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| 1905 | Birth |  |
| 24th Dec Houston Birth of Howard Hughes |
| 1925 | Marriage | |
| 1st June Howard Hughes marries Ella Rice |
| 1928 | Academy Award | |
| Winner of the Academy Award for, "Two Arabian Nights" |
| 1928 | Film Hughes | |
| Writes & directs "Hell's Angels", the most expensive movie of its time at a cost of $3.8 million |
| 1932 | Film Hughes | |
| Writes & directs "Scarface", censored until Hughes sued to allow its release |
| 1932 | Hughes Aircraft Company | |
| 24th Dec Houston Hughes forms the Hughes Aircraft Company division of Hughes Tools |
| 1934 | All America Air Meet | |
| Miami Winner of the All-America Air Meet |
| 1935 | World Record | |
| 13th Sep Sets a new speed record, taking a plane to 352 mph |
| 1938 | World Record | |
| Cuts Lindbergh's New York to Paris record in half, & finishes the world trip in 3 days 19 hrs |
| 1941 | Film Hughes | |
| Writes & directs "The Outlaw", controversial for its sexually explicit content |
| 1947 | Spruce Goose | |
| 2nd Nov Flies "The Spruce Bruce", a flying boat |
| 1948 | Purchase RKO | |
| Hughes owns the RKO movie studio from 1948 to 1955 |
| 1953 | Hughes Medical Institute | |
| Delware Founds the Hughes Medical Institute, makes his billion-dollar-a-year weapons factory tax-exempt |
| 1957 | Marriage | |
| 1st June Howard Hughes marries Jean Peters |
| 1966 | Sale TWA | |
| Hughes sells his TWA stock for $546 million when the company faced numerous lawsuits |
| 1969 | Hughes Medical Institute | |
| Delware Founds the Hughes Medical Institute, makes his billion-dollar-a-year weapons factory tax-exempt |
| 1970 | Purchase Air West | |
| Hughes purchases Air West |
| 1976 | Death | |
| 5th April Houston Death of Howard Hughes , en route by private jet to a hospital in Houston |
| 1976 | Estate Hughes | |
| 5th April Leaves an estate estimated at $2 billion |
