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People born on 10th December
1870 - Yadunath Sarkar - Famous historian.
1878 - Chakravarti Rajagopalachari - The last Governor General of India was a lawyer, writer, Indian politician and philosopher.
1878 - Muhammad Ali - India's famous freedom fighter, journalist and educationist.
1888 - Prafullachand Chaki - a freedom fighter.
1902 - S. Nijalingappa - President and politician of the Indian National Congress.
1945 - Smt. Ranjana Kumar - First Indian woman President of NABARD.
Died on 10 December
1679 - Yashwant Singh was an influential feudatory of Aurangzeb's court.
1896 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist and founder of the Nobel Prize, died.
1963 - Panikkar K. M. - Famous politician, politician and scholar from Mysore (Karnataka).
1995 - Chaudhary Digambar Singh - Indian freedom fighter and famous leader.
2001 - Ashok Kumar - Indian film actor.
2009 - Dilip Chitre - was a famous writer, poet and critic of Marathi language.
2020 - Veteran dancer Astad Debu passed away at the age of 73.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 10th December
- National Lager Day.
- Nobel Prize Day.
- World Human Rights Day.
- Air Safety Day (week).
- Dewey Decimal System Days.
- International Human Rights Day.
- International Animal Rights Day.
- Chaudhary Digambar Singh Memorial Day.
- All India Handicrafts Week.
- Chakravarti Sri Rajagopalacharya Jayanti.
- Actor Shri Ashok Kumar Memorial Day.
- Devotee Shri Narsingh Mehta Jayanti (differences).
- Martyr Veer Shree Narayan Singh Sacrifice Day.
- Intifada Day (Palestinian Movement).
- National Seller's Day (2nd Friday in December).
- National Mental Rehabilitation Week (8-14 December).
Important Events of 10th December
1582 - France starts using the Gregorian calendar.
1817 - Mississippi is acknowledged as the 20th US state.
1884 - The Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published in London.
1887 - The Balkan Military Agreement is signed between Austria, Hungary, Italy and Britain.
1898 - The Spanish–American War ends after the Confederation of Paris.
1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel.
1902 - Women are granted the right to vote in Tasmania.
1903 - Pierre Curie and Marie Curie are awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
1929 – 17 people are killed and 60 are injured in a train accident near Namur, Belgium.
1940 - Hitler delivers a speech to munitions activists in Berlin.
1941 - Japan wins the Battle of Guam.
1945 - Alcide de Gasperi becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
1947 - Signing of a trade agreement between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
1950 - Human Rights Day was declared.
1953 - Albert Schweitzer is awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
1960 – Albert Luthley, leader of the banned African National Congress, awarded the Nobel Prize, calls for an end to apartheid in South Africa.
1961 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Albania end.
1963 - The African nation of Zanzibar gained independence from Britain.
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Vitjak Rabin and Shimon Peres jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998 - Amartya Sen is awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics in Scotland.
1999 - Providing funding for terrorist activities declared an economic offense in accordance with the United Nations Convention to End Terrorism Internationally.
2000 - Nawaz Sharif's family exiled from Pakistan for ten years.
2002 - United Airlines, America's second largest airline, declares bankruptcy.
2003 – Negotiations between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinde fail in Colombo.
2004 - Anil Kumble became the first Indian to take the most wickets in Test cricket, surpassing Kapil Dev in the Dhaka Test.
2005 - President Nur Sultan Nazar Bayeb is re-elected in the presidential election in Kazakhstan.
2006 – General Augusto Pinache, former dictator of Chile, dies in Santiago.
2007 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf appoints three more judges to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
2013 - Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the development, sale and use of the narcotic marijuana.
2019 - 126th Constitutional Amendment Bill passed in Lok Sabha; Reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes extended for the next ten years.
