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Did you know ...
- ... that a staff member at the Carlyle Hotel (pictured) once lent his own bow tie to Laurence Olivier?
- ... that Yangginu plotted to defeat Khan Wan to avenge his murdered father?
- ... that to prepare for her role in The Last Dance, actress Michelle Wai learned to perform a Taoist funeral ritual traditionally performed only by men?
- ... that the city council of Hamtramck, led by Mayor Amer Ghalib, banned the pride flag from publicly owned flagpoles?
- ... that the death rate from adrenal crises can reach as high as 6 percent?
- ... that at age 22, Bob Hainlen was both a player and assistant coach for a professional American football team?
- ... that the Child Law Project "shines a light" on Ireland's child care system?
- ... that U.S. Army chaplain Patrick Ryan celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for 10,000 people after the liberation of Rome?
- ... that Perplexities after Escher, a composition for heckelphone, string quartet and double bass, is based on five graphic artworks by M. C. Escher?
In the news
- Syrian rebel forces capture Damascus following multiple offensives as overthrown president Bashar al-Assad (pictured) flees to Russia.
- Notre-Dame de Paris reopens following reconstruction after the 2019 fire.
- The first round of the Romanian presidential election is annulled by the Constitutional Court following allegations of Russian electoral interference.
- The French government, led by Michel Barnier, collapses following a vote of no confidence by the National Assembly.
On this day
December 10: Human Rights Day; Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden
- 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 won France's first presidential election, and was 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)
Today's featured picture
Kitt Peak National Observatory is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak in the Quinlan Mountains, 55 miles (88 km) southwest of Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert and the Tohono Oʼodham Nation. With more than twenty optical telescopes and two radio telescopes, it is one of the largest gatherings of astronomical instruments in the Northern Hemisphere. The observatory was founded in 1958, and was administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory from the early 1980s until 2019, after which it has been overseen by NOIRLab. This photograph, titled A Breeze of Color, shows a portion of Kitt Peak National Observatory at sunset, and was taken as part of a 2022 photographic expedition to all the NOIRLab sites. Photograph credit: Tomáš Slovinský
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