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2013 Event - In Los Angeles, California, the 85th Academy Awards is held; 'Argo' wins best picture, Ang Lee wins for best director, Daniel Day-Lewis wins for best actor, and Jennifer Lawrence wins for best actress

2013 Event - London hosts the 66th British Academy Film Awards, with 'Argo' winning best film, Emmanuelle Riva winning best actress and Daniel Day-Lewis winning best actor

2012 Event - Academy award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, dies at the age of 95

2012 Event - Eli Young Band wins song of the year for 'Crazy Girl' and Taylor Swift wins 'Entertainer of the Year' at the 2012 Academy of Country Music awards

2011 Event - The Academy of Country Music Awards 2010 selects Taylor Swift winner of the 2010 Entertainer of the Year award

2011 Event - In Hollywood, California, the 83rd Academy Awards are held at the Kodak Theater, celebrating the best films of 2010

2007 Event - 79th Academy Awards hosted by Ellen DeGeneres in Hollywood

2007 Event - 'The Departed' wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards

2006 Death - Otto Zykan, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim', dies in Sachsendorf, Austria

2006 Death - Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines, dies of cancer, in Tebworth, England, at age 53

2004 Event - 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 Event - 75th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Chicago wins Best Picture, Adrian Brody and Nicole Kidman win lead acting awards

2002 Event - 74th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards

2001 Death - David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50

2001 Event - 73rd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Gladiator wins Best Picture, Russell Crowe and Julia Roberts win lead acting awards

2000 Event - 72nd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards

1999 Event - 71st Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture, Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow win lead acting awards

1998 Event - 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 Event - Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder

1997 Event - 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines and Brooks and Dunn

1997 Event - 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards

1996 Event - 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain

1996 Event - 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage and Susan Sarandon win

1995 Event - 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins

1995 Event - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win

1995 Death - Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76

1995 Death - Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49

1994 Event - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins

1994 Event - 66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter win

1993 Event - 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins

1993 Event - 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win

1992 Event - Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500

1992 Event - 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks

1992 Event - 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win

1991 Death - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer and Professor (Swedish Academy), dies

1991 Event - 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks

1991 Death - David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83

1991 Event - 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates and J Irons win

1990 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled

1990 Event - 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black and Kathy Mattea win

1990 Event - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win

1989 Event - 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams, Jr., Alabama

1989 Event - 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win

1988 Event - Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton

1988 Event - 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams, Jr.

1987 Event - 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr

1987 Event - 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win

1986 Event - 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire

1986 Event - 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win

1985 Death - Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84

1985 Event - 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win

1985 Event - 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win

1984 Event - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama

1984 Event - 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall and S Maclaine win

1983 Death - Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76

1983 Event - 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson

1983 Event - 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win

1982 Death - Roy Webb, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar', dies at 94

1982 Event - 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell

1982 Event - 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win

1982 Death - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60

1981 Event - 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell and George Jones

1981 Event - 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win

1980 Event - 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins

1980 Event - 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman and Sally Field win

1980 Event - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)

1979 Event - 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell

1979 Event - 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win

1978 Event - 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win

1977 Event - 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win

1976 Event - 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo

1976 Event - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy

1975 Event - Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll

1975 Event - 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win

1974 Event - Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt

1974 Event - 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win

1973 Birthday - Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee

1973 Event - 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians

1973 Event - Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak

1972 Birthday - Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain'

1972 Event - 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win

1971 Event - 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott and Glenda Jackson win

1970 Event - 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win

1969 Event - 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson and K Hepburn/Striesand win

1969 Event - Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston

1968 Event - 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win

1968 Event - 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1967 Event - 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win

1967 Event - 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards

1966 Event - 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win

1965 Event - 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win

1964 Birthday - Don Cheadle, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, producer, author, appeared in film, 'Boogie Nights' and Academy Award-nominated 'Hotel Rwanda'

1964 Birthday - Clive Owen, born in Coventry, England, appearance in film, 'Closer', won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1964 Event - 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win

1963 Birthday - Brad Pitt, born in actor, born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, actor, film producer, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee, one-time Golden Globe winner

1963 Event - 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft and G Peck win

1962 Birthday - Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy

1962 Event - 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win

1961 Death - Gary Cooper, 2 time Academy award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60

1961 Event - 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win

1960 Birthday - Michael Winslow, born in Spokane, Washington, actor/comedian, Police Academy

1960 Event - 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win

1959 Event - 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation

1959 Event - 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo

1959 Event - 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven win

1958 Event - Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo

1958 Birthday - Steve Guttenberg, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Academy, Short Circuit

1958 Event - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win

1957 Birthday - Frances McDormand, actress, Fargo, Academy Award

1957 Event - 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win

1956 Event - 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win

1955 Event - New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets

1955 Event - 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win

1954 Birthday - Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation

1954 Event - U.S. Air Force Academy forms

1954 Event - U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established

1954 Event - 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden and A Hepburn win

1953 Event - 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)

1952 Birthday - Hans Abrahamsen, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, composer, musician, played French horn, studied at Royal Danish Academy of Music, compositions employ New Simplicity style

1952 Birthday - Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines

1952 Birthday - Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher

1952 Event - 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win

1952 Birthday - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese, rocker, Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orchestra

1951 Birthday - Stephen Bishop, born in San Diego, California, singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote Academy Award-nominated song, 'Separate Lives'

1951 Event - 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win

1950 Birthday - Toni Alessandrini, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Vice Academy Part 2

1950 Birthday - David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor, Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6

1950 Event - 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford and De Havilland win

1950 Birthday - Tim Kazurinsky, born Johnstown, Pennsylvania, comedian, SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4

