Hoy en la Historia

December 10, 1898

The Spanish-american War ended. The Treaty of Paris guaranteed Cuba’s independence and ceded Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the U.S.

1868: The world’s first traffic lights came into operation in London

1903: Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, awarded the honours in physics for her role in the isolation of radium 1948: The United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2011: Over 40,000 people in Moscow protested against alleged election fraud by Vladimir Putin