2015 Event Taylor Swift receives eight awards at the Billboard Music Awards; Pharrell Williams, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, and Sam Smith were also multiple winners at the ceremony 2013 Event In the U.S., two winners are believed to have won the Mega Millions lottery; they will share a jackpot of $636 million 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics include theoretical physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine include German scientist Thomas C. Sudhof and American scientists Randy Schekman and James Rothman 2013 Event Anchorage, Alaska begins the 1,000 mile, 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race; winners receive a new truck and $50,400 in prize money 2013 Event At the Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, winners include Fun for the song 'We Are Young', Gotye featuring Kimbra for the record for 'Somebody That I Used To Know", and Mumford & Sons for the album 'Babel' 2012 Event Adele, One Direction, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran are among the winners at the 2012 BRIT Awards for British popular music 1994 Event Nelson Mandela and his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa 1991 Event Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy 1989 Event 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners 1985 Event Laffit Pincay, Jr. is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita 1978 Event Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize 1973 Event Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners 1956 Event Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track 1953 Event Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year 1952 Event Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners 1949 Event Philadelphia fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners 1918 Event Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers 1884 Event Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion 1859 Birthday Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners