Year 1582
France began to use the Gregorian calendar.
DECEMBER 10
Daily Historical Chronicle
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10 December: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 December.
Observances & Special Days
Human Rights Day (International)
On this day the United Nations (UN) adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and ever since then on this date we observe Human Rights Day across the world. Human Rights Day outline the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS of all human beings that need to be protected universally.
Year 1868
The first traffic signals installed at the Palace of Westminster, London.
Year 1887
Balkan military agreement signed between Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Britain.
Year 1901
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
Year 1902
Women granted the right to vote in Tasmania.
Year 1902
Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
Year 1903
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Year 1906
US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Prize.
Year 1978
Israeli President Menachem Begin and Syrian President Anwar Sadat jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Year 1878
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
Year 1905
Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
Year 1907
Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book' andKim', received the Nobel prize for literature.
Year 1913
The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
Year 1918
Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.
Year 1932
The Indian Military Academy (IMA) was formally inaugurated by Field Marshal Sir Philip W Chetwode, Bt, GOB, KCMG, GCSI, DSO and was christened as "The Pioneers". The crowning event was delivered in the hall, now named after him, and in the address to the trainees, he enunciated three principles: 'the safety, honour, and welfare of your country comes first, always and everytime', which were to guide the future officers of the Indian Army. A passage from this address has come to acquire immortality and has been adopted as the credo of the Academy.
Year 1936
Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI.
Year 1936
England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI.
Year 1945
Aust Services lose third Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts.
Year 1948
Human Rights Day.
Year 1952
World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
Year 1967
Earthquake hit Koyna Nagar.
Year 1969
Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production.
Year 1978
Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
Year 1979
Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize.
Year 1984
Justice Thakkar Commission appointed to enquire into the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
Year 1985
A. M. Prasad was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 30-04-1987.
Year 1990
Dr. L. P. Barbosa, Goa CM, resigns following withdrawal of support by Maharashta Gomantak Party.
Year 1990
The communal disturbances between Hindus and Muslims in Hyderabad claim more than 100 lives, and violence spreads to Aligarh and Kanpur also.
Year 1992
The Central Government bans RSS, VHP, ISS, Bajrang Dal and Jamait-e-Islami.
Year 1993
Kerala Congress(M) splits; Four MLAs, including Minister T.M.Jacob, expelled.
Year 1993
The residence of Mahatma Phule was declared a national monument.
Year 1996
Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
Year 1997
Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
Year 1998
Dr. Gurudev S. Khush, rice breeder at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, wheat breeder at the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre, Mexico, share the Rank Prize announced in London.
Year 1998
Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Year 1998
Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to economist Amartya Sen.
Year 1999
Dara Singh, the prime accused in the killing of Australian missionary, again gives a slip to police.
Year 1999
Pranab Mukherjee and Jaipal Reddy are chosen outstanding parliamentarians for 1997 and 1998 respectively.
Year 1999
Providing funding for terrorist activities, as per the United Nations Agreement for ending terrorism at the international level, declared an economic offense.
Year 2000
Nawaz Sharif family was deported from Pakistan for ten years.
Year 2002
United Airlines, America’s second-largest airline company, declared bankrupt.
Year 2004
Anil Kumble became the first Indian to take the most wickets in Test cricket, surpassing Kapil Dev in the Dhaka Test.
Year 2006
The death of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet in Santiago.
Year 2013
Uruguay became the first country to legalize the development, sale, and use of drug marijuana.
Year 2014
India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Born 1815
Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, and writer.
Born 1819
Dinkar Rao, an Indian Statesman.
Born 1923
Madhav Gururao Kulkarni, great author and educationist, was born in Rani Bennur, Dharwar.
Born 1830
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, an American poet.
Born 1860
Kano Jigoro, a Japanese educator and athlete, the founder of Judo.
Born 1870
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, an Indian historian.
Born 1878
C. Rajagopalachari, an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian, and statesman. Last Governor-General of India.
Born 1878
Muhammad Ali Jauhar, an Indian Muslim activist, journalist, and poet.
Born 1880
C. R. Reddy, an educationist, and political thinker.
Born 1886
Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore.
Born 1886
Ardeshir M. Irani, producer, director, exhibitor and founder of Star Films Ltd. Bombay, was born at Poona. His first film was 'Veer Abhimanyu'.
Born 1902
S. Nijalingappa, an Indian freedom fighter, politician, and former Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Born 1908
Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, an Indian Sanskrit scholar, and archaeologist.
Born 1948
Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (d. 2013)
Born 1981
Aditi Avasthi, an Indian entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Embibe.
Born 1995
Prem Rawat, Indian-American guru and educator
Died 1896
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
Died 1920
Horace Dodge, an American automobile manufacturing pioneer, and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.
Died 1953
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, a British-Indian barrister.
Died 1857
Veer Narayan Singh organised a small group and had an encounter with British army. He was charged treason and sentenced to death. He was executed publicly.
Died 1963
K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (b. 1894)
Died 1989
Janardan Swami passed away.
Died 1990
Armand Hammer, an American business manager, and owner.
Died 2001
Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911)
Died 2006
General Augusto Pinochet, former Chilean dictator.
Died 2013
Srikanta Wadiyar, Indian politician and the titular Maharaja of Mysore(b. 1946)