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
1996 Nebraska and Penn State are 5th and 6th major colleges to win 700
1993 Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
1991 Dylan Francis Penn, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright
1991 "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City
1990 Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
1989 Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1989 Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist
1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1985 Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000
1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate
1983 Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1979 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1979 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts,
1975 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6
1975 Mandy Leigh, Greensburg Penn, actress, Bloodscent
1975 Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1974 Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet
1973 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1973 Wolf Wigo, Abington Penn, water polo driver 1996 Olympics
1973 Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe, 1997
1972 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0
1972 Cari Shayne, Penn, actress, Karen Cates-General Hospital
1972 Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing 1996 Olympics
1972 Salima Davidson, Pittsburgh Penn, volleyball setter 1996 Olympics
1971 Chris Young, Penn, actor, Bryce Lynch-Max Headroom, Great Outdoors
1971 Chris Penn, NFL wide receiver, Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Bears
1970 Ghetty Chasun, Erie Penn, actress, Red Lips
1969 Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Allentown Penn, wife of John Cougar
1968 Steven Penn, Brevard, North Carolina, team handball center back 1996 Olympics
1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central
1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
1966 Robin Wright Penn, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, Santa Barbara, Princess Bride
1962 Ria Coyne, Scranton Penn, comedienne, Betsy-Batman Forever
1960 Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1957 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
1955 O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies
1955 Penn Jillette, born in Massachusetts, magician, Penn and Teller-Penn and Teller are Dead
1951 Beth Anders, Norristown Penn, field hockey sweeper, Oly-bronze-1984
1948 Daryl Hall, rocker/songwriter, Hall and Oates-Sara Smile
1947 Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer, Walk on Faith
1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1947 Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1946 Terry J Hart, Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut, STS 41C
1946 Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston
1944 Florence LaRue Gordon, Penn, rocker, 5th Dimension-One Less Bell
1943 Lou Christie, [Lugee Sacco], Penn, vocalist, Lightning Striking Again
1943 Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears-Spinning Wheel
1943 William Albert Penn, composer
1941 Dan Penn, U.S. songwriter/producer/gospel singer, Out in Left Field
1941 Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass, Bronx Botanical Gardens
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1936 James De Preist, Philadelphia Penn, conductor, Mitropolos 1964
1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
1934 KYW-AM in Chicago, Illinois moves to Philadelphia Penn
1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1932 Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler 1956 Olympics bronze
1931 Carroll Baker, Penn, actress, Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow
1930 Theodore C. Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
1927 Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die
1927 Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer, Colonel Jonathan the Saint
1927 George Blanda, NFL kicker/quarterback, Bears, Oilers, Raiders
1927 Michael Constantine, Penn, actor, Room 222, Don't Drink the Water
1926 Anne Jackson, Penn, actress, Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine
1926 David Eugene Tudor, Philadelphia Penn, composer
1925 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker, Phila
1924 Joe Paterno, football coach, Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986
1922 Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
1922 Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde
1922 Ray Anthony, Penn, orch leader, Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme
1921 William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor, Fisher King, Waterworld
1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1921 Leo Smit, Philadelphia Penn, pianist/composer
1919 Hershy Kay, Philadelphia Penn, composer/arranger, Olympic Hymn
1919 Blanche Thebom, Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano, Amneris-Aida
1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1918 Eugene List, Philadelphia Penn, pianist/prof, Eastman School of Music
1917 Irving Penn, American Photographer
1910 Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1910 Alex North, Chester Penn, composer, Spartacus, Viva Zapata
1910 New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station
1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
1905 Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men
1905 John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist, Appointment at Samarra
1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn
1899 W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
1898 Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author, Flowering of New England
1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
1897 Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1895 Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist, Extra-Sensory Perception
1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1893 Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1892 Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in U.S. made, Villa Nova, Penn
1892 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1888 Clinton Golden, Penn, founder, United Steelworkers of America
1887 John Hamilton, Penn, actor, Perry White-Superman
1879 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr., crystallized vitamin A
1876 1st crematorium in U.S. begins operation, Washington, Penn
1874 Gertrude Stein, Penn, author, Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
1854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts
1854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1849 Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation
1842 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1831 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1819 Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter
1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1788 John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
1777 Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn)
1777 Washington begins assault on Germantown, Penn
1774 Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence
1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
1741 John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence
1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer (No cross, no crown), dies
1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1682 William Penn left England to sail to New World
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1644 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of PA
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