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Today in History

December 10th, 1964
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norway’s capital Oslo. [-----1-----] is honored for his non-violent campaign to end [-----2-----] of African Americans in the South.

"I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned [-----3-----] over war and bloodshed, and non-violent [-----4-----] goodwill proclaim the rule of the land.”

1869
Women 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.

1958
America's first domestic passenger [-----5-----] 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.
The clergyman and activist legal segregation triumphant redemptive jet flight