1998 Event 70th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, Titanic wins eleven Oscars, including Best Picture, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win lead acting awards 1996 Death Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87 1995 Death Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81 1995 Death Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89 1994 Event Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car 1989 Event William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London 1982 Death Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies 1982 Death Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at 87 1973 Birthday Tina Nicholson, WNBA guard for the Cleveland Rockers 1973 Death Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80 1961 Birthday Andrew Nicholson, UK, New Zealand equestrian 3 day event 1996 Olympics 1957 Birthday Nicholson Baker, American Novelist 1951 Event S. B. Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter 1949 Death William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies 1947 Death Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 1945 Birthday James Nicholson, British MEP 1944 Event Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader 1943 Birthday Jim Saxton, born in Nicholson, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-New Jersey 1984 - 2009 1937 Birthday Jack Nicholson, born in New Jersey, actor, One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining 1930 Event 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot 1925 Birthday Robin Nicholson, metallurgist 1924 Birthday Margaret Beda Nicholson, author, No Medals for the Major 1914 Birthday Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer 1908 Birthday Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist 1905 Birthday Richard Nicholson, musician 1896 Death E J Nicholson, writer, dies 1894 Birthday Ben Nicholson, English painter and sculptor, Circle 1892 Birthday Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress, Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow 1875 Birthday Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer