Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant Mississippi becomes 20th state Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Mass Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant Fr‚d‚ric Passy) Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize Harold Gould (Rhoda Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years Zanzibar gains independence from Britain Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26 Andrei Sakharovs wife Yelena Bonner accepts his Nobel Peace Prize Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth 211 days after take-off South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
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Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant