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Events from History on December 10

xxxx : Zaarias becomes Pope
1294 : Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 : League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 : Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 : France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 : Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1672 : NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
1688 : King James II flees London
1690 : Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
1799 : Metric system established in France
1810 : Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial
1810 : boxing championship (40 rounds)
1816 : Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 : Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1831 : "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1864 : General Shermans armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1869 : Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1882 : John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres
1887 : Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
1896 : Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris
1898 : Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
1899 : -15] British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
1899 : Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
1899 : Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang," premieres in Berlin
1901 : 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Fr‚d‚ric Passy)
1903 : Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1904 : King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
1906 : Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1907 : Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1910 : JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 : Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 : Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 : Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 : French government returns to Paris
1915 : 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1915 : Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
1918 : John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919 : NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1919 : NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of
1919 : Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
1919 : overstepping his duties
1922 : Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
1923 : Polish govt of Grabski, forms
1924 : Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each
1924 : Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1924 : league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1925 : George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
1926 : 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1926 : 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 : Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1931 : Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 : Manuel Aza¤a becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
1932 : King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1934 : Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1934 : Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
1935 : A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 : White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
1936 : England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 : King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
1936 : Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1938 : Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 : KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1940 : British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 : British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 : Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 : Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 : Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942 : North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim
1943 : British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 : 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 : German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 : Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 : USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 : UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 : Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1952 : Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 : WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 : Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1953 : "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs
1953 : KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 : WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
1954 : Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 : Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1956 : Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1958 : 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 : U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 : Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1961 : Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
1961 : US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1961 : USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1962 : Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 : 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 : Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 : Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1965 : "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1965 : Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
1966 : Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 : Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 : Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 : North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
1971 : West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 : William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1972 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 : 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 : European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 : Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 : Space probe Helios 1 launched
1975 : Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 : Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
1976 : Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 : Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 : "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1978 : In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 : Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
1979 : Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 : Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 : -13] El Salvador army kills 900
1981 : Jules Feiffer's "Grownups," premieres in NYC
1982 : Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1982 : Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1983 : Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 : Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1984 : 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1984 : South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 : WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1985 : Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 : Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 : Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 : France performs nuclear test
1986 : Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1987 : "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
1989 : President Gustav Hus k of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1990 : Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 : Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 : Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1991 : "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1991 : Howard Spira sentenced to 2« years in prison for trying to extort
1991 : IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 : Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
1991 : money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
1992 : "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs
1992 : NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
1992 : Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
1993 : Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1994 : 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 : European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 : Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 : Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting
1995 : Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1995 : Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 : Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617

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