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 called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was directed by Peter Jackson and was based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
1948 – U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The document proclaimed, for the first time, 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's, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
1817 – Mississippi becomes 20th state
Mississippi becomes the 20th state in the United States.
1956 – Rod Blagojevich
American politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
1908 – Olivier Messiaen
French composer, ornithologist
1878 – C. Rajagopalachari
Indian lawyer, politician, 1st Governor General of India
1830 – Emily Dickinson
American poet
1815 – Ada Lovelace
English mathematician
2006 – Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general, politician, 30th President of Chile
1999 – Franjo Tuđman
Croatian general, politician, 1st President of Croatia
1967 – Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter, producer
1951 – Algernon Blackwood
English author
1896 – Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, invented dynamite, founded the Nobel Prize
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