1997 Death Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82 1994 Death Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75 1985 Event Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game 1982 Event Larry Walters using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000' 1978 Death Charles Eames, U.S. chair manufacturer, dies at 71 1973 Event Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair 1972 Event Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention 1967 Event Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair 1963 Death C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Hamilton, author (Silver Chair), dies at 64 1963 Death Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77 1959 Event Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair 1957 Birthday Ian Stanley, born in High Wycombe, England, Ian Christopher Stanley, keyboardist, musician, songwriter, record producer, member of Tears for Fears band, made multi-platinum selling album 'Songs from the Big Chair' 1955 Birthday Dean Dillon, born in Lake City, Tennessee, country singer, Chair 1954 Birthday Chris Hughes, born in London, England, drummer, musician, record producer, played drums for Dalek I Love You, The Blitz Brothers, member, Adam and the Ants, produced Tears for Fears, The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, co-produced Peter Gabriel's 'Red Rain' 1953 Birthday Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1951 Death Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair 1937 Birthday Alain Badiou, born in Rabat, Morocco, influential French philosopher, chair, subscribes to an anti-postmodern form of continental philosophy 1932 Event During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes 1930 Birthday Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation 1929 Birthday Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person, British Broadcast Standards 1929 Birthday Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel 1928 Death Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair 1919 Birthday Patricia Louise Dalton, chair, Sherlock Holmes Society of London 1903 Death William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair 1902 Death Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies 1898 Birthday C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author, Silver Chair 1890 Death John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1884 Event John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair 1854 Event Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair 1852 Birthday Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays' 1848 Event M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
