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 1880-1889
 March
19, 1884 - Madge Metcalfe and A.J. Jefferson are
married.
August
27, 1887 - James
Finlayson is born in Falkirk, Scotland.
1890-1899
March
12, 1890 - Emily and Oliver Hardy Sr. are
married.
April
26, 1890 - Edgar
Kennedy is born in Monterey, California.
June
16, 1890 - Arthur
Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) is
born
in Ulverston, Lancashire, England.
June
18, 1891 - Mae
Busch is born in Melbourne, Australia
January
14, 1892 - Hal
Roach is born in Elmira, New York.
January
18, 1892 - Oliver
Norvell Hardy is born in Harlem, Georgia.
 November
22, 1892 - Babe's father passes away at the age of
50.
October
20, 1893 - Charley
Chase is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
September
12, 1894 - Billy
Gilbert is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
September
20, 1894 - Billy
Bletcher is born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
August
19, 1899 - Charlie
Hall is born in Birmingham, England
 1900-1909
April
3, 1905 - Thomas
Marvin Hatley is born in Reed, Oklahoma
May
1906 - Stan makes his comic stage debut.
February
11, 1907 - Anita
Garvin is born in New York.
September
1, 1908 - Stan's mother passes away.
September
1909 - Stan Laurel appears on stage in "Alone in
the World."
1910-1919
1910
- Oliver Hardy begins work as a movie theater projectionist
in
Milledgeville,
Georgia.
September
22, 1910 - Stan leaves Southampton for America as
part of
the
Fred Karno troupe. He is Charlie Chaplin's understudy.
1913
- Karno's troupe breaks up when Chaplin signs a film
contract.
November
17, 1913 - Babe marries Madelyn Saloshin. They move
to
Jacksonville,
Florida.
 April
12, 1914 - Babe makes his first film, Outwitting
Dad.
1917
- Stan Laurel makes his first film, Nuts
in May.
October
1917 - Oliver Hardy heads to Hollywood.
1918
- Stan enters a common law marriage with Mae Dahlberg.
1920-1929
November
1920 - Babe and Madelyn divorce.
October
1921 - Stan makes the film The
Lucky Dog, with Oliver Hardy.
November
24, 1921 - Babe marries Myrtle Lee Reeves.
February
10, 1924 - Our Gang's Big
Business, written by Stan Laurel,
is
released.
May
1925 - Stan becomes a director & writer at
Roach Studios.
June
27, 1925 - Babe plays the tin man in the silent
feature, The
Wizard
of
Oz.
July
12, 1925 - Yes,
Yes Nanette, is released by Roach. James Finlayson
stars
with Babe and is directed by Stan. It was his first
director's credit for
Roach.
1925
- Mae Laurel returns to Australia.
February
6, 1926 - Babe signs a contract with Hal Roach, to
play supporting
roles
in Charley Chase and Mabel Norman comedies.
August
13, 1926 - Stan marries actress Lois Neilson.
December
26, 1926 - 45
Minutes from Hollywood is released.
March
13, 1927 - Duck
Soup is released.
April
3, 1927 - Slipping
Wives is released.
June
12, 1927 - Love
'Em and Weep is released.
July
17, 1927 - Why
Girls Love Sailors is released.
August
28, 1927 - With
Love and Hisses is released.
September
10, 1927 - Sugar
Daddies is released.
September
25, 1927 - Sailors,
Beware! is released.
 October
6, 1927 - The
Jazz Singer is the first partial-sound feature
to
be released.
October
8, 1927 - The
Second Hundred Years is released.
October
15, 1927 - Call
of the Cuckoos is released.
October
17, 1927 - Hats
Off is released.
November
20, 1927 - Do
Detectives Think is released.
December
3, 1927 - Putting
Pants on Philip is released.
December
31, 1927 - Battle
of the Century is released.
January
28, 1928 - Leave
'Em Laughing is released.
February
12, 1928 - Flying
Elephants is released.
February
25, 1928 - The
Finishing Touch is released.
March
24, 1928 - From
Soup to Nuts is released.
April
7, 1928 - Our Gang's Barnum
& Ringling, Inc. hits the big screen.
