2005 Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, receives 10 consecutive life sentences
1996 Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
1995 Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game
1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa
1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st S Amer Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1988 John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1979 Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
1976 President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
1976 Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize
1975 Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1970 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1968 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1967 Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
1966 Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1962 John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1959 Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set
1958 Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast
1944 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor
1943 Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1941 Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1940 British Council receives British Charter
1939 Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1936 Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act
1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert, Dutch Nazi collaborator
1932 "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 Volkische Block (Nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
1914 Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1911 New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1910 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1899 Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
1898 China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885 Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
1884 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
1882 Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza
1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president
1861 Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
1817 Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from U.S. college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1753 Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny
1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY)
1598 Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments
1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
1519 Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast
1495 Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck
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