December 10
Today in America's Present Past
1690 | Massachusetts Bay becomes the first American colonial government to issue paper money.
1787 | Educator Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born.
1805 | Abolitionist and publisher William Lloyd Garrison was born.
1813 | Republican Party founder Zachariah Chandler was born.
1817 | Statehood: Mississippi granted statehood.
1830 | Poet Emily Dickinson was born.
1836 | Emory College was founded.
1851 | Librarian Melvil Dewey was born.
1864 | Civil War: General Sherman begins a 12-day siege of Savannah, Georgia.
1864 | Geographer Henry Schoolcraft died.
1869 | Kappa Sigma was founded
1869 | Civil Rights: The Wyoming territory granted women suffrage.
1878 | Entrepreneur Henry Wells died.
1898 | The Treaty of Paris was signed, and the U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam from Spain.
1899 | Delta Sigma Phi was founded.
1904 | Pi Kappa Phi was founded.
1906 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1909 | Sioux Chief Red Cloud died.
1919 | POTUS: Democrat President Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1920 | Entrepreneur Horace Elgin Dodge died.
1930 | Scientist Karl Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize.
1931 | Activist Jane Adams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1938 | Scientist Enrico Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize.
1941 | WWII: Colin Kelly, American B-17 Flying Fortress pilot was killed in action.
1946 | Author Damon Runyon died.
1947 | Musician Ella Fitzgerald wed Ray Brown.
1950 | Diplomat Ralph Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1954 | Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1955 | Author Jacquelyn Mitchard was born.
1960 | Willard Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1962 | Film: “Lawrence of Arabia” debuted.
1964 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 | Musician Ottis Redding died.
1968 | Cleric Thomas Merton died.
1972 | Poet and author Mark van Doren died.
1974 | Musician Meg White was born in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
1978 | Film: “Superman” debuted.
1978 | Director Ed Wood died.
1983 | Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1986 | Activist Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 | Entrepreneur Armand Hammer died.
2005 | Politician Eugene McCarthy died.
2005 | Musicians Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood wed.
2005 | Actor Richard Pryor died.
2009 | POTUS: Democrat President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2010 | Chemist John Bennett Fenn died.
2016 | Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.