1949 Event - 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win

1948 Birthday - Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host

1948 Birthday - Kathy Bates, born in Memphis, Tennessee, academy award winning actress, Misery

1948 Birthday - Jim Bailey, NCAA punter, most punts in season-101, Virginia Miltary Academy

1948 Event - 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC

1947 Birthday - Paul Patterson, born in Britain, composer, professor, Royal Academy of Music, composes for orchestra, ensemble, film, television, education

1947 Birthday - Priscilla Yates, director, Royal Academy of Dancing

1947 Event - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win

1946 Birthday - Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records

1946 Birthday - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing

1945 Birthday - Paul Monette, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy

1945 Event - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win

1945 Birthday - Charles "Bubba" Smith, Texas, NFLer for the Baltimore Colts/actor, Police Academy

1944 Event - 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win

1944 Birthday - Leif Segerstam, born in Vaasa, Finland, composer, chief conductor, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra 1995 - 2007, professor Sibelius Academy

1942 Event - 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win

1941 Event - Academy copyrights Oscar statuette

1941 Birthday - John Williams, born in Melbourne, Australia, guitarist, Academy Award

1940 Event - 12th Academy Awards 'Gone with the Wind', Robert Donat and Vovoem Leigh win

1938 Birthday - Richard Stoker, born in Britain, composer, writer, guitarist, fellow, Royal Academy of Music, studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris

1938 Birthday - Zygmunt Krauze, born in Poland, composer, pianist, contemporary classical music genre, professor, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy

1935 Birthday - Otto Zykan, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim'

1935 Birthday - Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York

1934 Event - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)

1932 Birthday - Igor Stuhec, born in Slovenia, composer, studied under Hanns Jelinek at Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, wrote orchestral works applying textural techniques, and two operas

1932 Event - "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon

1932 Event - 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March

1932 Birthday - Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts

1932 Birthday - Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia, pianist and professor, Jerusalem Academy of Music

1930 Birthday - Toma Prosev, born in Macedonia, composer, professor, studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and professor L.M. Skerjanc at Ljubljana Music Academy

1930 Birthday - Eino Tamberg, born in Estonia, composer, neoclassical Estonian music, teacher, Estonian Academy of Music, wrote ballet, 'Johanna tentate'

1929 Birthday - Oliver Neville, principal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

1929 Event - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins

1929 Birthday - Harvey Lichtenstein, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music

1927 Birthday - Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music

1927 Event - Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards

1927 Event - Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1927 Event - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms

1926 Birthday - Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

1925 Birthday - Robert Finch, actor, Academy Theater

1924 Birthday - Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Academy - UK

1923 Birthday - John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy

1923 Event - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy

1922 Birthday - Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records

1921 Birthday - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director, Free Academy

1920 Event - Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St. New York City

1920 Birthday - I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter, 1960 Academy Award-Apartment

1918 Birthday - Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner

1918 Birthday - Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy

1917 Birthday - Isang Yun, born in Tongyeong, South Korea, composer, professor, son of renowned poet Yun Ki-hyon, exhiled from South Korea, taught at Hanover Academy of Music

1917 Birthday - Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan

1914 Birthday - Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

1913 Birthday - Gyula David, born in Hungary, composer, violinist, conductor, studied at the Liszt academy, conducted for the National Theatre 1945 - 1949, wrote folk song music and 12 tone serial music

1909 Birthday - Alfred Uhl, born in Austria, composer, professor, studied at Vienna Music Academy with Franz Schmidt, vibrant style combined neo-classicism, atonality, serialism, works include concerto for clarinet and orchestra

1908 Event - Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City

1906 Birthday - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy, Agadir

1905 Birthday - Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer, 1954 Academy Award, 1968 Tony

1905 Event - Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School

1904 Event - American Academy of Arts and Letters forms

1901 Birthday - Gary Cooper, Montana, actor, 2 Academy Awards-Sergeant York, High Noon

1900 Birthday - Jean Negulesco, born in Craiova, Dolj, Romania, film director, screenwriter, directed The Mask of Dimitrios, Three Strangers, Academy award nominee for Johnny Belinda

1899 Birthday - Noel Coward, England, playwright, In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award

1896 Death - Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies

1895 Birthday - Paul Muni, actor, Academy Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez

1894 Birthday - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer, Academy Award 1954-High and Mighty

1892 Birthday - Thomas Mitchell, born in New Jersey, academy award winning actor, Outlaw, Adventures

1891 Birthday - Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Academy Award actor, Tale of 2 Cities

1889 Event - American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia

1889 Birthday - Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer, 1968 Academy of Country Music Award

1888 Birthday - Roy Webb, born in New York City, New York, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar'

1888 Birthday - Barry Fitzgerald, born in Dublin, Ireland, actor, Academy Award-Going My Way

1886 Birthday - Victor McLaglen, born in England, actor, Informer, Academy Award-1935

1886 Event - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class

1886 Birthday - Josephine Hull, Newtonville, Massachusetts, Academy award actress, Harvey

1863 Event - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

1863 Event - Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

1862 Event - U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island

1852 Birthday - Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937

1852 Death - John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies

1850 Birthday - Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky, mathemetician, Academy of Science

1845 Event - Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis

1843 Event - Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens

1842 Birthday - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor, American Academy of Dramatic Art

1839 Event - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

1833 Event - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn

1833 Event - Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established

1831 Event - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1823 Event - 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt

1805 Event - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia

1802 Event - U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York

1802 Event - U.S. Academy at West Point founded

1802 Event - Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York)

1792 Event - Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London

1785 Event - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1780 Event - 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston)

1780 Event - American Academy of Arts and Science founded

1771 Event - Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy

1752 Event - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna

1741 Event - Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich

1708 Birthday - Albrecht von Haller, born in Switzerland, experimental physiology, Academy of Science

1585 Event - Friese academy opens

942 Death - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies

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