Today in History - History - December 10th

1991Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1925George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel prize

1960Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).

1936Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1964Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo

1520Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant

1901First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays

1920August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle

1907Ruyard kipling receives Nobel prize for literature

1903Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie

1830Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886)

1891leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), (d. 1970)

1394King James I of Scotland, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, (1406-1437), (d. 1437)

1815Ada Lovelace, London, English mathematician (d. 1852)

191528th US President Woodrow Wilson marries 2nd wife Edith Galt, a descendant of native American Pocahontas

2005Country music artist Garth Brooks (43) weds singer Trisha Yearwood (41) in Claremore, Oklahoma

1947Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (30) weds bass player Ray Brown (21)

2010Tennis player Martina Hingis (30) weds equestrian show jumper Thibault Hutin at a private civil ceremony in Paris, France

1917Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada, dies of pneumonia at 93

1946Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer, dies at 66

1896Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63

1946Walter Johnson, great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies of a brain tumour at 59