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Historical Events on August 10 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 229 of 229

  • 2017 100 year-old fruit cake by Huntley & Palmers deemed "almost eatable" after being discovered in hut used by Captain Scott's expedition in Antarctica
  • 2017 Scientists study identifying nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) deficiency major cause of miscarriages and multiple birth defects published in "New England Journal of Medicine"

Music History

2017 Taylor Swift testifies, in Denver, Colorado court, that DJ David Mueller groped her

Event of Interest

2017 US President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a national emergency

  • 2018 Anti-government protests begin in Bucharest, Romania, with over 400 injured in clashes with police

Music Single

2018 Doja Cat self-releases her novelty single "Mooo!" on YouTube, goes on to become a viral internet meme [1]

  • 2018 Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in "counter-extremism centers" in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights

Album Release

2018 Jason Mraz's sixth studio album, "Know." is released

  • 2018 Landmark case against weed killer Roundup, San Francisco court awards groundsman Dewayne Johnson $289 million against Monsanto for giving him terminal cancer
  • 2018 Omarosa Manigault Newman, former aide to US President Donald Trump, releases taped recordings of her firing from The White House
  • 2018 Turkish lira falls dramatically after US President Donald Trump announces tariff increases on Turkish steel and aluminum
  • 2018 US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island
  • 2019 71 people die trying to siphon gas from an overturned tanker that explodes in Morogoro region, Tanzania
  • 2019 Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trail for sex trafficking charges
  • 2019 Monsoon flooding in southern and western India kills at least 150 with 40 dead in Kerala state and 100,000 in emergency relief camps
  • 2019 Rebel forces for the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council take control of the key port of Aden in Yemen's civil war
  • 2019 Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang province, China, killing at least 32 with one million evacuated
  • 2020 Global COVID-19 cases pass 20 million and is accelerating, 1st 10 million took almost 6 months, 2nd 10 million took just 43 days (Reuters)

Event of Interest

2020 Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai is the most high-profile figure arrested in Hong Kong under its new security laws

  • 2020 Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces his government is resigning, less than a week after massive industrial explosions devastated Beirut
  • 2020 Rare wind storm (derecho) hits the US Midwest flattening cornfields, leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity, killing two people
  • 2021 "I am Legend" screenwriter Akiva Goldsman tweets "It's a movie. I made that up. It's. Not. Real." amid rumors COVID-19 vaccines could turn people into zombies, as in the film [1]
  • 2021 Forest fires kill 65 people, including 25 soldiers, in Algeria in the Kabylie region during heatwave conditions

Event of Interest

2021 Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a sexual harassment scandal

  • 2022 Former US President Donald Trump invokes the fifth amendment against self-incrimination at a disposition into his organization's business by NY attorney's office [1]
  • 2023 17 Rohingya refugees drown and 30 remain missing after a boat capsizes in the Bay of Bengal, bound for Malaysia [1]
  • 2023 24-hour approval granted to two rival robotaxi services in San Francisco - Cruise (General Motors) and Waymo (Google) [1]
  • 2023 Russia launches its first lunar mission in 47 years (Lunar 25) - an uncrewed spacecraft to the Moon’s south pole from Vostochny Cosmodrome [1]
  • 2023 Virgin Galactic flies its first space tourists to the edge of space from Spaceport America, New Mexico [1]