What Happened On This Day ? December 10
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2007
Argentina swears in first female elected President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first elected female President of Argentina.
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2001
Release of the first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
The award winning movie called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was directed by Peter Jackson and was based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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1948
U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The document proclaimed, for the first time, fundamental human rights were to be universally protected.
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1901
First Nobel prize awarded
Five years after the death of Swedish chemist and inventor, Alfred Nobel's, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
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1817
Mississippi becomes 20th state
Mississippi becomes the 20th state in the United States.
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1956
Rod Blagojevich
American politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
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1908
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, ornithologist
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1878
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian lawyer, politician, 1st Governor General of India
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1830
Emily Dickinson
American poet
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1815
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician
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2006
Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general, politician, 30th President of Chile
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1999
Franjo Tuđman
Croatian general, politician, 1st President of Croatia
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1967
Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter, producer
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1951
Algernon Blackwood
English author
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1896
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, invented dynamite, founded the Nobel Prize