Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - December 10, 2025

1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111

1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth

1962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years

1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens

1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617

1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)

1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state

1981 -13] El Salvador army kills 900

1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000

1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations

1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)

1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1983 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)

1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)

1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)

1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Fr‚d‚ric Passy)

1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood

1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls

1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1688 King James II flees London

1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0

1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace

1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat

1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam

1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH

1938 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7

1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary

1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein

1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered

1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car

1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)

1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67

1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer

1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet

1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize

1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris

1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st

1989 President Gustav Hus k of Czechoslovakia, resigns

1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins

1974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun

1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite

1945 Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts

1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba

1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam

1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs

1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines

1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups," premieres in NYC

1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards

1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics

1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis

1915 Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore

1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)

1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar

1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)

1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7

1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ

1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires

1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day

1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr

1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)

1978 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)

1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81

1899 Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang," premieres in Berlin

1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1899 -15] British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa

1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians

1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp

1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth

1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances

1973 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)

1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president

1864 General Shermans armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins

1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament

1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel

1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off

1810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)

1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)

1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans

1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1974 Space probe Helios 1 launched

1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim

1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress

1995 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs

1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"

1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime

1672 NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston

1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises

1986 France performs nuclear test

1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia

1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army

1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands

1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature

1919 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers

1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry

1992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key

1995 Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA

1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1958 U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates

1924 Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years

1882 John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres

1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson

1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)

1992 NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)

1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel

1919 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties

1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy

1963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show

1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances

1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands

1887 Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan

1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

0741 Zacharias becomes Pope

1931 Manuel Aza¤a becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain

1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel

1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola

1799 Metric system established in France

1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson

1987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time

1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2« years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances

1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die

1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000

1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season

1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant

1923 Polish govt of Grabski, forms

1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN

1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)

1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas

1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine

1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"

1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken

1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money

1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament

1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1816 Dutch regain Sumatra

1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement

1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium

1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled

1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester

1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution

1914 French government returns to Paris

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