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Beauty


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

1998 Tony Awards, Lion King, Caberet revival, Ragtime, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane won major awards

1996 Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6

1996 Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack

1994 "Beauty and the Beast" opens at Palace Theater New York City

1994 Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant

1991 Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60

1990 Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies

1990 Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen, murdered in 1996

1988 1st Mrs. America beauty pageant

1985 Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67

1974 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday

1968 Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78

1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released

1953 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 Ron Perlman, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Quest for Fire, Beauty and the Beast

1950 Brad Dourif, West Virginia, actor, Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty

1949 Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres

1948 Ruben Blades, born in Panama, singer and actor, Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition

1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia

1944 Sam Elliott, Sacramento California, actor, Big Chill, Fatal Beauty

1941 Jennifer Warren, born in New York City, actress, Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant

1937 Ron Leibman, New York City, actor, Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty and Beast

1934 Rip Taylor, comedian, Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show

1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85

1926 Mona Freeman, born in Baltimore, actress, Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress

1917 Mile Yvette Chauvire, born in France, ballerina assoluta, Sleeping Beauty

1890 J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City, Pennsylvania, actress, Courage of Black Beauty

1888 World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)

1888 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins

1887 Edna Ferber, U.S., author, American Beauty, Cimarron

1849 Harriet Hubbard Ayers, beauty cream maufacturer and expert/columnist

1845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator, Beauty and Beast

1802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet, Heath's Book of Beauty

867 Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies


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