Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 10
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December 10: Human Rights Day; Constitution Day in Thailand (1932)
- 1684 – Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.
- 1861 – Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.
- 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair, about 1,000 protesters marched through London and then clashed with 400 police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial for animals which have been vivisected.
- 1936 – Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, out of a desire to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson (pictured) against widespread opposition, abdicated the throne, the only British monarch to have voluntarily done so since the Anglo-Saxon period.
- 1979 – The Kuomintang (KMT) dictatorship of Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an incident credited with ending the KMT's rule in 2000.