On this day in history - Today, December, 10

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 called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was directed by Pet

• 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 protect

• 1901 First Nobel prize awarded

  Five years after the death of Swedish chemist and inventor, Alfred Nobel's, the first Nobel Prizes w

• 1817 Mississippi becomes 20th state

  Mississippi becomes the 20th state in the United States.