December 10th, 2009

Today in History

1983:
Lech Wałęsa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Danuta.

1953:
Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1948:
The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

1901:
First Nobel Prizes awarded

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.