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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years)
in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining.
Events
- 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
- 955 - Battle of
Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar
invasion of the West.
- 1492 - Alexander VI is
elected Pope.
- 1519 - Ferdinand
Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1680 - Pueblo Revolt begins in
New Mexico.
- 1792 - French
Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
- 1809 - Ecuador declares independence from
Spain.
- 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th
U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
- 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model ran on its own power for the first time. Because of
this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
- 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 signed the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the
Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
- 1944 - World War II: American
forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- 1945 - World War II: Japan agrees to the
Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, ending the
war.
- 1948 - Candid Camera
makes its television 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 Messena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
- 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon
Tate and four others, members Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and
Rosemary LaBianca.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Births
- 1397 - Albert II of
Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1821 - Jay Cooke, financier (d.
1905)
- 1845 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak
poet (d. 1904)
- 1872 - Bill Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1972)
- 1874 - Herbert Hoover,
President of the United States (d.
1964)
- 1880 - Robert L.
Thornton, Dallas businessman, philanthropist and mayor
- 1898 - Jack Haley, actor (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Wolfgang Pauli,
physicist (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Norma Shearer, actress
(d. 1983)
- 1902 - Curt Siodmak, science fiction author (d. 2000)
- 1912 - Jorge Amado, novelist
- 1923 - Rhonda Fleming, actress
- 1928 - Jimmy Dean, country and western singer
- 1940 - Bobby Hatfield,
singer, the Righteous Brothers
- 1943 - Ronnie Spector, singer
- 1947 - Ian Anderson, musician
(Jethro Tull)
- 1959 - Rosanna Arquette,
actress
- 1960 - Antonio Banderas,
actor (Desperado, Spy Kids)
- 1965 - Claudia
Christian, actress (Babylon 5)
- 1967 - Riddick Bowe, world
champion boxer
Deaths
Holidays and observances
August 9 - August 11 - July 10 - September 10 -- listing of all days
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