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

• 1541 –
  Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
• 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.
• 1869 –
  Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1901 –
  The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1965 –
  The Grateful Dead’s first concert performance under this new name.
• 1979 –
  Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
• 1989 –
  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
• 1994 –
  Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

Who were born on December 10?

• 1805 –
  Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
• 1911 –
  Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
• 1925 –
  Carolyn Kizer, American poet
• 1938 –
  Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
• 1944 –
  Steve Renko, American baseball player
• 1951 –
  Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
• 1953 –
  Chris Bury, American journalist
• 1961 –
  Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician
• 1971 –
  Bill Baroni, American government official
• 1975 –
  Josip Skoko, Australian footballer

Who died on December 10?

• 1603 –
  William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
• 1896 –
  Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1951 –
  Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
• 1967 –
  Ronnie Caldwell, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1948)
• 1968 –
  Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
• 1982 –
  Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1995 –
  Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
• 2000 –
  Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
• 2006 –
  Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
• 2009 –
  Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (b. 1925)