This Day, That Year – December 10

The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays on this day in 1901.

Did you know that:

• The metric system was first adopted in France on this day in 1799
• “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain was first published on this day in 1884
• Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so, on this day in 1907