What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
12/10/1830	Emily Dickinson, poet
12/10/1851	Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
EVENTS
12/10/	Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
12/10/	Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
12/10/1520	Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding he recant.
12/10/1817	Mississippi becomes 20th state
12/10/1869	Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
12/10/1898	Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
12/10/1901	first Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, FrＥＳic Passy).
12/10/1906	Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
12/10/1920	President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
12/10/1948	UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
12/10/1950	Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
12/10/1963	Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
12/10/1975	A. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
12/10/1982	Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
12/10/1986	Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

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