On this day: December 10
POSTED: 12:41 AM PST Dec 09, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 09, 2012
"Huckleberry Finn" is first published, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded, the first transcontinental flight ends, Playboy debuts, and "Avatar" premieres in theaters, all on this day.
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1976: The band Wings release their triple album "Wings Over America." The album would prove another success for Paul McCartney's band, reaching No. 1 in the United States in early 1977 (the last in a five-album stretch of consecutive No. 1 albums for Wings) and No. 8 in the United Kingdom.
