August 10

is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining.

The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.

Events

612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.
955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
1316 - Second Battle of Athenry
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1680 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1776 - Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
1856 - In Last Island, Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1971 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
2001 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent ^*. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space.
2003 - The American television series Futurama ends
2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing 49 straight hours of StarCraft.

Births

1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg (d. 1346)
1360 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
1520 - Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
1645 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
1737 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
1821 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1845 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (d. 1904)
1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)
1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1869 - Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
1872 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1874 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (d. 1964)
1877 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
1878 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1890 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1898 - Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
1900 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
1902 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1902 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1905 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
1909 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1914 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
1923 - Rhonda Fleming, American actress
1927 - Vernon Washington, American actors (d. 1988)
1928 - Jimmy Dean, American singer
1928 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
1928 - Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor
1933 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
1939 - Kate O'Mara, British actress
1940 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
1943 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
1945 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
1947 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American model and actress
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
1965 - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
1965 - John Starks, American basketball player
1966 - Hansi Kürsch, German singer
1967 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer
1967 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
1971 - Roy Keane, Irish footballer
1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
1971 - Justin Theroux, American actor
1971 - Sal Fasano, American baseball player
1972 - Angie Harmon, American model and actress
1972 - Christofer Johnsson, Swedish heavy metal musician
1973 - Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
1974 - David Sommeil, French footballer
1974 - Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Roadkill, Wrestler
1977 - Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress
1982 - Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress

Deaths

612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1633 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish raper (b. 1713)
1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1963 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1976 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894)
1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2005 - Lee Seung Seop, Korean gamer

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals - Opalia, festival in honor of Ops
Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held
Independence Day in Ecuador -- Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 3 saints:
- St. Laurence
- St. Blaan
- St. Deusdedit

External links

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