Today in History: Explosion Near Istanbul Vodafone Arena: 43 Killed, 155 Injured

December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 21.

Railways

• December 10 1923 Turkey's National Railways Company representative Hügn which was agreed on the text of an agreement Nafie Chairman Muhtar Bey Anatolian Railways in Ankara. The agreement was approved by the government and the Nafia Council. It was emphasized that Muvazene-i Maliye council should not be opposed to the bill and should not fall into the hands of the British capital of the Anatolian Railways.
• 10 December 1924 The foundation of the Ankara-Yahşihan Line, which was the beginning of the road that will connect Ankara to the east, was laid by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha.
• 10 December 1928 An agreement was signed between the government and the company to ensure the acquisition of Anatolian Railways.
• 1863 - London Underground opened.

Events

• 1817 - Mississippi joins the union as the 20th state of the United States.
• 1877 – Ottoman-Russian War: The Russian army took Pleven after 5 months of siege.
• 1898 - After the Spanish-American War, Cuba gained its independence from Spain.
• 1901 - The first Nobel prizes are awarded.
• 1902 – Aswan Dam built on the Nile river in Egypt was put into service.
• 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediating role in ending the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1923 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1927 - French philosopher Henri Bergson receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1929 - German writer Thomas Mann receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1937 - Means "the city made flourishing by Abdulaziz" ma'muretulaziz or in short, the name of the city of Elaziz was changed to Elazig.
• 1941 – off the coast of Malaya Prince of Wales ve Repulse Two battleships belonging to the Royal Navy, one of the two battleships of the Royal Navy, were sunk by torpedo bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• 1948 - The United Nations Assembly adopted the Declaration of Human Rights. Turkey voted to accept the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today is still celebrated as Human Rights Day.
• 1956 – Clashes broke out in Hungary and martial law was declared.
• 1963 – The Sultanate of Zanzibar gained its independence from the United Kingdom. It was united with Tanzania on 26 April 1964.
• 1964 - Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1970 - Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1971 – 26 defendants, including Tarık Ziya Ekinci, Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Turkey Revolutionary Eastern Cultural Centers his case was started in Diyarbakır.
• 1975 - Russian scientist Andrey Saharov receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1977 – Amnesty International receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1977 – 9 political prisoners escaped from Istanbul Toptaşı Prison.
• 1978 – Enver Sadat and Menachem Begin receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1979 - Mother Teresa receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1979 – Upon the appointment of İsmet Kurt to replace the previously dismissed State Opera and Ballet General Manager Gürer Aykal, State Opera and Ballet employees decided not to participate in the staging of Carmina Burana. Kurt resigned two days later.
• 1983 – Military regime ends in Argentina; Raul Alfonsin became Argentina's first civilian President after 8 years.
• 1983 – Lech Walesa, leader of the Polish Solidarity Union, receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1987 – The Human Rights Association submitted a petition with 130 thousand signatures demanding "Abolition of General Amnesty and Death Penalties" to the General Secretariat of the Assembly.
• 1987 – The Sedat Simavi Press Award was given to Uğur Mumcu.
• 1988 – The first liver transplant operation was performed in Turkey. The surgery was performed by Prof.Dr. from Ankara Hacettepe University. Mehmet Haberal did it.
• 1988 – The student amnesty law, vetoed by President Kenan Evren, was re-adopted in the Parliament. The law allowed head coverings in universities.
• 1988 – Egyptian Necip Mahfuz received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1993 – Security forces raided the headquarters of Özgür Gündem newspaper in Kadırga, Istanbul and detained all employees.
• 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Perez and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2002 - Stanford University announced that it would clone human embryos.
• 2002 – Former American President Jimmy Carter receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic mediation in the Middle East in the 1970s.
• 2002 – A ship carrying Scud missiles from North Korea is intercepted by the Spanish Navy in the Arabian Sea.
• 2002 - Bangladesh releases two European journalists it had detained.
• 2003 - Iranian Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2005 – 10 December Movement held its first meeting in Istanbul Dedeman Hotel.
• 2016 – Attacks took place near Istanbul Vodafone Arena. 43 people were killed and 155 injured in the two explosions.

