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December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 21 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year.. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations.
December 10, 1941 (Wednesday) Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse: A naval battle took place north of Singapore in which the British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse were sunk by Japanese aircraft. The Battle of Guam ended in Japanese victory.
31. 2024. December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which ...
December 10, 1966 (Saturday) At Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Jay Sanford told the press that Jack Ruby had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Ruby, who was weeks away from a new trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald , had killed the accused presidential assassin in front of the largest number of witnesses in history, as millions ...
December 10: Human Rights Day. Selma Lagerlöf. 1508 – The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice. 1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.
December 10 – Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996) December 11 – Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998) December 13 – Susanne Suba, Hungarian-born watercolorist and illustrator, active in the United States (d. 2012) December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace (d. 1989) December 18
1847 – Il Canto degli Italiani, the Italian national anthem since 1946, made its public debut in Genoa. 1901 – On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm. 1970 – Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese ...