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2009 Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces
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 South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1988 John Tarrant, 1st Australia 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 Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest 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 minutes in penalties in a 60 minutes 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 Shostakovich 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 U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii 1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle 1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General 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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