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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













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