391 Historic Events for December 10
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Morton Gould, Richmond Hill NY, prolific composer (Verdun)
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| 1914 |
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French government returns to Paris
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress (Road to Bali)
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| 1915 |
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10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
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| 1915 |
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Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music
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| 1918 |
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John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Anne Gwynne, Waco TX, actress (Ride 'em Cowboy, House of Frankenstein)
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| 1919 |
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NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
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| 1919 |
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NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
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| 1919 |
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Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
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| 1919 |
Birth |
Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer
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| 1920 |
Birth |
Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
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| 1921 |
Death |
Viktor Jacobi, composer, dies at 38
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| 1922 |
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Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
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| 1922 |
Birth |
Allen Dwight Sapp, composer
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| 1922 |
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Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Abelardo Quinteros, composer
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He and She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
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| 1923 |
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Polish govt of Grabski, forms
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
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| 1924 |
Event |
Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
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| 1924 |
Event |
Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
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| 1925 |
Birth |
Carolyn Ashley Kizer, US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)
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| 1925 |
Event |
George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
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