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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
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
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
1987
Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
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 (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 Rev 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
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 HR 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
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
1964
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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
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
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
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
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
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"
1941
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1940
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
1939
Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (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
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)
1930
Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
1930
Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
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
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)
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
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
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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