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10 Dec 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.
10 Dec 1294
Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
10 Dec 1508
League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
10 Dec 1652
Sea battle at Dungeness lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
10 Dec 1672
New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
10 Dec 1690
Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money
10 Dec 1745
Bonnie Prince Charlies army reaches Manchester
10 Dec 1799
Metric system adopted in France first country to do so
10 Dec 1810
Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
10 Dec 1817
Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
10 Dec 1831
Spirit of the Times begins publishing in New York City the premier sports journal of the 19th century
10 Dec 1836
Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford Georgia.
10 Dec 1869
Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
10 Dec 1869
The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
10 Dec 1882
John Brahms Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) premieres
10 Dec 1887
Austria-Hungary Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
10 Dec 1898
Spanish-American War formally ended by the Treaty of Paris US acquires Philippines Puerto Rico & Guam
10 Dec 1898
The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of Abdullh Psh
10 Dec 1899
-15] British Black Week due to defeats in South Africa
10 Dec 1899
Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
10 Dec 1899
Frank Wedekinds Der Kammersang premieres in Berlin
10 Dec 1899
The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
10 Dec 1901
First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
10 Dec 1902
Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
10 Dec 1904
King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
10 Dec 1907
The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London when 1000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
10 Dec 1911
Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane in 84 days
10 Dec 1911
Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1913
Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
10 Dec 1918
John Heyder becomes president of baseballs National League for the 2nd time
10 Dec 1919
NL votes to ban the spitballs use by all new pitchers
10 Dec 1919
NY Boston & Chicago oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
10 Dec 1922
Nobel prizes awarded to Niels Bohr (Physics) Francis William Aston (Chemistry) and Fridtjof Nansen (Peace)
10 Dec 1922
Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal 45 yards
10 Dec 1924
Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league getting games 1 2 6 7 in alternating years
10 Dec 1926
1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
10 Dec 1927
Grand Ole Opry first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast in Nashville Tennessee
10 Dec 1930
Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel
10 Dec 1932
King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
10 Dec 1932
The Great Emu War ends Emus surprising resilience to bullets led to Emu victory over Australian military in Campion district Western Australia
10 Dec 1934
Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
10 Dec 1934
NFL adopts player waiver rule applies after 6th game of season
10 Dec 1934
Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
10 Dec 1935
As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for 150000
10 Dec 1935
White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for 75000
10 Dec 1936
Stockholm physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
10 Dec 1938
CFL Grey Cup In repeat of last year Toronto Argonauts defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30-7 to retain Championship
10 Dec 1938
Ruth Fuller Sasaki Zen teacher Rinzai line enters Zen priesthood
10 Dec 1939
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship beat NY Giants 27-0
10 Dec 1940
British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
10 Dec 1940
1941 NFL Draft Tom Harmon from University of Michigan first pick by Chicago Bears
10 Dec 1941
British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z ) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die
10 Dec 1941
Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
10 Dec 1942
Adolf Hitler names Anton Mussert leader of the Dutch people
10 Dec 1942
North Africa 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
10 Dec 1943
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies OrsognaOrtona Italy
10 Dec 1944
German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
10 Dec 1945
Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
10 Dec 1945
Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo a new 150 MPH car
10 Dec 1948
UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
10 Dec 1952
WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
10 Dec 1953
John Murray Andersons Almanac opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
10 Dec 1953
KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
10 Dec 1953
WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling OH (CBS) begins
10 Dec 1954
Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
10 Dec 1958
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
10 Dec 1958
U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
10 Dec 1961
Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
10 Dec 1961
US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
10 Dec 1962
Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
10 Dec 1963
6-year old Donny Osmonds singing debut on Andy Williams Show
10 Dec 1989
President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia resigns
10 Dec 1990
Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India 140 die
10 Dec 1991
Crucible opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
10 Dec 1991
IM Pei receives 5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
10 Dec 1991
Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
10 Dec 1992
My Favorite Year opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances
10 Dec 1992
NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim for 1994-95
10 Dec 1992
Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
10 Dec 1994
60th Heisman Trophy Award Rashaan Salaam Colorado (RB)
10 Dec 1963
Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain
10 Dec 1965
Yearling opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
10 Dec 1965
Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
10 Dec 1966
Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
10 Dec 1966
Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken
10 Dec 1968
Japans biggest heist the still-unsolved 300 million yen robbery occurs in Tokyo.
