December 10
December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining.
Events:
- 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1950 - Ralph Bunche wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore Auditorium 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
Births:
- 1787 - Thomas Gallaudet, educator (+ 1851)
- 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist (+ 1879)
- 1815 - Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer (+ 1852)
- 1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet (+ 1886)
- 1845 - Wilhelm von Bode, art historian (+ 1929)
- 1851 - Melvil Dewey, librarian, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (+ 1931)
- 1870 - Adolf Loos, architect (+ 1933)
- 1882 - Otto Neurath, philosopher
- 1891 - Nelly Sachs, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1966 (+ 1970)
- 1903 - Una Merkel, actress (+ 1986)
- 1907 - Rumer Godden, writer (+ 1998)
- 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, composer and ornithologist (+ 1992)
- 1909 - Hermes Pan, choreographer, dancer (+ 1990)
- 1910 - John Hammond, music producer (+ 1987)
- 1911 - Chet Huntley, journalist (+ 1974)
- 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (+ 1996)
- 1921 - Christine Brückner, author (+ 1996)
- 1928 - Dan Blocker, actor (+ 1972)
- 1948 - Jessica Cleaves, musician (P Funk)
- 1952 - Susan Dey, actress
- 1954 - Florentin Smarandache, mathematician, writer and artist
- 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, actor, film director
- 1978 - Susan Finlayson, historian, botanist
- 1985 - Raven-Symone, actress
Deaths:
- 1865 - King Leopold I of Belgium
- 1896 - Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize
- 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1946 - Damon Runyon, writer
- 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, writer
- 1967 - Otis Redding, singer
- 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, actor
- 1996 - Faron Young, country music singer
- 1999 - Rick Danko, musician with The Band
- 1999 - Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia
- 2000 - Marie Windsor, actress
Holidays and Observances:
- United Nations Human Rights Day
See Also:
December 9 - December 11 - November 10 - January 10 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December