Notable Historical Events on December 10th
December 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
741 |
Zacharias becomes Pope |
1041 |
Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. |
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 |
1684 |
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. |
1688 |
King James II flees London |
1690 |
Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester |
1799 |
Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so |
1810 |
Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds) |
1816 |
Dutch regain Sumatra |
1817 |
Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union |
1831 |
"Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) |
1836 |
Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia. |
1864 |
General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins |
1868 |
The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. |
1869 |
Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) |
1869 |
The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia. |
1882 |
John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres |
1887 |
Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty |
1896 |
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3) |
1896 |
Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris |
1898 |
Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam |
1898 |
The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá |
1899 |
-15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa |
1899 |
Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army |
1899 |
Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin |
1899 |
The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York. |
1901 |
1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) |
1901 |
First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays |
1902 |
Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania. |
1903 |
Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie |
1904 |
King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime |
1904 |
Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. |
1906 |
Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1907 |
Ruyard kipling receives Nobel prize for literature |
1907 |
The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected. |
1910 |
Johannes van der 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 |
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 overstepping his duties |
1919 |
Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson |
1920 |
August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle |
1922 |
Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein |
1922 |
Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards |
1923 |
Polish government of Grabski forms |
1924 |
Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years |
1924 |
Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine |
1925 |
George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel prize |
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 |
1929 |
Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st |
1931 |
Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
1931 |
Manuel Azaña 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 |
NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season |
1934 |
Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite |
1935 |
As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000 |
1935 |
White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000 |
1936 |
Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry |
1936 |
Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI |
1936 |
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1938 |
26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7 |
1938 |
Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood |
1939 |
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0 |
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 panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
1943 |
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
1944 |
9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis |
1944 |
German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar |
1945 |
Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts |
1945 |
Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car |
1946 |
German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style" |
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 |
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 |
Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
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 |
1960 |
Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating). |
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 |
1961 |
Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon |
1962 |
Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years |
1963 |
6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show |
1963 |
Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain |
1963 |
Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers |
1964 |
Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo |
1965 |
"Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances |
1965 |
Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia |
1965 |
Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba |
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 |
1968 |
Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo. |
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 |
67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1) |
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 |
1981 |
The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia. |
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 |
58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76) |
1983 |
Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
1983 |
Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7 |
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 |
1988 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens |
1989 |
President Gustav Husak 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 |
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 |
Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner |
1992 |
"My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs |
1992 |
NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95) |
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 |
1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81 |
1995 |
Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
1995 |
Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA |
1995 |
Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617 |
1995 |
Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA) |
1995 |
Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982 |
1996 |
Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down. |
2000 |
89th Davis Cup: Spain beats Australia in Barcelona (3-1) |
2006 |
One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign. |
2012 |
Google begins selling US$99 laptops |
2012 |
11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China |
2012 |
9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia |
2012 |
Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's 13-year Elo rating record |
2012 |
Japan is again in recession as the GDP figures for the second quarter of 2012 are revised to show a contraction of 0.03% and the third quarter figures fall by a further 0.9% |
2013 |
Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company |
2013 |
Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana |
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