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2009 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 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract 1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo 1997 Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker 1996 Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1995 Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics 1995 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat 1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres 1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe 1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell 1994 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" 1993 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 Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet 1993 Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith 1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor 1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison 1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million 1992 Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco" 1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set 1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts 1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz 1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" 1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky 1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow 1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle 1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" 1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" 1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle 1985 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani 1985 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" 1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell 1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield 1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 1984 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS 1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu 1983 Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht 1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1982 Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize 1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' 1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" 1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov 1980 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein 1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz 1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) 1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 1978 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon 1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" 1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King, Jr. 1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize 1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" 1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow 1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow 1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr 1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman 1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) 1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) 1975 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 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) 1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) 1973 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief 1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize 1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise 1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) 1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks 1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race 1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda 1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur 1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh 1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen 1969 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) 1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) 1967 Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) 1967 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams 1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe 1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken 1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) 1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward 1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry 1965 Beatles are awarded MBE 1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory 1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House 1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) 1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters 1960 New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada 1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) 1960 Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra 1960 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 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz 1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke 1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 1958 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 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate 1956 Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen 1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken 1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe 1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway 1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy 1954 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams 1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke 1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1953 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 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish 1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom 1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner 1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea 1950 Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams 1947 Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes 1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1946 Elfriede Jelinek, born in MŸrzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) 1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor 1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" 1942 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) 1941 George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron 1939 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland 1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth) 1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws 1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) 1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson 1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill 1936 Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled 1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) 1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) 1934 Larry Sitsky, born in Tianjin, China, pianist, Australian composer, educator, musicologist, studied with Winifred Burston, awarded Centenary Medal, 2000 1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) 1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) 1931 Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1931 Martin Boykan, composer, professor, studied at Harvard, Yale, awarded Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, studied with Edward Steuermann, Aaron Copeland 1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" 1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) 1930 Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) 1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross 1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel 1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" 1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine 1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven 1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1923 Charlton Heston, born in Illinois, American actor in film, theater, television, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) 1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein 1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson 1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson 1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers 1919 Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic 1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) 1915 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 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 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 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1904 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 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie 1897 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 Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 1894 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play 1892 Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina' 1874 1st U.S. Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons) 1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor 1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium) 1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid |
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