Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

Events on the 10th of August in history

Events
Date Text
10 Aug 0654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
0
10 Aug 0654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0
10 Aug 0843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divide France
0
10 Aug 0955 Battle at Lech: German King Otto I beats Hungarians
0
10 Aug 0955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
0
10 Aug 0991 Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
0
10 Aug 1270 Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
0
10 Aug 1316 The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
0
10 Aug 1461 Alfonso ed Espina, Bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
0
10 Aug 1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
0
10 Aug 1500 Diego Diaz discovers Madagascar
0
10 Aug 1511 Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka
0
10 Aug 1512 Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
0
10 Aug 1512 The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
0
10 Aug 1519 Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
0
10 Aug 1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
0
10 Aug 1557 Battle at St. Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont and Philibert beat France
0
10 Aug 1557 Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
0
10 Aug 1566 Iconoclasm begins
0
10 Aug 1585 English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth
0
10 Aug 1622 County Maine appended on John Mason / Fernandino Gorges
0
10 Aug 1627 Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
0
10 Aug 1628 Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed
0
10 Aug 1628 The Swedish warship  Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
0
10 Aug 1653 Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
0
10 Aug 1675 King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
0
10 Aug 1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
0
10 Aug 1675 The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
0
10 Aug 1678 Netherlands and France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
0
10 Aug 1680 The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
0
10 Aug 1680 In N Mex, Pop
0
10 Aug 1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
0
10 Aug 1755 Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
0
10 Aug 1759 Carlos III becomes King of Spain
0
10 Aug 1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
0
10 Aug 1776 American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
0
10 Aug 1787 Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
0
10 Aug 1787 Turkey declares war on Russia
0
10 Aug 1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
0
10 Aug 1792 French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
0
10 Aug 1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI
0
10 Aug 1793 The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
0
10 Aug 1809 Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
0
10 Aug 1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
0
10 Aug 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".
0
10 Aug 1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
0
10 Aug 1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
0
10 Aug 1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
0
10 Aug 1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
0
10 Aug 1831 Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
0
10 Aug 1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
0
10 Aug 1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
0
10 Aug 1835 Mob of whites and oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan, New Hampshire
0
10 Aug 1846 The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
0
10 Aug 1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
0
10 Aug 1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri
0
10 Aug 1862 Battle of Nueces River, Texas
0
10 Aug 1864 After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
0
10 Aug 1866 Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
0
10 Aug 1866 Transatlantic cable laid - Former Pres Buchanan communicates over it to Queen Victoria
0
10 Aug 1869 O B Brown patents moving picture projector
0
10 Aug 1876 1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
0
10 Aug 1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
0
10 Aug 1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
0
10 Aug 1888 New York Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
0
10 Aug 1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap
0
10 Aug 1893 Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
0
10 Aug 1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
0
10 Aug 1899 the Norwegian football club Viking FK is founded.
0
10 Aug 1900 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
0
10 Aug 1900 1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England
0
10 Aug 1901 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
0
10 Aug 1901 The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
0
10 Aug 1904 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
0
10 Aug 1904 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
0
10 Aug 1904 Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
0
10 Aug 1904 Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
0
10 Aug 1904 Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
0
10 Aug 1905 Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
0
10 Aug 1906 Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
0
10 Aug 1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
0
10 Aug 1909 Algemeene Netherlands Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
0
10 Aug 1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
0
10 Aug 1913 Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
0
10 Aug 1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
0
10 Aug 1914 At Luik, German 12" / 16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
0
10 Aug 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen / Turkey joins Germany
0
10 Aug 1914 German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
0
10 Aug 1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
0
10 Aug 1919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane
0
10 Aug 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania
0
10 Aug 1920 Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
0
10 Aug 1920 World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
0
10 Aug 1921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
0
10 Aug 1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
0
10 Aug 1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
0
10 Aug 1929 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last NL win
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
0
10 Aug 1938 119
0
10 Aug 1939 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
0
10 Aug 1940 Prince Bernhard Fund forms
0
10 Aug 1942 Gen B Montgomery becomes Commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
0
10 Aug 1943 Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
0
10 Aug 1943 Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
0
10 Aug 1943 Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
0
10 Aug 1944 Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
0
10 Aug 1944 US recaptures Guam from Japanese
0
10 Aug 1944 World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
0
10 Aug 1944 World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
0
10 Aug 1944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0
0
10 Aug 1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
0
10 Aug 1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
0
10 Aug 1948 WABC TV channel 7 in New York, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
0
10 Aug 1948 Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
0
10 Aug 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
0
10 Aug 1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
0
10 Aug 1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
0
10 Aug 1949 National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
0
10 Aug 1953 First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
0
10 Aug 1954 Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up
0
10 Aug 1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
0
10 Aug 1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
0
10 Aug 1956 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
0
10 Aug 1958 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
0
10 Aug 1960 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
0
10 Aug 1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
0
10 Aug 1961 First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
0
10 Aug 1961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market
0
10 Aug 1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
0
10 Aug 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
0
10 Aug 1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
0
10 Aug 1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
0
10 Aug 1968 Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock
0
10 Aug 1968 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
0
10 Aug 1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
0
10 Aug 1969 A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
0
10 Aug 1970 Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
0
10 Aug 1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
0
10 Aug 1971 The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
0
10 Aug 1972 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
0
10 Aug 1972 Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
0
10 Aug 1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
0
10 Aug 1974 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
0
10 Aug 1975 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
0
10 Aug 1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
0
10 Aug 1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
0
10 Aug 1977 US and Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1977 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
0
10 Aug 1978 Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
0
10 Aug 1979 Ecuador adopts its constitution
0
10 Aug 1979 Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
0
10 Aug 1980 62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill, New York
0
10 Aug 1980 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
0
10 Aug 1980 Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
0
10 Aug 1980 Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
0
10 Aug 1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits
0
10 Aug 1981 The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
0
10 Aug 1984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
0
10 Aug 1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47
0
10 Aug 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
0
10 Aug 1986 "Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
0
10 Aug 1986 Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
0
10 Aug 1986 Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
0
10 Aug 1986 Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway, New York City
0
10 Aug 1986 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
0
10 Aug 1986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
0
10 Aug 1987 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
0
10 Aug 1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
0
10 Aug 1988 Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 seconds)
0
10 Aug 1988 Rodrigo Borja installed as President of Ecuador
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1988 UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
0
10 Aug 1990 The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
0
10 Aug 1990 More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
0
10 Aug 1990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
0
10 Aug 1991 "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 performances
0
10 Aug 1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
0
10 Aug 1992 Satellite TOPEX / Poseidon launched
0
10 Aug 1992 Soyuz TM-15 lands
0
10 Aug 1993 Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
0
10 Aug 1993 An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
0
10 Aug 1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since September 1841)
0
10 Aug 1995 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
0
10 Aug 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.
0
10 Aug 1996 Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
0
10 Aug 1996 Dare and Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
0
10 Aug 1996 Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
0
10 Aug 1996 Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
0
10 Aug 1997 36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
0
10 Aug 1997 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
0
10 Aug 1997 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
0
10 Aug 1997 Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic
0
10 Aug 1997 Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
0
10 Aug 1998 HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
0
10 Aug 2001 2001 Angola train attack, 252 deaths.
0
10 Aug 2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
0
10 Aug 2003 Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
0
10 Aug 2009 Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
0
10 Aug 2012 The Marikana miners' strike begins near Rustenburg, South Africa.
0
9th August 11th August
© 2016 OnThisDay.net All rights reserved.
Loaded in 0.2428s.