December 10 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 Human Rights Day.
🌏 International Animal Rights Day.
🌏 World Choir Day.
⚽️ World Football Day.
🏵 Nobel Prize Award Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – National Anthem Adoption Day.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Agricultural Workers’ Day.
🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇳🇴 Norway – Alfred Nobel Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Mari Writing Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Charity Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Victory Day.
🇳🇦 Namibia – Human Rights and Women’s Day.
🇰🇮 Kiribati – Human Rights and Peace Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Constitution Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Social Workers’ Day.
🇲🇻 Maldives – Fishermen’s Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– AD 59 – Claudius Publius Pulcher is elected as the public trumpeter.
– 1520 – Martin Luther burns the Pope’s bull Exsurge Domine.
– 1698 – Peter the Great establishes Russia’s first (and highest) award – the Imperial Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called.
– 1768 – The Royal Academy of Arts is founded in England.
– 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th state of the United States.
– 1848 – Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is elected the first president of the French Republic.
– 1866 – Fyodor Tyutchev writes the poem “You cannot understand Russia with your mind…”
– 1900 – The Russian army invades Manchuria.
– 1901 – The Nobel Prize was awarded to its first recipients.
– 1906 – US President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
– 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
– 1936 – Edward VIII abdicated.
– 1948 – The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
– 1949 – The USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs Liaison Service was established.
– 1953 – Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
– 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín became President of Argentina.
– 1987 – Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
– 1992 – The National Anthem of the Republic of Uzbekistan was adopted.
– 1994 – Russian federal troops enter Chechnya.
-1997 – Kazakhstan moves its capital to Astana.
– 2016 – Terrorist attack in Istanbul.
– 2019 – Mass shooting in a hospital in Ostrava (Czech Republic).
– 2021 – A series of powerful tornadoes begins in the United States, killing 89 people.
