Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
December 10
| 1817 | Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state. | |
| 1861 | Kentucky is admitted to the Confederate States of America. | |
| 1862 | The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill creating the state of West Virginia. | |
| 1869 | Governor John Campbell signs the bill that grants women in Wyoming Territory the right to vote as well as hold public office. | |
| 1898 | The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, ceding Spanish possessions, including the Philippines, to the United States. | |
| 1917 | The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Red Cross. | |
| 1918 | U.S. troops are called to guard Berlin as a coup is feared. | |
| 1919 | Captain Ross Smith becomes the first person to fly 11,500 miles from England to Australia. | |
| 1936 | Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American-born divorcee. | |
| 1941 | Japanese troops invade the Philippine island of Luzon. | |
| 1941 | The siege of Tobruk in North Africa is raised. | |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill that postpones a draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. | |
| 1943 | Allied forces bomb Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. | |
| 1949 | 150,000 French troops mass at the border in Vietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion. | |
| 1950 | Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first African-American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| 1977 | On UN Human Rights Day, the Soviet Union places 20 prominent dissidents under house arrest, cutting off telephones and threatening to break up a planned silent demonstration in Moscow's Pushkin Square. Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world. | |
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Born on December 10 |
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| 1830 | Emily Dickinson, American poet of more than 1,000 poems, seven published in her lifetime. | |
| 1851 | Melvil Dewey, American librarian who created the Dewey Decimal System. | |
| 1881 | Viscount Alexander of Tunis, British soldier who took his title from his part in the Allied victories in North Africa. | |
| 1891 | Nelly Sachs, Nobel Prize-winning poet. | |
| 1903 | Mary Norton, English children's author (Bedknobs and Broomsticks). | |
| 1907 | Rumor Godden, English novelist (Black Narcissus). | |
| 1908 | Oliver Messian, French composer (Quartet for the End of Time). | |
| 1911 | Chester "Chet" Huntley, American broadcast journalist. | |
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