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What happened in history on this day: August 10?
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- 654 - Saint Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1628 - In Stockholm harbor (Sweden), the Royal warship Vasa makes its maiden voyage. The 1400-ton armed galleon carries 64 bronze cannon on two decks, and has three masts with 13,000 m2 of canvas sails. Off the island of Beckholmen, a crosswind pushes the ship to one side, allowing water to pour in the open gunports. The ship is unable to right itself, and it soon sinks in 110 feet of water. About 50 die. The ship cost about 100,000 riksdaler to build.
- 1653 - Death of Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp at Battle of Scheveningen, by English marksman.
- 1680 - In N Mex, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads.
- 1743 - Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated.
- 1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia ship completes first American voyage around the world.
- 1792 - Mobs in Paris, France, attack the Tuileries palace of Louis XVI. 600 guardsmen are massacred.
- 1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
- 1810 - Birth of Camilio Benso di Cavour in Italy; Prime Minister.
- 1821 - Missouri admitted as 24th US state.
- 1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio (1,000 blacks leave for Canada).
- 1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 in Illinois.
- 1835 - Mob of whites and oxen pull black school to a swamp out of Canaan, New Hampshire.
- 1846 - US President James Polk signs legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution.
- 1856 - Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana, USA.
- 1865 - Birth of Alexander Glazunov in Saint Petersburg, Russia; composer (Chopiniana).
- 1866 - Former US President James Buchanan is first to communicate over Atlantic Cable, to Queen Victoria.
- 1869 - Birth of Lawrence Binyon in Vienna, Austria; writer (Symbolic Wounds).
- 1874 - Birth of Herbert Clark Hoover in West Branch, Iowa, USA; 31st US President (Republican, 1929-1933).
- 1874 - Birth of James (Tod) Sloan; jockey, created monkey crouch riding style.
- 1876 - Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long-distance call from Brantford, Ontario, Canada to the Bell homestead in Paris, Ontario, using a 13 km long line.
- 1884 - In New York City, New York, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. The total felt area is estimated at 181,000 square kilometres.
- 1885 - Leo Daft opens America's first commercially-operated electric streetcar (Baltimore, Maryland).
- 1887 - Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois, USA.
- 1888 - New York Giants' pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19-game win streak record.
- 1889 - Birth of Irene Steer in England; 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912).
- 1893 - Birth of Douglas Stuart Moore in Cutchogue, New York, USA; composer (Good Night Harvard).
- 1893 - Birth of Viscount Dunrossil in Scotland; Governor General of Australia (1959-61).
- 1893 - Rudolf Diesel's prime model engine first runs on its own power.
- 1899 - Birth of Jack Haley in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Ford Star Revue).
- 1900 - First Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (held in Massachusetts); US beats England.
- 1900 - Birth of Arthur Porritt in New Zealand; 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924).
- 1900 - Birth of Norma Shearer in Canada; actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight).
- 1901 - Chicago White Sox player Frank Isbell strands a record 11 teammate base runners.
- 1907 - Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500-mile auto rally.
- 1909 - Birth of Mohammed V; King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61).
- 1909 - Birth of Leo Fender in Beuna Park, California, USA; perfected the electric guitar (1948, Telecaster, Stratocaster).
- 1910 - Birth of Angus Campbell; US psychologist (Elections and Political Order).
- 1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords.
- 1912 - Birth of Richard Reeves in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Murph - Date With an Angel).
- 1913 - Second Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses.
- 1913 - Birth of Noah Beery Junior in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Rocky - The Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot).
- 1913 - Birth of Steven Nagy; bowler, first to bowl 300 on TV (1954).
- 1914 - Birth of Jeff Corey in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Getting Straight, Superman and Mole Men).
- 1919 - Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine.
- 1920 - Birth of Red Holzman; NBA coach (New York Knickerbockers).
- 1921 - Franklin Roosevelt is stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Island of Campobello.
- 1922 - Birth of Al Alberts; singer (The Four Aces).
- 1923 - Birth of Rhonda Fleming in Hollywood, California, USA; actress (Spellbound).
- 1924 - Birth of Martha Hyer; actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly).
- 1925 - Birth of Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in South Orange, New Jersey, USA; American numismatist, curator, scholar, cataloger, professor of art history at Yale, author (Numismatic Art in America, Aesthetics of the United States Coinage 1971, 2007).
