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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1869 –Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1904 –The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston.
- 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.
- 1932 –Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1935 –The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
- 1936 –Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
- 1955 –The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- 1965 –The Grateful Dead’s first concert performance under this new name.
- 1968 –Japan’s biggest heist, the still-unsolved “300 million yen robbery”, is carried out in Tokyo.
- 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.
- 1989 –Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
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