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2004 76th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards

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

1998 70th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, Titanic wins eleven Oscars, including Best Picture, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win lead acting awards

1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards

1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas

1992 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal

1986 Shia LaBeouf, born in Los Angeles, California, voice actor, actor, comedian, appeared in Disney's 'Even Stevens' television series, film debut, 'Holes', appeared in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'

1980 Crystal Carlson, Miss Maine Teen USA 1997

1971 Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina 1997

1970 Travis Richards, born in Crystal, Minnesota, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics

1969 Tommy James and Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

1967 Crystal Carson, born in Spaulding NE, actress, Cartel, Julia-General Hospital

1965 Crystal Chappell, born in Silver Spring, Maryland, actress, Carly "Days of our Lives"

1961 Crystal Bernard, Garland, Texas, actress, Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings

1960 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies

1960 Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65

1958 Lee Crystal, rocker, Joan Jett and Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind

1956 Richard Farina, folk singer, Reflections in a Crystal Wind

1951 Crystal Gayle, born in Kentucky, country singer, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

1948 Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host

1947 Billy Crystal, born in Long Beach, New York, comedian, Soap, SNL, City Slickers

1945 Mimi Farina, rocker, Reflections in a Crystal Wind

1941 Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician, Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour

1938 Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews

1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia

1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye

1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire

1931 Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire

1928 Crystal Eastman, American Lawyer

1916 Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author, Crystal Cave

1881 Crystal Eastman, American Lawyer

1880 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist, crystal

1871 World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)

1865 Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies

1853 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York

1801 Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect, Crystal Palace


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