About December 10
December 10, 2022 is the 344th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 43 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.
- 1520 –Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate.
- 1665 –The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
- 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.
- 1869 –Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1901 –The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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