December 10th Celebrated History
1869
Wyoming Territory Governor John Campbell signs legislation granting women the right to vote and hold office. It's the first law in United States history explicitly granting women voting rights. The legislation carries forward into Wyoming statehood.
1884
Chatto & Windus / Charles L. Webster And Company publish Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the United Kingdom and Canada. They would publish the novel a year later in the United States.
1901
The Nobel Prize committee hosted the first Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. They presented four of the five prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature according to Alfred Nobel's will five years after his death. The fifth prize, the Peace Prize, was presented in Christiana, Norway (today known as Oslo.)
1978
Starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman, Superman premiered in Washington, D.C. Richard Donner directed the superhero movies that paved the way for more superhero movies.
December 10th Celebrated Birthdays
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1787
In 1817, Gallaudet along with Laurent Clerc opened the first school for the deaf in America.
Emily Dickinson - 1830
The brilliant New England poet wrote nearly 1,800 poems throughout her life. She is considered one of America's greatest poets and yet she received little recognition during her lifetime.
Ada Lovelace - 1815
The gifted mathematician wrote an algorithm that led to her being called the first computer programmer.
Melvil Dewey - 1851
The librarian invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification.
Michael Clarke Duncan - 1957
In 1999, the actor co-starred opposite Tom Hanks in The Green Mile. Written by Stephen King, Duncan played John Coffey, a man on death row with miraculous abilities.
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