Oliver
Hardy appears as a startled drunk.
April
21, 1928 - You're
Darn Tootin' is released.
May
19, 1928 - Their
Purple Moment is released.
September
8, 1928 - Should
Married Men Go Home? is released.
October
6, 1928 - Early
to Bed is released.
November
3, 1928 - Two
Tars is released.
1928
- Roach begins to experiment with synchronized music &
sound effects.
December
1, 1928 - Habeas
Corpus is released.
December
29, 1928 - We
Faw Down is released.
January
26, 1929 - Liberty
is released.
February
23, 1929 - Wrong
Again is released.
March
23, 1929 - That's
My Wife is released.
April
20, 1929 - Big
Business is released.
May
4, 1929 - Unaccustomed
As We Are is released as the first
Laurel
& Hardy talking picture.
May
18, 1929 - Double
Whoopee is released.
June
1, 1929 - Berth
Marks is released.
June
29, 1929 - Men
O'War is released.
August
10, 1929 - Perfect
Day is released.
September
21, 1929 - They
Go Boom is released.
October
19, 1929 - Bacon
Grabbers is released.
November
16, 1929 - The
Hoose-Gow is released.
November
23, 1929 - The
Hollywood Review of 1929 is released.
December
14, 1929 - Angora
Love is the last Laurel & Hardy silent film to
be
released.
1930-1939
January
4, 1930 - Night
Owls is released.
January
17, 1930 - The
Rogue Song is released. The Boys appear on the
live
radio broadcast from Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
February
8, 1930 - Blotto
is released.
March
22, 1930 - Brats
is released.
April
26, 1930 - Below
Zero is released.
May
31, 1930 - Hog
Wild is released.
August
15, 1930 - Pardon
Us is released.
September
6, 1930 - The
Laurel-Hardy Murder Case is released.
November
29, 1930 - Another
Fine Mess is released.
February
7, 1931 - Be
Big is released.
February
21, 1931 - Chickens
Come Home is released.
April
4, 1931 - Laughing
Gravy is released.
April
1931 - The
Stolen Jools is released.
May
16, 1931 - Our
Wife is released.
September
19, 1931 - Come
Clean is released.
October
31, 1931 - One
Good Turn is released.
December
12, 1931 - Beau
Hunks is released.
December
26, 1931 - On
the Loose is released.
January
23, 1932 - Helpmates
is released.
March
5, 1932 - Any
Old Port is released.
April
16, 1932 - The
Music Box is released.
May
21, 1932 - The
Chimp is released.
June
25, 1932 - County
Hospital is released.
July
23, 1932 - Stan and Babe arrive together in
England.
They
make numerous public appearances to large crowds of
fans.
September
10, 1932 - Scram!
is released.
September
23, 1932 - Pack
Up Your Troubles is released.
November
5, 1932 - Their
First Mistake is released.
November
18, 1932 - The
Music Box a wins Best Short Subject Oscar
December
31, 1932 - Towed
in a Hole is released.
February
25, 1933 - Twice
Two is released.
April
22, 1933 - Me
and My Pal is released.
May
5, 1933 - The
Devil's Brother (Fra Diavolo) is released.
July
1, 1933 - Disney's Mickey's
Gala Premiere features the likeness
of
Stan & Babe.
August
3, 1933 - The
Midnight Patrol is released.
October
7, 1933 - Busy
Bodies is released.
October
28, 1933 - Wild
Poses is released.
October
28, 1933 - Disney's The
Pet Store is features Stan's likeness.
November
25, 1933 - Dirty
Work is released.
December
7, 1933 - The Hal Roach Studio celebrates its 20th
anniversary.
A
radio show honoring the event was aired by NBC.
December
29, 1933 - Sons
of the Desert is released.
February
1934 - Oliver
the Eighth is released.
April
1934 - Stan marries Ruth Rogers.
June
1, 1934 - Hollywood
Party is released.
June
23, 1934 - Going
Bye-Bye! is released.
July
21, 1934 - Them
Thar Hills is released.
November
30, 1934 - Babes
in Toyland is released.
