August 10

2024 Calendar

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.

Events

Up to 1900

612 BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
654 – Eugene I is elected Pope, although his predecessor, Pope Martin I, is still alive at this time.
843 – The Treaty of Verdun divides the Frankish Kingdom between Lothair I, Louis the German and Charles the Bald.
AD 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the Ethiopian Imperial throne.
1492 – Alexander VI is elected Pope.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1535 – The Saint Lawrence River is named by Jacques Cartier.
1628 – The Vasa warship, prestige project of King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden.
1664 – The Austro-Turkish War ends.
1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
1680 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1755 – Under orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 – 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.
1793 – The Musée du Louvre opens in Paris.
1809 – Quito, the present-day capital of Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
1813 – Chile's Instituto Nacional is founded.
1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1830 – Ecuador separates from Greater Colombia.
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1856 – In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
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.
1864 – Start of the Uruguayan War.
1893 – At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
1897 – Felix Hoffmann produces Aspirin for the first time.
1899 – Norwegian Football Club Viking FK is founded.

1901 – 2000

1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of the Yellow Sea.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1913 – Second Balkan War ends: 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 which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1932 – A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri, USA.
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 – US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954 – At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1961 – Agent Orange is used in Vietnam for the first time.
1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1971 – The first book of the Mr. Men series, Mr. Tickle was first published.
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 a year's period.
1981 – The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the United States Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
1986 – A Formula One Grand Prix is held in a then-Eastern Bloc country for the first time. The first Hungarian Grand Prix is won by Nelson Piquet.
1988 – Japanese American internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in Northeastern Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
1993 – A magnitude 7 earthquake strikes 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 agreement for his testimony.
1998 – Jamil Mahuad becomes President of Ecuador.

From 2001

2001 – An attack on a train in Angola kills 225 people.
2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent; the record holds until 2019, when a temperature of 38.7 degrees Celsius is measured at the University of Cambridge.
2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas.
2006 – British police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up Transatlantic airliners.
2009 – Slovakia's deadliest mining disaster kills 20 people.
2010 – The WHO declares that the H1N1 influenza pandemic is over.
2014 – Turkey holds its first direct Presidential election, in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is elected president.
2014 – Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes near Tehran, Iran, killing 39 people.
2017 – Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappears after going on inventor Peter Madsen's submarine to interview him, in the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden; Madsen is later found to have murdered her and is found guilty of the crime.
2018 – 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident: Seattle airport employee Richard Russell flies a small plane from the airport and later crashes it on a nearby island.
2019 – American billionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell in New York City, from suspected suicide.

Births

Up to 1800

914 – Le Hoan, Emperor of Vietnam (died 1005)
1267 – James II of Aragon (died 1327)
1296 – King John of Bohemia (died 1346)
1397 – Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1439)
1449 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (died 1503)
1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (died 1553)
1520 – Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)
1535 – Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (died 1587)
1556 – Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran minister (died 1608)
1560 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (died 1629)
1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
1737 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter (died 1773)
1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist (died 1802)
1753 – Edmund Randolph, United States Secretary of State (died 1813)
1782 – Charles James Napier, British general (died 1853)
1794 – Leopold Zunz, German Jewish scientist (died 1886)
1799 – Samuel Dickinson Hubbard, American politician (died 1855)

