Major Events
- 612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
- 610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an
- 1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
- 1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London
- 1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
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Aug 10 in Film & TV
- 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
Aug 10 in Music
- 1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Serenade)
Aug 10 in Sport
- 1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3,000m at the LA Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th; Maricica Puică of Romania wins
Did You Know?
Leo Daft opens America's 1st commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
Edmund Randolph
Charles Napier
Henri Nestlé
Edward L. Doheny
Hugo Eckener
Herbert Hoover
Jack Haley
Norma Shearer
Rosanna Arquette
Antonio Banderas
Kylie Jenner
Rocky Colavito
Riddick Bowe
Fun Fact About August 10
Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
Famous Weddings
- 1848 American telegraph Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds second wife, American Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York
- 1912 British "To the Lighthouse" author Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) at the St Pancras (London) Register Office, until her deathsuicide in 1941
- 1933 Austro-Hungarian actress Hedy Kreissler, later known as Hedy LaMarr (18) weds Austrian arms manufacturer Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33); divorce in 1937
Famous Divorces
- 2007 Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 years of marriage
More August 10 Weddings
Cleopatra
Maarten Tromp
Thomas Elkins
Robert H. Goddard
Frank Lloyd
Isaac HayesArticles, Photos and Quiz
Did a Snake Kill Cleopatra?
Cleopatra, the legendary Queen of Egypt, is said to have died on this day, famously submitting to the bite of a poisonous snake. The story might even be true. . .
August 10, 30 BC
The Sinking of the Vasa
Swedish warship Vasa sinking in Stockholm harbor
August 10, 1628
Pony Express
San Francisco Pony Express to New York cover
August 10, 1861
Jim Morrison's Trial
Jim Morrison and The Doors at the Dade County Courthouse
August 10, 1970
