2005 Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA
2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84
2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83
1998 Henry Hampton, documentary maker, Eyes on the Prize, dies at 48
1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84
1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina
1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1995 Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
1995 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
1995 Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
1995 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92
1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
1994 Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77
1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell
1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1993 Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith
1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor
1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1993 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78
1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1991 Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1990 U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1988 U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"
1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow
1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
1985 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell
1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
1983 Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple"
1983 Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple"
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining
1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1981 Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov
1980 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1973 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1973 US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City
1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1968 Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe
1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days)
1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird
1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
1960 H L Davis, U.S. writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64
1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent)
1960 Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist, Queen Sophia 1st prize
1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish
1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick
1954 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in MSG, New York City
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams
1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke
1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea)
1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1951 Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer
1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1950 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry
1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
1948 T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams
1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1947 Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist, Tchaikovsky Prize 1970
1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)
1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1943 Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven, Connecticut, soprano, Walter Naumberg Prize
1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1941 Natalya Bessmertnova, born in Moscow, dancer, Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970
1941 Jaime Laredo, born in Bolivia, violinist, Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959
1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1941 Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize
1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist and chimp expert, 1974 Walker Prize
1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth)
1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1982
1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1924 Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967
1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1924 Gunter Haese, German sculptor/graphic artist, Guggenheim prize 1967
1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973-77, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1973
1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
1923 Andrea Domburg, Dutch actress, Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel
1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1921 Grant Johannesen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, pianist, Ostend 1st prize 1947
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson
1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson
1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers
1918 Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize
1918 Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965
1917 "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City
1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
1917 I. M. Pei, born in Canton, China, architect, 1961 Brunner Prize
1917 Dolf Verspoor, literary/interpreter, M Nijhoff Prize 1958
1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1914 Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1913 Nigel Patrick, London England, actor and director, Sapphire, Prize of Gold
1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969
1912 U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights
1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1911 Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, /Pulitzer Prize, 1956
1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1908 Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize
1908 Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer, Stalin Prize 1946, 50
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1907 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize
1907 Theun de Vries, writer, February; PC Hooft prize 1981
1907 Mary Coyle Chase, playwright, Harvey-Pulitzer Prize
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1905 Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics
1900 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1895 Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer, Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969
1895 Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist, won 1st Nobel prize in economy in 1969
1892 Pearl Buck, prize winning novelist
1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist, Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize
1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1889 Joseph L. Hromadka, Czech theologist, Lenin prize 1957
1888 Florence Smith Price, U.S. composer, Wanamaker Prize 1932
1887 Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968
1886 Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter, Erasmus Prize 1960
1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins New York City's 24 hour race and $100 prize
1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize
1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936
1870 Ray Stannard Baker, U.S., journalist, Puliter Prize 1940
1860 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921
1858 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927
1849 1st U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
1845 Elihu Root, R, /U.S. Secretary of State, 1905-09, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1912
1841 Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927
1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907
1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England
1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
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