Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 10

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 * 1684 – Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.
 * 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
 * 1861 – Militia forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.
 * 1884 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US.
 * 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair, protesters marched through London and clashed with police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial (pictured) for animals that had been vivisected.
 * 1911 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
 * 1932 - The conclusion of the Emu War, after the Australian Government ordered the withdrawal of all Australian forces from the conflict.
 * 1936 – Edward VIII, desiring to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson against widespread British opposition, signed the instrument of abdication to renounce the throne in favour of his brother George VI.
 * 1941 – Second World War: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales (53) and HMS Repulse (1916) were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya.
 * 1942 – Edward Raczyński of the Polish government-in-exile issued a note that was the first official report on the Holocaust.
 * 1989 – At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later.
 * 1993 – The video game Doom, later considered the "father" of the first-person shooter genre, is released.
 * Born/died this day: | Michael IV the Paphlagonian |d|1041| Nikephoros III Botaneiates |d|1081| Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo |d|1454| Isaac Beeckman|b|1588| Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer |b|1812| C. Rajagopalachari |b|1878| Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis |b|1891| John Treloar |b|1891| Tetsuji Takechi |b|1912| Ann Gloag |b|1942| Jasuben Shilpi |b|1948|  Abdullah Yusuf Ali |d|1953| Sultan Kösen|b|1982| Vladimir Teplyakov |d|2009| Ziad Abu Ein |d|2014