 Event - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street

1873 Event - 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones

1871 Event - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Kentucky

1861 Event - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars

1860 Event - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco

1859 Event - Grading started for Market Street RR

1858 Event - Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox

1853 Event - Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections

1852 Event - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)

1834 Birthday - Henrietta, Hetty, Green, financier, Witch of Wall Street

1834 Event - HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street

1824 Birthday - George E Street, British architect

1824 Birthday - George Edmund Street, English Architect

1820 Event - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered

1817 Event - 1st U.S. gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)

1807 Death - 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 Event - London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight

1792 Event - 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1791 Event - New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street

1735 Event - Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street

1728 Event - Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue

1714 Event - A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street

1712 Death - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75

1616 Event - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver

1346 Event - Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements













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