December 10
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December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining in the year.
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Events
- 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside the Elster Gate of Wittenberg
- 1508 - League of Cambrai formed as an alliance against Venice between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
- 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum read out to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
- 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1836 - Emory College, now Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
- 1864 - William Tecumseh Sherman reaches Savannah, Georgia, ending his "March to the Sea".
- 1869 - Wyoming grants women the right to vote
- 1898 - A treaty is signed in Paris that officially ends the Spanish-American War.
- 1901 - First Nobel Prizes awarded
- 1904 - Pi Kappa Phi is founded in Charleston, South Carolina
- 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1936 - Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily relinquished the throne, signed his instrument of abdication.
- 1941 - Japanese forces land in the Philippines, capture Guam and sink the British ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
- 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Red Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last KMT-held city on mainland China. Chiang Kai-shek leaves for Taiwan.
- 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
- 1970 - Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, often credited with saving a billion people from starvation, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1972 - Professional Wrestler Ric Flair has his first match against against George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski. It was a 10 minute draw.
- 1975 - Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner
- 1978 - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1983 - Lech Wałęsa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Danuta.
- 1984 - Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1986 - Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1993 - Shareware version of Doom is released.
- 2002 - High Court of Australia handed down its judgement in the Internet defamation dispute in the case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
- 2004 - A Tombstone of Communist Carlos Marighella, in Salvador, Bahia is inaugurated to commemorate the 35th year of his death.
- 2004 - Anil Kumble became India's highest wicket taker surpassing Kapil Dev's haul of 435 wickets.
- 2005 - Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan.
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Births
- 1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
- 1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
- 1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and phhilosopher (d. 1637)
- 1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
- 1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
- 1805 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (d. 1881)
- 1815 - Ada Lovelace, English computer programmer (d. 1852)
- 1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
- 1824 - George MacDonald, Scottish novelist, poet & preacher (d. 1905)
- 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
- 1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian (d. 1931)
- 1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author
- 1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
- 1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
- 1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1884 - Zinaida Serebryakova, Russian painter (d. 1967)
- 1886 - Marco Minghetti, Italian statesman (b. 1813)
- 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1907 - Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
- 1911 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
- 1913 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
- 1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
- 1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
- 1947 - Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician
- 1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
- 1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
- 1952 - Clive Anderson, British television host
- 1952 - Susan Dey, American actress
- 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
- 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Irish-born actor and director
- 1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
- 1980 - Alexa Rae, American actress
- 1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
- 1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
- 1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singapore Idol
- 1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
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Deaths
- 1041 - Michael IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
- 1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
- 1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
- 1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (b. 1544)
- 1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
- 1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
- 1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
- 1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
- 1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
- 1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
- 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
- 1911 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
- 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
- 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
- 1936 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
- 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
- 1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot
- 1946 - Walter Johnson, baseball player (b. 1887)
- 1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
- 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b. 1869)
- 1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar and translator (b. 1872)
- 1967 - Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
- 1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
- 1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
- 1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician
- 1978 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (b. 1924)
- 1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
- 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1901)
- 1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
- 1996 - Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
- 2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
- 2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
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Holidays and observances
- Sweden - Nobel Prize Ceremony, an official flag day
- Thailand - Constitution Day
- United Nations - Human Rights Day
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External links
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