December 10

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 10. From 1900 until now. December 10 is under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Brian Molko (1972), Raven-Symoné (1985) and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen (1989). Several movies were released around December 10 over the years, such as The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001 directed by Peter Jackson and It's a Wonderful Life in 1946 directed by Frank Capra.
But much more happened on December 10 over the years: find out below

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2018 The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Urjit Patel, resigns abruptly. (Reuters)
2017 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A 24-year-old Palestinian stabs and seriously wounds an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem's Central Bus Station. The attacker is arrested. (Reuters) (The Washington Post) (The Independent)
2016 Syrian Civil War: Palmyra offensive (December 2016): The SOHR and Amaq announce that ISIL has captured an oil field north-west of Palmyra. (De Standaard) (VOA)American-led intervention in Syria, Northern Raqqa offensive (November–December 2016): The United States announces that it will deploy an additional 200 troops to help force the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from Al-Raqqah. (Reuters), (BBC), (ABC News)
2015 The United States says recent coalition airstrikes killed three ISIL senior leaders, including financial minister, Abu Salah; a senior leader responsible for coordinating the group's extortion activities; and, another leader who acted as an executive officer. (Reuters via NBC News)
2014 The settlement minister of the Palestinian Authority, Ziad Abu Ein, dies after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers during a West Bank protest. (CNN)
2013 Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration:: Two French soldiers die in overnight fighting in the capital Bangui. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Rebel forces seize parts of the Sheikh Suleiman army base near Aleppo after weeks of heavy fighting. Ground clashes continue in the suburbs of Damascus as the government carries out further air raids against opposition forces. (Al Jazeera)Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra is declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. (Washington Post)
2011 The Syrian government gives the city of Homs 72 hours to stop anti-government protests, or face an offensive, raising fears of a massacre against civilians. (''Daily Telegraph'')
2010 Somali pirates hijack a Liberian ship 80 nautical miles east of the border between Tanzania and Mozambique, in their most southerly attack yet. (CNN)
2009 The credit rating of Greece is downgraded, leading to increased pessimism regarding the Greek economy. (BBC)
2008 Talks on North Korea's nuclear program stall in a dispute over verification. (BBC)
2007 Subtropical Storm Olga forms north of Puerto Rico, ten days after the official end of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center forecasts landfall in the Dominican Republic within 24 hours, and Tropical Storm Warnings and Watches have been posted for the northern shore of the nation. (''The Guardian'')
2006 NASA space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on the first night launch since the 2003 loss of Columbia.
2005 The International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. (BBC)
2004 Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu carrying 1.8 million litres of fuel oil snaps in two off Unalaska Island, Alaska, USA, releasing thousands of litres of fuel oil.
2003 Western leaders are criticised at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva.
2002 Venezuela's Supreme Court announced it was suspending its services, citing political harassment and condemning deadly violence during a general strike by opponents of President Hugo Chávez.
2000 Parliamentary elections are held in Ivory Coast. 28 seats are excluded because of a boycott by the Rally of the Republicans. Elections in Côte d'Ivoire African Elections Database The result is a victory for the Ivorian Popular Front, which wins 96 of the 225 seats in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire.
1997 The capital of Kazakhstan is moved from Almaty to Astana.
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9 in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7pm, breaks previous record of 25.3 in 1982
1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat.
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1992 My Favorite Year opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances
1991 Crucible opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1988 Washington Capitals' first NHL scoreless tie, versus Montreal Canadiens.
1987 Nightline is seen in the USSR for 1st time
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
1985 Bill to balance the US federal budget passed by Congress.
1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at age 83.
1981 During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO.
1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth.
1979 Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster (Life is Worth Living), dies from a heart attack in New York City, New York at age 84.
1978 Platinum closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1977 Soyuz 26 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
1976 Wings release triple album Wings Over America
1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, Florida, to become NWA champion.
1974 Space probe Helios 1 launched
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel Prize of Peace.
1970 North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises.
1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature.
1965 Yearling opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1958 University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1957 Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his peackeeping efforts in the United Nations.
1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola.
1955 The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium.
1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
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.
1947 USSR and Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement.
1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car.
1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna / Ortona Italy
1942 North Africa: 5th German Panzer Army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim.
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani).
1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat the New York Giants 27-0
1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood.
1937 Dollar Line's SS President Hoover runs aground off Japanese island of Formosa. All passengers are transferred to the SS President Pierce after four days. The ship is scavenged by the Japanese in 1939.
1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1935 The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite.
1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution.
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1927 "Grand Ole Opry" makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee.
1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize.
1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel Prize for medicine.
1923 Polish government of Grabski forms.
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards.
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US President Wilson
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled.
1914 French government returns to Paris.
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel Prize for physics.
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days).
1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics.
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel Prize for literature.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime.
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre / Marie Curie
1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
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