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Dec 10

1520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant

1846 Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.

1863 P.T. Barnum's star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.

1904 Russia and Japan declare war on each other.

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson

1960 Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.

1966 Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1979

1967 CBS officially renames CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York (built in 1927 as Hammerstein's Theatre), as "The Ed Sullivan Theater" in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his program

1986 The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.

2019 Australian car maker Holden announces an end to Commodore production after 41 years

Born on Dec 10

1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (Dr. Zhivago).


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