Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 10
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December 10: Constitution Day in Thailand (1932); Human Rights Day (1948).
- 1508 - The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
- 1868 - The first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
- 1898 - The signing of the Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War. Spain recognised the independence of Cuba and sold Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States for US$20 million.
- 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, on the anniversary of the 1896 death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured).
- 1936 - Edward VIII signed his instrument of abdication, becoming the only British monarch to voluntarily relinquish the throne.
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