On This Day in History - 10th December

On This Day in History - 10th December 

1394 - King James I of Scotland born
1541 Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII

1582 - France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley

1688 - King James II flees London 
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester 
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps

1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1907 - Rudyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1936 - Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 - Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up British throne to marry Wallis Simpson 

1964 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1967 - Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash
2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor died
2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Former Chilean dictator died