in 2009, Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize

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In the calendar

Saint-Romaric Lord Frank, Romaric first served the kings of Austrasia (eastern territories) then founded two monasteries in the Vosges, one of which gave its name to the town of Remiremont. The Romarics have to charm and are emotional. Their color: violet. Their number: 9.

It happened on December 10

1848 In France, election of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte as president of the II^e Republic. 1919 Goncourt Prize to Marcel Proust for “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”. 1948 Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. 1953 Winston Churchill, Nobel prize for literature. 1954 Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize winner for literature. 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1991 Occitan singer Francis Cabrel enters the Parisian Top 50 with a cover recorded in concert in Sarlat of the song “Petite Marie”.

1993 The end of work on the Channel Tunnel, linking France and England. 1996 New constitution in South Africa, definitive end of the segregationist regime of apartheid between minority whites and blacks. 2022 During the Football World Cup in Qatar, Morocco won its match against Portugal and qualified for the semi-finals.

They were born on December 10

Dorothy Lamour, actress (1914 – 1996), Franck Fernandel, singer (1935 – 2011), Kenneth Branagh, actor and director (1960), Brian Molko, singer and guitarist of the group Placebo (1972).