History was made on December 10. Good things happened and there was a fair share of some bad things too.
Besides the ones that you know of, how about we take a look at the ones that made it to history?
- 1520 – Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict.
- 1817 – Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
- 1898 – A treaty was signed in Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War. Also, Cuba became independent of Spain.
- 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
- 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1931 – Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she was the first American woman to do so.
- 1939 – The National Football League’s attendance exceeded 1 million in a season for the first time.
- 1941 – Japan invaded the Philippines.
- 1948 – U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1980 – The Soviet Union performed an underground nuclear test.
- 1984 – South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1986 – France performed a nuclear test.
- 1954 – Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1963 – Zanzibar gained independence from Great Britain.
- 1996 – South Africa’s President Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country’s transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.
- 1999 – Franjo Tuđman, the 1st President of Croatia, died.
- 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, the 30th President of Chile, died.
- 2007 – Argentina swore in its first female elected President, Cristina Fernandez.
- 2009 – US President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.