On this day:
1901: First Nobel prize awarded
1948: U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Born on this day:
1815: Ada Lovelace, English mathematician
1830: Emily Dickinson, American poet
1878: C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer, politician, 1st Governor-General of India
Gone on this day:
1896: Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, invented dynamite, founded the Nobel Prize
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