At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

At the 1st Academy Awards, Chaplin was given a special award " For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

At the Academy Awards gala, Chaplin was given a twelve-minute standing ovation, the longest in the Academy's history.

At that time, a friend " Swede " Hazlet was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required.

At each failure he became increasingly frustrated with the Academy for denying him the prize, and this dissatisfaction sowed the seeds of a long-standing grudge against the institution.

At the 1993 British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ) the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film was introduced.

* 1996 – At the Academy Awards ceremony, director Quincy Jones organised a tribute to the just-deceased Kelly, in which Savion Glover performed the dance to " Singin ' in the Rain ".

At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, who had examined Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his demise.

* 1802 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.

At the beginning of July 1863, Booth finished the acting season at Cleveland's Academy of Music, as the Battle of Gettysburg raged in Pennsylvania.

At the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony, Brando refused to accept the Oscar for his performance in The Godfather.

At the Academy, he was moved by the Neo-classical art of the Renaissance and paid close attention to the works of Michelangelo and Raphael.

At the 82nd Academy Awards Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes, along with other actors who had worked with Hughes, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.

At the 33rd Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, losing to Ernest Gold's score for Exodus.

At the age of 17, with the help of his father, Grant was nominated by Congressman Thomas L. Hamer for a position at the United States Military Academy ( USMA ) at West Point, New York.

At first Hertz thought the electrical disturbances would be too turbulent and irregular to be of any further use, but when he had discovered the existence of a neutral point in the middle of a side-conductor, and therefore of a clear and orderly phenomenon, he felt convinced that the problem of the Berlin Academy was now capable of solution.

** At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Ben-Hur wins a record number of Oscars, including Best Picture.

* April 5 – At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

* July 4 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.

At the age of 19, soon after his graduation for college, Gibbs was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a scholarly institution composed primarily of members of the Yale faculty.

At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

At the 29th Golden Globe Awards, Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon received a nomination for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy film, respectively.

At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for " Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie " for his role in Twelve Angry Men losing to Ving Rhames.

* 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

At the 2012 Golden Globe Awards Kelsey Grammer won the award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his role on Boss.

At the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007 the production won both the Best Actor award for Stewart, and the Best Director award for Goold.

At the 2005 NME Awards, New Order and Joy Division received the award for " Godlike Geniuses " ( for lifetime achievement ).

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

At the March 1969 Grammy Awards, " Mrs. Robinson " was named Record of the Year, while Simon was also honored with the Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.

At the Grammy Awards of 1976, the Judy Collins performance of the song was named " Song of the Year ".

At the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards, Kavner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for voicing Marge in the season three episode " I Married Marge ".

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

At best this kind of transition had previously been dealt with by having the directions of travel of the actor in the two shots correspond on the screen, but in a film such as The Bank Burglar's Fate ( Jack Adolfi, 1914 ), one can see shot transitions in which a cut is made from an actor just leaving the frame, to a shot of him well inside the frame in an adjoining location, which have the positions and directions so well chosen that to the casual eye his movement appears quite continuous, and the real space and time ellipsis between the shots is concealed.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham took his first Formula One world championship win since 1960 and became the first man to win such a race in a car of his own construction.

At the end of the song " Happy Jack ", Townshend can be heard saying " I saw ya!

At Commodore, Peddle convinced the owner, Jack Tramiel, that calculators were a dead end, and that home computers would soon be huge.

At the same meeting, Jack Dennis said Ben Gurley's design for the PDP-1 was influenced by his work on the TX-0 display.

At one point, Jack summons all of his hunters to hunt down a wild pig, drawing away those assigned to maintain the signal fire.

At the conclusion of each episode, Jack Lord narrated a teaser for the next episode, often emphasizing the " guest villain ", especially if the villain is a recurring character, such as that played by actor Hume Cronyn.

At Margaret's baptism in 1925, Jack Kelly's mother, Mary Costello Kelly, expressed her disappointment that the baby was not named Grace in memory of her last daughter, who had died young.

At 17, Rogers married Jack Culpepper, a singer / dancer / comedian / recording artist of the day who worked under the name Jack Pepper ( according to Ginger's autobiography, she knew Culpepper when she was a child, as her cousin's boyfriend ).

At the age of about 40, she reaches the zenith of her career when she is employed by the eminent British entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman

At the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, he won the award for " Best Villain " for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd and " Best Comedic Performance " for Jack Sparrow.

At season's end, Coach Tortorella was recognized for his efforts by being named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award, losing out to Jacques Lemaire of Minnesota.

At the same time Bob Denard commanded the French speaking " 6 Commando ", " Black Jack " Schramme commanded " 10 Commando " and William " Rip " Robertson commanded a company of anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

At the same time, Hook attempts to brainwash Peter's children to his side by saying their father never loved them, and he is successful with Peter's son, Jack, who Peter already had a strained relationship with, and Jack soon sees Hook as a father figure.

At his peak, Wolfman Jack was heard on more than 2, 000 radio stations in fifty-three countries.

At the time, DC Comics consisted of two discrete sub-companies, Max Gaines ' All-American Publications and Harry Donenfeld & Jack Liebowitz's National Periodical Publications.

At an economic crisis conference in Canberra in 1931, Jack Lang announced his own programme for economic recovery.

At the AFI, he established contacts with people such as Jack Nicholson, longtime collaborator Jack Fisk, and agent Mike Medavoy, who procured for Malick freelance work revising scripts.

At a time when most white fighters adhered to the so-called " color-line ", refusing to fight African Americans, Burns had half a dozen contests with black boxers prior to his clash with the legendary Jack Johnson.