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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

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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