Historical Events on August 10

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• 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
• 654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
• 843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bald divide France
• 955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe.
• 991 Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.
• 1304 -11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
• 1316 Second Battle of Athenry, Anglo-Norman victory over Gaelic clan alliance
• 1346 Majorcan explorer Jaume Ferrer sets sail to find the legendary 'river of gold' along the West African coast (disappears without trace)
• 1461 Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquisition in Spain

• 1500 Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
• 1511 Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca
• 1512 Battle of Saint-Mathieu (also called the Battle of Brest): an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont.
• 1557 Battle of St Quentin in Picardy: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont and Philibert, Duke of Savoy (Spanish Empire) beat the Duke of Montmorency (France)
• 1566 Protestant Iconoclasm "Beeldenstorm" begins in European Low Countries

• 1622 John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine.
• 1627 Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle

• 1653 Battle of Scheveningen: Final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War, English fleet defeats a Dutch fleet led by Maarten Tromp who himself is killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship

• 1664 Austria and the Ottoman Empire sign the Peace of Vásvár

• 1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
• 1678 Netherlands & France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
• 1680 Tewa medicine man, Popé, leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican Province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
• 1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
• 1759 Carlos III crowned King of Spain
• 1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing

• 1793 Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
• 1809 Area of Quinto is the first to declare itself independent of Spain in Latin America, though put down by the Spanish after 24 day (now Ecuador's National Day)
• 1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
• 1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
• 1831 Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
• 1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
• 1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
• 1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
• 1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
• 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek [Battle of Oak Hills], fought near Springfield, Missouri, General Lyon killed, Confederate victory (US Civil War)
• 1862 Battle of Nueces River TX
• 1869 O B Brown patents moving picture projector
• 1876 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada

• 1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
• 1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)

• 1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap
• 1893 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act

• 1895 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagner's "Rienzi")
• 1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)

• 1901 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
• 1903 Famous Viking ship, the Oseberg, dated 820 AD, uncovered in a burial mound near Tønsberg, Norway, with two female skeletons and the bones of 15 horses [1]

• 1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea: Japanese fleet prevented Russians breaking out of Port Arthur
• 1904 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock

• 1906 Pope Pius X condemns 1905 French "Law on the Separation of the Churches and State" which allowed the State authority to control aspects of Catholic orthodoxy and worship (Encyclical "Gravissimo Officii Munere")
• 1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
• 1911 Parliament Act reduces power of UK's House of Lords
• 1911 The UK House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members
• 1913 Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria cedes territory
• 1914 At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
• 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
• 1914 German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
• 1914 WWI: French fall back at Alsace
• 1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
• 1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
• 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
• 1920 Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds record “Crazy Blues” for Okeh Records, first significant Blues hit by African American artist
• 1920 Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
• 1920 Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate

• 1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
• 1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
• 1929 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
• 1932 A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1932 The Lego Group founded in Billund, Denmark, by Ole Kirk Christiansen; name is contraction of Danish words 'leg godt' ('play well' in English)

• 1936 114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
• 1936 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
• 1936 First time the Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the teams gold medal
• 1938 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
• 1939 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
• 1940 Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms

• 1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland

• 1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali

• 1944 Battle for Guam ends with US troops recapturing Guam from the Japanese
• 1944 Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0
• 1944 Race riots in Athens, Alabama
• 1944 The combined US and French offensive begins at Alencon

• 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
• 1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC

• 1949 US National Military Establishment renamed Depertment of Defense

• 1954 All-time great English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle with British record 4,870 winning rides
• 1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1954 Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
• 1956 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
• 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space

• 1960 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New Guinea
• 1961 UK applies for membership of the European Common Market
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
• 1966 NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 1 to the Moon to photograph the lunar surface
• 1968 Race riots in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock

• 1970 British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out

• 1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
• 1971 During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre

• 1972 1 million kg meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
• 1972 Finnish runner Lasse Virén wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Munich Olympics; runs Olympic record 13:26.42 for the 5k gold medal

• 1972 The Great Fireball, a rare daylight meteor seen from Utah, US to Alberta, Canada, passes 35 miles from Earth's surface
• 1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station

• 1976 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer shot dead by the British Army as he drove in Belfast; his car out of control and kills 3 children, sparking "peace rallies" throughout the month by the 'Peace People'
• 1977 About 100 white sympathisers joined evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
• 1977 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
• 1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
• 1977 US & Panama sign Panama Canal Zone accord
• 1977 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya

• 1979 Ecuador adopts its 17th constitution, extending citizenship and suffrage to all Ecuadorians over 18
• 1979 Wings release single "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
• 1980 Allen, most powerful hurricane in the Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
• 1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

• 1981 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente, California closes
• 1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3,000m at the LA Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th; Maricica Puică of Romania wins
• 1984 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day
• 1984 Sweden's Agneta Andersson takes out the women's canoeing 500m double at the Los Angeles Olympics with wins in the K-1 and K-2 (with Anna Olsson) events

• 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles

• 1986 Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC

• 1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
• 1987 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball

• 1988 Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
• 1988 UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
• 1989 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
• 1989 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
• 1990 NASA's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
• 1990 The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
• 1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
• 1992 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
• 1992 Soyuz TM-15 lands

• 1993 Earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand

• 1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
• 1995 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly

• 1996 Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
• 1996 New Zealand beats South Africa, 29-18 in Cape Town to win the inaugural Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
• 1996 Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
• 1996 Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
• 1997 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine

• 1998 The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.

• 2002 New Zealand beats South Africa, 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score 4 tries to 2
• 2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent . It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
• 2006 Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial aircraft.

• 2008 British cyclist Nicole Cooke wins the road race at the Beijing Olympics; Great Britain's 200th gold in the modern Olympics
• 2013 16 Royal Guardsmen are killed in a bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco
• 2013 6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia
• 2014 Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to another 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
• 2014 Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of African-American Michael Brown (18) by a police officer Darren Wilson
• 2015 110°F (43°C), Apalachicola, Florida (breaking state record of 109°F, set in 1931)

• 2016 18-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates huge upset when he swims a junior world record 47.58 to win the blue ribband men's 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
• 2016 South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh recovers from 7th place during the final to record an Olympic record 193.7 and win gold in men's 50m pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; first shooter to win 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
• 2016 Weightlifter Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan sets a world record 214kg in the clean & jerk, and finishes with 379kg overall, to win the gold medal in the men's 77kg at the Ro de Janeiro Olympics

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