Births

• 1783 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican writer (d. 1873)
• 1804 - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
• 1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and author (b. 1852)
• 1821 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and journalist (d. 1878)
• 1822 – César Franck, French composer (d. 1890)
• 1824 – George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet, and Christian universalist preacher (d. 1905)
• 1830 Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
• 1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
• 1870 – Pierre Félix Louis, French poet and writer (d. 1925)
• 1882 - Otto Neurath was an Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist and political economist. (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Giovanni Messe, Italian soldier and politician (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet statesman, diplomat, and lawyer (d. 1954)
• 1890 – László Bárdossy, Hungarian diplomat and politician (b. 1941)
• 1891 – Nelly Sachs, German writer, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Franz Fischer, German soldier and SS officer (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Una Merkel, American theater, film, radio and television actress (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Simone Chrisostome, French soldier and member of the French Resistance (d. 2021)
• 1938 – Faruk al-Shara, Syrian diplomat and politician
• 1941 – Burçin Oraloğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
• 1944 – Oya İnci, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
• 1948 – Dušan Bajević, Bosnian football player and manager
• 1948 – Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
• 1953 – Atilla Atasoy, Turkish pop music artist
• 1957 – Hasan Kaçan, Turkish cartoonist, actor and filmmaker
• 1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor and producer (d. 2012)
• 1960 – Kenneth Branagh, British director
• 1961 – Nia Peeples, American singer and actress
• 1961 – İsmet Yılmaz, Turkish politician and lawyer
• 1964 – Edith González, Mexican telenovela and film actress (d. 2019)
• 1964 – Abdurrahim Karslı, Turkish academic and politician
• 1964 – José Antonio Pujante, Spanish politician and professor of philosophy (d. 2019)
• 1965 – J Mascis is an American musician.
• 1969 – Ergün Demir, Turkish actor, director and screenwriter
• 1970 – Kevin Sharp, American country musician and singer (d. 2014)
• 1972 – Brian Molko, musician from Luxembourg
• 1974 – Meg White is an American drummer
• 1978 – Anna Jesień, Polish athlete
• 1978 – Željko Vasic, Croatian singer
• 1980 – Sarah Chang, American violin virtuoso
• 1982 – Sultan Kösen, Turkish farmer and the tallest living person in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records
• 1983 - Xavier Samuel is an Australian actor.
• 1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress and pop singer
• 1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentine national football player
• 1988 – Wilfried Bony, Ivory Coast national football player
• 1988 - Neven Subotic, Serbian football player
• 1996 - Kang Daniel is a South Korean singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.

Deaths

• 925 – Sancho I, medieval king of Pamplona (905 – 925) (b. 860)
• 1041 – IV. Michael became Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 11 April 1034 to 10 December 1041 (b. 1010)
• 1081 – III. Nikephoros, Byzantine Emperor from 1078 to 1081 (b. 1002)
• 1113 – Rıdvan was the grandson of Alp Arslan, the ruler of the Great Seljuk State, and the son of Tutuş, the ruler of the Syrian Seljuk State (b. ?)
• 1198 – Ibn Rushd, Andalusian Arab philosopher and physician (b. 1126)
• 1475 – Paolo Uccello, Italian RönesansPainter in the Florentine school at the beginning of the I (b. 1397)
• 1851 – Karl Drais, German inventor (b. 1785)
• 1865 – Léopold I, Duke of Saxony, first king of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer (b. 1833)
• 1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician (b. 1845)
• 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1966 – Vladimir Bodiansky, Russian civil engineer (b. 1894)
• 1967 – Otis Redding, American musician (b. 1941)
• 1968 – Karl Barth, Contemporary Swiss protestant theologian (b. 1886)
• 1972 – Gyula Moravcsik, Hungarian byzantineologist (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Edward William Charles Noel, British intelligence officer (b. 1886)
• 1978 – Ed Wood, American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor (b. 1924)
• 1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1993 – Ertuğrul Bilda, Turkish actor (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Sâdi Yâver Ataman, Turkish folklore and folk music expert and compiler (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Eren Uluergüven, Turkish theater artist and assistant director (b. 1983)
• 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Sabahattin Zaim, Turkish economist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Vitali Hakko, Turkish businessman (b. 1913)
• 2010 – John Fenn, US professor of analytical chemistry (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Antonio Cubillo, Spanish lawyer, politician, activist, militant (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Arnold Peralta, former Honduran international football player (b. 1989)
• 2015 – Dolph Schayes, American professional basketball player (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Eric Hilton, American businessman and philanthropist who owns a hotel chain (b. 1933)
• 2016 – Alberto Seixas Santos, Portuguese film director (b. 1936)
• 2017 – Viktor Potapov, Ruz sailor and sailing athlete (b. 1947)
• 2017 – Eva Todor, Brazilian actress (b. 1919)
• 2018 – Xavier Tilliette, French Jesuit philosopher, historian, and theologian (b. 1921)
• 2019 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and graphic artist (b. 1921)
• 2019 – Barrie Keeffe, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1945)
• 2019 – Yuri Luzhkov, Russian politician (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Jim Smith, English footballer, football coach and manager (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Tom Lister, Jr., American actor and professional wrestler (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Myriam Sienra, Paraguayan actress and journalist (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Carol Sutton, American actress (b. 1944)
• 2020 – Barbara Windsor, English stage, film and television actress (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Rahnaward Zaryab, Afghan novelist, short story writer, journalist (b. 1944)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Human Rights Day