The Pulitzer Prizes are American awards for achievement in journalism, literature and musical composition, administered by Columbia University in New York. They were established in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian-born newspaper publisher who died in 1911 and who left money to Columbia, partly to create a school of journalism. The first prizes were awarded in June 1917. The prizes were originally given in a handful of categories, and the list has since grown to include drama, poetry, history, biography, photography, and many types of reporting, with a prize for music added in 1943. Winners are chosen by juries of specialists and a board, and a Pulitzer is widely regarded as one of the highest honours in American journalism and letters.
Before and after
- 26 April 1917Birth of I. M. Pei
- 30 April 1917Rise of American Friends Service Committee
- 13 May 1917Our Lady of Fátima
- 29 May 1917Birth of John F. Kennedy
- 4 June 1917Pulitzer Prize
- from 7 June 1917 to 14 June 1917Battle of Messines
- 7 June 1917Founding of Lions Clubs International
- 17 July 1917Rise of House of Windsor
- from 1 September 1917 to 25 October 1917Russian Republic
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- from February 1919 to March 1921Polish–Soviet War
- 24 July 1923Treaty of Lausanne
- 30 September 1938Munich agreement
- from 7 December 1941 to 2 September 1945Pacific War
- from 6 June 1944 to 29 August 1944Normandy landings
The era
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