This Day In History

December 10th

1810  The first interracial title boxing bout staged at Copthall Common in England with American Tom Molineaux who lost to Tom Cribb.
1817  Mississippi admitted into the Union as the 20th state.
1869  Women granted the right to vote in Wyoming.
1898  Treaty signed in Paris to officially end Spanish-American War.
1906  US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1950   Dr. Ralph Bunche becomes the first Afro American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
1953  Hugh Hefner published Playboy Magazine with an initial investment of $7,600.
1953  Singer Harry Belafonte debuted on Broadway
1964  Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
1967  Singer Otis Redding and four members of his backup group, the Bar-Kays, were killed in the crash of a private plane near Madison, Wisconsin.
1986  Exxon announced the sale of its 53-story Manhattan landmark to a Japanese real estate developer for $610 million.

1830  Poet Emily Dickinson
1914  Actress Dorothy Lamour (Kaumeyer)
1952  Actress Susan Dey
1961  Actress Nia Peeples

1960

• Are You Lonesome To-night? - Elvis Presley

• Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson

• A Thousand Stars - Kathy Young with The Innocents

• Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky

1968

• Love Child - Diana Ross  & The Supremes

• For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder I Heard It Through the Grapevine

• Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette

1976

• Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart

• The Rubberband Man - Spinners

• Muskrat Love - Captain and Tennille

• Good Woman Blues - Mel Tillis

1984

• Out of Touch - Daryl Hall & John Oates

• The Wild Boys - Duran Duran

• All Through the Night - Cyndi Lauper

• Chance of Lovin' You - Earl Thomas Conley

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