What are the important events that happened on December 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 10: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 10 is the 344^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 27, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,422,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontatetragon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 69 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,737 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 10 Historical Events

• 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 Edmund Halley.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government’s pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
• 1869 –
  Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1899 –
  Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
• 1907 –
  The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
• 1927 –
  The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1968 –
  Japan’s biggest heist, the still-unsolved “300 million yen robbery”, is carried out in Tokyo.
• 1978 –
  Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Who were born on December 10?

• 1815 –
  Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
• 1822 –
  César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
• 1913 –
  Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1924 –
  Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
• 1938 –
  Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
• 1946 –
  Thomas Lux, American poet
• 1970 –
  Bryant Stith, American basketball player
• 1981 –
  Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
• 1983 –
  Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
• 1985 –
  Matt Forte, American football player

Who died on December 10?

• 1618 –
  Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551)
• 1626 –
  Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
• 1736 –
  António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1663)
• 1831 –
  Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
• 1967 –
  Phalon Jones, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1949)
• 1977 –
  Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
• 1986 –
  Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
• 1991 –
  Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
• 2004 –
  Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955)
• 2007 –
  Aqsa Parvez, Pakastani-born Canadian honor killing victim (b. 1991)