Holidays on December 10, 2024: name days, signs

Today, December 10, 2024, is World Football Day. There are 21 days left before the New Year.

December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• International Human Rights Day.

• Alfred Nobel Day.

• World Football Day.

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What happened on December 10

• 1520 – Martin Luther publicly burns the papal bull Exsurge Domine that excommunicated him in Wittenberg.

• 1637 – Cossack troops under the command of Pavel But were defeated by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth troops near the town of Borovitsa.

• 1684 – Edmond Halley read at a meeting of the Royal Society Isaac Newton’s work De motu corporum in gyrum, from which Kepler’s laws were derived from the theory of gravitation.

• 1768 – The Royal Academy of Arts, the most influential and authoritative Association of Artists in Great Britain, is founded in Great Britain.

• 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th state of the United States; its name means “Great River” in the Indian language.

• 1901 – The first Nobel Prize is awarded in Stockholm.

• 1948 – The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• 1953 – The first issue of Playboy magazine is published.

• 1981 – The American journal The New England Journal of Medicine published a note about a new disease that led to the death of 95 people, mainly homosexuals, later the disease was called “acquired immunodeficiency syndrome” ( AIDS).

• 1999 – The Panama Canal comes under the jurisdiction of Panama (formerly under the jurisdiction of the United States).

Who was born on December 10

• 1892 – Ukrainian sculptor and teacher Max Gelman.

• 1940 – Ukrainian conductor, winner of the Shevchenko Prize, founder of the Lviv choir of boys and men Dudarik, as well as the choir school of the same name Nikolai Katsal.

What are the name days today?: Anatoly, Grigory, Evgeny, Ivan, Konstantin, Mikhail, Nikolay, Alexander, Alexey, Peter, Sergey, Stepan, Angelina, Anna, Alexandra, Tatyana.

Folk signs and traditions for December 10

• A lot of snow fell – a bad harvest next year.

• Clear and cloudless – there will be frost.

• The magpies hid under the roof – it was getting cold.

• Windy and dry weather – summer will be dry.

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