# What happened on December 10 in history?

**Date:** December 10  
**Events recorded:** 53  
**Years spanned:** 1317 – 2021  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/december/10/

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## Featured Event

**2021** — A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_December_10%E2%80%9311%2C_2021)

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## Events on this date

- **1317** — The Nyköping Banquet: Birger, King of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers, dukes Valdemar and Erik, who are subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyk%C3%B6ping_Banquet))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai))
- **1520** — Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther))
- **1541** — Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Culpeper))
- **1652** — Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dungeness))
- **1665** — The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Marine_Corps))
- **1684** — Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton))
- **1768** — The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica))
- **1799** — France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_length))
- **1817** — Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi))
- **1861** — American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 12th state of the Confederacy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1861** — Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Trung_Tr%E1%BB%B1c))
- **1864** — American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea))
- **1877** — Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)))
- **1896** — Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jarry))
- **1898** — Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. Spain cedes administration of Cuba to the United States, and the United States agrees to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War))
- **1901** — The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize))
- **1902** — The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Low_Dam))
- **1906** — U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt))
- **1907** — The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair))
- **1909** — Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f))
- **1932** — Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand))
- **1936** — Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication_of_Edward_VIII))
- **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 British Malaya. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1941** — World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941%E2%80%931942)))
- **1942** — World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_government-in-exile))
- **1948** — The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Commission_on_Human_Rights))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War))
- **1953** — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom))
- **1963** — Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar))
- **1963** — An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Aden_airport_attack))
- **1968** — Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_million_yen_robbery))
- **1978** — Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict))
- **1979** — Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung_Incident))
- **1983** — Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy))
- **1984** — United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly))
- **1989** — Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1990))
- **1991** — The Nagorno-Karabakh independence referendum is held, with 99.98% voting in favor of independence. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Nagorno-Karabakh_independence_referendum))
- **1991** — Nursultan Nazarbayev is sworn in as the 1st President of Kazakhstan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev))
- **1991** — The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is renamed into the Republic of Kazakhstan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_Soviet_Socialist_Republic))
- **1992** — Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan establishes the Marriage Fund in the United Arab Emirates in response to rising wedding prices. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayed_bin_Sultan_Al_Nahyan))
- **1993** — The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkwearmouth_Colliery))
- **1994** — Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide))
- **1995** — The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Ground_Forces))
- **1996** — The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Africa))
- **1999** — Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark))
- **2005** — Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosoliso_Airlines_Flight_1145))
- **2014** — Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziad_Abu_Ein))
- **2015** — Rojava conflict: The Syrian Democratic Council is established in Dêrik, forming the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava_Revolution))
- **2016** — Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Be%C5%9Fikta%C5%9F_bombing))
- **2017** — ISIL is defeated in Iraq. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State))
- **2019** — The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrava_hospital_shooting))
- **2021** — A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_December_10%E2%80%9311%2C_2021))

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## Notable births on December 10

- **2000** — **Jeremie Frimpong** — Dutch footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremie_Frimpong))
- **1999** — **Reiss Nelson** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiss_Nelson))
- **1998** — **Lucia Bronzetti** — Italian tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Bronzetti))
- **1997** — **Viktoriia Savtsova** — Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktoriia_Savtsova))
- **1996** — **Joe Burrow** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Burrow))
- **1996** — **Kang Daniel** — South Korean singer and entrepreneur ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Daniel))
- **1995** — **Tacko Fall** — Senegalese basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacko_Fall))
- **1994** — **Richard Kennar** — Samoan rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kennar))
- **1994** — **Matti Klinga** — Finnish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Klinga))
- **1992** — **Carlos Rodón** — American baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Rod%C3%B3n))

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## Notable deaths on December 10

- **2025** — **Jeffery Garcia** — American stand-up comedian and voice actor (born 1975) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Garcia_(comedian)))
- **2024** — **Rocky Colavito** — American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Colavito))
- **2024** — **Michael Cole** — American actor (born 1940) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cole_(actor)))
- **2024** — **Kreskin** — American mentalist (born 1935) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Kreskin))
- **2024** — **S. M. Krishna** — Indian politician and statesman, Minister of External Affairs, 10th Chief Minister of Karnataka, 19th Governor of Maharashtra (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._Krishna))
- **2023** — **Julian Carroll** — American politician, 54th Governor of Kentucky (born 1931) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Carroll))
- **2021** — **Michael Nesmith** — American musician (The Monkees), songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist (born 1942) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nesmith))
- **2020** — **Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.** — American actor and wrestler (born 1958) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lister_Jr.))
- **2020** — **Joseph Safra** — Lebanese-Brazilian financier (born 1938) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Safra))
- **2020** — **Carol Sutton** — American actress (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sutton_(actress)))

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