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
- 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
- 1799 –France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
- 1817 –Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 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 the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
- 1869 –Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
- 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.
- 1927 –The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
- 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.
- 1979 –Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
- 1989 –Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
- 1993 –The 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.
- 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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