- 1927 - US President Calvin Coolidge formally dedicates the Mount Rushmore site.
- 1928 - Birth of Eddie Fisher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; singer ("Oh My Papa", "Lady of Spain").
- 1928 - Birth of Jimmy Dean in Texas, USA; actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever).
- 1932 - Popular pooch Rin Tin Tin dies.
- 1932 - In Archie, Missouri, USA a falling meteoroid strikes a homestead; no injuries.
- 1933 - Birth of Bill Nieder; shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 1933 - Birth of Rocky Colavito in Bronx, New York, USA; baseball player (Hit four home runs in a game).
- 1938 - 119 degrees F (48 degrees C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record).
- 1939 - Birth of Kate O'Mara in Leicaster, England; actress (Caress Morell - Dynasty).
- 1940 - Birth of Bobby Hatfield in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA; singer (The Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (1964), "Unchained Melody").
- 1941 - Birth of Anita Lonsbrough in England; 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1960).
- 1942 - Birth of Betsy Johnson; fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award).
- 1943 - Birth of Ronnie Spector AKA Veronica Bennett Greenfield in New York City, New York, USA; singer (The Ronettes - "Be My Baby").
- 1944 - Boston Braves' Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0.
- 1944 - At Hotel Maison Rouge in Strasbourg, Martin Bormann meets with top German business leaders and Nazi party officials to prepare for post-war commercial success, economic resurgence of Germany. Code name of the first phase of the plan is Operation Eagle Flight, involving the massive movement of money, technology, and specialists from Germany.
- 1944 - Race riots in Athens, Alabama, USA.
- 1945 - The Japanese government requests peace with the United States, but insists on retaining the Emperor.
- 1945 - Death of Robert Goddard; father of American rocketry, holder of 214 patents.
- 1946 - Birth of James Reynolds; actor (Days of Our Lives).
- 1947 - Birth of Ian Anderson in Scotland; singer, flutist (Jethro Tull - "Bungle in the Jungle").
- 1948 - The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, New York).
- 1948 - ABC debuts Allen Funt's Candid Camera TV show.
- 1948 - Birth of Pal Gerevich in Hungary; fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 1980).
- 1948 - Birth of Patti Austin; singer ("The Real Me").
- 1948 - The pound becomes Israel's new legal tender.
- 1949 - First successful flight of Avro Jetliner in Canada, first passenger jet aircraft in North America.
- 1949 - American National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense.
- 1952 - Birth of Ashley Putnam in New York City, New York, USA; soprano (New York City Opera 1978).
- 1954 - Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins.
- 1959 - Birth of Mark Price; bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey - "Contents Dislodged").
- 1959 - Birth of Rosanna Arquette in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, What About Brian, Shirley).
- 1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned first object from space.
- 1961 - Birth of Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda; actress (Lisa - Four Seasons).
- 1961 - Birth of John Farriss; rocker (Inxs - "Kiss the Dirt").
- 1961 - England applies for membership in the European Common Market.
- 1962 - Birth of Dan Donovan; rocker (Bad).
- 1962 - Death of Ted Husing of a brain tumor at age 60; early radio sportscaster (boxing, horse racing, track and field, regattas, seven World Series, tennis, golf, four Olympic Games, Indianapolis 500 motor racing,
- 1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician (Democrat-Senator-Tennessee) dies at age 60.
- 1966 - First lunar orbiter launched by US.
- 1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again.
- 1967 - Birth of Lorraine Pearson; Singer (Five Star).
- 1968 - Birth of Michael Bivins; singer (Bell Biv Devoe, New Edition).
- 1972 - Birth of Angie Harmon; actress (Law and Order).
- 1972 - An asteroid 2-10m in diameter enters Earth's atmosphere over Utah, USA, and exits 100 seconds later over Alberta, Canada.
- 1974 - Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at age 64.
- 1974 - Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's 1/2 Comedy Hour), dies at age 92.
- 1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview US President Richard Nixon.
- 1975 - CBS-TV debuts the Manhattan Transfer variety show.
- 1976 - Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at age 74.
- 1977 - Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM.
- 1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer.
- 1977 - Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at age 75.
- 1979 - Dick Foran, American actor (OK Crackerby), dies at age 69 (born 1910).
- 1979 - Death of Walther Gerlach in Munich, Germany; professor of physics at the University of Tübingen and Munich.
- 1979 - Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album "Off the Wall".
- 1980 - Birth of Nikki Bratcher; singer (Divine).
