This Day…

1929 – 1st Academy Awards: “Wings”, Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor win.

1923 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter for “One of Ours”.

1924 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire).

1958 – “Vertigo”, American film noir psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released.

1949 – Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”.

1865 – Steamboat “SS Sultana” explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.

1896 – Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado.

1930  – “All Quiet on the Western Front” based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930).

1956 – US film actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a civil ceremony in Monaco

1865 – US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington; he dies a day later.