On This Day:
Wednesday December 10, 2014 This is the 344th day of the year, with 21 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: hiccups No one know for sure why people hiccup. A hiccup is caused by the diaphragm going into spasms that change our normal breathing pattern. As you take in more air in the diaphragm, your mouth and throat are trying to keep air from entering. It becomes a battle between the diaphragm and the mouth and throat. The rush of air hits your vocal cords and makes a "hic" sound. When the diaphragm settles down after a few minutes, breathing becomes normal again and the hiccups are gone.
Holidays Feast day of St. Gregory, pope, St. Edmund Gerhings, St. Eustace White, St. John Roberts, St. Eulalia of Merida, St. Swithin Wells, Saints Mannas, Hermogenes and Eugrphus, St. Polydore Plaaden, and St. Melchiades or Miltiades.
United Nations: Human Rights Day (when the UN adopted the Declaration of Human Rights).
United States, Mississippi: Admission Day.
Thailand: Constitution Day.
Events 1719 - The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis took place in New England.
1817 - Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state.
1845 - Pneumatic tires were patented by Scottish civil engineer Robert Thompson.
1869 - Women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.
1898 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire, the Philippines.
1901 - Nobel prizes were first awarded, in Oslo, Norway.
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1927 - The Grand Ole Opry made its first radio broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee.
1931 - Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1950 - Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.
1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew passengers from New York City to Miami.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.
1980 - U.S. Representative John W. Jenrette (D-SC) resigned to avoid being expelled from the House following his conviction on charges relating to the FBI's ABSCAM investigation.
1996 - South Africa's President Nelson Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomacy in the Middle East in the 1970s.
2003 - Iranian democracy activist Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Births 1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer.
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet.
1851 - Melvil Dewey, the American librarian famous for creating the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
1911 - Chester "Chet" Huntley, American broadcast journalist.
Deaths 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish industrialist and philanthropist who also founded the Nobel Prizes.
1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer and songwriter, in an airplane crash.
1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist.
2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor, at age 65.
2005 - Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy, 89, American politician and a longtime member of the U.S. Congress.
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