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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
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 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 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, Captain USAF/astronaut 1927 Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die 1927 Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer, Colonel Jonathan the Saint 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, Philadelphia 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, orchestra 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 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 and professor, 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 General-Major, 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 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 Declaration of Independence, dies at 47 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, Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 1644 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania |
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