10 December

The **10t o December** is the 344t day o the year (345t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 21 days bidin.

## Events

* 1799 - Fraunce adopts the metre as its offeecial unit o length.
* 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20t state o the Unitit States.
* 1869 - Wyoming grants weemen the richt tae vote.
* 1884 - Mark Twain's "Adventures o Huckleberry Finn" is published.
* 1896 - Daith o Alfred Nobel.
* 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are gien on the 5t anniversary o Alfred Nobel's daith. 
* 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first Preses o the Unitit States tae win the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1922 - Albert Einstein an Niels Bohr are awairdit the Nobel Prize in Pheesics for the years 1921 an 1922 respectively.
* 1936 - Edward VIII propales that he is tae abdicate the Breetish throne.
* 1954 - Sir Winston Churchill is awairdit the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 1963 - Zanzibar gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick. In Aprile 1964 it merges wi Tanganyika tae form Tanzanie.
* 1997 - The caipital ceety o Kazakhstan haes its name chynged frae Akmola tae Astana; It is later chynged tae Nur-Sultan in 2019.
* 1998 - Caipital Punishment is banned in Bulgarie.
* 1999 - Helen Clark becomes Prime meenister o New Zealand.
* 2007 - Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes Preses o Argentinae.
* 2013 - A public memorial service is held for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg.
* 2015 - Mauricio Macri becomes Preses o Argentinae.
* 2016 - A kirk collapses in sootheastren Nigerie, killin ower 100 fowk.
* 2016 - Bomb attacks in Istanbul kill 38 fowk.
* 2019 - A shuitin in Ostrava, Czech Republic, kills 6 fowk.
* 2019 - Alberto Fernández becomes Preses o Argentinae.
* 2019 - Sanna Marin becomes Prime meenister o Finland, makkin her the youngest Prime meenister in the Warld at the age o 34.

## Births

* 1394 - James I o Scotland (d. 1437)
* 1728 - John Clerk o Eldin, Scots merchant, author, airtist, geologist an laundawner (d. 1812)
* 1804 - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathemateecian (d. 1851)
* 1815 - Ada Lovelace, Inglis mathemateecian an writer (d. 1852)
* 1824 - George MacDonald, Scots poet an novelist (d. 1905)
* 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
* 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German writer (d. 1970)
* 1907 - Lucien Laurent, French fitbawer (d. 2005)
* 1926 - Mike Haughney, Scots fitbawer (d. 2002)
* 1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (d. 1994)
* 1942 - Ann Gloag, Scots businesswumman
* 1943 - Barbara Rae, Scots airtist an prentmakker
* 1944 - Andris Berzins, umwhile Preses o Latvie
* 1952 - Clive Anderson, Inglis telly presenter
* 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
* 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northren Erse actor
* 1963 - Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
* 1964 - Edith Gonzalez, Mexican actress (d. 2019)
* 1970 - Alec Cleland, Scots fitbawer
* 1985 - Charlie Adam, Scots fitbawer
* 1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentine fitbawer
* 1988 - Wilfried Bony, Ivorian fitbawer
* 2014 - Princess Gabriella, Coontess o Carladès
* 2014 - Jacques, Hereditary Prince o Monaco

## Daiths
* 1198 - Averroes, Spaingie astronomer, pheesicist an philosopher (b. 1126)
* 1865 - Leopold I o Belgium (b. 1790)
* 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swadish inventor (b. 1833)
* 1917 - Mackenzie Bowell, Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1823)
* 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scots airtist, designer an airchitect (b. 1868)
* 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (b. 1867)
* 2005 - Richard Pryor, American actor an comedian (b. 1940)
* 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Preses o Chile (b. 1915)
* 2016 - A. A. Gill, Inglis writer an creetic (b. 1954)
* 2019 - Yury Luzhkov, Roushie politeecian (b. 1936)
* 2020 - Dame Barbara Windsor, Inglis actress (b. 1937)

## Halidays
* Nobel Prize Day
* Human Richts Day
* Constitution Day (Thailand)