What Happened on 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... Read more

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... Read more

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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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)... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more