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Events

• 1861 (165 years ago) Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
• 1902 (124 years ago) The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
• 1932 (94 years ago) Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
• 1953 (73 years ago) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1983 (43 years ago) Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is renamed into the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• 2017 (9 years ago) ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
• 2021 (5 years ago) A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.

Births

• 1804 (222 years ago) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (died 1851)
• 1815 (211 years ago) Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1852)
• 1821 (205 years ago) Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (died 1877)
• 1830 (196 years ago) Emily Dickinson, American poet (died 1886)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (died 2012)
• 1960 (66 years ago) Kenneth Branagh, British actor director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1987 (39 years ago) Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer

Deaths

• 1865 (161 years ago) Leopold I of Belgium,
• 1896 (130 years ago) Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (born 1833)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (born 1886)
• 1999 (27 years ago) Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (born 1922)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator, 30th President of Chile (born 1915)
• 2010 (16 years ago) John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., American actor and wrestler (born 1958)

All 392 events, births and deaths of December 10