2014 Event A Van Gogh painting, 'Still Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies', sells for $61.8 million, exceeding its estimated worth of $50 million; the artist painted the work at his doctor's home shortly before his death 2012 Event In Oklahoma, airport workers discover a painted golden object with a hole in the bottom in the luggage of musician Wayne Coyne; they mistake the object for a live grenade and shut down the Will Rogers World Airport 1992 Event Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow and blue 1968 Event John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce 1967 Event John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce 1965 Event At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die 1933 Birthday Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch choreographer/ballet dancer, Painted Birds 1933 Birthday Jerzy Kosinski, novelist, Painted Bird, Being There 1923 Birthday Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York City, Pop art painter, painted comic book panels 1908 Birthday Helen Twelvetrees, actress, State's Attorney, Painted Desert 1908 Birthday Paul Hardy, Belgian writer, Best of Painted Furniture 1904 Birthday W. Sterling Cole, born in Painted Post, New York, Representative-R-New York 1935 - 1957 1892 Death John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies 1823 Death Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism dies 1815 Birthday John Banvard, New York City, painted worlds largest painting, 3 mile canvas 1791 Birthday Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures 1758 Birthday Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, born in France, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism 1755 Birthday Gilbert Stuart, U.S., portrait painter, painted Washington
