Once Upon A Time – Dec. 10 – 1901 – First Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded To Red Cross Founder Jean Henri Dunant And Frederic Passy

1520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant

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.

1799 Metric system first adopted in France.

1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

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

Today’s Historical Events

Today In Film & Tv

1962 David Lean’s film “Lawrence of Arabia”, based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter O’Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963).

Today In Music

2016 Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony he does not attend in Stockholm.

Today In Sport

1831 “Spirit of the Times” begins publishing in New York City, the premier sports journal of the 19th century.

1960 Marriage of Ruth Magongo to Enoch Litswele. The two will serve as Nazarene missionaries and educators in various African countries, learning several languages in order to communicate with the tribes among whom they work and translating hymns into local tongues.

Do You Know This Fact About Today? Did You Know?

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

Would You Believe This Fact About Today? Would You Believe?

1932 The “Great Emu War” ends: Emu’s surprising resilience to bullets led to Emu victory over Australian military in Campion district, Western Australia