December 10 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 10
In the headlines today:

1999	Computer scientist Wen Ho Lee is arrested for suspicion of removing top secret data from computers at the Los Alamos weapons lab.
1995	The first US Marines arrive in Bosnia (formerly a part of Yugoslavia), to join the NATO peacekeeping mission there.
1990	Industrialist and Occidental Petroleum owner Armand Hammer dies at age 92.
1980	US Representative John W. Jenrette (D-SC) resigns, following his for activities relating to the FBI's ABSCAM investigation.
1967	26-year-old R&B singer Otis Redding, and four members of his band, are killed in a private plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin.
1964		Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. (photo credit: Jerden Records
1953	Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy magazine.
1950	United Nations undersecretary Ralph Bunche is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- the first African-American to be so honored.
1945	The Netherlands joins the United Nations.
1906	US president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1898	The Spanish-American War officially ends with the signing of a peace treaty in Paris.
1896	The first intercollegiate basketball game is played, as Wesleyan defeats Yale, 4-3.
1896	Scientist Alfred Nobel dies.
1869	Women in the Wyoming Territory gain the right to vote.
1817	Mississippi becomes the 20th state to join the US.