History for December 10

History for December 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas H. Gallaudet 1787 - Pioneer of educating the deaf, Emily Dickinson 1830 - Writer, Dorothy Lamour 1914 - Actress


Tommy Kirk 1941 - Actor, Susan Dey 1952 - Actress ("L.A. Law," "The Partridge Family"), Kenneth Branagh 1960 - Actor, director


1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.


1901 - The first Nobel prizes were awarded.


1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.


1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.


1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.


1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.


1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize. They pledged to pursue their mission of healing the Middle East.


1998 - The Palestinian leadership scrapped constitutional clauses that rejected Israel's existence.