- 1980 - Death of Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (born 1917).
- 1980 - Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Texas.
- 1980 - Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for fifth time.
- 1981 - The Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose passes Stan Musial as the all-time National League hit leader when he collects his 3,631st off Saint Louis Cardinals' pitcher Mark Littell.
- 1984 - Birth of Ryan Eggold; actor (Beverly Hills 90210).
- 1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run.
- 1985 - Death of Kenny Baker at age 72 from a heart attack; comedian, tenor (The Jack Benny Show radio show).
- 1985 - Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles.
- 1986 - New York Yankees celebrate Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium, and retire his uniform, number 1.
- 1987 - Flight Readiness Firing of Space Shuttle Discovery's main engines is successful.
- 1988 - Adela Rogers Saint John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at age 94.
- 1988 - Arias Arnulfo, three-time president of Panama, dies at age 86.
- 1988 - United Nations estimates Asia's population at three billion.
- 1988 - In Solomon Islands, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs. One person killed and about 100 homes washed away in 13 villages along the southwestern coast of San Cristobal where a tsunami flooded 50-100 metres inland.
- 1990 - American Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.
- 1990 - Birth of Lucas Till; actor (Hannah Montana).
- 1991 - NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at age 53.
- 1992 - The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
- 1993 - Death of Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (born 1968).
- 1993 - On South Island, New Zealand, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. The shock was also felt at Sydney, Australia.
- 1994 - The 1994 Bambino World Series takes place in Henderson, Kentucky for the first time. Two years work of volunteers and funds led up to this event. It is played at Henderson's Park field with over 5,000 people in attendance.
- 1999 - Buford O. Furrow, Junior wounds five and kills one in the Los Angeles, California, Jewish Community Center.
- 1999 - An intruding Pakistan Navy plane is shot down in India. The incident sparks tensions between the two nations, coming just a month after the end of the Kargil War.
- 2001 - The USS Mississinewa oil tanker, sunk in the Ulithi Atoll lagoon in 1944, begins leaking 1100-1900 litres per hour in Micronesia.
- 2002 - Turkmenistan adopts a law to rename all the months and most of the days of the week according to Ruhnama, a book written by Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov.
- 2002 - Death of Morgan "Bill" Evans at age 92 in California, USA; gardener and landscaper of Disneyland, supervised and trained landscape architects for all other Disney parks, named a Disney Legend in 1992.
- 2003 - The United Kingdom reaches a record-high temperature, the first time breaking 38.5 degrees C (101.3 degrees Fahrenheit), at Brogdale near Faversham in Kent.
- 2005 - 103-year old Ted Radcliffe, probably the oldest professional baseball player, dies from cancer; Radcliffe was the 1943 Negro American League Most Valuable Player.
- 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
- 2006 - London Metropolitan Police make 21 arrests in connection to an apparent terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage.
- 2007 - The European Central Bank injects about US$130 billion into money markets.
- 2007 - The US Federal Reserve announces it would lend banks as much cash as necessary to keep money markets operating smoothly.
- 2007 - Death of Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (born 1950).
- 2007 - Death of James Faust, an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1920).
- 2008 - At the Beijing Olympics, American swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 400-metre individual medley in a world-record 4:03.84. Stephanie Rice of Australia wins the women's 400-metre individual medley in a world record time of 4:29.45.
- 2008 - American singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes (Hot Buttered Soul album, theme from Shaft, voice of Chef from South Park) dies at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 65.
- 2008 - Ireland's Padraig Harrington wins the PGA Championship at Michigan's Oakland Hills, shooting a 277 total.
- 2010 - The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.
- 2010 - At the end of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, 60 million Americans caught it, 273,000 were hospitalized, and 12,400 died.
- 2010 - A 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3T float plane crashes near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing former U.S. Republican senator Ted Stevens at age 86 and four others.
- 2018 - (to August 20) Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the state in a century.
- 2019 - A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more.
- 2019 - 32 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China.
- 2019 - (to August 25) A number of forest fires break out in the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The fires on the island of Gran Canaria are the most severe, resulting in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and leading to the evacuation of thousands of residents from a number of towns and villages.
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 20 million worldwide.
- 2020 - Prime Minister Hassan Diab of Lebanon resigns.
- 2022 - Death of John Eastman at age 83 of pancreatic cancer in East Hampton, New York, USA; entertainment lawyer (Paul McCartney).
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