Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining in the year. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. 1836 - Emory College, now Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia. 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. 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore 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 1993 - Shareware version of Doom is released Births 1787 - Thomas Gallaudet, educator (+ 1851) 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist (+ 1879) 1815 - Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer (+ 1852) 1822 - César Franck, composer and organist (+ 1890) 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) 1912 - Philip A. Hart, US senator (+ 1976) 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 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, actor, film director 1978 - Susan Finlayson, historian, botanist 1984 - Andrés Ispani, actor 1985 - Raven-Symone, actress Deaths 1865 - King Leopold I of Belgium 1896 - Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize 1911 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (* 1817) 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and illustrator 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 Sweden - Nobel Prize Ceremony, an official flag day 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.