1929 - the first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The movie "Wings" won "best production" while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named best actor and best actress.
1770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis the 16th of France, who was 15.
1866 - Congress authorized minting of the five-cent piece.
1868 - the Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of eleven articles of impeachment against him.
1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.
1946 - the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opened on Broadway.
1948 - the body of CBS News correspondent George Polk was found in Solonica Harbor in Greece, several days after he'd left his hotel for an interview with the leader of a Communist militia.
1960 - a Big Four summit conference in Paris collapsed on its opening day as the Soviet Union leveled spy charges against the US in the wake of the U-2 incident.
1965 - the musical play "The Roar of the Greasepaint -- the Smell of the Crowd" opened on Broadway.
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1977 - five people were killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan, toppled over, sending a huge rotor blade flying.
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