December 10th, 2009

Today in History

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

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

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

1906:
Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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