December 10 Holidays

Human Rights Day marks December 10, 1948, when the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — the most translated document in the world, with 30 articles outlining the fundamental rights of every human being regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religion. Nobel Prize Day marks December 10, 1896, the death date of Alfred Nobel — the Swedish inventor of dynamite who left most of his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize — with the annual award ceremony at Stockholm City Hall on this date. National Lager Day celebrates the bottom-fermented beer whose cold-conditioning process Czech brewers in Plzeň perfected in 1842, producing the golden Pilsner Urquell that became the world’s most widely consumed beer style. Dewey Decimal System Day marks December 10, 1851, the birthday of Melvil Dewey — the librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, organizing all human knowledge into 10 main classes and subdivisions.