About December 10
December 10, 2024 is the 345th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 50 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 10
- 1041 –The adopted son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1861 –Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
- 1864 –American 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.
- 1869 –Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1884 –Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
- 1904 –The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
- 1906 –U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
- 1927 –The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
- 1932 –Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1936 –Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- 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.
- 1955 –The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- 1965 –The Grateful Dead’s first concert performance under this new name.
- 1978 –Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1979 –Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
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