2014 Event Burger King Worldwide Inc. will purchase Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons Inc. and move its headquarters to Canada; Burger King will pay a little over $11 billion in U.S. dollars, and the merger will create the third-largest global fast food company 2014 Event Online travel reservation company Priceline has purchased online restaurant reservation company OpenTable, offering market expansion opportunities for both companies; Priceline paid $2.6 billion for the acquisition 2012 Event On Australia Day nearly 200 indigenous protesters surround a restaurant in Canberra, trapping Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, opposition leader inside 1994 Death William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69 1993 Event IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed 1992 Death Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies 1992 Event McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China 1985 Death Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a New York City restaurant 1981 Event New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant 1975 Event Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches 1972 Death Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 1969 Event Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant" 1965 Event T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in New York City 1961 Event 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens 1957 Event President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 1947 Birthday Arlo Guthrie, Brooklyn, singer, Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans 1933 Death Wilson Mizner, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner, dies 1922 Event Poodle Dog Restaurant closes 1922 Birthday Vinnette Carroll, born in New York City, actress, Alice's Restaurant, Reivers 1915 Birthday Lester Garfield Maddox, Gov-D-Ga, restaurant owner 1906 Birthday William C Pahlmann, interior decorator, 4 Season restaurant, New York City 1902 Event 1st Automat restaurant opens, 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia 1880 Birthday Duncan Hines, U.S., restaurant guide writer, Out of Kentucky Kitchens 1876 Birthday Wilson Mizner, born in Benicia, California, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner
