| Year | Item | Detail |
|---|
| 2007 |
Cristina Fernandez becomes president |
Cristina Fernandez becomes the first woman to be elected president of Argentina. |
| 1987 |
First treaty to reduce arms levels signed |
Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the first treaty to reduce the size of nuclear arsenals today. !,752 Soviet and 859 US missiles will be decommissioned over three years |
| 1984 |
Desmomd Tutu receives Nobel peace prize |
The Anglican Archbishop of Johannesburg, Desmomd Tutu is awarded the Nobel peace prize. |
| 1983 |
Lech Walesa awarded the Nobel peace prize |
Lech Walesa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, his wife accepts the award on his behalf. |
| 1979 |
Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace prize |
Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace prize for her charitable works helping India's poor |
| 1975 |
Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace prize |
Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace prize. |
| 1967 |
Otis Redding dies in a Air Crash |
Otis Redding dies at the age of 26 in an air crash of his private plane in Wisconsin. |
| 1948 |
United Nations declares on Human Rights |
The United Nations General Assembly adopts its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. |
| 1906 |
Theodore Roosevelt awarded US Presidents Peace Prize |
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US President to receive a Nobel Peace Prize; for his mediation in the settlement of the Russo-Japanese war. |
| 1903 |
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie receive Nobel prize. |
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. |
| 1901 |
First Nobel Prizes |
The first Nobel laureates received their awards on this day, for outstanding contributions in the fields of literature, chemistry, physics, peace and medicine |
| 1896 |
Alfred Nobel dies |
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel dies in Sanremo in Italy. |