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First Academy Awards ceremony May 16, 1929
On this day in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its first awards, at a dinner party for around 250 people held in the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California.
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Detained Chinese artist allowed visit from wife
From Helena Hong, for CNN
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Shocking photo created a hero, but not to his family
(CNN)— The mob was already waiting for James Zwerg by the time the Greyhound bus eased into the station in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its final mission
Injured US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords sees husband Mark Kelly take the helm as Nasa shuttle nears retirement Endeavour has blasted off on its final space shuttle flight as the mission commander’s wounded wife, the US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd well into the thousands.Nasa is winding down its 30-year-old shuttle programme before embarking on something new. The event generated the kind of excitement seldom seen near Kennedy Space Centre on such a grand scale, despite a delay of more than two weeks because of an electrical problem.Just before the launch, commander Mark Kelly said: “It’s in the DNA of our great country to reach for the…
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Lenin Peace Prize Recipients
Seven of the Lenin Peace Prize Recipients: Pablo Picasso, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Linus Pauling, Leonid Brezhnev, Salvador Allende, Indira Gandhi An incomplete list of recipients is shown below Copyright ©2011 Soylent Communications from http://www.nndb.com/honors/283/000099983/ Lenin Peace Prize HONOR International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. Originally (1950-55) the Stalin Peace Prize, re-named as part of destalinization in 1956, and discontinued after 1990 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. 1949 Halldór Laxness 1949 Jorge Amado 1950 Pablo Picasso 1951 Frédéric Joliot 1951 Anna Seghers 1951 Hewlett Johnson 1951 Madame Sun Yat-sen ? Martin Anderson Nexo 1953 Rev. James Gareth Endicott 1953 Eliza Branco 1953 Johannes Becher 1953 Sayfuddin Kichloo…