December
8, 1934 - The
Live Ghost is released.
January
5, 1935 - Tit
For Tat is released.
February
9, 1935 - The
Fixer-Upers is released.
1935
- Tit for Tat
is nominated for an Oscar, but does not win.
March
15, 1935 - Stan Laurel leaves the Hal Roach
Studios.
Oliver
Hardy is still under contract.
April
4, 1935 - Stan returns to the Roach Studios, with a
new contract.
July
5, 1935 - Babe co-stars with Charley Chase in
Isn't Life
Terrible.
August
6, 1935 - Thicker
Than Water is released.
August
23, 1935 - Bonnie
Scotland is released.
January
4, 1936 - Disney's Mickey's
Polo Team features the
likeness
of Stan & Babe.
February
14, 1936 - The
Bohemian Girl is released.
May
9, 1936 - Roach's final regularly scheduled two
reeler, Neighborhood
House,
stars Charley Chase.
June
1936 - On
the Wrong Trek is released.
October
30, 1936 - Our
Relations is released.
December
24, 1936 - Ruth divorces Stan.
April
16, 1937 - Way
Out West is released.
May
18, 1937 - Babe and Myrtle divorce.
May
21, 1937 - Pick
a Star is released.
January
1, 1938 - Stan marries Vera Ivanova Shuvalova
(Illiana).
May
20, 1938 - Swiss
Miss is released.
June
18, 1938 - Hide
and Shriek is Roach's final Our Gang comedy,
and
the final short subject to be made by Roach.
August
19, 1938 - Block-Heads
is released.
December
23, 1938 - Disney's Mother
Goose Goes Hollywood features
the
likeness of
Stan
& Babe.
April
21, 1939 - Babe appears by himself in Zenobia.
May
3, 1939 - Saps
at Sea is released.
May
1939 - Stan divorces Illiana.
October
20, 1939 - The
Flying Deuces is released.
1940-1949
February
1940 - A Chump
at Oxford is released.
March
7, 1940 - Babe marries Virginia Lucille Jones. They
remain happily
married
until his death.
April
5, 1940 - Stan & Babe's contracts expire; they
leave Roach.
June
20, 1940 - Charley Chase dies at the age of
46.
August
22, 1940 - The boys perform live at the Golden Gate
International
Exposition
in San Francisco.
January
1941 - Stan remarries Ruth.
October
10, 1941 - Great
Guns is released.
August
7, 1942 - A-Haunting
We Will Go is released.
March
1943 - Tree in
a Test Tube is released.
April
4, 1943 - Air
Raid Wardens is released.
June
11, 1943 - Jitterbugs
is released.
November
19, 1943 - The
Dancing Masters is released.
September
1944 - The
Big Noise is released.
March
1945 - Nothing
But Trouble is released.
May
18, 1945 - The
Bullfighters is released.
April
19, 1946 - Mae Bush dies at the age of
54.
April
1946 - Stan and Ruth divorce for the second
time.
May
6, 1946 - Stan marries Ida Kitaeva.
February
1947 - Stan & Babe begin their British Music
Hall tour.
January
1948 - The boys return to the United States.
November
9, 1948 - Edgar Kennedy dies at the age of 58.
September
15, 1949 - The
Fighting Kentuckian is released with John Wayne
and
Oliver Hardy.
1949
- Stan's father passes away.
1950-1959
April
12, 1950 - Oliver Hardy appears in Riding
High without Stan.
1951
- Roach releases L&H films to television.
November
12, 1951 - Atoll
K is released in Europe. This was to be the
teams'
last film together.
February
19, 1952 - Sam Lufkin, who appeared in 39 L&H
comedies
dies
at the age of 59.
February
25, 1952 - Laurel and Hardy begin their second British
tour, with
the
sketch "A Spot of Trouble."
July
5, 1952 - Tough guy Walter Long, who worked with the
boys in
Pardon
Us and Going
Bye-Bye, passes away in Los Angeles, California.
September
29, 1952 - The second British tour
ends.
October
9, 1953 - James Finlayson, a veteran of 33 comedies
with the boys,
dies
of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, at the age of
66.
