Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 10

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This is a list of selected December 10 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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; Constitution Day in Thailand (1932) refimprove sections
1799 – France became the first country to adopt the metric system as its system for weights and measures. missing information
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. multiple issues
1896Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi made its only performance in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, infamously causing a riotous response in the audience. refimprove section
1898 – The Spanish–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, with Spain recognizing the independence of Cuba and ceding Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States. Too much uncited
1909 – Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. lots of CN tags (8)
1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. external links
1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurred in Tokyo. no footnotes
1978 – Starring Christopher Reeve in the title role, Superman, the first big-budget Superman film, premiered in Washington, D.C. refimprove section
1979 – The Kuomintang dictatorship of Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an incident credited with ending the party's rule in 2000.
Melvil Dewey |b|1851| too many {cn} tags (9)

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December 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden

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