'This "Howl" poet's father was also a poet & the 2 would perform public readings together'
Allen Ginsberg
200
'Bruce Jenner & Ray Leonard were American Olympic champs in this red, white & blue year'
1976
200
'His 1959 film "The Golden Fish" won him an Oscar'
(Jacques) Cousteau
200
'Its 1-shekel coin features a flower taken from a Judean coin during the Persian period'
Israel
200
'A Pseudofolliculitis barbae is an "ingrown" one of these'
a hair
400
'In 1953 his Norton Lectures at Harvard were published as "i: six nonlectures"'
(E.E.) Cummings
400
'It was the year of Babe Ruth's career high in home runs'
1927
400
'In 1995 he succeeded Francois Mitterand'
Jacques Chirac
400
'In 1999 the Cook Islands issued a half dollar coin featuring this Jim Davis comic strip title character'
Garfield
400
'Adding these charged particles to the air is supposed to reduce blood pressure & relieve headaches'
negative ions
600
'She considered publishing "Sonnets from the Portuguese" as "Sonnets Translated from the Bosnian"'
Elizabeth (Barrett) Browning
600
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Indianapolis Speedway) The Noc-Out Hose Clamp Special was the winning car at Indianapolis in this year; the race was cancelled the next 4 years'
1941
600
'Much of France's 16th century Canadian claim was based on his explorations'
(Jacques) Cartier
600
'In 1999 it issued its 1-oz. silver kookaburra coin with honor marks reproducing several U.S. state quarters'
Australia
600
'Symbolized Ba, this element is put in your body, one way or another, to be seen on X-rays'
barium
800
'After his death in 1821, a fellow poet wrote that he was fragile & was "killed off by one critique"'
(John) Keats
800
'In this, his final year, Ted Williams became one of the few major leaguers to play in 4 decades'
1960
800
'He painted the death of Marat & he himself died in exile in Brussels'
Jacques-Louis David
800
'All of Ireland's coins feature this musical instrument on one side'
the harp
800
'Yes, she developed a scoring system in 1952 to aid in determining a newborn's health'
Virginia Apgar
1000
'In 1857 this "Old Ironsides" poet & others founded the Atlantic Monthly'
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1000
'Super Bowl XXXVIII was in 2004; this was the year of Super Bowl I'
1967
1000
'He composed both "The Tales of Hoffmann" & that scandalous "Cancan" music'
(Jacques) Offenbach
1000
'In 2001 Russia issued a coin with his portrait to commemorate the 40th anniversary of manned space flight'
Yuri Gagarin
1000
'Nitroglycerin is an example of this type of drug that widens blood vessels'