December 10th, 2009

Today in History

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

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

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.

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

1817:
Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.