December 10
1817 - Mississippi became the 20th state.
1861 - The Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow state government that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort.
1869 - The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold public office.
1898 - A treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.
1901 - The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1950 - Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first African American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 - Singer Otis Redding, age 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin's Lake Monona; trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the group the Bar-Kays, was the only survivor.
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.
1999 - Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
2004 - A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam for the first time since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment.
Birthdays
28 - Joe Burrow (football player)
32 - Melissa Roxburgh (actress)
33 - Kiki Layne (actress)
34 - Teyana Taylor (actress/singer)
38 - Natti Natasha (singer)
39 - Raven-Symone (actress)
41 - Maliah Michel (model)
49 - Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress)
60 - Bobby Flay (TV chef)
63 - Nia Peeples (actress)
64 - Kenneth Branagh (actor)
72 - Susan Dey (actress)
78 - Gloria Loring (actress/singer)
83 - Fionnula Flanagan (actress)
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Today in Sports History - December 10
1919 - The National League voted to ban spitballs by all new pitchers. The Rules Committee officially worked out the ban the following February.
1922 - The Canton Bulldogs win the first NFL championship.
1924 - The American and National Leagues agree on a permanent rotation of World Series games, with each league's champion getting games 1, 2, 6 and 7 in alternating years.
1939 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the New York Giants 27-0 to win the NFL championship.
1961 - Houston Oilers back Billy Cannon gains an AFL record 373 all-purpose yards in a 48-21 win over the New York Titans.
1972 - The American League voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule in a three-year experiment. In December of 1975 the American League voted to permanently adopt the designated-hitter rule.
1972 - The longest non-scoring pass in NFL history was made when Jim Hart (St. Louis Cardinals) threw a pass from his own one yard-line to Bobby Moore (Ahmad Rashad). Moore was tackled on the Rams' one-yard line. The pass was officially 98 yards.
1992 - The NHL awarded franchises to Miami and Anaheim for the 1994-95 season.
1994 - Art Monk (New York Jets) set an NFL record of 178 straight games with a reception.
1994 - Colorado running back Rashaan Salaam wins the Heisman Trophy.
1995 - In the first meeting of NBA expansion teams, the Toronto Raptors defeat the Vancouver Grizzlies 93-81.
2001 - Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch wins the Heisman Trophy.
2005 - USC running back Reggie Bush wins the Heisman Trophy. (Bush later forfeits the trophy for NCAA violations; it was restored to him in 2024.)
2007 - Michael Vick was sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, VA, to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed.
2016 - Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy and becomes the awards youngest winner, at age 19.
2022 - USC quarterback Caleb Williams wins the Heisman Trophy.
2022 - Morocco became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals by beating Portugal, 1-0.
1817 - Mississippi became the 20th state.
1861 - The Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow state government that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort.
1869 - The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold public office.
1898 - A treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.
1901 - The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1950 - Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first African American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 - Singer Otis Redding, age 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin's Lake Monona; trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the group the Bar-Kays, was the only survivor.
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.
1999 - Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
2004 - A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam for the first time since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment.
Birthdays
28 - Joe Burrow (football player)
32 - Melissa Roxburgh (actress)
33 - Kiki Layne (actress)
34 - Teyana Taylor (actress/singer)
38 - Natti Natasha (singer)
39 - Raven-Symone (actress)
41 - Maliah Michel (model)
49 - Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress)
60 - Bobby Flay (TV chef)
63 - Nia Peeples (actress)
64 - Kenneth Branagh (actor)
72 - Susan Dey (actress)
78 - Gloria Loring (actress/singer)
83 - Fionnula Flanagan (actress)
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Today in Sports History - December 10
1919 - The National League voted to ban spitballs by all new pitchers. The Rules Committee officially worked out the ban the following February.
1922 - The Canton Bulldogs win the first NFL championship.
1924 - The American and National Leagues agree on a permanent rotation of World Series games, with each league's champion getting games 1, 2, 6 and 7 in alternating years.
1939 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the New York Giants 27-0 to win the NFL championship.
1961 - Houston Oilers back Billy Cannon gains an AFL record 373 all-purpose yards in a 48-21 win over the New York Titans.
1972 - The American League voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule in a three-year experiment. In December of 1975 the American League voted to permanently adopt the designated-hitter rule.
1972 - The longest non-scoring pass in NFL history was made when Jim Hart (St. Louis Cardinals) threw a pass from his own one yard-line to Bobby Moore (Ahmad Rashad). Moore was tackled on the Rams' one-yard line. The pass was officially 98 yards.
1992 - The NHL awarded franchises to Miami and Anaheim for the 1994-95 season.
1994 - Art Monk (New York Jets) set an NFL record of 178 straight games with a reception.
1994 - Colorado running back Rashaan Salaam wins the Heisman Trophy.
1995 - In the first meeting of NBA expansion teams, the Toronto Raptors defeat the Vancouver Grizzlies 93-81.
2001 - Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch wins the Heisman Trophy.
2005 - USC running back Reggie Bush wins the Heisman Trophy. (Bush later forfeits the trophy for NCAA violations; it was restored to him in 2024.)
2007 - Michael Vick was sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, VA, to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed.
2016 - Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy and becomes the awards youngest winner, at age 19.
2022 - USC quarterback Caleb Williams wins the Heisman Trophy.
2022 - Morocco became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals by beating Portugal, 1-0.
