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2013 Event - In Los Angeles, California, the 85th Academy Awards is held; 'Argo' wins best picture, Ang Lee wins for best director, Daniel Day-Lewis wins for best actor, and Jennifer Lawrence wins for best actress

2013 Event - NASA scientists achieve a first in laser communication when they successfully beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon

2012 Event - A biblical picture of Samson and a Hebrew inscription is discovered in an ancient synagogue in the Galilee region of northern Israel

2012 Event - Roy Lichtenstein's picture, 'Sleeping Girl', sells at auction for $44.9 million, a new record for Lichtenstein's artwork

2012 Event - As a cost-saving measure during bankcruptcy, Eastman Kodak Co. reports they will no longer make digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames

2007 Event - 'The Departed' wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards

2004 Event - 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

2003 Event - 75th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Chicago wins Best Picture, Adrian Brody and Nicole Kidman win lead acting awards

2002 Event - 74th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards

2001 Event - 73rd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Gladiator wins Best Picture, Russell Crowe and Julia Roberts win lead acting awards

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

2000 Death - Charles Gray, actor, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies at 71

1999 Event - 71st Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture, Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow win lead acting awards

1998 Death - Hurd Hatfield, actor, Picture of Dorian Gray, dies at 80

1998 Death - Persis Khambatta, actress, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, dies at 47

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

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

1996 Death - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80

1994 Event - "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq New York City for 12 per

1992 Event - Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL

1992 Event - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint

1990 Event - Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating

1976 Event - 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany

1975 Event - Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen

1973 Event - 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)

1973 Event - "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London

1968 Event - Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)

1968 Event - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1968 Event - Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

1967 Event - Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's" is photographed

1965 Birthday - Illeana Douglas, born in Massachusetts, actress, Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks

1951 Death - Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54

1951 Event - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated

1950 Birthday - Cybill Shepherd, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Moonlighting, Last Picture Show

1944 Birthday - Helmut Berger, actor, Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray

1941 Birthday - Barbara Barendrecht, BHM Wurfbain, actress, Dirty Picture

1939 Birthday - Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show

1936 Event - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce

1929 Event - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City)

1929 Event - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"

1928 Event - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York)

1927 Event - "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens

1927 Event - Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1927 Event - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms

1926 Birthday - Cloris Leachman, born in Des Moines, Iowa, actress, Last Picture Show, Phyllis

1925 Event - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island

1922 Birthday - Alan Scott, Haddonfield, New Jersey, TV host/songwriter, Spin the Picture

1921 Birthday - Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

1916 Birthday - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer

1914 Event - Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed

1906 Birthday - Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man

1902 Event - 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles

1895 Event - Moving picture projector patented

1894 Event - Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing

1893 Event - 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued

1891 Event - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1891 Event - 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs

1889 Event - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture

1885 Event - Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film

1878 Event - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1870 Event - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

1869 Event - O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector

1869 Event - Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers

1864 Birthday - Louis Lumiere, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895

1861 Event - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale

1854 Birthday - Oscar Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, 'Picture of Dorian Gray'

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