Daily Almanac: Dec. 10, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:55 a.m.
SET: 5:18 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 48 °F
LOW: 36 °F

Today is…

• Dewey Decimal System Day
• Human Rights Day
• National Lager Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1520 Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate
• 1901 The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death
• 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the Russo-Japanese War, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field

Births On This Day

• 1830 Emily Dickinson
American poet
• 1956 Rod Blagojevich
American politician and 40th Governor of Illinois

Deaths On This Day

• 1896 Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, invented dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize
• 1967 Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter and producer