2013 Event The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award is established by Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalize Yuri Milner; the prize rewards excellence in life sciences, with 11 awards and $3 million in prizes 2012 Event Women-only literary prizes are launched by Canada and Australia; the prize, formerly known as the Orange continues its search for a sponsor 1996 Death Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1967 Event Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes 1947 Event Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes 1931 Death Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1903 Event Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes 1901 Event 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) 1833 Birthday Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes