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Roosevelt Wins Nobel Peace Prize On This Day
On December 10 1906 Theodore Roosevelt became the first American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Russo Japanese War. Other historical notes mark 1520 papal edict burning 1817 Mississippi statehood 1830 Emily Dickinson birth 1869 Wyoming women’s suffrage 1896 Spanish American War end treaty 1920 Wilson Nobel Prize 1931 Jane Addams Nobel co recipient 1950 Ralph Bunche Nobel Prize 1958 first domestic jet flight 1967 Otis Redding death 1977 Bonner husband Nobel honor 1984 Desmond Tutu Nobel peace prize speech. Also birthdays Dorothy Lamour Harold Gould Susan Dey. Thought for Today by Spinoza.
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