What Happened On December 10

What Happened On Dec 10 Events

1817 Dec 10 Mississippi is the 20th State Admitted to the Union
The Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina. It was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the...
1869 Dec 10 John Campbell Approves The First Law Granting Women The Right To Vote
On December 10, 1869, John Campbell, Governor of the Wyoming Territory, approved the first law in U.S. history explicitly granting women the right to vote. Commemorated in later years as ...
1880 Dec 10 Naval Steam Colliery Disaster
The explosion occurred at 1.30 am, when one hundred and seven men and boys were at work below ground and claimed one hundred and one lives. Immediately after the explosion people started ...
1898 Dec 10 Treaty of Paris is Signed, Ending the Spanish-American War
American and Spanish delegates met in Paris on October 1, 1898 to produce a treaty that would bring an end to the war after six months of hostilities. The American commission consisted of...
1906 Dec 10 Theodore Roosevelt Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
In June, 1905, President Roosevelt offered his good offices as mediator between Russia and Japan, asking the belligerents to nominate plenipotentiaries to negotiate on the conditions of p...
1917 Dec 10 Panama Declares War on Austria-Hungary
The Central American and Caribbean republics were officially pro-Ally. Of course Panama and Cuba were treaty protectorates, and Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua were de facto p...
1937 Dec 10 Castlecary Rail Accident
On December 10, disaster struck the railway station at Castlecary, between Falkirk and Glasgow. Heavy snow that day had led to big delays, and by late afternoon showers of large, thick, s...
1937 Dec 10 General Matsui Iwane Issues Order to Japanese Army to Take Nanking by Force
The Japanese awaited an answer to their demand for surrender. When no Chinese envoy had arrived by 1:00 p.m. on December 10, General Matsui Iwane issued the command to take Nanking by for...
1945 Dec 10 Cordell Hull is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
"Cordell Hull has devoted his entire life to the stabilization of international relations. Best known to the public are his untiring efforts in the field of commercial policy, efforts insp..." —Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee
1946 Dec 10 Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott are Jointly Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John ...
1946 Dec 10 "Paisa" Is Released
Paisà is a 1946 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini. It is divided into six episodes. They depict the Italian Campaign during World War II when Germany was losing the Second World...
1946 Dec 10 Walter Johnson Dies
On December 10, 1946, baseball great Walter Johnson died at the age of fifty-nine. Nicknamed "The Big Train," Johnson pitched his way to fame during twenty-one seasons with the Washingto...
1947 Dec 10 Friends Service Council & American Friends Service Committee Are Jointly Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting of ...
1947 Dec 10 John Lujack Wins Heisman Trophy
Lujack was considered one of the greatest T-formation collegiate quarterbacks of all times. Filling in for Angelo Bertelli, who went into the Marines in 1943, he quarterbacked a 26-0 vict...
1949 Dec 10 John Boyd Orr is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), also known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and p...
1950 Dec 10 Ralph Bunche Becomes First African American to Win Nobel Peace Prize
In 1950 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the first non-white person, the African-American and United Nations (UN) official Ralph Bunche. He received the Peac...
1950 Dec 10 Ralph Bunche is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1903 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine...
1951 Dec 10 Léon Jouhaux is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879–April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His ...
1953 Dec 10 Albert Schweitzer is Awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Elsass-Lothringe...
1953 Dec 10 George Marshall is Awarded the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize, Along with Albert Schweitzer, who was Awarded the Previous Year's Prize
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary...
1953 Dec 10 Ronald Reagan Plays Steve Wentworth in "The Ford Television Theatre" - Season 2, Episode 11: And Suddenly, You Knew
Ford Theatre (spelled Ford Theater for the radio version) is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times, the televisio...
1955 Dec 10 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is Awarded the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR; established December 14, 1950) is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request o...
1956 Dec 10 Milorad "Rod" Blagojevich born
Politician. The youngest of two children, Rod Blagojevich was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 10th, 1956. His father, Radisa Blagojevich, was an immigrant steel plant laborer from ...