10 Dec 1970
North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
10 Dec 1971
William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
10 Dec 1974
European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
10 Dec 1974
Helios 1 launched by US and Germany later makes closest flyby of the Sun
10 Dec 1975
Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach to become NWA champ
10 Dec 1976
Wings release triple album Wings Over America
10 Dec 1977
Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
10 Dec 1978
Platinum closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
10 Dec 1978
67th Davis Cup USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
10 Dec 1978
Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
10 Dec 1979
Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
10 Dec 1981
The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistans proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
10 Dec 1982
Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth 211 days after take-off
10 Dec 1982
CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms
10 Dec 1983
Last NFL game at Shea Stadium Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
10 Dec 1983
Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentinas 1st civilian president
10 Dec 1984
1st planet outside our solar system discovered
10 Dec 1985
Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress
10 Dec 1985
Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
10 Dec 1986
Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
10 Dec 1986
Ivan Lendl repeats previous years result with a 64 64 64 win over Boris Becker to claim back-to-back season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis titles at Madison Square Garden NYC
10 Dec 1988
Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie vs Montreal Canadiens
10 Dec 1994
European Campaign against Racism All different All equal begins
10 Dec 1995
1st meeting of NBA expansion teams Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
10 Dec 1995
Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diners Club Golf Matches
10 Dec 1995
Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
10 Dec 1995
Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
10 Dec 1995
Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka WACA)
10 Dec 1768
First part (number) of the Encyclopedia Britannica published in Edinburgh Scotland
10 Dec 1882
Johannes Brahms Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) premieres
10 Dec 1899
Frank Wedekinds Der Kammersnger premieres in Berlin
10 Dec 1922
1st National Football League Championship undefeated Canton Bulldogs (10-0-2) named inaugural champions
10 Dec 1962
David Leans film Lawrence of Arabia based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter OToole premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963)
10 Dec 1905
Austrian pacifist and writer Bertha von Suttner becomes the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1941
British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die
10 Dec 1954
USAF Lt Col John Stapp travels at 632 mph in a rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base New Mexico
10 Dec 1960
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar for work on tissue grafting
10 Dec 1810
English bare-knuckle boxer Tom Cribb beats African-American Tom Molineaux in 33rd of 40 round bout at Copthall Common England first interracial boxing match
10 Dec 1896
Alfred Jarrys play Ubu Roi premieres in Paris
10 Dec 1898
The first western pilgrims welcomed at The House of Abdullh Psh
10 Dec 1899
Delta Sigma Phi fraternity founded at City College of New York to spread the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men without respect to race or creed.
10 Dec 1904
Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity in Charleston South Carolina
10 Dec 1956
Establishment of The Peoples Movement for the Liberation of Angola MPLA (from Portuguese Movimento Popular de Libertao de Angola) left-wing party that has ruled since independence from Portugal
10 Dec 1966
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken
10 Dec 1973
Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak to become WWWF champ for 2nd time
10 Dec 1768
First part (number) of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published in Edinburgh Scotland
10 Dec 1913
Belgium head of the International Peace Bureau Henri La Fontaine becomes the first Socialist to win the Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1957
Chinese physicists Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on parity laws which created a major breakthrough in particle research
10 Dec 1965
Michael Leonard and Herbert Martins musical The Yearling opens at Alvin Theater NYC runs for 3 performances
10 Dec 1877
Russo-Turkish War Turkish commander Osman Pasha surrenders the city of Plevna Ottoman Empire (now Pleven Bulgaria) to Romanian Col. Mihail Cerchez
10 Dec 1901
First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded first recipients Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
10 Dec 1922
Canton Bulldogs future HOF tackle Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal 45 yards
10 Dec 1922
Spanish playwright Jacinto Benavente is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in absentia in Stockholm his speech is given by Count de Torata the Spanish Ambassador
10 Dec 1936
Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
10 Dec 1978
Gary William Friedman and Will Holts musical Platinum closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
10 Dec 1983
American cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock aged 81 is the first woman to be solely awarded Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition in maize [1]
10 Dec 1937
William Grant Stills Symphony No. 2 (Song of a New Race) premieres at the Academy of Music by the Philadelphia Orchestra led by conductor Leopold Stokowski
10 Dec 1944
German counterattack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
10 Dec 1690
Massachusetts Bay becomes the first American colonial government to issue paper money
10 Dec 1768
The first of 100 weekly numbers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which are bound into three volumes in 1771 is published in Edinburgh Scotland
10 Dec 1831