October
11, 1953 - Laurel and Hardy go on the third and final
British tour,
with
the sketch "Birds of a Feather."
November
30, 1953 - John McCabe meets Stan & Babe while
they tour
England.
May
18, 1954 - Oliver Hardy has a mild heart attack
while on tour in England.
The
tour ends.
May
30, 1954 - The Laurels and the Hardys leave England
for the last time,
bound
for Los Angeles.
December
1, 1954 - Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are featured
on television's
This
is Your Life.
December
1954 - Atoll
K is released in the United States under the title
Utopia.
October
9, 1955 - The BBC program "This is Music Hall"
presents a recorded
sequence
with the boys sending their best from America.
September
15, 1956 - Oliver Hardy suffers a massive
stroke.
August
7, 1957 - Oliver Hardy passes away in North
Hollywood, California,
at
the age of 65.
August
1, 1958 - Vivien Oakland, best remembered as the judge's
wife in
Scram and the
sheriff's wife in Way
Out West, dies in Hollywood, California.
January
21, 1959 - Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer is shot to
death in an
argument
with his ex-partner over $50.
December
7, 1959 - Charlie Hall, the little tough guy who
appeared in 47
films
with the boys, dies in Hollywood at the age of 60.
1960-1969
August
6, 1960 - Tough guy Rychard Cramer, best remembered in
Scram
and
Saps at
Sea, dies in Los Angeles, California, at the age of
71.
1961
- John McCabe releases the biography Mr.
Laurel and Mr. Hardy.
April
17, 1961 - Stan receives a special Oscar
August
19, 1961 - Charles Gemora, who played "Ethel" in
The Chimp
and
the
gorilla in Swiss
Miss, dies in Hollywood, California, at the age of
58.
October
29, 1961 - Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford, who appeared with
the boys
in
23 films, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 67.
January
9, 1962 - LeRoy Shield dies in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
at the
age
of 68.
 1964
- The organization "Sons of the Desert" is founded by John
McCabe,
Orson
Bean, Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann, & John Municino.
February
23, 1965 - Stan Laurel suffers a heart attack and
dies at the
age
of 74.
July
27, 1966 - Bobby Dunn, the shoplifter in Tit
for Tat, dies in Hollywood.
1967
- Our tent, the Way Out West tent, is founded as the fifth
chapter of
the
Sons of the Desert in Los Angeles, California.
1969
- Al Kilgore and Chuck McCann record dialog for the silent
film
Double
Whoopee.
July
5, 1969 - Leo McCarey, Laurel & Hardy's and Charley
Chase's
Supervising
Director, dies in Santa Monica, California, at the age of
70.
1970-1979
September
23, 1971 - Billy Gilbert, best remembered as
Professor Theodore
vonSchwarzenhoffen
in The
Music Box , dies at the age of 78.
March
28, 1975 - Director George Stevens, who was the
cameraman on
Sugar
Daddies, Putting
Pants on Philip, and The
Battle of the Century, dies in
Lancaster,
California.
February
22, 1978 - Daphne Pollard, the short but powerful Mrs.
Hardy
in
Thicker
Than Water and Our
Relations, passes away in Los Angeles.
August
2, 1978 - Chicago's Bacon Grabbers tent holds the
Sons of the
Desert
first International Convention. Among the celebrities
attending: Ben and
Lucille
Hardy Price, Lois Laurel, Anita Garvin Stanley, Della Lind,
Rosina
Lawrence,
and Darla Hood.
1980-1989
July
30-August 3, 1980 - The Second International
Convention is held
in
Los Angeles.
July
31, 1980 - A park is dedicated at the site of the Hal
Roach Studios,
in
Culver City.Mr. Roach is present.
July
31, 1980 - The first Our Gang reunion is organized, with
dozens of
members
present.
July
29-August 1, 1982 -
The Third International Convention of the Sons
of
the Desert is held in Detroit, Michigan by the Dancing
Cuckoos tent.
April
9, 1984 - Hal Roach receives a special Oscar at the
annual Academy
Awards.
July
29-August 6, 1984 - The Helpmates & Berth Marks
tents host the
Fourth
International Convention in London & Ulverston, England.
