Historical Events for 10th December 2023

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1899 - -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa
1911 - Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
1926 - 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 - An early report of the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states
1956 - Establishment of The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, MPLA (from Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), left-wing party that has ruled since independence from Portugal
1980 - Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1983 - Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1988 - Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine presented to Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings and James W. Black for development of new drugs
2016 - Terrorist bomb attacks outside a stadium in Istanbul kill 38 and injure 166

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