December, 10

• 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• 1963 independence of the Zanzibar

• International day of the indigenous peoples

• 1830 Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst (Massachussets)

• 1991 The 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, the year of the 500th anniversary of the conquest of America, is awarded to Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan Indian from the Quiché ethnic group and a non-violent human rights and women's activist

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