Today is Monday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2018. There are 21 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight: On Dec. 10, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepted it “with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind.”
On this date:
In 1817, Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state of the Union.
In 1869, women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.
In 1898, a treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
In 1931, Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient was Nicholas Murray Butler.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Tommy Kirk is 77. Actress Fionnula Flanagan is 77. Pop singer Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy) is 77. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ralph Tavares is 77. Actress-singer Gloria Loring is 72.
Thought for today: “Beauty is not caused. It is.” — Emily Dickinson, American poet (born this date in 1830, died in 1886).
— Associated Press
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