December 10th, 2021

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Dec.10th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
International Animal Rights Day

Today in History:
1901-First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
1901-First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1902-German organic chemist Emil Fischer is award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses
1903-Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of spontaneous radiation
1904-Ivan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize
1950- Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel
1964-Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo, Norway
1964-Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12
1993-"Doom" pioneering first-person shooter video game is uploaded onto the internet by id Software
Celebrities Birthdays:
William Plomer, South African-British author
Walter Zinn, Canadian-American nuclear physicist
Ross Taylor [Robert Murray Taylor], Scottish transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney transplantations in the U.K
Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and university professor
William Fred Dempster, crew member (Biosphere 2),
Walter Orange, American rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot),
Thomas Lux, American poet (Split Horizon),
Mark McKoy, Canadian track star (world record 50m indoor, Olympic gold 1992),
John de Wolf, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord),
Doug Henry, American baseball pitcher (NY Mets),
 
Movies Released on this day:
1978-Superman: The Movie,
1985-"Out of Africa"
2001-"The Fellowship of the Ring

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