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