What are the important events that happened on December 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 10: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 10 is the 345^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 27, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 481,608 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontapentagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,372 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 10 Historical Events

• 1541 –
  Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
• 1817 –
  Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1884 –
  Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
• 1906 –
  U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
• 1907 –
  The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
• 1927 –
  The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on December 10?

• 1913 –
  Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1935 –
  Terry Allcock, English footballer
• 1939 –
  Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
• 1941 –
  Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
• 1947 –
  Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
• 1956 –
  Jan van Dijk, Dutch football player and football manager
• 1959 –
  Mark Aguirre, American basketball player
• 1969 –
  Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 –
  Sarah Chang, American violinist
• 1983 –
  Katrin Siska, Estonian singer

Who died on December 10?

• 949 –
  Herman I, Duke of Swabia
• 1508 –
  René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
• 1736 –
  António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1663)
• 1911 –
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
• 1967 –
  Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
• 1996 –
  Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
• 2000 –
  Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
• 2005 –
  Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 2007 –
  Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
• 2010 –
  J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)