2014 Event Discount store Dollar Tree will buy rival Family Dollar for $8.5 billion; the merged company is expected to generate revenue in line with competitor Dollar General 2010 Event Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground 2001 Death Dorothy McGuire, actress, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, dies at 83 1994 Event Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed 1992 Death Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies 1992 Death Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies 1991 Death Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 1991 Event A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1990 Death Joseph Hardy, actor and director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71 1988 Event Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York 1988 Event 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree Golf Club Edmond 1988 Event 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley 1987 Death Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90 1982 Event Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic 1981 Event Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be 1981 Event Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic 1980 Event Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1979 Event Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1978 Event Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1977 Event Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1976 Event Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1972 Death Hall Overton, U.S. composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), dies at 52 1968 Birthday Moira Kelly, born in Queens, New York, actress, director, played Mandy Hampton in the television series, The West Wing, and Karen Roe on the show, One Tree Hill 1967 Event "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 463 performances 1967 Death James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61 1967 Birthday Melora Hardin, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Family Tree, Best Times 1966 Event "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 463 performances 1962 Death Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies 1960 Birthday Bono Vox, Paul Hauson, Dublin, Ireland, rocker, U2-Joshua Tree 1959 Birthday Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer, Shaking the tree 1955 Birthday Tree Rollins, born in Winter Haven, Florida, NBA center, Cleveland Cavaliers 1955 Event Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race 1951 Event "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 267 performances 1951 Event "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 267 performances 1948 Birthday Nick Drake, rocker, Back to Fruit Tree 1942 Birthday Susan Hill, English playwright, Magic Apple Tree 1941 Birthday Alan Feinstein, New York City, actor, Max-Berrengers, Family Tree 1937 Birthday Robert Moran, born in Denver, Colorado, composer, operas include 'The Juniper Tree' co-composed with Philip Glass 'Night Passage' 1933 Event Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation 1932 Birthday Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker, Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One 1932 Event 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree 1926 Birthday Patrice Wymore, Miltonville, Kansas, actress, The Big Tree 1920 Birthday Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer, Enchanted Pear Tree 1919 Birthday Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong' 1917 Death Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and director (Hamlet), dies 1912 Birthday Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree 1912 Event Mrs. William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington D.C. 1910 Birthday Joel Fluellen, born in Louisiana, actor, Burning Cross, Learning Tree 1906 Birthday Betty Smith, novelist, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1905 Birthday John Dierkes, Ohio, actor, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Hanging Tree 1902 Birthday Lloyd Nolan, born in San Francisco, California, actor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place 1901 Birthday James Dunn, New York City, actor, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It's a Great Life 1899 Event Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed 1897 Birthday Viola Dana, born in Brooklyn, actress, Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover 1893 Birthday Ralph Linton, U.S. cultural anthropologist, Tree of Culture 1882 Event 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison 1872 Event Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta and Big Tree 1871 Event Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins 1867 Birthday Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Dendrochronologer, study of tree rings 1853 Birthday Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager, Trilby 1765 Event Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree) 1682 Event Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree 1510 Death Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
