10th December: Today In History

Today is 10th December,  the 344 day of 2015. There are 21, days left in the year. Today's Highlight In History; Birthdays:   1830 Emily Dickinson, American poet   1851 Melvil Dewey, Devised the library classification system   1885 Vincent Lopez, Leader of first orchestra to play a live radio broadcast   1930 Rt Hon Michael Joplin, Conserative MP & former government minister   1954 Geoff Deane, Of the Pop group 'Modern Romance'   1957 Paul Hardcastle, Singer best known for his hit No. 1, '19'   1960 Kenneth Branagh, Actor and director, of stage and screen Events:   1768 The Royal Academy of Arts was founded, Joshua Reynolds becoming its first President   1845 The first pneumatic tyres were patented, by the Scottish civil engineer, Robert Thompson   1868 Londons first traffic lights came into operation near Parliament Square   1896 The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel prizes, died in San Remo, Italy   1903 Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel prize   1919 The Smith brothers became the first pilots, to complete a flight from Britain to Australia   1987 In Leicestershire, two dangerous prisoners escaped by helicopter from the Gartree maximum security prison   1998 The Caribbean island of Cuba became independent from Spain