1801 – 1900

1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Italy (died 1861)
1810 – Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, President of Uruguay (died 1887)
1814 – Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (died 1890)
1814 – John C. Pemberton, American Confederate general (died 1881)
1814 – Ketil Motzfeldt, Norwegian politician (died 1889)
1821 – Jay Cooke, financier (died 1905)
1823 – Goncales Dias, Brazilian poet (died 1864)
1827 – Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (died 1870)
1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (died 1896)
1845 – Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (died 1904)
1856 – William Willett, British builder and Daylight Saving Time supporter (died 1915)
1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (died 1936)
1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (died 1936)
1865 – Andreas Heusler, Swiss medievalist (died 1940)
1869 – Laurence Binyon, British poet (died 1943)
1871 – Aino Sibelius, wife of Jean Sibelius (died 1969)
1872 – Bill Johnson, jazz musician (died 1972)
1874 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
1874 – Antanas Smetona, 1st President of Lithuania (died 1944)
1877 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (died 1944)
1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (died 1957)
1887 – Sam Warner, Polish-American film producer (died 1927)
1888 – Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (died 1940)
1889 – Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and World War II Resistance activist (died 1968)
1889 – Charles Darrow, American creator of the Monopoly board game (died 1967)
1890 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1954)
1894 – Vaharagiri Venkata Giri, President of India (died 1980)
1896 – Walter Lang, American film director (died 1972)
1898 – Jack Haley, actor (died 1979)
1899 – Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer (died 1968)
1900 – Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1994)

1901 – 1950

1901 – Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verdean poet (died 1975)
1902 – Norma Shearer, American actress (died 1983)
1902 – Curt Siodmak, science fiction writer (died 2000)
1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist (died 1971)
1907 – Su Yu, Chinese Communist military leader (died 1984)
1908 – Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish athlete (died 1973)
1909 – Leo Fender, American luthier (died 1991)
1909 – King Mohammed V of Morocco (died 1961)
1909 – Richard J. Hughes, Governor of New Jersey (died 1992)
1910 – Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (died 1993)
1912 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (died 2001)
1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
1913 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (died 1994)
1914 – Ken Annakin, British movie director and screenwriter (died 2009)
1916 – Coutoucou Hubert Maga, President of present-day Benin (died 2000)
1919 – Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (died 2001)
1920 – Red Holzman, American basketball player (died 1998)
1923 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress
1924 – Martha Hyer, American actress (died 2014)
1926 – Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (died 2013)
1927 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect
1928 – Jimmy Dean, American country music singer (died 2010)
1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and entertainer (died 2010)
1930 – Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (died 2018)
1930 – Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
1932 – Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
1933 – Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, English judge
1935 – Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer
1937 – Lucinda Williams, American athlete
1937 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (died 2000)
1939 – Kate O'Mara, British actress (died 2014)
1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer, (Righteous Brothers) (died 2003)
1942 – Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer
1942 – Giovanni Leodetti, Italian footballer
1943 – Ronnie Spector, American singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
1945 – Harriet Miers, former White House counsel
1947 – Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
1947 – Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
1950 – Patsy Austin, American singer

1951 – 1975

1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia
1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 – Diane Venora, American actress
1956 – Fred Ottman, American professional wrestler
1956 – Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter and producer
1957 – David Crane, American television producer and screenwriter
1957 – Fred Ho, American musician, composer, bandleader, playwright and social activist (died 2014)
1958 – Wolfgang Funkel, German football manager
1958 – Rosie Winterton, English politician
1958 – Don Swayze, American actor
1959 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1960 – Kenny Perry, American golfer
1962 – Suzanne Collins, American screenwriter and writer
1963 – Phoolan Devi, Indian political figure (d. 2001)
1963 – Andrew Sullivan, journalist
1965 – Toumani Diabaté, Malian musician
1965 – Claudia Christian, actress
1965 – Mike Smith, Hall of Fame jockey
1965 – John Starks, American basketball player
1965 – Eduardo Campos, Brazilian politician (d. 2014)
1966 – Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer
1967 – Riddick Bowe, American heavyweight boxer
1967 – Lorraine Pearson, musician (Five Star)
1967 – Mart Sander, Estonian actor, singer, director and author
1968 – Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Japanese footballer
1968 – Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (died 2011)
1971 – Mario Kindelán, Cuban boxer
1971 – Justin Theroux, actor
1971 – Roy Keane, Irish footballer
1972 – Christofer Johnsson, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1972 – Angie Harmon, American model and actress
1972 – Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby player
1973 – Daijiro Takakuwa, Japanese footballer
1973 – Javier Zanetti, Argentine footballer
1973 – Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
1974 – Luis Marin, Costa Rican footballer
1974 – David Sommeil, French footballer
1975 – Ilhan Mansiz, Turkish footballer, actor and ice skater

