Happy Birthday...if it's not your birthday, then this is what happened December 10, 1953;
Music;
Frankie Laine - Answer Me and David Whitfield -Answer Me. (both acts shared the No.1 spot with the same song), England.
Tony Bennett - Rags To Riches, USA.
Births;
Jack Scalia actor/director (Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force).
Deaths;
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
Events;
Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.
"John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances,
KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle WA (ABC) begins broadcasting,
WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling OH (CBS) begins.
Things that happen every year on Dec. 10;
Rights of Man Day - Khmer Republic
Admission Day - Mississippi
Human Rights Day - UN & Equatorial Guinea
World Freedom Day - World
Wyoming Day (women's suffrage) - Wyoming
Thought for the day;
" If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. "
Oh...21 days before my birhday.
edit;
Is that you Bully that keeps giving me a thumbs down on any question I answer?
2006-09-17 05:14:22
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answered by Anonymous
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on this day (10th December) 1953 nothing worth mentioning happened. However the following important events happened on 10th of December (344th day of the year) in other years:
Fact of the Day: Co-op City
Co-op City, in the Bronx, New York, is the largest cooperative housing complex in the United States. It consists of 15,372 apartments and houses more than 60,000 residents. Co-op City opened on December 10, 1968 with the purpose of keeping middle-class people from moving out of the city and into the suburbs.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Gregory, pope, St. Edmund Gerhings, St. Eustace White, St. John Roberts, St. Eulalia of Merida, St. Swithin Wells, Saints Mannas, Hermogenes and Eugrphus, St. Polydore Plaaden, and St. Melchiades or Miltiades.
United Nations: Human Rights Day (when the UN adopted the Declaration of Human Rights).
United States, Mississippi: Admission Day.
Thailand: Constitution Day.
Events
1719 - The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis took place in New England.
1817 - Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state.
1845 - Pneumatic tires were patented by Scottish civil engineer Robert Thompson.
1869 - Women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.
1898 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire, the Philippines.
1901 - Nobel prizes were first awarded, in Oslo, Norway.
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1927 - The Grand Ole Opry made its first radio broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee.
1931 - Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1950 - Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.
1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew passengers from New York City to Miami.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.
1980 - U.S. Representative John W. Jenrette (D-SC) resigned to avoid being expelled from the House following his conviction on charges relating to the FBI's ABSCAM investigation.
1996 - South Africa's President Nelson Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution.
Births
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer.
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet.
1851 - Melvil Dewey, the American librarian famous for creating
the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
1911 - Chester "Chet" Huntley, American broadcast journalist.
Deaths
1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish industrialist and philanthropist who also founded the Nobel Prizes.
1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer and songwriter, in
an airplane crash.
2006-09-17 12:49:27
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answered by Anonymous
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I was in the Paradise theater in Westchester, CA watching "The Phantom of the Rue Morgue" in 3-D.
2006-09-17 11:17:59
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answered by ALWAYS GOTTA KNOW 5
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I was exactly 1 day old, so not exactly into world events.
2006-09-17 11:31:10
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answered by PariahMaterial 6
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This link was the only thing I could find..?
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/1953resn-4.htm
2006-09-17 12:00:23
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answered by Anonymous
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a lot of things, I am sure
2006-09-17 11:17:48
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answered by billyandgaby 7
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you were born?
2006-09-17 11:20:08
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answered by rsist34 5
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my mom's birthday :D
2006-09-17 11:19:57
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answered by purple_star 2
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