DECEMBER 10
1869: John Campbell, territorial governor of Wyoming, approves the first law in the United States explicitly endorsing female suffrage, granting women over age 21 the right to vote and hold public office in the future Equality State. All women in the United States will win the right to vote when the 19th Amendment is ratified on Aug. 18, 1920.
1965:The Grateful Dead play first concert.
1684:Edmund Halley reads Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws to Royal Society
1967: Only three days after recording his classic "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay," Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays are killed in the crash of a private plane near Madison, Wis.
1898:After the Spanish-American War resolved, U.S. acquired Guam & the Philippines.
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