August
10
Events
955 – Battle
of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars,
ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
991 – Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman
of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near
Maldon in Essex.
1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring
the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry
during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of
the League of Cambrai, saw the simultaneous destruction of the
breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville
to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in command Sebastian
Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in
the Philippines.
1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French
in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour
after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
in London is laid.
1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army
begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the
Thirteen Colonies.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: 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 as his
Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence
from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
1813 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot
José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious
school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work
conquers all things".
1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United
States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
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.
1901 – The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between
the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire.
1913 – Second Balkan War: 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 Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire
between the Allies.
1932 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) 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 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security
Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United
States government, and replacing the Department of War with
the United States Department of Defense.
1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for
the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S.
Army.
1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members
of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded
in Cooperstown, New York.
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 the period of one
year.
1978 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident.
This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is
found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's
Most Wanted.
1988 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan
signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments
to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated
by the United States during World War II.
1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka
by paramilitary troops.
1993 – An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits
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 for his testimony.
1998 – HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown
prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom
– 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent. It is the first time the United
Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in
space.
2006 – Scotland Yard disrupts a major terrorist plot to destroy
aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region,
in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Bessus
Blane (Roman Catholic Church)
Geraint of Dumnonia
Lawrence of Rome
Our Lady of Good Success of Parañaque, Patroness of Parañaque,
Philippines
August 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence
from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution
of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810. Independence
finally occurred on May 24, 1822 at the Battle of Pichincha.
(Ecuador)
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