December 10

1851 – Famous librarian Melvil Dewey is born, best known for creating the catalogue "Dewey Decimal" system.

1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

• Physics: Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of x-rays
• Medicine: Emil von Behring for his work on serum therapy
• Chemistry: Jacobus H. van't Hoff for his work on rates of reaction, equilibrium and osmotic pressure
  

1984 – The National Science Foundation reported the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system, orbiting a star 21 million light years from Earth.