2011 Event Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship 1977 Event New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens 1967 Event Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed N.Y. - Chicago luxury train 1962 Death Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70 1960 Event Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating 1959 Event Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet 1949 Death Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71 1921 Birthday Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist 1912 Event 1st running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race, 7.63 miles / 12.3 km 1897 Event Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) dedicated 1887 Birthday Alvin York, famed U.S. soldier with 25 kills in WW I 1875 Death Francis Preston Blair, Jr., famed St. Louis lawyer, dies at 54 1867 Death Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
