Talk:December 10

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December 10: Human Rights Day; Constitution Day in Thailand (1932)

1799 – France became the first country to adopt the metric system as its system for weights and measures.
1884 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada.
1911 – Calbraith Rodgers (pictured) completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.
1983 – Raúl Alfonsín became the first democratically elected President of Argentina to take office after the fall of the military dictatorship.

More anniversaries: December 9 – December 10 – December 11

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[edit] Plant Lady

Do the two references to the "Plant Lady" on December 10 really meet the criteria for a historical event?--Silverhand 22:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Took out the birth of Meg white from the events thread, mainly because that belongs in the births thread. --Edwartica 09:12, 24 April 2007 (UTC)