December 10
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December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1394 – King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
- 1538 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (d. 1612)
- 1699 – King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
- 1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
- 1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
- 1822 – Cesar Franck, French composer (d. 1890)
- 1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
- 1870 – Mary Bonaparte, pretender to France's Imperial throne (d. 1947)
- 1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
- 1878 – Rajaji, Indian independence fighter (d. 1972)
- 1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
- 1891 – Nelly Sachs, German writer (d. 1970)
- 1903 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
- 1923 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
- 1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (d. 1994)
- 1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
- 1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish-American actress
- 1948 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (d. 2004)
- 1952 – Clive Anderson, British television presenter
- 1954 – Florentin Smarandache, Romanian artist and writer
- 1956 – Rod Blagojevich, 40th Governor of Illinois
- 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1960 – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor
- 1962 – John de Wolf, Dutch footballer
- 1963 – Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
- 1965 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010)
- 1972 – Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and guitarist (Placebo)
- 1974 – Meg White, American drummer
- 1975 – Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
- 1975 – Kristel Verbeke, Flemish singer, actress and host
- 1981 – Fabio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Katrin Siska, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
- 1985 – Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer
- 1987 – Gonzalo Higuain, Argentine footballer
- 1990 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010)
Deaths [change]
- 1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
- 1603 – William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
- 1850 – Jozef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
- 1865 – King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
- 1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor (b. 1833)
- 1909 – Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux chief (b. 1822)
- 1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
- 1917 – Mackenzie Bowell, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
- 1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist, designer and architect (b. 1868)
- 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (b. 1867)
- 1967 – Otis Redding, singer (b. 1941)
- 1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
- 1977 – Adolph Rupp, basketball coach (b. 1901)
- 1986 – Kate Wolf, American singer (b. 1942)
- 1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1945)
- 1999 – Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, former President of Chile (b. 1915)
- 2010 – John Bennett Fenn, American chemist (b. 1917)
- 2012 - Lisa Della Casa, Swiss operatic soprano (b. 1919)
- 2012 - Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
Events [change]
- 1041 – Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 1508 – The 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.
- 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
- 1684 – Isaac 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.
- 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1836 – Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
- 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
- 1869 – Wyoming grants women the right to vote.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
- 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- 1904 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind.
- 1932 – Thailand's Constitution is written, forming a constitutional monarchy.
- 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs his Instrument of Abdication.
- 1941 – World War II: Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse – The Royal Navy ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers.
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
- 1948 – The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1949 – Chinese 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.
- 1953 – Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.
- 1963 – The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.
- 1965 – The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
- 1970 – Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, "father of the Green Revolution", is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1975 – Activist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner.
- 1978 – Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1983 – Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted by his wife, Danuta.
- 1983 – Raul Alfonsin becomes President of Argentina, ending a period of dictatorship.
- 1984 – Apartheid: Cleric and activist Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1986 – The Holocaust: Elie Wiesel is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1996 – Rwandan 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.
- 1997 – Kazakhstan's capital city Akmola changes its name to Astana.
- 1998 – Capital Punishment is abolished in Bulgaria.
- 2002 – The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
- 2004 – A tombstone commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Brazilian guerrilla Carlos Marighella is inaugurated in Salvador, Bahia.
- 2004 – Anil Kumble becomes India's highest wicket-taker, surpassing Kapil Dev's total of 435.
- 2005 – Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes near Port Harcourt, Nigeria, killing 108 people. 2 survive.
Observances [change]
- Nobel Prize Day
- Constitution Day (Thailand)
- Human Rights Day
