December 10

Events

• 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
• 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1836 - Emory College, now Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
• 1864 - William Tecumseh Sherman reaches Savannah, Georgia, ending his "March to the Sea".
• 1869 - Wyoming grants women the right to vote
• 1898 - A treaty is signed in Paris that officially ends the Spanish-American War.
• 1901 - First Nobel Prizes awarded
• 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1941 - Japanese forces land in the Philippines, capture Guam and sink the British ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
• 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
• 1975 - Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner
• 1978 - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1983 - Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Danuta.
• 1984 - Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1986 - Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1993 - Shareware version of Doom is released
• 2002 - High Court of Australia handed down its judgement in the Internet defamation dispute in the case of Gutnick v. Dow Jones

Births

• 1787 - Thomas Gallaudet, educator (d. 1851)
• 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist (d. 1879)
• 1815 - Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer (d. 1852)
• 1822 - César Franck, composer and organist (d. 1890)
• 1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet (d. 1886)
• 1845 - Wilhelm von Bode, art historian (d. 1929)
• 1851 - Melvil Dewey, librarian, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (d. 1931)
• 1870 - Adolf Loos, architect (d. 1933)
• 1882 - Otto Neurath, philosopher (d. 1945)
• 1891 - Nelly Sachs, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1966 (d. 1970)
• 1903 - Una Merkel, actress (d. 1986)
• 1907 - Rumer Godden, writer (d. 1998)
• 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
• 1909 - Hermes Pan, choreographer, dancer (d. 1990)
• 1910 - John Hammond, music producer (d. 1987)
• 1911 - Chet Huntley, journalist (d. 1974)
• 1912 - Philip A. Hart, US senator (d. 1976)
• 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Christine Brückner, author (d. 1996)
• 1928 - Dan Blocker, actor (d. 1972)
• 1948 - Jessica Cleaves, musician (P Funk)
• 1952 - Susan Dey, actress
• 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, actor, film director
• 1978 - Susan Finlayson, historian, botanist
• 1984 - Andrés Ispani, actor
• 1985 - Raven-Symone, actress
• 2003 - Rebeca Martinez, first person to be born with two heads (d. 2004)

Deaths

• 1865 - King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1896 - Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1911 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (b. 1817)
• 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and illustrator (b. 1868)
• 1946 - Damon Runyon, writer (b. 1884)
• 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (b. 1869)
• 1967 - Otis Redding, singer (b. 1941)
• 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, actor (b. 1899)
• 1996 - Faron Young, country music singer
• 1999 - Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia (b. 1922)
• 2000 - Marie Windsor, actress
• 2001 - Ashok Kumar, actor, India

Holidays and Observances

• Sweden - Nobel Prize Ceremony, an official flag day
• United Nations - Human Rights Day

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