Today in History: December 10, Former Vice President Al Gore accepts Nobel Peace Prize

Currently is Wednesday Dec the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On Dec former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call to confront human-caused weather change and stop waging war on the conditions Also on this date In the Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow state cabinet that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union ruling body in Frankfort Related Articles Logo blowup hits Cracker Barrel revenue Luigi Mangione s notes to self Pluck eyebrows Keep momentum FBI slower overnight Son arrested after Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes is stabbed to death at California home OpenAI names Slack CEO Dresser as first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit Cracker Barrel lowers revenue forecast as traffic falls after logo blowup In a treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War In President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War In Martin Luther King Jr received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo saying he accepted it with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind In singer Otis Redding and six others were killed when their plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake trumpeter Ben Cauley a member of the group the Bar-Kays was the only survivor In Yasser Arafat Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to advance the Middle East peace process In a two-day outbreak of tornadoes in the U S Midwest and South killed more than people across five states including in Kentucky The National Weather Operation recorded more than twisters Dec and Dec In Morocco became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals by beating Portugal - Currently s Birthdays Actor Fionnula Flanagan is Actor-singer Gloria Loring is Republican Sen John Boozman of Arkansas is Actor Susan Dey is Jazz musician Diane Schuur is Actor-director Kenneth Branagh BRAH -nah is Actor Nia Peeples is TV chef Bobby Flay is Rock musician Meg White The White Stripes is Actor Emmanuelle Chriqui is Actor Raven-Symone is Actor singer Teyana Taylor is Actor Kiki Layne is Cyclist Jonas Vingegaard is