December 10

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.

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