Spirit of the Times the premier sports journal of the 19th century begins publishing in New York City
10 Dec 1882
Johannes Brahms choir and orchestra piece Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) premieres in Basel
10 Dec 1904
John William Strutt [Lord Rayleigh] and William Ramsay are presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of Argon
10 Dec 1905
Austrian pacifist and writer Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1906
Frenchman Henri Moissan is presented with the Nobel prize for Chemistry for isolating fluoride
10 Dec 1906
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramn y Cajal in recognition of their work on the anatomy of the nervous system [1]
10 Dec 1907
Worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London sees 1000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected
10 Dec 1909
Swedish writer Selma Lagerlf is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
10 Dec 1910
Dutch Physicist Johannes van der Waals wins the Nobel Prize for physics
10 Dec 1911
Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
10 Dec 1911
Calbraith Rogers completes the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days
10 Dec 1912
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Daln for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
10 Dec 1913
Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for Gitanjali
10 Dec 1919
New York Yankees Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox oppose AL resolution accusing league president Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
10 Dec 1919
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
10 Dec 1919
Pilot Ross Smith and his brother navigator Ken Smith land their two-engine Vickers Vimy in Darwin Australia winning a 10000 prize as the first all-Australian crew to complete the first flight from England to Australia [1]
10 Dec 1920
August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle [1]
10 Dec 1925
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
10 Dec 1926
First radio broadcast in Springfield Illinois (WCBS) [1]
10 Dec 1929
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
10 Dec 1930
Austrian American Karl Landsteiner is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of human blood groups [1]
10 Dec 1930
German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin
10 Dec 1932
The Great Emu War ends Emus surprising resilience to bullets leads to an emu victory over the Australian military in the Campion district Western Australia
10 Dec 1933
Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrdinger for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory
10 Dec 1935
James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron
10 Dec 1935
MLB Chicago White Sox sell contract of Al Simmons to Detroit Tigers for 75000
10 Dec 1935
MLB Philadelphia Athletics sell infielder Jimmie Foxxs contract to Boston Red Sox for 150000 (about 2.8M in 2020 dollars)
10 Dec 1935
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frdric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
10 Dec 1938
Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
10 Dec 1945
Wolfgang Pauli is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle also called the Pauli Principle
10 Dec 1946
GermanSwiss 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
10 Dec 1947
American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944) for research into nerve function
10 Dec 1950
Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel
10 Dec 1954
Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its applications
10 Dec 1954
National League Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium (Shibe Park) where they had been tenants since 1938 from the American League As who head west to Kansas City
10 Dec 1954
USAF Lt. Col. John Stapp travels at 632 mph in a rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base New Mexico
10 Dec 1958
The first domestic passenger jet flight using a Boeing 707 with National Airlines flying a leased Pan Am 707 from New York to Miami
10 Dec 1958
University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the MLB Pirates baseball team
10 Dec 1959
Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry
10 Dec 1960
Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
10 Dec 1961
Houston Oilers utility back Billy Cannon gains AFL record 373 yards combined rushingreceiving in 48-21 win over NY Titans at the Polo Grounds NYC
10 Dec 1961
Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mssbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
10 Dec 1963
6-year old Donny Osmonds singing debut on The Andy Williams Show
10 Dec 1963
Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers
10 Dec 1964
Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12
10 Dec 1964
Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo Norway
10 Dec 1967
Guatemalan author Miguel ngel Asturias is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm
10 Dec 1967
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Ragnar Granit Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald for discoveries about the make-up of the eye
10 Dec 1970
Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.
10 Dec 1971
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1974
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Irishman Sen MacBride for his human rights work and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sat for signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
10 Dec 1975
Andrei Sakharovs wife Yelena Bonner accepts the Soviet dissidents Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo as Sakharov is not allowed to leave the country
10 Dec 1975
Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach Florida to become NWA wrestling champ
10 Dec 1978
Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel
10 Dec 1983
Danuta Walesa wife of Lech Wasa accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1984
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
10 Dec 1986
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts Nobel Peace Prize for being a leading spokesman on the Holocaust
10 Dec 1988
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine presented to Gertrude B. Elion George H. Hitchings and James W. Black for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment