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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)













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