December 10

December 10 is the 344th day (345th on leap years) of the year. There are 21 days remaining.

Births:

• 1851: [Melvil Dewey]?, librarian, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system
• 1882: [Otto Neurath]?, Austrian philosopher
• 1915: Frank Sinatra, singer
• 1960: [Kenneth Branagh]?, English actor and film director

Deaths:

• 1896: Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize
• 1967: [Otis Redding]?, singer

Events:

• 1817: Mississippi becomes the 20th state
• 1898: A treaty is signed in Paris that officially ends the Spanish-American War
• 1905: [Berta von Suttner]?, Austrian writer, is the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize
• 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopts its Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 1965: The Grateful Dead play their first concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
• 2000: Spain wins the Davis Cup for the first time

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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