August 10
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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 143 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1267 – James II of Aragon (died 1327)
- 1296 – King John of Bohemia (died 1346)
- 1397 – Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1439)
- 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (died 1553)
- 1520 – Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)
- 1535 – Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (died 1587)
- 1556 – Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran minister (died 1608)
- 1560 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (died 1629)
- 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
- 1737 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter (died 1773)
- 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist (died 1802)
- 1782 – Charles James Napier, British general (died 1853)
- 1794 – Leopold Zunz, German Jewish scientist (died 1886)
- 1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Italy (died 1861)
- 1810 – Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, President of Uruguay (died 1887)
- 1814 – Henri Nestle, Swiss industrialist (died 1890)
- 1814 – John C. Pemberton, American Confederate general (died 1881)
- 1821 – Jay Cooke, financier (died 1905)
- 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (died 1896)
- 1845 – Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (died 1904)
- 1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (died 1936)
- 1869 – Laurence Binyon, British poet (died 1943)
- 1872 – Bill Johnson, jazz musician (died 1972)
- 1874 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
- 1874 – Antanas Smetona, 1st President of Lithuania (died 1944)
- 1877 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (died 1944)
- 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (died 1957)
- 1889 – Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and World War II Resistance activist (died 1968)
- 1889 – Charles Darrow, American creator of the Monopoly board game (died 1967)
- 1894 – Vaharagiri Venkata Giri, President of India (died 1980)
- 1898 – Jack Haley, actor (died 1979)
- 1900 – Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (died 1994)
- 1901 – Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verdean poet (died 1975)
- 1902 – Norma Shearer, American actress (died 1983)
- 1902 – Curt Siodmak, science fiction author (died 2000)
- 1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist (died 1971)
- 1907 – Su Yu, Chinese Communist military leader (died 1984)
- 1908 – Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish athlete (died 1973)
- 1909 – Leo Fender, American luthier (died 1991)
- 1909 – King Mohammed V of Morocco (died 1961)
- 1912 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (died 2001)
- 1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
- 1914 – Ken Annakin, British director and screenwriter (died 2009)
- 1914 – Coutoucou Hubert Maga, President of present-day Benin (died 2000)
- 1923 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress
- 1927 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect
- 1928 – Jimmy Dean, American country music singer (died 2010)
- 1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and entertainer (died 2010)
- 1930 – Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
- 1932 – Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
- 1937 – Lucinda Williams, American athlete
- 1939 – Kate O'Mara, British actress
- 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, singer, (Righteous Brothers) (died 2003)
- 1943 – Ronnie Spector, singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
- 1945 – Harriet Miers, former White House counsel
- 1947 – Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
- 1947 – Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia
- 1957 – David Crane, American television producer and screenwriter
- 1958 – Wolfgang Funkel, German football manager
- 1959 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- 1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- 1962 – Suzanne Collins, American screenwriter and author
- 1963 – Andrew Sullivan, journalist
- 1965 – Toumani Diabate, Malian musician
- 1965 – Claudia Christian, actress
- 1965 – Mike Smith, Hall of Fame jockey
- 1965 – John Starks, American basketball player
- 1966 – Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer
- 1967 – Riddick Bowe, American heavyweight boxer
- 1967 – Lorraine Pearson, musician (Five Star)
- 1968 – Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (died 2011)
- 1971 – Mario Kindelan, Cuban boxer
- 1971 – Justin Theroux, actor
- 1971 – Roy Keane, Irish footballer
- 1972 – Angie Harmon, American model and actress
- 1972 – Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby player
- 1973 – Javier Zanetti, Argentine footballer
- 1974 – Luis Marin, Costa Rican footballer
- 1975 – Ilhan Mansiz, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer (formerly of Morning Musume)
- 1982 – Josh Anderson, American baseball player
- 1982 – Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
- 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
- 1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor and singer
Deaths [change]
- 258 – Saint Lawrence of Rome, Christian martyr.
- 1241 – Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (b. 1184).
- 1535 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1509).
- 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of 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 Ramsey, Scottish painter (b. 1713).
- 1802 – Franz Aepinius, German natural philosopher (b. 1724).
- 1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737).
- 1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808).
- 1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (b. 1848).
- 1904 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846).
- 1920 – Adam Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician (b. 1835).
- 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878).
- 1929 – Aletta Jacobs, first female physician in the Netherlands (b. 1854).
- 1932 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918).
- 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882).
- 1963 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1877).
- 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889).
- 1980 – Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan (b. 1917).
- 1986 – Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (b. 1951).
- 1987 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek politician (b. 1893).
- 2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917).
- 2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926).
- 2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot and Civil rights figure (b. 1925).
- 2008 – Isaac Hayes, American musician (b. 1942).
- 2010 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967).
- 2012 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (b. 1925).
Events [change]
- 612 BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
- 654 – Eugene I is elected Pope, although his predecessor, Pope Martin I, is still alive at this time.
- AD 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
- 1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the Ethiopian Imperial throne.
- 1492 – Alexander VI is elected Pope.
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1535 – The Saint Lawrence River is named by Jacques Cartier.
- 1628 – The Vasa warship, prestige project of King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden.
- 1680 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
- 1793 – The Musee du Louvre opens in Paris.
- 1809 – Quito, the present-day capital of Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
- 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
- 1830 – Ecuador separates from Greater Colombia.
- 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
- 1856 – In 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.
- 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 chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri, USA.
- 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 ground breaking 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.
- 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 United States 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.
- 1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in Northeastern Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
- 1993 – A magnitude 7 earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand.
- 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.
- 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent.
- 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas.
- 2006 – British police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up Transatlantic airliners.
- 2009 – Slovakia's deadliest mining disaster kills 20 people.
- 2010 – The WHO declares that the H1N1 influenza pandemic is over.
