August 10

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.

The term 'the 10th of August' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it is restored in 1814.

Events

• 610 – Laylat al-Qadr: Muhammad begins to receive the Qur'an (traditional date).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• 1267 – King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
• 1296 – King John of Bohemia (d. 1346)
• 1360 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
• 1397 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
• 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
• 1520 – Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen consort of the Scots, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
• 1560 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
• 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
• 1645 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
• 1737 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
• 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles ("Fanfan"), French daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
• 1809 – John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist (d. 1851)
• 1810 – Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, founder of the Italian Liberal Party (d. 1861)
• 1814 – Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
• 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
• 1823 – Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d. 1886)
• 1827 – Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (d. 1870)
• 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
• 1845 – Abay Qunanbayuli, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
• 1856 – William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time (d. 1915)
• 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musicologist (d. 1936)
• 1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
• 1872 – Bill Johnson, American double-bassist (d. 1972)
• 1874 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
• 1877 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
• 1880 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
• 1884 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
• 1889 – Charles Darrow, American creator of Monopoly (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
• 1894 – V. V. Giri, 4th President of India (d. 1980)
• 1895 – Hammy Love, Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
• 1897 – John W. Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
• 1898 – Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand politician and sprinter (d. 1994)
• 1902 – Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
• 1902 – Curt Siodmak, German-born English novelist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
• 1903 – Ward Moore, American novelist (d. 1978)
• 1905 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
• 1907 – Su Yu, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
• 1908 – Rica Erickson, Australian naturalist and botanic (d. 2009)
• 1909 – Leo Fender, American luthier, founder of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (d. 1991)
• 1911 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
• 1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
• 1919 – Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Red Holzman, American basketball coach (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress
• 1923 – Fred Ridgway, English cricketer
• 1924 – Martha Hyer, American actress
• 1924 – Nancy Buckingham (Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London), British romance novelist
• 1927 – Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1928 – Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
• 1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer
• 1932 – Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal and Archbishop of Manila
• 1933 – Doyle Brunson, American poker player
• 1933 – Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
• 1933 – Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth) (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
• 1939 – Kate O'Mara, British actress
• 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Sid Waddell, English darts commentator
• 1942 – Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer
• 1943 – Ronnie Spector, American singer (The Ronettes)
• 1943 – Louise Forestier, French-Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
• 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005)
• 1943 – Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer
• 1943 – Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricketer
• 1945 – Harriet Miers, American lawyer and White House Counsel
• 1945 – Laura Spurr, American chairperson of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (d. 2010)
• 1947 – Ian Anderson, Scottish singer and flutist (Jethro Tull)
• 1947 – Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
• 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer
• 1948 – Patti Austin, American singer
• 1950 – Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
• 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
• 1952 – Diane Venora, American actress
• 1953 – Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer
• 1956 – Fred Ottman ("Tugboat", "Typhoon"), American wrestler
• 1956 – Charlie Peacock, American record producer, singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Jack Richards, English cricketer
• 1959 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
• 1959 – Florent Vollant, Innu-Canadian singer-songwriter (Kashtin)
• 1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• 1960 – Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
• 1960 – Kenny Perry, American golfer
• 1961 – Jon Farriss, Australian drummer (INXS)
• 1963 – Andrew Sullivan, English-born American journalist
• 1963 – Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary (d. 2001)
• 1964 – Aaron Hall, American songwriter
• 1965 – Claudia Christian, American actress
• 1965 – Mike E. Smith, American jockey
• 1965 – John Starks, American basketball player
• 1966 – Hansi Kürsch, German singer
• 1967 – Philippe Albert, Belgian footballer
• 1967 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer
• 1967 – Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
• 1967 – Reinout Scholte, Dutch cricketer
• 1967 – Lorraine Pearson, British singer (Five Star) and author
• 1968 – Michael Bivins, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
• 1968 – Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Pete Docter, American film director
• 1969 – Emily Symons, Australian actress
• 1970 – Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Steve Mautone, Australian footballer
• 1970 – Brendon Julian, Australian cricketer
• 1971 – Roy Keane, Irish footballer
• 1971 – Mario Kindelán, Cuban boxer
• 1971 – Justin Theroux, American actor
• 1971 – Sal Fasano, American baseball player
• 1971 – Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist
• 1971 – Stephan Groth, Danish-born Norwegian vocalist (Apoptygma Berzerk
• 1972 – Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union footballer
• 1972 – Angie Harmon, American model and actress
• 1972 – Christofer Johnsson, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (Therion)
• 1973 – Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
• 1973 – Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 – David Sommeil, French footballer
• 1974 – Rachel Simmons, American feminist and author
• 1974 – Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
• 1975 – İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer
• 1976 – Michael Depoli, American wrestler
• 1977 – Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
• 1977 – Aaron Kamin, American guitarist and songwriter (The Calling)
• 1977 – Matt Morgan, British comedian
• 1978 – Daniel Allsopp, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
• 1978 – Chris Read, English cricketer
• 1978 – Claire Yiu, Hong Kong actress
• 1979 – Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
• 1979 – Joanna García, American actress
• 1979 – Ted Geoghegan, American filmmaker and author
• 1979 – Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979 – Alin Anuar, Malaysian fashion innovator
• 1979 – Brandon Lyon, American baseball player
• 1980 – Stu Bennett, English wrestler
• 1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
• 1981 – Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
• 1981 – Malek Mouath,Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1982 – Josh Anderson, American baseball player
• 1982 – Devon Aoki, American model and actress
• 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player\
• 1985 – Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
• 1989 – Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
• 1990 – Lucas Till, American actor
• 1992 – Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
• 1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor and singer

Deaths

• 258 – Lawrence of Rome (Saint Lawrence), Spanish-born deacon of Rome (martyred) (b. 225)
• 1535 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1509)
• 1637 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
• 1653 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
• 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de 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 Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
• 1802 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (b. 1724)
• 1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
• 1839 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
• 1862 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
• 1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
• 1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
• 1915 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
• 1918 – Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace (b. 1897)
• 1920 – Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician (b. 1835)
• 1928 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1932 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog, the first famous dog of that name (b. 1918)
• 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
• 1948 – Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Frank Demaree, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903)
• 1963 – Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
• 1969 – Leno LaBianca, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 1969 – Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (b. 1930)
• 1976 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Yahya Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1917)
• 1982 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (b. 1962)
• 1986 – Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (b. 1951)
• 1993 – Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth), Norwegian guitarist (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
• 1987 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, the 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1997 – Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Paṇḍit Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
• 2000 – Gilbert Parkhouse, English cricketer (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
• 2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer (b. c. 1944)
• 2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
• 2007 – James E. Faust, American religious figure (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Chris Reyka, American law enforcement official (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and actor (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Adam Stansfield, Professional footballer who played for Exeter City F.C. (b. 1978)

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
• 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)
• Labrenca Diena (Ancient Latvia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada