WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008

Today is Wednesday, December 10, the 345th day of 2008. There are 21 days left in the year.

1520 _ Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant

1582 _ France begins use of Gregorian calendar

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

1903 _ Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1915 _ 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled

1925 _ George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel

1926 _ Second part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

1941 _ Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines

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

1983 _ Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's first civilian president