Today in Military History:
December 10
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 536 | Belisarious took Rome from the Ostrogoths. |
| | 1790 | Battle of Calicut. Taking only 53 casualties, 3,000 British defeated 9,000 Mysores inflicting 1,000 dead and taking 2,400 prisoners. |
| | 1941 | Japanese occupy Gilbert Islands in South Pacific. |
| | 1941 | H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers. |
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