1997 Event "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater New York City 1997 Event "Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater New York City 1996 Event "Love Thy Neighbor," opens at Booth Theater New York City 1995 Event "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 308 performances 1995 Event "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 308 performances 1995 Event "Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater New York City 20 performances 1994 Event "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances 1994 Event "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 73 performances 1994 Event "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 73 performances 1994 Death Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48 1993 Event "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 29 performances 1993 Event "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 29 performances 1993 Event "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth New York City after 232 performances 1992 Event "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth New York City for 232 performances 1992 Death Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94 1992 Death Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 85 1992 Event "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 229 performances 1992 Event "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 229 performances 1991 Event "Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 469 performances 1991 Death Edwina Booth, actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86 1990 Event "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 469 performances 1988 Event Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth 1987 Death Clare A Booth Luce, U.S. diplomat/journalist, dies at 84 1985 Event "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth New York City after 604 performances 1984 Event "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth New York City for 604 performances 1976 Event "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 307 performances 1975 Event "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 307 performances 1974 Birthday Keith Booth, NBA forward, Chicago Bulls 1971 Birthday Issac Booth, NFL cornerback and safety for the Cleveland Browns 1968 Event "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth New York City after 36 performances 1968 Event "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 36 performances 1968 Event "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 52 performances 1968 Event John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth 1967 Event "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth New York City after 105 performances 1966 Event "At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 105 performances 1966 Birthday Bronwen Booth, London, actress, Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil 1965 Event "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 52 performances 1965 Birthday Mitch Booth, Australian tornado yachter 1996 Olympics 1963 Event 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth 1962 Event 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth 1961 Event "Hazel," starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV 1953 Event 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth win (1st time televised) 1946 Event "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 77 performances 1946 Event "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances 1939 Event Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in New York City 1933 Birthday James Booth, born in London, England, actor and writer, Zulu, Robbery, Revenge 1933 Birthday Brian Booth, cricketer, dual Australian cricket/hockey international 1928 Birthday Albert Booth, British government minister 1919 Event Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in New York City 1913 Event Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St. New York City 1912 Death William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies 1908 Birthday Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star, Yale 1907 Birthday Shirley Booth, actress, Hazel 1907 Birthday Shirley Booth, Thelma Booth Ford, New York City, actress, Hazel 1904 Birthday George Formby, William Booth, British singer/comic, Let George Do It 1901 Event Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner 1901 Event H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner 1893 Death Edwin Booth, American Actor 1892 Event New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) 1890 Death Catherine Booth, American Activist 1886 Birthday William Booth, cricketer, Yorks all-rounder, England before WW I 1880 Event Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made U.S. debut at New York's Booth Theater 1879 Birthday Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S., poet, General William Booth enters Heaven 1869 Birthday Booth Tarkington, U.S., novelist, 17, Magnificent Ambersons 1869 Event Booth theater at 23rd and 6th opens in New York City (Romeo and Juliet) 1865 Birthday Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34 1865 Event William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) 1865 Death John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 1865 Death Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1865 Event President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth 1859 Birthday Balington Booth, founder, Volunteers of America 1849 Event 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, American Criminal 1833 Birthday Samuel A. Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth 1833 Birthday Edwin Thomas Booth, U.S., U.S. Hall of Fame/actor, Hamlet 1833 Birthday Edwin Booth, American Actor 1829 Birthday William Booth, founder, Salvation Army 1829 Birthday Catherine Booth, American Activist 1822 Birthday William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadier General Confederate Army
