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Today in History ~ December 10
United Nations Human Rights Day
Events1520 - Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant or face excommunication.
1672 - Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
1688 - King James II flees London as "Glorious Revolution" replaces him with King William (of Orange) and Queen Mary
1799 - Metric system established in France
1817 - Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state.
1845 - English inventor R.W. Thompson received a British patent for his new carriage wheels, the world's first pneumatic tires.
1845 - President James Polk makes Mexico an offer of $5 million for New Mexico and $25 million for California
1864 - General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1869 - Women suffrage granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1898, Spain signed a treaty in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War. United States acquires Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. [H]
1901 - The Nobel prizes were first awarded in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden. [H]
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1926 - Part 2 of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 - The Grand Ole Opry made its first radio broadcast from Nashville.
1931 - Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. His brother succeeded to the throne as King George VI.
1941 - British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore, Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines and overrun Guam. [H]
1948 - The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1950 - Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.
1970 - The defense opens its case in the murder trial of Lt. William Calley
1971 - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1974 - Representative Wilbur D. Mills, a Democrat from Arkansas, resigns as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the aftermath of the first truly public sex scandal in American politics.
1977 - Soviets arrest dissidents on United Nations Human Rights Day
1984 - The National Science Foundation reported the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system, orbiting a star 21 million light years from Earth.
1990 - The communists won a major victory in the first post-war multi-party elections in the Yugoslavian republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
1991 - William Kennedy Smith, accused of raping Patricia Bowman, proclaimed his innocence during his trial in West Palm Beach, Fla.
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York law that allowed a criminal's profits for selling his story to be seized and given to his victims.
1991 - TV commentator Patrick Buchanan announced a bid to challenge President Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.
1992, Sen. Packwood, R-Ore., apologized to the women who had accused him of sexual harassment and promised he would not do it again.
1996 - On International Human Rights Day, President Clinton urged the Senate to embrace a 17-year-old treaty barring abuses against women.
1996 - Roman Catholic Bishop Filipe Ximenes Belo and exiled activist Jose Ramos Horta, opponents of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
1997 - The Swiss high court ruled that $100 million of the money that had been salted away in banks by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos would be returned to the Philippine government.
2000 - In Washington, lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush filed briefs outlining their cases to be argued the next day before the U.S. Supreme Court.
2000 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak submitted his resignation, starting the countdown toward a special election.
Birthdays Today
1787 - Francis Gallaudet, founder of the first free school for the deaf.
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
1813 - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
1830 - Emily Dickinson (poet: Because I Could Not Stop for Death)
1851 - Melville Louis Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1883 - Andrej J Vyshinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1906 - Harold Adamson (lyricist: Time on My Hands, Daybreak)
1910 - Dennis Morgan (singer; actor: 21 Beacon Street)
1911 - TV newscaster Chet Huntley
1913 - Morton Gould (composer: Fall River Legend, Billion Dollar Baby)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour (Kaumeyer) (actress: Road to Singapore and other 'Road' movies with Bob Hope)
1924 - Ken Albers (bass singer: group: The Four Freshmen)
1941 - Tommy Kirk (actor: Bikini Beach)
1944 - Steve Renko (baseball)
1944 - Tisha (Patricia) Sterling (actress)
1946 - Gloria Loring (Goff) (actress: Days of Our Lives; singer: Friends & Lovers [w/ Carl Anderson])
1947 - Bob Birdsell (hockey)
1948 - Charlie Ford (football)
1950 - Lloyd Neal (basketball)
1952 - Susan Dey (actress: The Partridge Family, L.A. Law)
1953 - Dave Tipton (football)
1955 - Barbara Curtis (Dowdell)
Famous deaths
0969 - Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
1830 - Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies
1896 - Alfred Nobel, , dies at 63 [H]
1909 - Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
1946 - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66
1967 - Singer Otis Redding died in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.
1990 - Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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