Historical Events on December 10

1510 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim population to the sword

1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley

1718 Laurence Eusden is appointed British Poet Laureate under George I

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester

1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins

1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)

1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays

1902 German organic chemist Emil Fischer is award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses

1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie

1904 Ivan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize

1904 John William Strutt [Lord Rayleigh] and William Ramsay are presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of Argon

1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1906 Frenchman Henri Moissan is presented with the Nobel prize for Chemistry for isolating Fluoride

1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so

1909 Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

1910 Dutch Physicist Johannes van der Waals wins the Nobel Prize for physics

1912 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys

1913 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"

1919 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson

1920 August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle

1922 Danish physicist Niels Bohr awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on the structure of atoms, at a ceremony in Copehagen

1925 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1926 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published

1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins

1930 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin

1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1931 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain with Niceto Zamora as President

1933 Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity

1935 James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron

1936 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win

1938 Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)

1939 National Football League Championship, Dairy Bowl, West Allis, Wisconsin: Green Bay Packers beat New York Giants, 27-0; Packers 5th title

1942 An early report the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states

1946 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"

1947 American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944) , for research into nerve function

1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1950 Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel

1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1959 Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry

1960 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).

1961 Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon

1963 Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers

1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo

1964 Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12

1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for discoveries about the make-up of the eye

1967 Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm

1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize

1973 First time since 1885, tennis has 2 top male players - Americans Stan Smith and Jimmy Connors

1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1976 Samuel C. C. Ting is the first person to deliver a Nobel Prize lecture in Mandarin, during the ceremony to award him and Burton Richter the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the J/ψ particle

1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

1978 Superman: The Movie, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas

1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Wałęsa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins 8th career Grand Slam singles event; beats Kathy Jordan of the US 6-2, 7-6

1984 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize

1985 "Out of Africa", based on the book by Isak Dinesen, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1986)

1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

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

1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner