🎉 Human Rights Day (1948)
Where: Palais de Chaillot, Paris
📅 On This Day: December 10
December 10, 1948: Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It promises that 'all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights'. It has been translated into more than 500 languages.
✨ More events on this day
- 1751 🌿 Naturalist George Shaw was born in England. He wrote the first scientific description of the platypus, an animal so strange that some people first thought it was a fake.
- 1768 🎨 The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published in Edinburgh, Scotland. For more than 200 years, families looked things up in its big printed volumes.
- 1902 🏛️ The first Aswan Dam opened on the Nile River in Egypt, creating a reservoir that helped farmers control the river's yearly floods.
🧠 Question of the day
In which city was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
- Beijing
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
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Answer: Paris
Questions
What happened on December 10?
December 10, 1948: Human Rights Day. It happened in Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights