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200173rd Academy Awards - "Gladiator", Russell Crowe & Julia Roberts win
1955United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1979Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1776Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1960DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1958Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
2013Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking
1753Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1961Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1995Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1922Eileen Ford, Manhattan, New York, American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)
1965Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelsonville Ohio, American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City)
1911Jack Ruby, Chicago Illinois, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
1934Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, US feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
1985Professional boxer George Foreman (35) weds Mary Martelly
2003Actress-model Liv Tyler (25) weds rock band vocalist Royston Langdon (30) at a private villa in St James, Barbados
1918Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1914Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83
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