2015 Event At the 87th Academy Awards, 'Birdman' is awarded Best Picture, Eddie Redmayne wins Best Actor for his role as Stephen Hawking in 'A Theory of Everything,' and Julianne Moore wins Best Actress for her role in 'Still Alice' 2014 Event The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for their work in advocating children's rights; 17-year-old Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban in retaliation for her activism, is the youngest recipient in history 2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescents and mercury-containing fluorescents 2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser and John O'Keefe, neuroscientists who discovered the brain cells responsible for positioning and navigation memory 2014 Event Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen set a new record for the highest number of Olympic medals awarded to a female Winter Olympics athlete after her gold medal at Sochi; Bjoergen has won ten Olympic medals over to date, including six golds 2014 Event At the 71st Golden Globe Awards, Best Motion Picture is awarded to '12 Years a Slave'; 'American Hustle is receives the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy award, with actress Amy Adams honored as Best Actress 2013 Event The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Canadian writer Alice Munro 2012 Event The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer 2012 Event The Golden Dagger award for best crime novel of the year is awarded to Irish writer, Gene Kerrigan, for 'The Rage' 2012 Event The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe' 2012 Event The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, famous for the hallucinatory realism writing style 2012 Event The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum optics 2012 Event The Polar Music Prize is awarded to Paul Simon and Yo-Yo Ma 2012 Event German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.' 2011 Event The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer 2011 Event The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess, for their work on the accelerating expansion of the universe 2010 Event The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides 2010 Event The Medal of Honor is awarded for the first time since the Vietnam War; U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta received the medal for his actions during the War in Afghanistan 2009 Death Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies 1997 Event Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract 1997 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo 1997 Event Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker 1996 Death Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1995 Event Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1995 Event Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics 1995 Event Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 1994 Event Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat 1994 Event Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres 1994 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe 1994 Event Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell 1994 Event Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" 1993 Death Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey 1993 Event Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet 1993 Event Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1993 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith 1993 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor 1993 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison 1993 Event NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million 1992 Event Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco" 1992 Event Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set 1990 Event Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts 1988 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz 1988 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" 1987 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky 1987 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow 1987 Event Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle 1987 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" 1987 Event Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator 1986 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" 1985 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle 1985 Event Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani 1985 Event Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games 1985 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" 1985 Event Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator 1985 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell 1984 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield 1984 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 1984 Event Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS 1983 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu 1983 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" 1983 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht 1982 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1982 Event Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize 1982 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' 1981 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" 1981 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov 1980 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein 1980 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz 1980 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) 1979 Event Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1979 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" 1979 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 1978 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon 1978 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" 1977 Event Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King, Jr. 1977 Event Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize 1977 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" 1977 Event Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow 1976 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow 1976 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr 1976 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman 1976 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) 1975 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) 1975 Death Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82 1975 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1974 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) 1974 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) 1973 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief 1973 Event Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize 1973 Event Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise 1973 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) 1972 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks 1972 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 1972 Event Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race 1971 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda 1971 Event West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1971 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1971 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur 1970 Event Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh 1970 Event American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 1969 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen 1969 Event Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a home run in World Series 1969 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1968 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) 1968 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1968 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) 1967 Event Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) 1967 Event Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams 1967 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe 1967 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) 1967 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1966 Event Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken 1966 Event Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) 1965 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward 1965 Event Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry 1965 Event Beatles are awarded MBE 1965 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) 1965 Event Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory 1964 Event Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House 1964 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 1963 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) 1962 Event American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1962 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1961 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1961 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters 1960 Event New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada 1960 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) 1960 Event Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra 1960 Birthday Sean Kerly, born in Whitstable, Kent, England, Sean Robin Kerly, athlete, field hockey player, awarded bronze medal at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 1984, scored eight goals at 1988 Olympics in Seoul, playing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad 1960 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz 1959 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish 1959 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke 1958 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 1958 Birthday Ian Woosnam, born in Oswestry, England, nicknamed 'Woosie', 'Wee Welshman', 'Woosers', Welsh, professional golfer, played first European Tour, 1979, won Swiss Open, 1982, number one in Official World Golf Rankings in 1991, awarded O.B.E. 2007 New Years Honors List 1958 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 1957 Event French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 1957 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate 1956 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen 1956 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1956 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken 1955 Event Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1954 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe 1954 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway 1954 Event Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick 1954 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden 1954 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams 1953 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke 1953 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1953 Birthday Derek Conway, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Derek Leslie Conway, politician, Conservative Party, awarded Territorial Decoration, Member of Parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup 1953 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish 1952 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) 1952 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore 1951 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) 1951 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom 1950 Event Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner 1950 Event Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 1950 Event RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea 1950 Event Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea 1950 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens 1950 Event Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) 1949 Event 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1948 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams 1947 Event Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes 1947 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1946 Birthday Elfriede Jelinek, born in Murzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) 1945 Event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1945 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) 1944 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 1943 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 1943 Event Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal 1942 Event Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor 1942 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 1942 Event Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" 1942 Birthday Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1941 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) 1941 Birthday George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1940 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1939 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron 1939 Event Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 1938 Event Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth) 1938 Event Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws 1938 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) 1937 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson 1936 Event Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill 1936 Event Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled 1936 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 1935 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) 1934 Event Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) 1934 Birthday Larry Sitsky, born in Tianjin, China, pianist, Australian composer, educator, musicologist, studied with Winifred Burston, awarded Centenary Medal, 2000 1934 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) 1933 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 1932 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) 1931 Death Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1931 Birthday Martin Boykan, composer, professor, studied at Harvard, Yale, awarded Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, studied with Edward Steuermann, Aaron Copeland 1930 Event Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" 1930 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) 1930 Birthday Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1929 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) 1928 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) 1927 Event Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross 1927 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 1926 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 1925 Event George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel 1925 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" 1924 Event Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine 1924 Event Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven 1924 Event Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1923 Birthday Charlton Heston, born in Illinois, American actor in film, theater, television, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1923 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) 1922 Event Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein 1922 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1920 Event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson 1920 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon 1919 Event Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson 1919 Event 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers 1919 Event Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic 1917 Event 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) 1915 Birthday Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, born in England, 17th Duke of Norfolk, The Most Notable Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, awarded Military Cross 1914 Birthday Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1910 Birthday Arthur Hazlerigg, born in England, Lord Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, awarded Military Cross, judge, Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, soldier, served during World War II, life peer 1906 Event President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1904 Event 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them 1903 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie 1897 Birthday Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University 1895 Event Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 1894 Event Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play 1892 Birthday Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina' 1874 Event 1st U.S. Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons) 1865 Event Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor 1865 Event Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium) 1863 Event 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded 1845 Event Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
