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Events on December 10

• 1520 Martin Luther burns the papal bull Exsurge Domine in Wittenberg, which declared him a heretic, and thereby breaks with the Church of Rome.
• 1868 The world's first traffic light is erected in front of the House of Parliament in London. It is initially operated using gaslight.
• 1871 During the Kulturkampf, a new § 130a is inserted into the German Criminal Code under the direction of Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The pulpit paragraph prohibits clergy from commenting on political events in their sermons and remains in force in Germany until 1953.
• 1901 On the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, the Nobel Peace Prize, among other awards, is presented annually from then on. It is the only Nobel Prize awarded in Oslo (see list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates). The other Nobel Prizes are presented to the honorees in Stockholm on the same day.
• 1929 In Germany, the Opium Act, the predecessor to the Narcotics Act, comes into force: Cannabis has also been prohibited since then.
• 1948 The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1974 With Helios 1, the first space probe not built by the USSR or the USA is transported into space. The German probe, launched from Cape Canaveral, delivers data for solar research after reaching its orbit around the Sun.
• 1976 The album A Day at the Races, the fifth studio album by the British rock group Queen, is released for the first time. It reaches number one on the charts in Great Britain and the Netherlands and becomes a million-seller.
• 1988 The Swede Jan Boklöv wins the first V-style World Cup ski jump in Lake Placid.
• 2002 The European Court of Justice upholds the ban on the use of the terms ‘light’ and ‘mild’ on cigarette packs.
• 2006 The Space Shuttle Discovery launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-116 to the International Space Station. Among the crew aboard is Christer Fuglesang, the first spacefarer from Sweden.
• 2020 The action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 is released.

Born on December 10

• 1860 Kanō Jigorō, Japanese teacher and founder of the sport of judo
• 1870 Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and architectural theorist
• 1891 Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish writer and lyric poet, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 Christine Brückner, German writer
• 1960 Kenneth Branagh, British actor and director
• 1970 Regula Grauwiller, Swiss actress
• 1980 Katja Streso, German sports journalist and television presenter
• 1982 Sultan Kösen, Turkish man of Kurdish origin, tallest living person at the time
• 1990 Timothy Boldt, German actor
• 2000 Levent Mercan, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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