2000 Event 72nd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards 1998 Event Tony Awards, Lion King, Caberet revival, Ragtime, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane won major awards 1996 Death Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6 1996 Death Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack 1994 Event "Beauty and the Beast" opens at Palace Theater New York City 1994 Event Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant 1991 Death Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60 1990 Death Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies 1990 Birthday Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen, murdered in 1996 1988 Event 1st Mrs. America beauty pageant 1985 Death Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67 1979 Birthday Mena Suvari, born in Newport, Rhode Island, actress, fashion designer, movies include: 'American Beauty', 'American Pie', 'Day of the Dead' 1978 Birthday Wes Bentley, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, actor, films include 'Beloved', 'American Beauty', 'The Last Word' 1974 Death James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday 1971 Birthday Tracy Kennick, beauty pageant winner, anchor for Good Morning Southeast Texas, semifinalist for Miss USA 1996, Miss Utah 1996, Miss Utah Teen USA 1989 1968 Death Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78 1965 Birthday Debbye Turner, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, beauty queen, Miss America 1990, veterinarian, talk show host, CBS News reporter 1959 Birthday Allison Janney, born in Dayton, Ohio, actress, films include, 'American Beauty', 'Nurse Betty', known for television show 'The West Wing' 1959 Event Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released 1958 Birthday Annette Bening, born in Topeka, Kansas, actress, films include, 'American Beauty', 'Bugsy', 'The Grifters', married to actor, Warren Beatty 1958 Birthday Andie MacDowell, born in Gaffney, South Carolina, model, actress, producer, appeared in 'Green Card', 'Sex, Lies and Videotape', 'Just the Ticket', 'Beauty Shop' 1953 Birthday Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005 1950 Birthday Ron Perlman, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Quest for Fire, Beauty and the Beast 1950 Birthday Brad Dourif, West Virginia, actor, Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty 1949 Event Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres 1948 Birthday Ruben Blades, born in Panama, singer and actor, Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition 1947 Event Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia 1944 Birthday Sam Elliott, Sacramento California, actor, Big Chill, Fatal Beauty 1941 Birthday Jennifer Warren, born in New York City, actress, Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant 1937 Birthday Ron Leibman, New York City, actor, Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty and Beast 1934 Birthday Rip Taylor, comedian, Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show 1930 Death Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 1926 Birthday Mona Freeman, born in Baltimore, actress, Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress 1917 Birthday Mile Yvette Chauvire, born in France, ballerina assoluta, Sleeping Beauty 1890 Birthday J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City, Pennsylvania, actress, Courage of Black Beauty 1888 Event World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) 1888 Event 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins 1887 Birthday Edna Ferber, U.S., author, American Beauty, Cimarron 1849 Birthday Harriet Hubbard Ayers, beauty cream maufacturer and expert/columnist 1845 Birthday Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator, Beauty and Beast 1802 Birthday Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet, Heath's Book of Beauty 867 Death Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies
