What happened on December 10? There are more than 249 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About December 10
December 10 is the 345th day of the year 2024. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 50th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Peterson, Alabama 35478 sunrise will occur at 06:41 AM and sunset will occur at 04:44 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Sagittarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Turquoise while the mystical birthstone is Onyx.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 50 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For December 10
- 1041The adopted son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 1508The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
- 1520Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate.
- 1541Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
- 1665The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
- 1684Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
- 1799France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
- 1817Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1861American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government’s pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
- 1861Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
- 1864American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
- 1868The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
- 1869Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1884Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
- 1898Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
- 1899Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
- 1901The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- 1902Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
- 1904The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
- 1906U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
- 1907The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
- 1911The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.
- 1927The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
- 1932Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1935The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
- 1936Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- 1941World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
- 1941World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
- 1948The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1949Chinese Civil War: The People’s Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
- 1955The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- 1965The Grateful Dead’s first concert performance under this new name.
- 1968Japan’s biggest heist, the still-unsolved “300 million yen robbery”, is carried out in Tokyo.
- 1978Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1979Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
- 1983Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
- 1989Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
- 1993The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
- 1994Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
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Who Were Born On December 10?
- 1394King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
- 1452Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
- 1588Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
- 1751George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
- 1787Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
- 1804Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
- 1805Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
- 1815Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
- 1820Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
- 1821Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)
- 1822César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
- 1824George MacDonald, Scottish writer and preacher (d. 1905)
- 1827Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
- 1830Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
- 1851Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)
- 1866Louis Bolk, a Dutch anatomist (d. 1930)
- 1870Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
- 1870Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
- 1870Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
- 1878Rajaji, India’s freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d. 1972)
- 1880Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
- 1882Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1884Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
- 1885Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
- 1886Annie Bos, Dutch actress (d. 1975)
- 1886Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis (d. 1969)
- 1891Nelly Sachs, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
- 1903Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1907Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1907Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1908Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
- 1909Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
- 1911Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1912Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
- 1913Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
- 1913Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
- 1913Pannonica de Koenigswarter, jazz patroness and writer
- 1914Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1917Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
- 1918Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
- 1918Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1919Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
- 1920Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
- 1920Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
- 1922Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974–1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
- 1923Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1924Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
- 1925Carolyn Kizer, American poet
- 1925Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1928Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1928John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
- 1933Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
- 1934Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
- 1935Terry Allcock, English footballer
- 1938Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
- 1939Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
- 1939Dick Bavetta, American basketball referee
- 1941Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
- 1941Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
- 1941Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
- 1941Tommy Kirk, American actor
- 1941Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1944Steve Renko, American baseball player
- 1945Mukhtar Altynbayev, former Kazakhstani Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan
- 1946Thomas Lux, American poet
- 1947Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
- 1947Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
- 1947Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
- 1948Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
- 1950John Boozman, American politician, junior senator of Arkansas
- 1951Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
- 1952Clive Anderson, English television presenter
- 1952Susan Dey, American actress
- 1953Chris Bury, American journalist
- 1954Jack Hues, English musician
- 1955Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
- 1956Jan van Dijk, Dutch football player and football manager
- 1956Roberto Cassinelli, Italian politician and lawyer
- 1956Rod Blagojevich, 40th Governor of Illinois
- 1957Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
- 1957Paul Hardcastle, English composer and musician
- 1957Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker
- 1958John J. York, American actor
- 1958Pepsi Demacque, aka Helen Pepsi Demacque-Crockett English singer
- 1959Mark Aguirre, American basketball player
- 1959Udi Aloni, American-Israeli filmmaker, writer, and activist
- 1959Wolf Hoffmann, German musician (Accept)
- 1960Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
- 1960Michael Schoeffling, American actor
- 1961Nia Peeples, American singer/actress
- 1961Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician
- 1962John de Wolf, former Dutch International footballer
- 1963Jahangir Khan, former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan
- 1964Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
- 1964George Newbern, American actor
- 1964Stef Blok, Dutch politician
- 1965Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010)
- 1965J Mascis, American musician
- 1965Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
- 1966Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
- 1969Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970Bryant Stith, American basketball player
- 1971Bill Baroni, American government official
- 1971Brian Nichols, American spree killer
- 1972Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
- 1972Donovan Frankenreiter, American surfer
- 1974Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
- 1975Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
- 1975Kristel Verbeke, Flemish singer, actress, host
- 1975Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
- 1977Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
- 1977Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler
- 1978Summer Phoenix, American actress
- 1979Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
- 1980Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
- 1980Sarah Chang, American violinist
- 1981Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
- 1981Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
- 1981Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
- 1982Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
- 1983Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
- 1983Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
- 1983Patrick Flueger, American actor
- 1983Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
- 1984Jayson Paul, American wrestler
- 1984Mark Applegarth, Rugby League player
- 1985Matt Forte, American football player
- 1985Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
- 1985T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
- 1985Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
- 1986Matthew Bates, English footballer
- 1987Gonzalo Higuaín, French/Argentine footballer
- 1988Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
- 1989Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer
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Who Died On December 10?
- 949Herman I, Duke of Swabia
- 1041Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
- 1198Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
- 1508René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
- 1603William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
- 1618Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551)
- 1626Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
- 1665Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
- 1677Samuel Gorton, English-born colonial American religious activist and pioneer settler of Rhode Island (b. 1593)
- 1736António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1663)
- 1831Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
- 1850François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
- 1850Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
- 1865King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
- 1896Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
- 1909Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief (b. 1822)
- 1911Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
- 1917Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician (b. 1823)
- 1920Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1868)
- 1922Clement Lindley Wragge, British-born meteorologist (b. 1852)
- 1926Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician (b. 1845)
- 1928Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
- 1936Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
- 1936Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
- 1941Colin Kelly, American bomber pilot (KIA; b. 1915)
- 1944John Brunt, British military officer (b. 1922)
- 1945Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer (b. 1913)
- 1946Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
- 1946Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
- 1951Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
- 1953Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
- 1956David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer (b. 1891)
- 1958Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b. 1864)
- 1967Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
- 1967Phalon Jones, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1949)
- 1967Ronnie Caldwell, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1948)
- 1968George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (b. 1921)
- 1968Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
- 1968Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
- 1973Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
- 1977Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
- 1978Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
- 1979Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
- 1982Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1986Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
- 1986Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
- 1987Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (b. 1901)
- 1988Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
- 1988Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
- 1990Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
- 1991Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
- 1991Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
- 1992Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
- 1993Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist (b. 1902)
- 1994Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
- 1994Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
- 1995Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
- 1996Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1999Franjo Tuđman, Croate politician (b. 1922)
- 1999Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (b. 1913)
- 1999Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
- 1999Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2000Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
- 2001Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
- 2002Andres Küng, Swedish-born Estonian politician and journalist (b. 1945)
- 2004Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955)
- 2005Eugene McCarthy, America politician (b. 1916)
- 2005Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
- 2006Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
- 2007Aqsa Parvez, Pakastani-born Canadian honor killing victim (b. 1991)
- 2007Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
- 2008Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
- 2009Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (b. 1925)
- 2010J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
- 2010John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
- 2010MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
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