December 10

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December 10 in recent years

2008 (Wednesday)

2007 (Monday)

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December 10 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year (Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

[edit] Events

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.
1541 - Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
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.
1861 - American 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.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
1868 - The 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.
1869 - Wyoming grants women the right to vote.
1869 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
1899 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
1904 - The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
1907 - The 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.
1932 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1935 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. This award was given to the best college football player east the Mississippi River.
1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
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. Today is also International Human Rights Day.
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.
1963 - The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.
1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
1972 - Jim Hart throws a football for a record 98 yards, the longest recorded throw.
1978 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
1983 - Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1989 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
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.
2006 - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.

[edit] Births

1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
1815 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1824 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and preacher (d. 1905)
1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)
1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1891 - Sir Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis (d. 1969)
1891 - Nelly Sachs, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
1907 - Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
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)
1913 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 - Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer
1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
1922 - Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974-1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
1923 - Harold Gould, American actor
1924 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
1925 - Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 - Carolyn Kizer, American poet
1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
1928 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
1941 - Tommy Kirk, American actor
1941 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
1941 - Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
1944 - Steve Renko, American baseball player
1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1947 - Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1950 - Tom Towles, American actor
1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1952 - Clive Anderson, English television presenter
1952 - Susan Dey, American actress
1956 - Tim Kurkjian, American baseball writer and analyst for ESPN
1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Maharaji
1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
1965 - J Mascis, American musician
1965 - Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 - Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
1969 - Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1972 - Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian soccer player
1977 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 - Brandon Novak, American skateboarder
1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1982 - Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1984 - Jayson Paul, American professional wrestler
1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
1985 - T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
1986 - Matthew Bates, English footballer
1986 - Ryoichi Tsukada, Japanese acrobat
1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine footballer
1990 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress