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 2000 Event 72nd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards 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 1992 Event Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas 1992 Event 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal 1986 Birthday Shia LaBeouf, born in Los Angeles, California, voice actor, actor, comedian, appeared in Disney's 'Even Stevens' television series, film debut, 'Holes', appeared in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' 1980 Birthday Crystal Carlson, Miss Maine Teen USA 1997 1971 Birthday Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina 1997 1970 Birthday Travis Richards, born in Crystal, Minnesota, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics 1969 Event Tommy James and Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion" 1967 Birthday Crystal Carson, born in Spaulding NE, actress, Cartel, Julia-General Hospital 1965 Birthday Crystal Chappell, born in Silver Spring, Maryland, actress, Carly "Days of our Lives" 1961 Birthday Crystal Bernard, Garland, Texas, actress, Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings 1960 Death Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies 1960 Death Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65 1958 Birthday Lee Crystal, rocker, Joan Jett and Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind 1956 Birthday Richard Farina, folk singer, Reflections in a Crystal Wind 1951 Birthday Crystal Gayle, born in Kentucky, country singer, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue 1948 Birthday Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host 1947 Birthday Billy Crystal, born in Long Beach, New York, comedian, Soap, SNL, City Slickers 1945 Birthday Mimi Farina, rocker, Reflections in a Crystal Wind 1941 Birthday Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician, Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour 1938 Event Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews 1938 Event 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia 1937 Event Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye 1936 Event London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire 1931 Event Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire 1928 Death Crystal Eastman, American Lawyer 1916 Birthday Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author, Crystal Cave 1881 Birthday Crystal Eastman, American Lawyer 1880 Birthday Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist, crystal 1871 Event World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London) 1865 Death Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies 1853 Event 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York 1801 Birthday Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect, Crystal Palace
