2015 Event Taylor Swift receives eight awards at the Billboard Music Awards; Pharrell Williams, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, and Sam Smith were also multiple winners at the ceremony 2014 Event French author Patrick Modiano receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, winning the award over noted poet Adonis and writers Haruki Murakami, Svetlana Alexievich, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o 2014 Event At the 71st Golden Globe Awards, Best Motion Picture is awarded to '12 Years a Slave'; 'American Hustle is receives the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy award, with actress Amy Adams honored as Best Actress 2013 Event American comedian Don Rickles receives treatment for a flesh-eating disease, necrotizing fasciitis, he contracted in his leg; the 87-year old is expected to make a full recovery 2013 Event Mexican singer and songwriter Thalia receives a walk on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2013 Event The Philippines receives a $500 million emergency loan from the World Bank to help the country recover and rebuild in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan 2013 Event The UN Security Council receives alleged proof of chemical weapons use by Syrian militants from Russia 2013 Event Planet Pluto receives names for its fourth and fifth moons; the International Astronomical Union names them Kerberos and Styx 2013 Event Italy's vice-secretary of the Democratic Party , Enrico Letta, receives the mandate for form a new government from president Giorgio Napolitano 2012 Event Standard & Poor's credit rating agency receives a ruling by an Australian judge that they misled investors in their rating of two-pre-crisis issues of structured debt 2012 Event Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2012 Event In London, the 23rd James Bond film, 'Skyfall' receives its Royal premiere at the Royal Albert Hall 2012 Event John Hume, Ireland's former Social Democratic Party Leader, receives the papal knighthood at a special mass at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry 2012 Event China's President, Hu Jintao, officially receives Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who came to the country for cooperation talks and in-depth discussion 2012 Event Pope Benedict XVI's former butler receives orders from the Vatican to stand trial for his alleged involvement in leading allegations of corruption in the Holy See 2011 Event The Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou receives a no-confidence motion against him after failing to hold a referendum on a eurozone bailout 2011 Event Spain's credit receives a negative outlook from Standard &: Poor's, with their ranking reduced to AA- 2011 Event Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation 2009 Event Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces 2005 Event Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, receives 10 consecutive life sentences 1996 Event Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant 1995 Event Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant 1995 Event Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital 1994 Event South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning 1991 Event IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1991 Event Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store 1991 Event Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize 1990 Event Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game 1989 Event Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa 1989 Event Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1988 Event John Tarrant, 1st Australia born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1987 Event Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim 1986 Event President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres 1985 Event French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski 1985 Event International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize 1985 Event Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest 1985 Event Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent 1985 Event Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1982 Event Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1979 Event Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota 1979 Event Royal Air force receives 1st F-16 1979 Event Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minutes NHL hockey game 1976 Event President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order 1976 Event Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize 1975 Event Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize 1975 Event Tony Orlando and Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You" 1972 Event Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle 1971 Event West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace 1971 Event Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration 1970 Event Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma 1970 Event Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year 1968 Event E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" 1968 Event Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for 'Dock of the Bay' 1968 Event Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" 1967 Event Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes 1966 Event Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London 1962 Event John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote 1961 Event Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington 1961 Event Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize 1959 Event Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set 1958 Event Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records 1954 Event Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize 1954 Event Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt 1950 Event Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Event Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission 1948 Event San Francisco receives its 1st telecast 1944 Event Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor 1943 Event Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker 1943 Event Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma 1941 Event Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize 1940 Event British Council receives British Charter 1939 Event Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech 1938 Event Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system 1936 Event Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry 1936 Event Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act 1936 Event Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert, Dutch Nazi collaborator 1932 Event "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon 1931 Event Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor 1924 Event Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament 1924 Event Volkische Block (Nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern 1921 Event Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland 1920 Event British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru 1920 Event Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands 1920 Event South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa 1916 Event Boys Scouts of America receives congressional charter 1916 Event Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary 1915 Event Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga 1914 Event Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent 1914 Event Belgian government receives German ultimatum 1913 Event Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics 1911 Event Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize 1911 Event New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy 1910 Event Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent 1907 Event Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature 1901 Event Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US 1901 Event Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent 1899 Event Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor 1898 Event China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei 1894 Event Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto 1892 Event Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player 1889 Event Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine 1887 Event U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii 1885 Event Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle 1885 Event General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum 1884 Event General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi 1882 Event Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza 1862 Event Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1861 Event Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general 1844 Event University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana 1834 Event Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs 1817 Event Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from U.S. college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College 1799 Event Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets 1792 Event In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn 1776 Event Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College 1753 Event Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny 1697 Event Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night 1681 Event English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1678 Event Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford 1668 Event Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge 1651 Event Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va 1646 Event Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent 1621 Event Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY) 1598 Event Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments 1539 Event Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo 1519 Event Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast 1495 Event Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck
