Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 10

This is a list of selected December 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Edmond Halley
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  Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Constitution Day in Thailand (1932)	refimprove sections
1799 – France became the first country to adopt the metric system as its system for weights and measures.	missing information
1868 – The first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London, resembling railway signals with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use.	multiple issues
1896 – Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi made its only performance in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, infamously causing a riotous response in the audience.	refimprove section
1898 – The Spanish–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, with Spain recognizing the independence of Cuba and ceding Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States.	Too much uncited
1909 – Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.	lots of CN tags (8)
1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.	external links
1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurred in Tokyo.	no footnotes
1978 – Starring Christopher Reeve in the title role, Superman, the first big-budget Superman film, premiered in Washington, D.C.	refimprove section
1979 – The Kuomintang dictatorship of Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an incident credited with ending the party's rule in 2000.
Melvil Dewey |b|1851|	too many {cn} tags (9)

Eligible

• 1684 – Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.
• 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
• 1847 – "Il Canto degli Italiani", the Italian national anthem since 1946, made its public debut in Genoa.
• 1861 – Militia forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.
• 1884 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US.
• 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair, protesters marched through London and clashed with police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial (pictured) for animals that had been vivisected.
• 1911 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
• 1932 - The conclusion of the Emu War, after the Australian Government ordered the withdrawal of all Australian forces from the conflict.
• 1936 – Edward VIII, desiring to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson against widespread British opposition, signed the instrument of abdication to renounce the throne in favour of his brother George VI.
• 1941 – Second World War: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya.
• 1942 – Edward Raczyński of the Polish government-in-exile issued a note that was the first official report on the Holocaust.
• 1989 – At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later.
• 1993 – The video game Doom, later considered the "father" of the first-person shooter genre, is released.
• Born/died this day: | Michael IV the Paphlagonian |d|1041| Nikephoros III Botaneiates |d|1081| Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo |d|1454| Isaac Beeckman|b|1588| Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer |b|1812| C. Rajagopalachari |b|1878| Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis |b|1891| John Treloar |b|1891| Tetsuji Takechi |b|1912| Ann Gloag |b|1942| Jasuben Shilpi |b|1948| Abdullah Yusuf Ali |d|1953| Sultan Kösen|b|1982| Vladimir Teplyakov |d|2009| Ziad Abu Ein |d|2014

Notes

• 1983 Argentine general election appears on October 30, so Raúl Alfonsín should not appear in the same year
• Alfred Nobel appears on November 27, so Nobel Prize should not appear in the same year

December 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden

Raúl Alfonsín

• 1508 – The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
• 1848 – Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte wins France's first presidential election, and is elected as the first and only president of the French Second Republic.
• 1901 – On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm.
• 1970 – Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents.
• 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.

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• María Bibiana Benítez (b. 1783)
• Diane Schuur (b. 1953)
• Lalji Singh (d. 2017)

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