12-10-2006, 06:27 PM
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December 10th
1815 ~ Birthday of Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer.
1822 ~ Birthday of César Franck, Composer & Organist.
1830 ~ Birthday of Emily Dickinson, Poet.
1896 ~ Death of Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize.
1901 ~ Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1941 ~ Japanese forces landed in the Philippines, captured Guam and sank the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
1953 ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1965 ~ The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
1978 ~ Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2002 ~ The High Court of Australia hands down its judgment in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
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