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
- 1041 –The adopted son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1861 –Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
- 1868 –The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
- 1884 –Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
- 1901 –The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- 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.
- 1911 –The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.
- 1927 –The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
- 1932 –Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1936 –Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- 1941 –World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
- 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.
- 1955 –The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- 1978 –Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1983 –Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
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