December 10th, 1964Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norway’s capital Oslo. The clergyman and activist is honored for his non-violent campaign to end legal segregation of African Americans in the South.

"I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and non-violent redemptive goodwill proclaim the rule of the land.”

1869Women get the right to vote in Wyoming Territory, a first step towards securing that right for all women in the United States more than 50 years later.

1958America's first domestic passenger jet flight  as a Boeing 707 carrying 111 passengers travels from New York to Miami in about two and a half hours. 1967“Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes”

Soul singer and song writer, Otis Redding dies when his private plane crashes near Madison, Wisconsin. He was twenty six years old.

2005“This is an emergency. Can I talk to die...” Actor-comedian Richard Pryor dies at the age of 65. Today in history. December 10th.