December, 10th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Saturday 10, 2005:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan.

Friday 10, 2004:
Anil Kumble became India's highest wicket taker surpassing Kapil Dev's haul of 435 wickets.

Tuesday 10, 2002:
High Court of Australia handed down its judgement in the Internet defamation dispute in the case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.

Friday 10, 1993:
Shareware version of Doom is released.

Wednesday 10, 1986:
Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Monday 10, 1984:
Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Saturday 10, 1983:
Lech Wałęsa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Danuta.

Sunday 10, 1978:
Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize

Wednesday 10, 1975:
Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner

Sunday 10, 1972:
Professional Wrestler Ric Flair has his first match against against George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski. It was a 10 minute draw.

Thursday 10, 1970:
Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, often credited with saving a billion people from starvation, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Friday 10, 1965:
The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Thursday 10, 1953:
Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Saturday 10, 1949:
Chinese Civil War: The Red Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last KMT-held city on mainland China. Chiang Kai-shek leaves for Taiwan.

Friday 10, 1948:
The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Wednesday 10, 1941:
Japanese forces land in the Philippines, capture Guam and sink the British ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse

Thursday 10, 1936:
Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily relinquished the throne, signed his instrument of abdication.

Monday 10, 1906:
Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Saturday 10, 1904:
Pi Kappa Phi is founded in Charleston, South Carolina

Tuesday 10, 1901:
First Nobel Prizes awarded

Saturday 10, 1898:
A treaty is signed in Paris that officially ends the Spanish-American War.

Friday 10, 1869:
Wyoming grants women the right to vote

Saturday 10, 1864:
William Tecumseh Sherman reaches Savannah, Georgia, ending his "March to the Sea".

Saturday 10, 1836:
Emory College, now Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

Wednesday 10, 1817:
Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

Sunday 10, 1684:
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum read out to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

Thursday 10, 1508:
League of Cambrai formed as an alliance against Venice between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.

Friday 10, 1520:
Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside the Elster Gate of Wittenberg

Friday 10, 1041:
Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/10-december/on-this-day.html


People born on December 10

1985:
Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer (b: December 10, 1985) (Biography of Raven-Symoné)

1980:
Alexa Rae, American actress (b: December 10, 1980) (Biography of Alexa Rae)
Sarah Chang, American violinist (b: December 10, 1980) (Biography of Sarah Chang)
Ledley King, English footballer (b: December 10, 1980) (Biography of Ledley King)
Taufik Batisah, Singapore Idol (b: December 10, 1980) (Biography of Taufik Batisah)

1974:
Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes) (b: December 10, 1974) (Biography of Meg White)

1960:
Kenneth Branagh, Irish-born actor and director (b: December 10, 1960) (Biography of Kenneth Branagh)

1957:
Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b: December 10, 1957) (Biography of Michael Clarke Duncan)

1952:
Clive Anderson, British television host (b: December 10, 1952) (Biography of Clive Anderson)
Susan Dey, American actress (b: December 10, 1952) (Biography of Susan Dey)

1951:
Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer (b: December 10, 1951) (Biography of Ellen Nikolaysen)

1948:
Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b: December 10, 1948 ; d: March 8, 2004) (Biography of Abu Abbas)

1947:
Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b: December 10, 1947 ; d: August 27, 1980) (Biography of Douglas Kenney)
Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician (b: December 10, 1947) (Biography of Rasul Guliyev)

1928:
Dan Blocker, American actor (b: December 10, 1928 ; d: May 13, 1972) (Biography of Dan Blocker)

1920:
Reginald Rose, American writer (b: December 10, 1920) (Biography of Reginald Rose)

1917:
Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (b: December 10, 1917) (Biography of Sultan Yahya Petra)

1914:
Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b: December 10, 1914 ; d: September 22, 1996) (Biography of Dorothy Lamour)

1913:
Morton Gould, American composer (b: December 10, 1913 ; d: February 21, 1996) (Biography of Morton Gould)

1912:
Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (b: December 10, 1912) (Biography of Philip A. Hart)

1911:
Chet Huntley, American journalist (b: December 10, 1911 ; d: March 20, 1974) (Biography of Chet Huntley)

1909:
Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (b: December 10, 1909) (Biography of Hermes Pan (choreographer))

1908:
Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (b: December 10, 1908 ; d: April 27, 1992) (Biography of Olivier Messiaen)

1907:
Rumer Godden, English writer (b: December 10, 1907) (Biography of Rumer Godden)

1903:
Una Merkel, American actress (b: December 10, 1903 ; d: January 2, 1986) (Biography of Una Merkel)

1891:
Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: December 10, 1891) (Biography of Nelly Sachs)

1882:
Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (b: December 10, 1882) (Biography of Otto Neurath)