1957 Dec 10 Lester B. Pearson is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing t...
1958 Dec 10 Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (Dinant, February 10, 1910 – Leuven, January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War I...
1958 Dec 10 Peter Dawkins Wins Heisman Trophy
Pete Dawkins, the 69th Army football captain and a polio victim, posed a double threat as a runner and a left-handed passer. In three years, he rushed for 1,123 yards, threw 16 passes, se...
1959 Dec 10 Philip Noel-Baker is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, born Philip John Baker (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982) was a British politician, diplomat, academic, an outstanding amateur athlete, and renow...
1961 Dec 10 Albert Lutuli is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
If the nonwhite people of South Africa ever lift themselves from their humiliation without resorting to violence and terror, then it will be above all because of the work of Lutuli, their...
1961 Dec 10 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash...
1962 Dec 10 "Lawrence Of Arabia" Is Released
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizo...
1963 Dec 10 Linus Pauling is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
During the Second World War, Pauling worked on military research and development. However, when the war ended he became particularly concerned about the further development and possible u...
1963 Dec 10 The International Red Cross Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
It was after the French-Sardinian-Austrian war and on the background of the terrible massacres on the battlefields of northern Italy that the Red Cross came into existence. On June 24, 18...
1964 Dec 10 Martin Luther King Jr. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the p...
1965 Dec 10 The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors and UNICEF's total income for 2006 was $2,781,000,000. Governments contribute two thirds of the organization's resources...
1966 Dec 10 The Rolling Stones Release 'Got Live If You Want It!'
Got Live If You Want It! (capitalized got LIVE if you want it! on the cover) is the first live album by British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in the US in late 1966. At...
1968 Dec 10 René Cassin is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887, Bayonne – 20 February 1976, Paris) was a French-Jewish jurist, law professor and judge. A French soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the U...
1969 Dec 10 International Labour Organization (I.L.O.) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In structure, the ILO is unique among world organizations in that the representatives of the workers and of the employers have an equal voice with those of governments in formulating its ...
1970 Dec 10 Norman Borlaug is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been deemed the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug wa...
1971 Dec 10 Willy Brandt is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
A seminal moment came in December 1970 with the famous Warschauer Kniefall in which Brandt, apparently spontaneously, knelt down at the monument to victims of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The ...
1973 Dec 10 Henry A. Kissinger and Lê Ðức Thọ are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, although Lê Ðức Thọ Declined to Accept
Along with North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1973, for their work in negotiating the ceasefires contained in the Pa...
1974 Dec 10 Deep Purple release Stormbringer
Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by Deep Purple, released in November 1974. On this album, the soul and funk elements that were only hinted at on Burn are much more prominent.
1974 Dec 10 Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1973 he was elected by the General Assembly to the post of High Commissioner for Namibia, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. The actions of his father John MacBride in leadi...
1974 Dec 10 "The Year Without a Santa Claus" First Airs
The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Rankin/Bass stop motion animated television special. It usually airs during the Christmas season on United States television. The story is based o...
1975 Dec 10 Andrei Sakharov is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов) (May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakhar...
1977 Dec 10 Amnesty International is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is an international secular non-governmental organisation which defines its mission as "to conduct research and generate action to...
1977 Dec 10 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan are Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize
Betty Williams (born 22 May 1943) was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedic...
1978 Dec 10 Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Never previously in the history of the Peace Prize, stretching back over a period of almost eighty years, have we witnessed an award ceremony such as this in King Haukon V's medieval cast...
1979 Dec 10 Mother Teresa is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒe bɔjaˈdʒiu]), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who foun...
1980 Dec 10 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
He has devoted many years of his life to the cause of human rights in Argentina and the whole of Latin America. He is an untiring and consistent champion of the principle of nonviolen...
1981 Dec 10 Marcus Allen Wins Heisman Trophy
The fourth running back from the University of Southern California to win the Heisman Trophy, Marcus Allen did it by being the first rusher to cover more than 2,000 yards in one season. H...