On this day in History - Dec. 10

• 1582 - Adoption du calendrier grégorien par la France.
• 1699 - Nascimento do Rei Cristiano VI da Dinamarca.
• 1801 - Criação da Guarda Real de Polícia, primeiro corpo especial de polícia existente em Portugal.
• 1799 - En France, adoption du système métrique
• 1815 - Ada Lovelace, born in London, British mathematician and musician, is best known as the first computer programmer. Her father was the British poet, Lord Byron. (d. 1852)
• 1817 - Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
• 1825 -Brasil declara guerra à Argentina.
• 1830 - Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Mass. [d. 1886] American poet. She is widely considered one of the greatest poets in American literature
• 1836 - A importação e exportação de escravos nos territórios portugueses a Sul do Equador foi proibida. É a primeira medida efectiva promulgada em Portugal contra o tráfico esclavagista
• 1845 - Robert Thompson, engenheiro inglês, patenteia o pneu.
• 1848 - en France, élection de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte à la présidence de la République
• 1851- Nascimento do bibliotecário americano Melvil Dewey (1851-1931), em Filadélfia. Inventou um sistema de classificação decimal de livros, conhecido por Classificação Decimal de Dewey e que adoptado deu origem à Classificação Decimal Universal (CDU).
• 1859 - Batalla de Santa Inés, librada en la población homónima en el Estado Barinas, Venezuela en la cual triunfaron los federalistas al mando del General Ezequiel Zamora
• 1865 - King Leopold I of Belgium dies (b. 1790)
• 1868 - O primeiro farol de trânsito, construído em Londres, começa a operar
• 1869 - The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
• 1896 - Morre Alfred Nobel, industrial sueco, em San Remo, Italia. Ele deixou sua fortuna para premiar pessoas que contribuíssem para o bem da humanidade.
• 1898 - A treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.
• 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
• 1902 - After four years of construction, the Aswan Dam, Egypt, is declared completed today.
• 1903 - Pierre and Marie Curie were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize
• 1904 - van Pavlov won The Nobel of Physiology or Medicine Prize
• 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War
• 1907 - Joseph Rudyard Kipling recebe o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura.
• 1911 - Marie Curie recebe o seu segundo Prémio Nobel, o de Química.
• 1915 - Ford produz o milionésimo carro modelo T.
• 1922 - Albert Einstein recebe o Prêmio Nobel de Física.
• 1931 - Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
• 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, dies, Italian writer (b. 1867)
• 1936 - Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to pursue a relationship with a married American woman, the only British monarch to voluntarily surrender the crown. He subsequently became the Duke of Windsor, his brother was crowned George VI
• 1941 - Japanese forces land in the Philippines, capture Guam and sink the British ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
• 1942 - World War II North Africa- A strong German attack at Medjez el Bab, Tunisia, is turned by British and Free French defenders.
• 1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
• 1950 - William Faulkner won the Nobel Literature Prize 1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1953 - Winston Churchill , primeiro ministro inglês que liderou os aliados durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, recebe o Nobel de Literatura.
• 1954 - Ernest Hemingway, escritor norte-americano, recebe o Nobel de Literatura
• 1958- the first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York to Miami in about 21/2 hours.
• 1960- Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli is the first black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, born, actor, director
• 1961 - Rompimento de relações entre a União Soviética e a Albânia.
• 1961- O exército da União Indiana invadiu e ocupou Goa, Damão e Diu.
• 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1967 - Otis Redding , singer, died in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.
• 1975 - Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner
• 1983 - Lech Wałęsa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Danuta.
• 1983 - Raúl Alfonsín asume como presidente, recuperando las instituciones democráticas en Argentina.
• 1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1989 - Tomada de posse do primeiro governo não-comunista da Checoslováquia, desde 1948.
• 1993 - premier voyage officiel du train reliant la France et l'Angleterre sous la Manche
• 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East
• 1996 - Na África do Sul Nelson Mandela assina uma nova Constituição e põe fim ao regime racista do apartheid.
• 1998- O escritor português José Saramago torna-se o primeiro escritor de língua portuguesa a receber o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura.
• 1999 - Franjo Tuđman,dies, president of Croatia (b. 1922)
• 1999 - Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
• 2003 - Iranian democracy activist Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted the award in Oslo, Norway.
• 2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee, romancier sud-africain reçoit le prix Nobel de littérature
• 2003 - L'Américain Robert F. Engle et le Britannique Clive W. J. Granger reçoivent le Prix Nobel de science économique.
• 2004 - A Tombstone of Communist Carlos Marighella, in Salvador, Bahia is inaugurated to celebrate the of 35 years of his death. The tombstone was designed by Oscar Niemeyer.