Notable Historical Events on August 10th
August 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
612 |
Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. |
BC AD | |
70 |
"2nd Temple" of Jews is set on fire (approx) |
610 |
In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an. |
654 |
Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I |
843 |
Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France |
955 |
Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe. |
991 |
Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem. |
1304 |
-11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet |
1316 |
Second Battle of Athenry |
1461 |
Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain |
1497 |
John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia" |
1500 |
Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar |
1511 |
Portugese troops occupy parts of Malacca |
1512 |
Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France |
1519 |
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition of 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth (returned 5 Sept 1522) |
1557 |
Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France |
1566 |
Iconoclasm begins |
1585 |
English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Netherlands |
1622 |
County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges |
1627 |
Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle |
1628 |
Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed |
1653 |
The Battle of Scheveningen, English fleet beats Dutch |
1664 |
Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár |
1675 |
King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
1675 |
Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam |
1678 |
Netherlands & France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen |
1680 |
In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads |
1743 |
Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated |
1759 |
Carlos III becomes king of Spain |
1774 |
1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing |
1776 |
American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. |
1787 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" |
1787 |
Turkey declares war on Russia |
1792 |
Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI |
1793 |
Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts |
1809 |
Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
1821 |
Missouri admitted as 24th US state |
1822 |
Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die |
1827 |
Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada) |
1831 |
Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery |
1831 |
Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die |
1833 |
Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 |
1835 |
Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH |
1846 |
US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex |
1856 |
Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana |
1861 |
Battle of Wilson's Creek (Oak Hills) Missouri during US Civil War - General Lyon killed |
1862 |
Battle of Nueces River TX |
1866 |
Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria |
1869 |
O B Brown patents moving picture projector |
1876 |
1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada |
1877 |
Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians |
1877 |
Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM |
1885 |
Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt) |
1887 |
Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois) |
1888 |
NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record |
1889 |
Dan Rylands patents screw cap |
1893 |
Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act |
1893 |
Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany |
1895 |
1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi") |
1897 |
Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club) |
1900 |
1st Davis Tennis Cup: USA beats British Isles at Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts (3-0) |
1901 |
Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners |
1904 |
Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest |
1904 |
Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock |
1904 |
Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur |
1904 |
Higlanders Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games |
1906 |
Pope Pius X bans Associations cults |
1907 |
Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally |
1909 |
Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins |
1911 |
Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords |
1911 |
The Great Britain, the House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members |
1913 |
2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses |
1914 |
At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary |
1914 |
German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany |
1914 |
German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas |
1914 |
WWI: French fall back at Alsace |
1916 |
Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia |
1919 |
Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine |
1920 |
Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania |
1920 |
Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey) |
1920 |
Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate |
1921 |
FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello |
1925 |
Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die |
1926 |
Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed |
1929 |
Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win |
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. |
1934 |
Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player |
1936 |
114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record) |
1936 |
120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record) |
1938 |
119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record) |
1939 |
2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats) |
1940 |
Prince Bernhard Fund forms |
1941 |
FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland |
1942 |
Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa |
1943 |
Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali |
1943 |
Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly" |
1943 |
Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots |
1944 |
Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0 |
1944 |
Race riots in Athens Alabama |
1944 |
US recaptures Guam from Japanese |
1944 |
US/French offensive at Alencon |
1945 |
Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged |
1948 |
ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY) |
1948 |
Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC |
1948 |
Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours |
1948 |
WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1949 |
Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense |
1950 |
"Sunset Boulevard", starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall |
1952 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament |
1954 |
Neth Indonesian Union breaks up |
1954 |
Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins |
1954 |
At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held. |
1956 |
23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000) |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open |
1960 |
Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space |
1960 |
Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea |
1961 |
UK applies for membership of the European Common Market |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1964 |
WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km |
1966 |
1st lunar orbiter launched by US |
1966 |
Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again |
1968 |
Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock |
1968 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open |
1969 |
Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win |
1969 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open |
1970 |
Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior" |
1970 |
British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out |
1971 |
16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research |
1971 |
Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st |
1971 |
During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre |
1972 |
1 million kg meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada |
1972 |
Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession |
1973 |
1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station |
1974 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open |
1975 |
57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron |
1975 |
David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon |
1976 |
A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People' |
1977 |
US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord |
1977 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
1977 |
Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer |
1977 |
About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1979 |
Ecuador adopts its constitution |
1979 |
Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request" |
1980 |
62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY |
1980 |
8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley |
1980 |
Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx |
1981 |
Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business |
1981 |
Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record |
1981 |
Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes |
1984 |
Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run |
1985 |
Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle) |
1985 |
Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million |
1985 |
Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles |
1986 |
"Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances |
1986 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
1986 |
Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired |
1986 |
Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC |
1986 |
Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates |
1987 |
Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully |
1987 |
Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball |
1988 |
Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) |
1988 |
Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador |
1988 |
UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion |
1989 |
A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning |
1989 |
Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
1990 |
US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus |
1990 |
The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries. |
1991 |
"A Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs |
1991 |
NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53 |
1992 |
Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched |
1992 |
Soyuz TM-15 lands |
1993 |
Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA |
1993 |
An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand. |
1994 |
Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) |
1995 |
Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly |
1996 |
Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate |
1996 |
Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16 |
1996 |
Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex |
1996 |
Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24 |
1997 |
36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6 |
1997 |
Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine |
1997 |
Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal |
1997 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic |
1997 |
Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf |
1998 |
The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei. |
2001 |
US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity |
2003 |
The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent . It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. |
2006 |
Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes. |
2008 |
90th PGA Championship: Pádraig Harrington shoots a 277 at Oakland Hills Country Club |
2013 |
6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia |
2013 |
16 Royal Guardsmen are killed in a bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco |
2016 |
Politics|Donald Trump Suggests 'Second Amendment People' Could Act Against Hillary Clinton |
2016 |
US wins men's 4x200m freestyle relay, Phelps takes 21st gold |
2016 |
Olympics-Swimming-Phelps wins 200m butterfly for 20th gold |
2016 |
Trump suggests "Second Amendment people" could deal with "SCOTUS picks" |
2016 |
NRA launches $3 million anti-Clinton ad buy |
2017 |
3 dead in machete attack on Kenya vote tallying centre on coast |
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