December 10

December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining.

Events:

• 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1898 - A treaty is signed in Paris that officially ends the Spanish-American War.
• 1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.

Births:

• 1815 - Ada Byron Lovelace, first computer programmer
• 1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet (+ 1886)
• 1845 - Wilhelm von Bode, art historian (+ 1929)
• 1851 - Melvil Dewey, librarian, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system
• 1870 - Adolf Loos, architect (+ 1933)
• 1882 - Otto Neurath, philosopher
• 1891 - Nelly Sachs, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1966 (+ 1970)
• 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, composer and ornithologist (+ 1992)
• 1921 - Christine Brückner, author (+ 1996)
• 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, actor and film director

Deaths:

• 1865 - Leopold I of Belgium
• 1896 - Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize
• 1967 - Otis Redding, singer
• 1999 - Rick Danko, musician with The Band

Holidays and Observances:

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See Also:

December 9 - December 11 - November 10 - January 10 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December