The Low Memorial Library is a building at the center of Columbia University 's Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan , New York City, United States. Designed by Charles Follen McKim of the firm McKim, Mead & White , the building was constructed between 1895 and 1897 as the central library of Columbia's library system . Columbia University president Seth Low funded the building and named it in memory of his father, Abiel Abbot Low . Its facade and interior are New York City designated landmarks , and the building is also a National Historic Landmark . Low is shaped like a Greek cross and is four stories tall, excluding a ground-level basement. The first floor contains an ambulatory around an octagonal rotunda . The stacks had space for 1.5 million volumes. The building was poorly suited for library use, but its central location made it a focal point of the university's campus. Following the completion of the much larger Butler Library in 1934, Low was converted to administrative offices. ( Full article... )

Dina Boluarte

• American basketball player Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout are freed via a prisoner exchange .
• After a failed attempt at dissolving Congress , Peruvian president Pedro Castillo is impeached and removed from office, and Dina Boluarte (pictured) becomes the country's first female president.
• The final Boeing 747 aircraft to be built rolls off the assembly line at Everett, Washington , United States.
• Jiang Zemin , former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , dies at the age of 96.

Buckeye chicken

• ... that Nettie Metcalf was the first woman recognized by the American Poultry Association for creating a breed of chicken, the Buckeye chicken (example pictured) , in the 1890s?
• ... that Gary Kemp put subtle references to Vladimir Nabokov 's Lolita in his lyrics for Spandau Ballet 's " True " so Clare Grogan would know the song was about her?
• ... that the home of American revolutionary leader John Cooper was used by General Lord Cornwallis as his headquarters during the British occupation of Woodbury, New Jersey , in 1777?
• ... that the Morane-Borel military monoplane participated in the Reims Military Aviation Competition , where it lost?
• ... that in 1858, when Congress delayed its decision on Oregon statehood, Nathaniel H. Gates became the last Speaker of Oregon’s Territorial House of Representatives ?
• ... that Teardown was not traditionally marketed because of the popularity it gained through Twitter ?
• ... that Orion Anderson , who was murdered by a lynch mob in Virginia in 1889, was recently found to have been only 14 years old at the time of his death?
• ... that a reviewer warned that Totoro would lead to "sore cheeks"?

December 10 : Human Rights Day around the world; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden

Brown Dog memorial

• 1684 – Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum , containing Isaac Newton 's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity , to the Royal Society .
• 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
• 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair , protesters marched through London and clashed with police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial (pictured) for animals that had been vivisected .
• 1941 – Second World War : The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya .
• 1989 – At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union , which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later .