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10th December |
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Born on this day
1889 Ray Collins 1910 Jill Summers 1932 Dan Blocker 1926 Harry Fowler 1945 Chad Stewart 1952 Clive Anderson 1957 Paul Hardcastle 1958 Lawrie 'Pepsi' Demacque 1960 Kenneth Brannagh Music 1972 Roberta Flack along with 2 members of her backing group, was injured in a car crash, in New York. Sport 1983 Sheffield United football club was told spectators would be banned from the terraces until a £51,000 bill for policing the previous season was paid. People & Showbiz 1768 The Royal Academy of Arts was founded with Joshua Reynolds its first President. 1901 Nobel Prizes were awarded for the first time. 1903 Marie Curie became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. General Events 1845 Scottish civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tyre. 1868 The first traffic lights went into operation off London's Parliament Square. 1902 The Aswan dam, built to control the Nile floods was opened. 1903 Sir William Cremer became the first British Nobel Prize winner with his Peace Prize for his work as secretary of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1907 Rudyard Kipling became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1919 The Smith brothers became the first aviators to fly successfully from Britain to Australia. 1964 Dorothy Hodgekin became the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her Chemistry Prize was awarded for her work with penicillin and the structure of vitamin B12. |
