2004 76th Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards
2003 75th Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Chicago wins Best Picture, Adrian Brody and Nicole Kidman win lead acting awards
2002 74th Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards
2001 David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50
2001 73rd Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Gladiator wins Best Picture, Russell Crowe and Julia Roberts win lead acting awards
2000 72nd Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards
1999 71st Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture, Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow win lead acting awards
1998 70th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, Titanic wins eleven Oscars, including Best Picture, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win lead acting awards
1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1997 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines and Brooks and Dunn
1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards
1996 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
1996 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage and Susan Sarandon win
1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins
1995 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win
1995 Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76
1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1994 66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter win
1993 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1993 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win
1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
1992 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1992 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win
1991 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
1991 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1991 David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83
1991 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates and J Irons win
1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black and Kathy Mattea win
1990 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
1989 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams, Jr.
1987 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr
1987 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win
1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire
1986 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win
1985 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84
1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win
1985 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win
1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama
1984 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall and S Maclaine win
1983 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
1983 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson
1983 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win
1982 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell
1982 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win
1982 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60
1981 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell and George Jones
1981 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win
1980 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman and Sally Field win
1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell
1979 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win
1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win
1977 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win
1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo
1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win
1974 Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt
1974 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win
1973 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1973 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win
1971 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott and Glenda Jackson win
1970 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win
1969 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson and K Hepburn/Striesand win
1969 Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston
1968 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
1967 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win
1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win
1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win
1964 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win
1963 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft and G Peck win
1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy
1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win
1961 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win
1960 Michael Winslow, born in Spokane, Washington, actor/comedian, Police Academy
1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win
1959 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation
1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo
1959 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven win
1958 Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1958 Steve Guttenberg, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Academy, Short Circuit
1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win
1957 Frances McDormand, actress, Fargo, Academy Award
1957 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
1956 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win
1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets
1955 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win
1954 U.S. Air Force Academy forms
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
1954 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden and A Hepburn win
1953 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)
1952 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win
1952 Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jap, rocker, Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orch
1951 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win
1950 Toni Alessandrini, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Vice Academy Part 2
1950 David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor, Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6
1950 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford and De Havilland win
1950 Tim Kazurinsky, born Johnstown, Pennsylvania, comedian, SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4
1949 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win
1948 Kathy Bates, born in Memphis, Tennessee, academy award winning actress, Misery
1948 Jim Bailey, NCAA punter, most punts in season-101, Virginia Miltary Academy
1948 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
1947 Priscilla Yates, director, Royal Academy of Dancing
1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing
1945 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win
1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith, Texas, NFLer for the Baltimore Colts/actor, Police Academy
1944 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win
1942 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win
1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1940 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind," R Donat and V Leigh win
1934 Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1932 "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1932 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March
1932 Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts
1932 Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia, pianist/prof, Jerusalem Academy of Music
1929 Oliver Neville, principal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
1929 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins
1929 Harvey Lichtenstein, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music
1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
1927 Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
1925 Robert Finch, actor, Academy Theater
1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1921 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director, Free Academy
1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St. New York City
1918 Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy
1917 Sidney Sheldon, novelist, 1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline
1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City
1906 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy, Agadir
1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
1904 American Academy of Arts and Letters forms
1897 American Negro Academy forms
1896 Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies
1892 Thomas Mitchell, born in New Jersey, academy award winning actor, Outlaw, Adventures
1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Phila
1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1886 Josephine Hull, Newtonville, Massachusetts, Academy award actress, Harvey
1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1862 U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island
1852 John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies
1846 John W. Cromwell, Secretary, American Negro Academy
1845 Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
1823 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1802 U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York
1802 U.S. Academy at West Point founded
1802 Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York)
1792 Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1780 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston)
1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded
1771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
1752 Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
1585 Friese academy opens
942 Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
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