July 10 Events |
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July 10th, 2048 (July 10 2048) | Event | Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedon. | Julius Caesar Quotes |
July 10th, 2008 (July 10 2008) | Event | Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes. | |
July 10th, 2006 (July 10 2006) | Event | Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board. | |
July 10th, 2005 (July 10 2005) | Event | Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage. | |
July 10th, 2003 (July 10 2003) | Event | A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong. | |
July 10th, 2002 (July 10 2002) | Event | At a Sotheby s auction, Peter Paul Rubens painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for ?49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson. | |
July 10th, 2000 (July 10 2000) | Event | A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. | |
July 10th, 2000 (July 10 2000) | Event | EADS, the world s second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aerospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. | |
July 10th, 1999 (July 10 1999) | Event | The United States women s national soccer team team wins the FIFA Women s World Cup in Pasadena, California at The Rose Bowl. | |
July 10th, 1998 (July 10 1998) | Event | Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos. | |
July 10th, 1997 (July 10 1997) | Event | London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. | |
July 10th, 1997 (July 10 1997) | Event | Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Angel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. | |
July 10th, 1992 (July 10 1992) | Event | In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. | |
July 10th, 1991 (July 10 1991) | Event | Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
July 10th, 1991 (July 10 1991) | Event | The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid. | |
July 10th, 1985 (July 10 1985) | Event | Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents. | |
July 10th, 1978 (July 10 1978) | Event | World News Tonight premieres on ABC. | |
July 10th, 1978 (July 10 1978) | Event | Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup d etat. | |
July 10th, 1976 (July 10 1976) | Event | The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. | |
July 10th, 1976 (July 10 1976) | Event | One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. | |
July 10th, 1973 (July 10 1973) | Event | The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. | |
July 10th, 1973 (July 10 1973) | Event | National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition. | |
July 10th, 1968 (July 10 1968) | Event | Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France. | |
July 10th, 1967 (July 10 1967) | Event | Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
July 10th, 1962 (July 10 1962) | Event | Telstar, the world s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. | |
July 10th, 1958 (July 10 1958) | Event | Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high. | |
July 10th, 1951 (July 10 1951) | Event | Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin. | |
July 10th, 1947 (July 10 1947) | Event | Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee. | Stan Lee Quotes |
July 10th, 1943 (July 10 1943) | Event | World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign. | |
July 10th, 1942 (July 10 1942) | Event | The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. | |
July 10th, 1941 (July 10 1941) | Event | Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. | |
July 10th, 1940 (July 10 1940) | Event | World War II: Vichy France government is established. | |
July 10th, 1940 (July 10 1940) | Event | World War II: Battle of BritainThe German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though). | |
July 10th, 1938 (July 10 1938) | Event | Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world. | |
July 10th, 1925 (July 10 1925) | Event | The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established. | |
July 10th, 1925 (July 10 1925) | Event | Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration. | Meher Baba Quotes |
July 10th, 1925 (July 10 1925) | Event | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, is accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. | |
July 10th, 1913 (July 10 1913) | Event | Death Valley, California hits 134 øF (~56.7 øC), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. | |
July 10th, 1890 (July 10 1890) | Event | Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. | |
July 10th, 1877 (July 10 1877) | Event | The then villa of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. | |
July 10th, 1850 (July 10 1850) | Event | Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term. | Zachary Taylor Quotes |
July 10th, 1832 (July 10 1832) | Event | U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
July 10th, 1821 (July 10 1821) | Event | The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain. | |
July 10th, 1806 (July 10 1806) | Event | The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. | |
July 10th, 1800 (July 10 1800) | Event | The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. | |
July 10th, 1796 (July 10 1796) | Event | Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. | Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes |
July 10th, 1789 (July 10 1789) | Event | Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta. | |
July 10th, 1778 (July 10 1778) | Event | American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. | |
July 10th, 1645 (July 10 1645) | Event | English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place. | |
July 10th, 1584 (July 10 1584) | Event | William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gerard. | |
July 10th, 1553 (July 10 1553) | Event | Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. | |
July 10th, 1460 (July 10 1460) | Event | Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton. | |
July 10th, 1212 (July 10 1212) | Event | The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. | |
July 10th, 0988 (July 10 0988) | Event | The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. | |