Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 10
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This is a list of selected December 10 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.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, resembling railway signals with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use.
- 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, on the anniversary of the 1896 death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel.
- 1936 – Edward VIII (pictured) signed his instrument of abdication, becoming the only British monarch to voluntarily relinquish the throne.
- 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
More events: December 9 – December 10 – December 11
