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10 December, 2006

One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.

10 December, 1996

Rwandan Genocide: Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

10 December, 1989

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolias democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.

10 December, 1983

Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.

10 December, 1981

The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.

10 December, 1978

Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

10 December, 1971

Jim Hart throws a football for a record 98 yards, the longest recorded throw.

10 December, 1968

Japans biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

10 December, 1963

The United States Air Forces X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.

10 December, 1949

Chinese Civil War: The Peoples 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.

10 December, 1948

The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Day is also International Human Rights Day.

10 December, 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.

10 December, 1941

World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.

10 December, 1936

Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs his Instrument of Abdication.

10 December, 1935

The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. This award was given to the best college football player east the Mississippi River.

10 December, 1932

Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.

10 December, 1907

The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clashed with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.

10 December, 1906

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind.

10 December, 1904

The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.

10 December, 1902

Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.

10 December, 1901

The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.

10 December, 1899

The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.

10 December, 1898

Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

10 December, 1869

Wyoming grants women the right to vote.

10 December, 1869

The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.

10 December, 1868

The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

10 December, 1864

American Civil War: Shermans March to the Sea - Major General William T. Shermans Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.

10 December, 1861

American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accepts a rival state governments pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.

10 December, 1836

Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

10 December, 1817

Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

10 December, 1684

Isaac Newtons derivation of Keplers laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

10 December, 1541

Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

10 December, 1520

Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenbergs Elster Gate.

10 December, 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.

10 December, 1041

Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.

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