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12-09-2013, 09:24 PM
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December 10th
1815
~
Birthday of Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer.
1830
~
Birthday of Emily Dickinson, Poet.
1896
~
Death of
Alfred Nobel
, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize.
1907
~
President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1941
~
Japanese forces landed in the Philippines, captured Guam and sank the
HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
.
1948
~
the U.N. General Assembly adopted its
Universal Declaration on Human Rights
.
1953
~
Dr.
Albert Schweitzer
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978
~
Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat
were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2002
~
The High Court of Australia handed down its judgment in the internet defamation case of
Gutnick v Dow Jones
.
2005
~
Death of
Richard Pryor
, comedian & actor.
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