Historical Events on December 10

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• 741 Pope Zachary elected
• 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.
• 1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
• 1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

• 1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
• 1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
• 1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston

• 1688 King James II flees London
• 1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money

• 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester
• 1799 Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so
• 1810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)


• 1816 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British
• 1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
• 1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing in New York City, the premier sports journal of the 19th century
• 1836 Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

• 1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
• 1869 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1882 John Brahms' "Gesang der Parzen" (Song of the Fates) premieres

• 1887 Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
• 1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
• 1898 Spanish-American War formally ended by the Treaty of Paris; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
• 1898 The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
• 1899 -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa
• 1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
• 1899 Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin
• 1899 The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
• 1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy

• 1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.

• 1904 King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
• 1904 Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.

• 1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.

• 1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane in 84 days
• 1911 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1913 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

• 1914 French government returns to Paris
• 1918 John Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League for the 2nd time
• 1919 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
• 1919 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties

• 1922 Nobel prizes awarded to Niels Bohr (Physics), Francis William Aston (Chemistry) and Fridtjof Nansen (Peace)
• 1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards

• 1923 Polish government of Grabski forms
• 1924 Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years

• 1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)

• 1927 "Grand Ole Opry" first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee

• 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

• 1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
• 1932 The "Great Emu War" ends: Emu's surprising resilience to bullets led to Emu victory over Australian military in Campion district, Western Australia

• 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
• 1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
• 1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
• 1935 As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
• 1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000

• 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry

• 1938 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
• 1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood

• 1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0
• 1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
• 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
• 1940 1941 NFL Draft: Tom Harmon from University of Michigan first pick by Chicago Bears
• 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z ) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die
• 1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
• 1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
• 1942 Adolf Hitler names Anton Mussert "leader of the Dutch people"
• 1942 North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim

• 1943 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
• 1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
• 1944 German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
• 1945 Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
• 1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car

• 1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
• 1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• 1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
• 1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
• 1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins

• 1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
• 1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
• 1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola
• 1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
• 1958 U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates

• 1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
• 1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
• 1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations

• 1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years

• 1963 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show
• 1963 Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain

• 1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
• 1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
• 1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
• 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
• 1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken

• 1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
• 1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises

• 1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
• 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• 1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
• 1974 Helios 1 launched by US and Germany; later makes closest flyby of the Sun

• 1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
• 1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"

• 1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
• 1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
• 1978 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)

• 1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians

• 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
• 1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
• 1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1981 -13] El Salvador army kills 900
• 1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in NYC
• 1981 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.

• 1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
• 1982 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms

• 1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
• 1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
• 1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered

• 1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
• 1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress
• 1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires

• 1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
• 1986 France performs nuclear test

• 1986 Ivan Lendl repeats previous year's result with a 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 win over Boris Becker to claim back-to-back season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis titles at Madison Square Garden, NYC
• 1987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
• 1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Montreal Canadiens
• 1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
• 1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
• 1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
• 1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
• 1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
• 1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• 1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day

• 1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances
• 1992 NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim for 1994-95
• 1992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
• 1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
• 1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
• 1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
• 1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

• 1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
• 1995 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
• 1995 Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
• 1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
• 1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
• 1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

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