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 1996 Event Nebraska and Penn State are 5th and 6th major colleges to win 700 1993 Event Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3 1991 Birthday Dylan Francis Penn, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright 1991 Event "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City 1990 Event Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17 1989 Event Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so 1989 Death Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist 1988 Event LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 1988 Event Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn 1987 Event Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ 1985 Event Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday 1985 Event Tornados in Penn, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000 1984 Event Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1983 Event Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title 1982 Event Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) 1979 Event Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year 1975 Event 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6 1975 Birthday Mandy Leigh, Greensburg Penn, actress, Bloodscent 1975 Event Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports 1974 Event Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet 1973 Event 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB) 1973 Birthday Wolf Wigo, Abington Penn, water polo driver 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe, 1997 1972 Event 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0 1972 Birthday Cari Shayne, Penn, actress, Karen Cates-General Hospital 1972 Birthday Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing 1996 Olympics 1972 Birthday Salima Davidson, Pittsburgh Penn, volleyball setter 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday Chris Young, Penn, actor, Bryce Lynch-Max Headroom, Great Outdoors 1971 Birthday Chris Penn, NFL wide receiver, Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Bears 1970 Birthday Ghetty Chasun, Erie Penn, actress, Red Lips 1969 Birthday Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Allentown Penn, wife of John Cougar 1968 Birthday Steven Penn, Brevard, North Carolina, team handball center back 1996 Olympics 1968 Event Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central 1967 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1966 Birthday Robin Wright Penn, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, Santa Barbara, Princess Bride 1962 Birthday Ria Coyne, Scranton Penn, comedienne, Betsy-Batman Forever 1960 Birthday Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1957 Event 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) 1956 Event KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland 1955 Death O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies 1955 Birthday Penn Jillette, born in Massachusetts, magician, Penn and Teller-Penn and Teller are Dead 1947 Birthday Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer, Walk on Faith 1947 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1947 Birthday Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1946 Birthday Terry J Hart, Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut, STS-41C 1946 Birthday Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston 1944 Birthday Florence LaRue Gordon, Penn, rocker, 5th Dimension-One Less Bell 1943 Birthday Lou Christie, Lugee Sacco, Penn, vocalist, Lightning Striking Again 1943 Birthday Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears-Spinning Wheel 1943 Birthday William Albert Penn, composer 1941 Birthday Dan Penn, U.S. songwriter/producer/gospel singer, Out in Left Field 1941 Birthday Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass, Bronx Botanical Gardens 1938 Event Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system 1936 Birthday James De Preist, Philadelphia Penn, conductor, Mitropolos 1964 1935 Event WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) 1934 Event KYW-AM in Chicago, Illinois moves to Philadelphia Penn 1934 Event 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn) 1932 Birthday Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler 1956 Olympics bronze 1931 Birthday Carroll Baker, Penn, actress, Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow 1930 Birthday Theodore C. Freeman, Haverford Penn, Captain USAF/astronaut 1927 Event Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die 1927 Birthday Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer, Colonel Jonathan the Saint 1927 Birthday Michael Constantine, Penn, actor, Room 222, Don't Drink the Water 1926 Birthday Anne Jackson, Penn, actress, Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine 1926 Birthday David Eugene Tudor, Philadelphia Penn, composer 1925 Birthday Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker, Philadelphia 1924 Birthday Joe Paterno, football coach, Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986 1922 Birthday Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll" 1922 Birthday Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde 1922 Birthday Ray Anthony, Penn, orchestra leader, Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme 1921 Birthday William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor, Fisher King, Waterworld 1921 Event Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee 1919 Birthday Hershy Kay, Philadelphia Penn, composer/arranger, Olympic Hymn 1919 Birthday Blanche Thebom, Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano, Amneris-Aida 1918 Death George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies 1918 Birthday Eugene List, Philadelphia Penn, pianist and professor, Eastman School of Music 1917 Birthday Irving Penn, American Photographer 1910 Event Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn 1910 Birthday Alex North, Chester Penn, composer, Spartacus, Viva Zapata 1910 Event New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station 1907 Event 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn 1905 Birthday Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men 1905 Birthday John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist, Appointment at Samarra 1902 Event Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn 1899 Death W Penn Symons, British General-Major, dies in battle 1898 Birthday Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author, Flowering of New England 1897 Event 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10 1897 Event Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game 1895 Birthday Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist, Extra-Sensory Perception 1895 Event 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) 1894 Event 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn 1893 Event Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" 1892 Event Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die 1892 Event 1st cattle tuberculosis test in U.S. made, Villa Nova, Penn 1892 Event 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn 1888 Birthday Clinton Golden, Penn, founder, United Steelworkers of America 1887 Birthday John Hamilton, Penn, actor, Perry White-Superman 1879 Birthday Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr., crystallized vitamin A 1876 Event 1st crematorium in U.S. begins operation, Washington, Penn 1874 Birthday Gertrude Stein, Penn, author, Autobiography of Alice B Toklas 1859 Event 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake 1857 Event Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn 1854 Event Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts 1854 Event Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) 1850 Event Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1849 Birthday Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation 1842 Event 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn 1839 Event Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn 1831 Event 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn 1819 Birthday Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter 1817 Event 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn 1788 Death John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 47 1777 Event Washington begins assault on Germantown, Penn 1774 Event Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence 1772 Event 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion 1768 Event 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) 1741 Birthday John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence 1718 Death William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer 'No cross, no crown', dies 1701 Event William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges 1700 Event William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation 1683 Event William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken" 1682 Event William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania 1682 Event William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York 1682 Event William Penn left England to sail to New World 1682 Event Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn 1682 Event William Penn founds Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1681 Event English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1681 Event King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania 1644 Birthday William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