1872:
Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b: December 10, 1872 ; d: December 21, 1956) (Biography of Don Lorenzo Perosi)

1870:
Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b: December 10, 1870 ; d: August 8, 1933) (Biography of Adolf Loos)
Pierre Louÿs, French author (b: December 10, 1870) (Biography of Pierre Louÿs)

1851:
Melvil Dewey, American librarian (b: December 10, 1851) (Biography of Melvil Dewey)

1830:
Emily Dickinson, American poet (b: December 10, 1830 ; d: May 15, 1886) (Biography of Emily Dickinson)

1822:
César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b: December 10, 1822 ; d: November 8, 1890) (Biography of César Franck)

1815:
Ada Lovelace, English computer programmer (b: December 10, 1815 ; d: November 27, 1852) (Biography of Ada Lovelace)

1787:
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b: December 10, 1787 ; d: September 10, 1851) (Biography of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet)

1750:
Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (b: December 10, 1750 ; d: May 4, 1799) (Biography of Tipu Sultan)

1588:
Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and phhilosopher (b: December 10, 1588 ; d: May 19, 1637) (Biography of Isaac Beeckman)

1452:
Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b: December 10, 1452 ; d: February 16, 1531) (Biography of Johannes Stöffler)

1394:
King James I of Scotland (b: December 10, 1394 ; d: February 21, 1437) (Biography of James I of Scotland)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/10-december/births.html

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They left us on December 10

2001:
Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b: October 13, 1911 ; d: December 10, 2001) (Biography of Ashok Kumar (actor))

2000:
Marie Windsor, American actress (b: December 11, 1919 ; d: December 10, 2000) (Biography of Marie Windsor)

1999:
Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b: May 14, 1922 ; d: December 10, 1999) (Biography of Franjo Tudjman)

1996:
Faron Young, American singer (b: February 25, 1932 ; d: December 10, 1996) (Biography of Faron Young)

1987:
Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (b: February 2, 1901 ; d: December 10, 1987) (Biography of Jascha Heifetz)

1982:
Freeman F. Gosden (d: December 10, 1982) (Biography of Freeman F. Gosden)

1979:
Ann Dvorak (d: December 10, 1979) (Biography of Ann Dvorak)

1978:
Ed Wood, American filmmaker (b: October 10, 1924 ; d: December 10, 1978) (Biography of Ed Wood, Jr.)

1969:
Carlos Marighella (d: December 10, 1969) (Biography of Carlos Marighella)

1968:
Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b: January 31, 1915 ; d: December 10, 1968) (Biography of Thomas Merton)
Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (b: May 10, 1886 ; d: December 10, 1968) (Biography of Karl Barth)

1967:
Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (b: September 9, 1941 ; d: December 10, 1967) (Biography of Otis Redding)

1951:
Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b: March 14, 1869 ; d: December 10, 1951) (Biography of Algernon Blackwood)

1946:
Damon Runyon, writer (b: October 4, 1880 ; d: December 10, 1946) (Biography of Damon Runyon)
Walter Johnson, baseball player (b: November 6, 1887 ; d: December 10, 1946) (Biography of Walter Johnson)

1941:
Colin Kelly (d: December 10, 1941) (Biography of Colin Kelly)

1936:
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: June 28, 1867 ; d: December 10, 1936) (Biography of Luigi Pirandello)
Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b: November 30, 1857 ; d: December 10, 1936) (Biography of Bobby Abel)

1928:
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b: June 7, 1868 ; d: December 10, 1928) (Biography of Charles Rennie Mackintosh)

1917:
Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b: December 27, 1823 ; d: December 10, 1917) (Biography of Mackenzie Bowell)

1911:
Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b: June 30, 1817 ; d: December 10, 1911) (Biography of Joseph Dalton Hooker)

1896:
Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b: October 21, 1833 ; d: December 10, 1896) (Biography of Alfred Nobel)

1865:
King Léopold I of Belgium (b: December 16, 1790 ; d: December 10, 1865) (Biography of Léopold I of Belgium)

1831:
Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b: October 22, 1770 ; d: December 10, 1831) (Biography of Thomas Seebeck)

1736:
António Manoel de Vilhena (d: December 10, 1736) (Biography of António Manoel de Vilhena)

1665:
Tarquinio Merula (d: December 10, 1665) (Biography of Tarquinio Merula)

1626:
Edmund Gunter (d: December 10, 1626) (Biography of Edmund Gunter)

1618:
Giulio Caccini (d: December 10, 1618) (Biography of Giulio Caccini)

1603:
William Gilbert, English scientist (b: May 24, 1544 ; d: December 10, 1603) (Biography of William Gilbert)

1508:
René II, Duke of Lorraine (b: May 2, 1451 ; d: December 10, 1508) (Biography of René II, Duke of Lorraine)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/10-december/deaths.html