Sculptor Nguyen Thi Kim

Events in 1917 and 10-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Nguyen Thi Kim

• First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
• Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
• World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
• Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
• Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday Nguyen Thi Kim (10-12) in history

• Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
• Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
• Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
• Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
• Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
• Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.