📜 This Day in History

December 10

• 1508The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
• 1861Militia forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.
• 1907During the Brown Dog affair, protesters marched through London and clashed with police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial for animals that had been vivisected.
• 1941Second World War: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya.
• 1983Raúl Alfonsín became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.
• 2021A tornado strikes an Amazon warehouse during increased holiday demand, killing six sheltering workers.

Born on this day

• 1815Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1852)
• 1830Emily Dickinson, American poet (died 1886)
• 1891Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
• 1957Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (died 2012)