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1520 \u2013 Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine<\/em> (a denunciation of many of Luther’s 95 theses and an order to recant them) outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate.<\/p>\n 1684 \u2013 Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, derived from Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, titled –De Motu Corporum In Gyrum –<\/em> On the motion of bodies in an orbit – <\/em>\u00a0is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley. Yes that<\/em> Halley; the astronomer with a comet named after him.<\/p>\n 1768 \u2013 The first edition of the Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica is published.<\/p>\n 1817 \u2013 Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 During Sherman’s March to the Sea, Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n 1884 \u2013 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> is published.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 The Treaty of Paris of 1898 is signed, officially ending the Spanish\u2013American War, with Spain relinquishing all claim of sovereignty over, and title to: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, with Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen being awarded the prize in Physics for his discovery of X-rays<\/p>\n 1906 \u2013 President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 Imperial Japanese forces, under the command of General Masaharu Homma, land on Luzon island in the Philippines. 1949 \u2013 President of the Republic of China,\u00a0 Chiang Kai-shek and his government is forced to retreat to Taiwan when the communist People’s Liberation Army besieges Chengdu, the last Kuomintang held city in mainland China.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 David Lean’s film “Lawrence of Arabia” premieres at Odeon Leicester Square.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for agreeing to the Camp David Accords which leads to a peace treaty between the nations.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 A widespread tornado outbreak hits the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the U.S., killing 89 people with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 10 1520 \u2013 Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine (a denunciation of many of Luther’s 95 theses and an order to recant them) outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate. 1684 \u2013 Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, derived from Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, titled –De Motu Corporum In Gyrum – … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62617"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98433,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617\/revisions\/98433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Royal Navy’s Battleship HMS Prince of Wales<\/em> and Cruiser HMS Repulse<\/em> are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers off British Malaya while attempting to stop Japanese landings there.<\/p>\n