On this day, Dec. 10…

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

Also on this day:

1817: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union.

Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union. 1869: Women are granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.

Women are granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory. 1898: A treaty is signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.

A treaty is signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War. 1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler.

Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler. 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepts it “with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind.”