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Events on the 10th of December in history

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10 Dec 0741 Zacharias becomes Pope
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10 Dec 1041 The son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
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10 Dec 1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
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10 Dec 1317 The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
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10 Dec 1508 The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
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10 Dec 1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
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10 Dec 1510 Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
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10 Dec 1520 Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
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10 Dec 1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
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10 Dec 1541 Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
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10 Dec 1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
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10 Dec 1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
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10 Dec 1665 The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
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10 Dec 1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
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10 Dec 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.
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10 Dec 1688 King James II flees London
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10 Dec 1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money
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10 Dec 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
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10 Dec 1799 France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
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10 Dec 1799 Metric system established in France
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10 Dec 1810 Tom Cribb (Great Britain) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
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10 Dec 1816 Dutch regain Sumatra
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10 Dec 1817 Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
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10 Dec 1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
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10 Dec 1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
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10 Dec 1861 American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
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10 Dec 1861 Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
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10 Dec 1864 American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
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10 Dec 1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
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10 Dec 1868 The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
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10 Dec 1869 The Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
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10 Dec 1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
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10 Dec 1882 John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres
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10 Dec 1884 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
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10 Dec 1887 Austria-Hungary / Italy / Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
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10 Dec 1896 Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
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10 Dec 1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
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10 Dec 1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
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10 Dec 1898 Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
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10 Dec 1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
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10 Dec 1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs. British army
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10 Dec 1899 Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
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10 Dec 1899 1st defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Stormberg South Africa - Boers vs British army; nearly 3000 British troops killed
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10 Dec 1899 Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin
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10 Dec 1901 The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
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10 Dec 1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
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10 Dec 1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
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10 Dec 1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
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10 Dec 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
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10 Dec 1906 1st American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - President Theodore Roosevelt
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10 Dec 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 that have been vivisected.
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10 Dec 1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
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10 Dec 1909 Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
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10 Dec 1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
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10 Dec 1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
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10 Dec 1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
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10 Dec 1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
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10 Dec 1914 French government returns to Paris
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10 Dec 1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
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10 Dec 1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
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10 Dec 1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
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10 Dec 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US President Wilson
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10 Dec 1919 National League votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
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10 Dec 1919 New York, Boston, & Chicago, oppose American League resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
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10 Dec 1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
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10 Dec 1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
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10 Dec 1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms
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10 Dec 1924 Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
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10 Dec 1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
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10 Dec 1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
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10 Dec 1926 1st radio broadcast in the Springfield IL area (WCBS)
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10 Dec 1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
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10 Dec 1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
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10 Dec 1927 The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air.
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10 Dec 1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
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10 Dec 1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1931 Manuel Aza
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10 Dec 1932 Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
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10 Dec 1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
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10 Dec 1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of the season
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10 Dec 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
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10 Dec 1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
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10 Dec 1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
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10 Dec 1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
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10 Dec 1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
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10 Dec 1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
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10 Dec 1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
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10 Dec 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
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10 Dec 1938 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 30-7
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10 Dec 1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
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10 Dec 1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat the New York Giants 27-0
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10 Dec 1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
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10 Dec 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
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10 Dec 1941 World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
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10 Dec 1941 World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
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10 Dec 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
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10 Dec 1941 Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines
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10 Dec 1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
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10 Dec 1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of the Netherlands people"
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10 Dec 1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"
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10 Dec 1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
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10 Dec 1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
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10 Dec 1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
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10 Dec 1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
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10 Dec 1945 Australian Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wickets
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10 Dec 1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
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10 Dec 1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
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10 Dec 1948 The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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10 Dec 1949 Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
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10 Dec 1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1950 1st black American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - Ralph J Bunche
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10 Dec 1952 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel
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10 Dec 1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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10 Dec 1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
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10 Dec 1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Dec 1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling OH (CBS) begins
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10 Dec 1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
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10 Dec 1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1955 Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television.
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10 Dec 1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola
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10 Dec 1958 1st domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
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10 Dec 1958 University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
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10 Dec 1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
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10 Dec 1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
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10 Dec 1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
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10 Dec 1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
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10 Dec 1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
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10 Dec 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
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10 Dec 1963 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show
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10 Dec 1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
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10 Dec 1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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10 Dec 1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
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10 Dec 1965 The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.
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10 Dec 1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
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10 Dec 1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters vs England at the Gabba
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10 Dec 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
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10 Dec 1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
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10 Dec 1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
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10 Dec 1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Dec 1970 North American Soccer League awards New York & Toronto franchises
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10 Dec 1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
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10 Dec 1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
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10 Dec 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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10 Dec 1973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
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10 Dec 1974 Space probe Helios 1 launched
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10 Dec 1974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
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10 Dec 1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
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10 Dec 1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champion
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10 Dec 1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
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10 Dec 1976 The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
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10 Dec 1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
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10 Dec 1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
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10 Dec 1978 Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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10 Dec 1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1978 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadiens
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10 Dec 1978 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
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10 Dec 1979 Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
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10 Dec 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
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10 Dec 1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
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10 Dec 1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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10 Dec 1981 El Salvador army kills 900
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10 Dec 1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in New York NY
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10 Dec 1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
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10 Dec 1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
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10 Dec 1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat the New York Jets 34-7
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10 Dec 1983 Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
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10 Dec 1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
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10 Dec 1983 58th Australian Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
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10 Dec 1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
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10 Dec 1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
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10 Dec 1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
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10 Dec 1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
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10 Dec 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
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10 Dec 1986 France performs nuclear test
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10 Dec 1987 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time
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10 Dec 1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs. Montreal Canadiens
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10 Dec 1988 Massive Earthquake in Armenia kills 100,000 in cities of Leninakan & Spitak
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10 Dec 1989 Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
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10 Dec 1989 President Gustav Hus
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10 Dec 1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
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10 Dec 1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
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10 Dec 1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
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10 Dec 1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
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10 Dec 1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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10 Dec 1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2
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10 Dec 1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
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10 Dec 1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances
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10 Dec 1992 New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
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10 Dec 1992 NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
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10 Dec 1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
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10 Dec 1993 The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
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10 Dec 1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
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10 Dec 1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
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10 Dec 1994 Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
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10 Dec 1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
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10 Dec 1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
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10 Dec 1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7pm, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
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10 Dec 1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
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10 Dec 1995 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
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10 Dec 1995 Michael Slater scores 219 vs Sri Lanka at the WACA
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10 Dec 1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
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10 Dec 1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs Sri Lanka, WACA)
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