From 1976

1976 – Ian Murray, Scottish politician
1977 – Luciana Aymar, Argentine field hockey player
1978 – Danny Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 – Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
1979 – Joanna Garcia, American actress
1979 – Ted Geoghegan, American author, screenwriter and producer
1979 – Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1980 – Roxanne McKee, British actress
1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer (formerly of Morning Musume)
1981 – Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
1982 – Josh Anderson, American baseball player
1982 – Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
1982 – Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
1983 – Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
1986 – Kazuma Watanabe, Japanese footballer
1988 – Kateryna Pavlenko, Ukrainian singer, composer and folklorist
1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1990 – Lucas Till, American actor
1991 – Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (died 2016)
1991 – Amy Dowden, Welsh professional dancer
1992 – Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
1993 – Andre Drummond, American basketball player
1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor and singer
1994 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
1996 – Jacob Latimore, American singer, actor and director
1997 – Kylie Jenner, American model, television personality and entrepreneur

Deaths

Up to 1900

258 – Saint Lawrence of Rome, Christian martyr.
1241 – Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (b. 1184).
1250 – King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216).
1535 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1509).
1590 – Princess Christina of Denmark (b. 1521).
1637 – Johann Gerhard, German church leader and theologian (b. 1582).
1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of 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 Ramsey, Scottish painter (b. 1713).
1802 – Franz Aepinius, German natural philosopher (b. 1724).
1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737).
1862 – Horinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829).
1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808).
1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (b. 1848).

1901 – 2000

1904 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846).
1915 – Henry Moseley, British physicist (b. 1887).
1918 – William P. Kellogg, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1831).
1920 – Adam Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician (b. 1835).
1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878).
1929 – Aletta Jacobs, first female physician in the Netherlands (b. 1854).
1932 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918).
1939 – Carlo Galimberti, Italian weightlifter (b. 1894).
1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882).
1960 – Frank Lloyd, Scottish-American actor (b. 1886).
1963 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1877).
1963 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903).
1971 – Federico Callori di Vignale, Italian cardinal (b. 1890).
1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889).
1980 – Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan (b. 1917).
1986 – Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (b. 1951).
1987 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek politician (b. 1893).
1992 – Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (b. 1914).
1993 – Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1958).
1999 – Jennifer Paterson, English chef (b. 1928).

From 2001

2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917).
2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926).
2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot and Civil rights figure (b. 1925).
2008 – Isaac Hayes, American musician (b. 1942).
2010 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967).
2012 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (b. 1925).
2013 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928).
2013 – William P. Clark, Jr., American politician (b. 1931).
2013 – Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian Nazi war criminal (b. 1915).
2014 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician (b. 1912).
2014 – Shree Krishna Shrestha, Nepalese actor (b. 1940).
2014 – Ann Rowan, Irish actress (b. 1929)
2015 – Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physicist, geneticist and professor (b. 1935)
2015 – Fred Eckhardt, American beer expert (b. 1926)
2017 – Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun, physician and activist (b. 1929)
2017 – Kim Wall, Swedish journalist (b. 1987)
2018 – Lillian Cox, American supercentenarian (b. 1907)
2018 – Richard Russell, American mechanic and hijacker (b. 1989)
2019 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and sex offender (b. 1953)
2019 – J. Neil Schulman, American novelist (b. 1953)
2019 – Cándido Sibilio, Dominican-Spanish basketball player (b. 1958)
2019 – Piero Tosi, Italian costume designer (b. 1927)

Observances

Independence Day in Ecuador
Saint Lawrence of Rome (Christian martyr)