Talk:December 10

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December 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden Raúl Alfonsín 1508 – The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice. 1848 – Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte wins France's first presidential election, and is elected as the first and only president of the French Second Republic. 1901 – On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm. 1970 – Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents. 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship. Stede Bonnet (d. 1718) María Bibiana Benítez (b. 1783) Diane Schuur (b. 1953) Lalji Singh (d. 2017) More anniversaries: December 9 December 10 December 11

Add Doom? - Solved

Hello all, according to the wikipedia article, the first doom shareware release was released on this day in 1993. Considering the effect Doom had on the gaming and computing community and industry, should we at least mention it?

If there is no reason not to add it, I will add it.

Amdcrash (talk) 11:59, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

edit - i have read the tags prohibiting video game references from being inside December 10th "on this day" box.

Plant Lady

Do the two references to the "Plant Lady" on December 10 really meet the criteria for a historical event?--Silverhand 22:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Took out the birth of Meg white from the events thread, mainly because that belongs in the births thread. --Edwartica 09:12, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Women's Suffrage in Tasmania

I removed the following event:

• 1902 – Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.

I can't find a source for this. From what I can tell, Tasmanian women got the right to vote in Federal elections earlier in the year, and in state elections the following year. Can anybody verify this event? Alexbook (talk) 16:43, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

The Grateful Dead

Right … 

It says here that the Grateful Dead’s first performance under the name ‘Grateful Dead’ was today in 1965.

The Wikipedia entry on the band say it was on 4th of December: at a Ken Kesey Acid Test.

Should I remove this: or can someone did up a reference, so we can clean it up?

Thanks … !

Cuddy2977 (talk) 15:20, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

References

Births and Deaths

Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing some celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. See discussions at Wikipedia_talk:Days_of_the_year.Deb (talk) 11:33, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Michael Schoeffling 174.213.145.90 (talk) 08:29, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

1932 - end of the Great Emu War

Emu War --134.153.14.13 (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Dan Blocker Birth Year Error

The birth year for actor Dan Blocker, shown as 1910, is incorrect. It should be 1928. On Blocker's wikipedia bio page, both IMDB and Find-A-Grave (down in the External Links section) list Blocker's birthdate as December 10 1928 -NOT- 1910.

I have not attempted to edit the December 10th page here with the correct birthdate for two reasons -- (1) Wikipedia's requirement that a source reference be included on any day-of-the-year pages like December 10; and (2), I am uncertain as to how much faith Wikipedia puts in the IMDB and Find-A-Grave sites as reliable sources.

The present listed source for Blocker here on December 10 is a WordPress-powered page which appears to be missing images. It is possible that this particular webpage has not been attended to in sometime. If so, this may suggest (although unproven) that the nostalia049 domain itself may be in jeopardy of going down.

I am simply reporting the birth year error, and will leave it up to others to correct it.

Thanx-A-Lot. Stay Safe and Well. Fgf2007 (talk) 14:24, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Error in the 1993 entry

In describing the Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, the entry states that it “had been in operation since the Middle Ages." yet the article about it says it opened in 1835. TravelinTexan (talk) 00:00, 10 December 2021 (UTC)