What holiday is celebrated on December 10: all about this day

On December 10, Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Josaphat, Bishop of Belgorod, Blessed Stephen and Blessed Angelina, rulers of Serbia. Stepan, Angelina, and Ivan celebrate their name days.

The world celebrates the International Day for the Protection of Animals, World Football Day, Nobel Prize Day, and Human Rights Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on December 10

After World War II, the international community adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting of the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. Two years later, all interested states and organizations were invited to celebrate this date as World Human Rights Day.

In Ukraine, in order to establish and ensure rights and freedoms, which is the main duty of the state, strengthen the consolidation of Ukrainian society, supporting the decisions of the UN General Assembly, according to the presidential decree of December 9, 2022, Human Rights Day is also celebrated on December 10.

World Football Day is celebrated annually on December 10 at the initiative of the United Nations. Historians have found the first mention of the proto-form of modern football ("kicking ball") in Chinese sources dating back to the second millennium BC. It was played by warriors to maintain good physical shape and build endurance. There is also a version that the predecessor of football was the game played by the Saxons who lived in England in the eighth century. Football was also played in ancient Greece and Rome about two and a half thousand years ago.

Every year on December 10, the International Day for the Protection of Animals is celebrated, which aims to prevent human cruelty to four-legged animals.

Nobel Day is the annual awarding of the Nobel Prize, which takes place on December 10 in Stockholm, the day of the death of its founder. The Nobel Prize is internationally recognized as the most honorable civilian award.

Countries around the world also celebrate on December 10 :

• Mississippi State Day in the United States;
• Constitution Day in Thailand;
• Social Worker's Day in Argentina;
• National Women's Day in Namibia.

Notable historical events on December 10

• 1684 - Edmond Halley read out Isaac Newton's De motu corporum in gyrum at a meeting of the Royal Society, in which Kepler's laws were derived from the theory of gravity.
• 1768 - The Royal Academy of Arts is founded in the United Kingdom.
• 1817 - Mississippi became the 20th state of the United States. Its name means "Great River" in Native American language.
• 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm.
• 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1953 - the first issue of Playboy magazine was published.
• 1960 - construction of the Druzhba oil pipeline began.

• 1981 - The New England Journal of Medicine published an article about a new disease that led to the deaths of 95 people, mostly homosexuals. Later, the disease was called "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome" (AIDS).
• 1999 - The Panama Canal was transferred to the jurisdiction of Panama (previously under the jurisdiction of the United States).

Who was born on December 10

• 1815 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician, the first female programmer. Daughter of the English poet Lord George Gordon Byron.
• 1820 - Oleksa Bakhmatyuk, national master of artistic ceramics.
• 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet.
• 1838 - Oleksandr Danylevsky, Ukrainian biochemist, physiologist and pharmacologist, founder of biochemistry as a science.
• 1875 - Danylo Rozdolsky, Ukrainian composer, author of spiritual compositions and choral works.

• 1886 - Iryna Nevytska (pseudonym Anna Novak; Anna Horniak), Ukrainian writer in Slovakia.
• 1891 - Nellie Sachs, German poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1920 - Clarissa Lispector, Brazilian writer.
• 1934 - Howard Temin, American virologist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 2014 - Jacques, Crown Prince of Monaco.

On this day they died:

• 1851 - Carl Dres, German inventor. His inventions include the bicycle and the typewriter.
• 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer.
• 1967 - Otis Ray Redding, American soul singer.
• 1986 - Volodymyr Vermenych, Ukrainian composer and choral conductor.
• 1999 - Franjo Tudjman, Croatian politician and military leader, first President of the country (1990-1999).
• 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, dictator, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Chile, life-long senator of the Chilean Parliament.

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