About December 10

December 10, 2025 is the 344th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 69 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On December 10

  • 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.
  • 1665 –
    The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1902 –
    Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
  • 1904 –
    The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
  • 1927 –
    The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
  • 1932 –
    Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
  • 1948 –
    The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • 1955 –
    The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
  • 1968 –
    Japan’s biggest heist, the still-unsolved “300 million yen robbery”, is carried out in Tokyo.
  • 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 changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
  • 1994 –
    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.

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