December 10

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	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.	Modest Mouse	Gravity Rides Everything	The Moon and Antarctica
2.	1817	Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state	Mississippi John Hurt	Frankie	Anthology of American Folk Music
3.	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.	The Spiders	Go Go	Let's Go Spiders
4.	1955	The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.	The Snobs	Mouse Trap	Control
5.	1993	The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.	The Carter Family	Coal Miner's Blues	Country Music Hall of Fame
6.	N/A	Human Rights Day (International)	Government Issue	No Rights	Legless Bull
7.	N/A	International Animal Rights Day	Erase Errata	Other Animals are #1	Other Animals

(Historical facts about December 10 are from Wikipedia.)