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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 ...
1941 ( MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.
December 30, 1945 (Sunday) 2,600 U.S.-trained Dutch troops landed at Batavia, Jakarta Indonesia to help reimpose colonial rule. [3] Adolf Hitler's will and marriage certificate were announced as having been discovered in Tegernsee near Munich. [29] The Battle of Tangtou–Guocun in China ended in communist victory.
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.
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 ...