The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and 
took place on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The academy’s president
Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost $5 and 270 people
attended the event. The presentation ceremony lasted 15 minutes. The
Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer
Pictures Corporation which merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the
only Awards ceremony not to be broadcast either on radio or TV. The
radio broadcast was aired the following year in 1930. The first television
broadcast was made by NBC on March 19, 1953.

Janet Gaynor won the first Best Actress Academy Award
in the 1929 ceremony.

Drew Barrymore in a 1979 Pillsbury cookie dough commercial.

1984

Drew Blythe Barrymore was born in Culver City, California.

Drew Barrymore gained fame as a child actress in Steven Spielberg‘s
film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). She won a Screen Actors Guild
Award in 2010 for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens. Drew
made her directorial debut with the 2009 film Whip It! 

Drew Barrymore as Gertie in the Steven Spielberg
movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

The first telephone directories issued in the United States
were distributed to residents in New Haven, CT. It was a
single page of only fifty subscribers names.

Bell Telephone Company / Charles
Williams, Jr. "Coffin" Telephone.

Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on
" The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" on NBC-TV in
1965.

Benjamin Franklin advertised mustard for sale for
the first time in America. The advertisement was
published in the Philadelphia Chronicle.