Today in history On Dec. 10, 1684, Edmund Halley read Isaac Newtons Derivation of Keplers Laws to the Royal Society. In 1690, Massachusetts Bay became the first American colonial government to borrow money. In 1817, Mississippi was admitted to the US as its 20th state. In 1864, during the US Civil War, Union Gen. Shermans armies reached Savannah, Ga., and began a 12-day siege of the city. In 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the Palace of Westminister, in London, In 1869, in a first for the US, women were given the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory. England. In 1896, in the first-ever college basketball game, Wesleyan defeated Yale by a score of 4 to 3. In 1898, after the Spanish-American War was resolved, the US acquired Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico with the signing of the Treaty of Paris In 1906, US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. In 1919, a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson. In 1927, The Grand Ole Opry made its first radio broadcast in Nashville, Tenn. In 1941, during World War II, the British battle-ship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by a Japanese air attack off the coast of Malaya; 840 sailors were killed; Japanese troops landed on Luzon, in the Philippines; and Japanese troops overran Guam. In 1942, the 5th Panzer Army was organized in North Africa. In 1943, the British Armys 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured Orsonga, in Italy. In 1944, the Germans hung nine Dutch citizens, and Nazi forces launched a counter-attack on the Allied forces at the Dillingen bridgehead, on the River Saar. In 1948, the UNs General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1953, the first issue of Playboy magazine was published. In 1965, The Grateful Dead performed in their first concert. In 1958, a National Airlines Boeing 707 made the first US domestic jet flight with 111 passengers, from New York City to Miami, Fla. In 1968, a robbery of 300 million yen occurred in Tokyo, Japan, and the case is still unsolved. In 1971, William H. Rehnquist was confirmed by the Senate as a US Supreme Court justice. In 1984, the first planet outside our own solar system was discovered. In 1987, Nightline was shown on Russian TV for the first time. In 2009, US President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, Norway. In 2010, Chinas inflation rate reached 5.1%. And in 2013, Mary Barra, of General Motors, became the first female CEO of a major automobile company; and Uruguay became the first nation in the world to legalize the growth, sale and use of marijuana. The parting shots Actress Susan Dey (The Partridge Family, Saturday Night Live, Looker, L.A. Law) turns 62 today. FXs criminal motorcycle gang on Sons of Anarchy has taken its last ride in the shows series finale.
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