MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007

Today is Monday, December 10, the 344th day of 2007. There are 21 days left in the year.

741 _ Zacharias becomes Pope

1520 _ Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant

1799 _ The Metric system established in France

1887 _ Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs the military treaty of Balkan

1898 _ The Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam

1903 _ Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1906 _ The first American awarded Nobel Peace Prize ― President Theodore Roosevelt

1907 _ Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature

1914 _ The French government returns to Paris

1920 _ President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize

1925 _ George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel

1936 _ King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson

1941 _ Japanese troops overrun Guam

1948 _ The U.N. General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1954 _ Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1964 _ Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King

1965 _ Dutch ends the economic boycott of Rhodesia

1984 _ South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

1986 _ Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1994 _ Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat