Independence
Day
Bahamas : July 10 1973
July
10
Bahamas
: Independence from the United Kingdom
in 1973
Events
July
10
48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar
barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey
in Macedonia.
138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart
failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in
the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife,
Vibia Sabina.
988 – Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises
Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland,
and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon
Law; the event is considered to be the founding
of the city of Dublin.
1212 – The most severe of several early
fires of London burns most of the city to
the ground.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and
takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle
of Northampton.
1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho
returns to Lisbon, after discovering the
sea route to India as a companion of Vasco
da Gama.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of
England.
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated
in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar
Gérard.
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of
Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of
France declares war on the Kingdom of Great
Britain.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie
River delta.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance
of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the
British East India Company.
1821 – The United States takes possession
of its newly bought territory of Florida
from Spain.
1832 – U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes
a bill that would re-charter the Second
Bank of the United States.
1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as
the 13th President of the United States
upon the death of President Zachary Taylor,
16 months into his term.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto
Rico formally receives its city charter
from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers
its last military defeat in the Battle of
La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men
is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian
force, many of them armed with spears.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S.
state.
1911 – The Royal Australian Navy was established
by HM King George V of Australia.
1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134
°F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded
in the United States.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people
are killed and 161 houses destroyed during
rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of
44 years. His followers observe Silence
Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee,
the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins
with John T. Scopes, a young high school
science teacher accused of teaching evolution
in violation of the Butler Act.
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by
completing a 91 hour airplane flight around
the world.
1940 – World War II: the Vichy government
is established in France.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain –
The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British
convoys in the English Channel thus starting
the battle (this start date is contested,
though).
1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of
Jewish people living in and near the village
of Jedwabne in Poland.
1942 – Diplomatic relations between the
Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record
with inflation of 348.46 percent per day,
or prices doubling every eleven hours.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended
as the first Governor-General of Pakistan
by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations
begin at Kaesong.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications
satellite, is launched into orbit.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led
by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally
at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As
many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King
as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder,
and Peter Paul and Mary.
1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne
Convention copyright treaty.
1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes
Prime Minister of France.
1971 – Hassan II of Morocco survives an
attempted coup d'état, which lasts until
June 11.
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence
within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes
a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of
oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped
in Rome, Italy.
1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 – One American and three British mercenaries
are executed in Angola following the Luanda
Trial.
1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania
is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a
second time.
1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior
is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand
harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando
Pereira.
1991 – The South African cricket team is
readmitted into the International Cricket
Council following the end of Apartheid.
1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian
leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40
years in prison for drug and racketeering
violations.
1997 – In London scientists report the findings
of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton
which supports the "out of Africa theory"
of human evolution placing an "African
Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel
Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque
city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread
protests.
1998 – 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.
2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum
pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers
scavenging gasoline.
2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest
aerospace group is formed by the merger
of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul
Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents
is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million)
to Lord Thomson.
2003 – 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.
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida
Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in
damage.
2006 – Pakistan International Flight PK-688
crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after
takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister
Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges
by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him
of war crimes.
2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk
in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading
to 122 deaths.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (Mauritania)
National Day of Commemoration (Ireland)
Christian Feast Day:
Amalberga of Maubeuge
Rufina and Secunda
Seven Brothers
July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in
1973
Silence Day (Followers of Meher Baba)
Statehood Day (Wyoming)
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