This week in history was a slow moving week but an eventful one. The first event that happened this week was on December 10 of 1901. This day was when the first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The ceremony was 5 years after the death of Alfred Nobel. Notable winners have included Marie Curie, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, and Martin Luther King Jr.






The next event that happened this week came on December 13 of 2000. This was the mark of the legal dispute between Al Gore and George W. Bush  coming to an end. Al Gore was ruled the loser in the battle for presidency on this day by supreme court. In my opinion there should be no way that Al Gore should have won because of his beliefs and I didn't think he was the best person to run our country. Al Gore went into the race as a heavy favorite but ended up getting upset by George W. Bush by a small margin. It was so small of a margin that they went into legal battles because nobody exactly knew who won.







The final event in this post on my blog is the reaching of the South Pole. Ronald Amundsen was the first one to reach this historic landmark. It happened on December 14th of 1911 when he beat his rival competitor by the name of Robert Falcon Scott. It took a little over a year to make this milestone a reality for Amundsen which to me is something crazy that I would never think of doing.