On this day in history - December 10

What Happened On This Day – December 10

• 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.