Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. St. Jerome
Argentina swore in her first female elected President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first elected female President of Argentina in 2007.
Release of the first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
The award winning movie called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was directed by Peter Jackson and was based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It was released in 2001.
U.N. General Assembly adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The document proclaimed, for the first time, fundamental human rights were to be universally protected. It was adopted on this day in 1948.
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First Nobel prize was awarded
Five years after the death of Swedish chemist and inventor, Alfred Nobel’s, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901.
Mississippi became 20th state
Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States on this day in 1817.
