2013 Event It is announced that Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Nirvana, KISS and Cat Stevens will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 2011 Event In a Schrodinger's cat experiment, researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light; this is the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another 2001 Death Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64 1998 Death Cleveland Amory, writer, The Compleat Cat, dies at 81 1995 Death Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1994 Event 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8 1994 Event 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4 1993 Death Walter Brown Newman, U.S. screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 1993 Event Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test 1990 Death John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84 1990 Event "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances 1990 Event "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 149 performances 1989 Event Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live 1987 Death Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63 1984 Death John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery 1983 Death Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71 1982 Event Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb) 1979 Event Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan 1979 Event Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque 1979 Event Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated 1976 Death Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80 1974 Death Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84 1973 Death Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 1969 Event "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman and The Agents hits #92 1965 Event "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 8 performances 1965 Event "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances 1965 Death Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat and Canary), dies at 83 1962 Event "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric and His Piano peaks at #7 1962 Birthday Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy 1960 Birthday Nastassja Kinski, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Tess, Cat People 1960 Birthday Greg Ritchie, cricketer, Qld and Australia batsman Fat Cat Mahatma Cote 1959 Birthday Britt Helfer, Clearfield Utah, actress, Lily-Loving, Alley Cat 1959 Birthday Lea Antonoplis, West Covina Cat, tennis star 1958 Birthday Marty Davis, San Jose Cat, tennis star 1958 Death Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85 1955 Event Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1955 Event Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances 1954 Birthday Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler, AAA/NJPW, Black Cat 1953 Birthday Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star 1952 Birthday Annette O'Toole, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Cat People, Superman III 1948 Birthday Ted Nugent, born in Detroit, guitarist, Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees 1947 Birthday Lynn Lowry, E St. Louis, Illinois, actress, Cat People, Crazies 1947 Birthday Cat Stevens, Yusaf Islam, rock vocalist, Peace Train, Father and Son 1946 Birthday Paul Schrader, director, American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore 1945 Birthday Al Stewart, born in Glasgow, Scotland, rocker, Year of the Cat 1945 Birthday John Heard, actor, Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD 1943 Birthday Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer, Cats-Sure He's a Cat 1943 Birthday Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat 1942 Birthday Harry Chapin, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle 1940 Birthday Giorgio Moroder, born in Ortisei, Italy, composer, Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun 1938 Birthday Ralph Bakshi, animator, Lord of Rings, Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse 1938 Birthday Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army 1937 Birthday Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero 1937 Birthday Dorothy Provine, Deadwood, South Dakota, actress, Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat 1936 Event Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer 1932 Birthday Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author, Cat Karina 1931 Birthday John Gabriel, Niagara Falls, New York, actor, Cat Gang, Fantasies 1931 Birthday Rip Torn, born in Texas, actor, Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1930 Birthday Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor, Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat 1927 Birthday Sunset Carson, Michael Harrison, Plainview, Texas, actor, Cat of Rockies 1925 Birthday Arnold Stang, Massachusetts, comedian/actor, Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat 1924 Birthday Lee Marvin, born in New York City, actor, Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou 1924 Birthday Marvin Kaplan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Top Cat, Henry-Alice 1923 Birthday Ruby Dee, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Raisin in the Sun, Cat People, Roots 1922 Event John Willard's "Cat and the Canary," premieres in New York City 1918 Birthday Stubby Kaye, New York City, actor, Guys and Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou 1917 Birthday Felix the Cat, cartoon character 1917 Birthday R G Armstrong, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actor, T.H.E. Cat 1911 Birthday Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 1910 Birthday Eve March, California, actress, Curse of the Cat People 1909 Birthday Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1909 Birthday Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris, France, actor, Cat and Mouse, Happy Hooker 1906 Birthday John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962 1905 Birthday Frederic Dannay, of Ellery Queen and Barnaby Ross, Cat of Many Tales 1904 Birthday Laura Laplante, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cat and Canary 1899 Birthday Gale Sondergard, Litchfield, Minnesota, actress, Cat and Canary, Road to Rio 1896 Birthday Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great 1891 Birthday Reginald Denny Richmond England, actor, Rebecca, Cat Ballou, Batman 1890 Birthday Ernest Milton, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three 1888 Birthday Jack Holt, U.S., golddigger/actor, Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone 1887 Birthday John Davidson, New York City, actor, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat 1887 Birthday Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat 1872 Birthday Paul Panzer, actor, Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin 1871 Event World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
