Important Events From This day in History – 10th December

Today in History

• 2007 Argentina swears in first female elected President

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first elected female President of Argentina.

• 2001 Release of the first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy

  The award-winning movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was directed by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

• 1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  For the first time, the document proclaimed that fundamental human rights were to be universally protected.

• 1901 First Nobel prize awarded

  Five years after the death of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.

• 1817 Mississippi becomes 20th state

  Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.