Stan's
birthplace
is visited.
July
25-30, 1986 - The Fifth International Convention of
the Sons of the
Desert
is held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the Two Tars
tent.
August
23, 1986 - T. Marvin Hatley, Coo Coo Song composer
and musical
director
at the Hal Roach Studios, passes away.
June
8, 1987 - Rosina Lawrence and John McCabe
marry.
July
14-17, 1988 - The Block-Heads tent of the Twin
Cities holds the 6th
International
Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1990-1999
February
1990 - British postage stamp features Stan Laurel's
smile.
February
15, 1990 - Henry Branden, the Evil Silas Barnaby in
Laurel and
Hardy's
Babes in Toyland,
passes away in Hollywood, California, at the age
of
77.
July
12-15, 1990 - The
Seventh International Convention of the Sons of
the
Desert is held in Clearwater, Florida by the Boobs in the
Woods tent.
August
29, 1991 - American postage stamp
featuring the boys, as drawn by
caricaturist
Al Hirshfeld.
January
14, 1992 - Hal Roach celebrates his 100th birthday
at the old
MGM
Studios in Culver City.
July
12-16, 1992 - The
Eighth International Convention of the Sons of the
Desert
is held in Las Vegas, Nevada by the Jitterbugs tent.
November
2, 1992 - Hal Roach passes away at the
age of 100
July
7, 1994 - Anita Garvin, remembered as Mrs.
Culpepper in
From
Soup to Nuts, and many other L&H and Hal Roach
comedies,
dies
in Woodland Hills, California.
July
13-17, 1994 - The founding tent of the Sons of the
Desert holds the
Ninth
International Convention in Terrytown, New York.
January
4, 1995 - Dorothy Granger, best remembered as "Tillie"
in Laurel
and
Hardy's Hog Wild,
passes away.
December
9, 1995 -Vivian Blaine of Jitterbugs
fame passes away in New
York.
July
15-19, 1996 - The Laurel & Hardy Cruise is the
10th International
Convention
of the Sons of the Desert. It was sponsored by the Tree in a
Test
Tube
tent of Illinois.
June
23, 1997 - Rosina Lawrence passes away. In addition to
her role as
Mary
Roberts in Way Out
West, she also appeared as one of the school
teachers
in the Our Gang series.
July
17-21, 1998 - The Laughing Gravy Tent of
Birmingham, England,
hosts
the 11th International Sons of the Desert Convention. Stan
Laurel's
birthplace
is visited.
August
23, 1998 - Norma Drew, best remembered as Mrs. Laurel in
Laurel
and
Hardy's Chickens
Come Home, passes away.
June
11, 1999 - Swiss
Miss star Della Lind passes away in Key West,
Florida.
2000
- Present
July
20-23, 2000 - The Twelfth International
Convention of the Sons of
the
Desert is held in Tacoma, Washington by the Beau Hunks tent.
It is
nicknamed
"SeaTac
2000."
October
26, 2000 - Muriel Evans, who was in Pack
Up Your Troubles,
passes
away in Woodland Hills, California.
January
2001 - The city of Los Angeles places a street
sign at the top and
bottom
of the stairs used in the film The
Music Box. The sign reads " Music
Box
Steps."
May
10, 2001 - 100 of Stan Laurel's letters and his
"gag file" are auctioned
from
the collection of author John McCabe.
August
2001 - Stan Laurel's former home in Cheviot Hills
put up for sale at
an
asking price of $2,450,000.
August
30, 2001 - Julie Bishop, who was featured in
The Bohemian
Girl
and
Any Old Port,
passes away.
October
26, 2001 - Long time Way Out West member and Our Gang
star
Eugene
"Pineapple" Jackson passes away.
March
21, 2002 - Jacquie Lyn, who appeared with Laurel &
Hardy in
Pack
Up Your Troubles, dies.
July
11-14, 2002 - The Scram Tent hosts the
13th International Sons of
the
Desert Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
July
15, 2002 - The Museum of Laurel & Hardy of
Harlem, Georgia opens
in
the hometown of Oliver Hardy.
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