On this day: December 10
"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.
1946: American writer Damon Runyon, best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era, dies of throat cancer at the age of 66 in New York City. Two of his stories, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," were used as the basis for the musical "Guys and Dolls."
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