A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on August 10 throughout history.
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BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leads to the sack of one of the greatest cities in the world, the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun [date approximate]
Traditional date of Laylat al-Qadr / Night of Power when Muslims believe the Quran is first sent down from heaven to the world and revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad
Explorer John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London
US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world's largest museum and research complex
ABC enters network TV at 7 pm (WJZ, NY)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
American telegraph Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds second wife, American Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York
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
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
Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 years of marriage
Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German, and Charles the Bald divide France
Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe
Battle of Maldon: English, led by Earl Byrhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The battle and the English defeat are immortalized in the well-known Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon."
Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet
Second Battle of Athenry, Anglo-Norman victory over Gaelic clan alliance
Majorcan explorer Jaume Ferrer sets sail to find the legendary "river of gold" along the West African coast and disappears without a trace
Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma, urges for an Inquisition in Spain
Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca
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
The War of the League of Cognac (1526–1530) was fought between the Habsburg dominions of Charles V—primarily the Holy Roman Empire and Spain—and the League of Cognac, an alliance including the...
Battle of St Quentin in Picardy: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont and Philibert, Duke of Savoy (Spanish Empire) beat the Duke of Montmorency (France)
Protestant Iconoclasm "Beeldenstorm" (Iconoclastic Fury) begins in the European Low Countries
John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine
Cardinal Richelieu begins the siege of La Rochelle
Battle of Scheveningen: Final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War, English fleet defeats a Dutch fleet led by Maarten Tromp, who is killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship
The Peace of Vasvár was a treaty between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire which followed the Battle of Saint Gotthard of 1 August 1664 (near Mogersdorf, Burgenland), and concluded the...
The Treaties or Peace of Nijmegen (French: Traités de Paix de Nimègue; German: Friede von Nimwegen; Dutch: Vrede van Nijmegen) were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between...
Tewa medicine man Popé leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
Earliest recorded prizefighting rules are formulated
Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788.
Louvre Palace officially opens in Paris as the Musée Central des Arts
Area of Quito is the first to declare itself independent of Spain in Latin America, though put down by the Spanish after 24 days (now Ecuador's National Day)
This is a list of the individual Missouri year pages. In 1821, the United States admitted the Missouri Territory as the 24th U.S. state, establishing the State of Missouri.
Antioch, Syria, is hit by an earthquake, killing about 20,000 people
Hurricane hits Barbados, killing about 1,500 people
Mob of white people and oxen pull Black school to a swamp out of Canaan, NH
Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers on Last Island, Louisiana
Battle of Wilson's Creek [Battle of Oak Hills], fought near Springfield, Missouri, General Lyon is killed in a Confederate victory (US Civil War)
The Nueces Massacre, also known as the Massacre on the Nueces and the Battle of Nueces, was a violent confrontation between Confederate soldiers and Unionist Texas Germans on August 10, 1862, in...
O. B. Brown patents a moving picture projector
First phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
Leo Daft opens America's first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
Excursion train crashes in Chatsworth, Illinois, killing 101 people
Dan Rylands patents the screw cap
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's...
The Royal Automobile Club is a British private social and athletic club. It has two clubhouses: one in London at 89 Pall Mall, and the other in the countryside at Woodcote Park, near Epsom in Surrey.
Chicago White Sox's Frank Isbell strands a record 11 teammate base runners
Famous Viking ship, the Oseberg, dating to 820 AD, is uncovered in a burial mound near Tønsberg, Norway, with two female skeletons and the bones of 15 horses [1]
Pope Pius X condemns the 1905 French "Law on the Separation of the Churches and State," which grants the state authority to control aspects of Catholic orthodoxy and worship (Encyclical "Gravissimo Officii Munere")
Prince Scipione Borghese wins the Beijing to Paris 7,500-mile auto rally
The Parliament Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 13) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Treaty of Bucharest (Romanian: Tratatul de la București; Serbian: Букурештански мир; Bulgarian: Букурещки договор; Greek: Συνθήκη του Βουκουρεστίου) was concluded on 10 August 1913, by the...
At Liège, German 12"/16.5" guns reach the Belgian border
Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
"Gasoline Alley" comic strip by Frank King premieres in the Chicago Tribune
Czechoslovakia ( CHEK-oh-sloh-VAK-ee-ə, CHEK-ə-, -slə-, -VAH-; Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a country in Central Europe created in 1918, as Czecho-Slovakia (until 1920),...
Hurricane strikes Borculo, Netherlands, killing four people
Italian-Spanish peace treaty is signed
Grover Alexander beats the Phillies 7-1 for his 373rd and final National League win
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
Plain Dealing is a town in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 893 in 2020. It is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area.
°F (48°C) recorded in Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
Second Dutch De Geer government forms (first with Social Democrats)
Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms
Łachwa (or Lakhva) Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Łachwa, Nazi German-occupied Poland (now Lakhva in Belarus) during World War II.
The Battle of Guam was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II that took place from 8 to 10 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between Japan and the United States.
All-time great English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle with a British record 4,870 winning rides
23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000 attendees)
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
Discoverer 13 launches into orbit and returns the first object from space
UK applies for membership of the European Economic Community
USSR conducts a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches an altitude of 51.3 miles (82.6 km) and a top speed of 3,550 mph (5,713 km/h) (Mach 5.20)
The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
Race riots in Miami, Chicago, and Little Rock
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
During the internment round-up operation in West Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kills 11 unarmed civilians in what becomes known as the Ballymurphy Massacre
A one-million-kilogram meteor grazes the atmosphere above Canada
First BART train travels through Transbay Tube to Montgomery St. Station
About 100 white sympathizers join evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
USSR conducts a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
Hurricane Allen was the most powerful Atlantic hurricane by wind speed on record. The second tropical depression and first named storm of the 1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Allen was also the...
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. agrees to invest $34 million in Black-owned businesses
The Marquis Theatre is a Broadway theater on the third floor of the New York Marriott Marquis hotel in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S.
Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
A's bat out of order against White Sox in the third inning
NASA's Magellan spacecraft arrives at Venus
NFL sportscaster Paul Maguire suffers a heart attack at 53
TOPEX Poseidon helped revolutionize oceanography by providing data previously impossible to obtain.
An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand
Last British troops leave Hong Kong; they have been there since September 1841
The Dodgers lead 2-1 in the 9th and forfeit the game to the Cardinals as fans become unruly
Anaheim Angels' Tony Phillips is arrested for purchasing cocaine
Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni Hassanal Bolkiah is the eldest son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and his wife Queen Saleha.
New Zealand beats South Africa 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score four tries to two
The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK: 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, the first time the UK records a temperature over 100°F
Scotland Yard disrupts a major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States; all toiletries are banned from commercial aircraft
Paluweh, also known as Rokatenda, is a stratovolcano that forms the small island of Palu'e, north of Flores Island in Sikka Regency in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to a 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
°F (43°C) in Apalachicola, Florida, breaks the state record of 109°F (42.8°C) set in 1931
18-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates a huge upset when he swims a junior world record of 47.58 to win the men's 100 m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
-year-old fruitcake by Huntley & Palmers is deemed "almost eatable" after being discovered in a hut used by Captain Scott's expedition in Antarctica
Alaska Airlines ground crew member steals a plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island
Know is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. The album was released on August 10, 2018 by Atlantic Records.
71 people die while trying to siphon gas from an overturned tanker that explodes in the Morogoro region, Tanzania
Global COVID-19 cases pass 20 million and are accelerating; the first 10 million take almost 6 months, while the second 10 million take just 43 days (Reuters)
"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]
Former US President Donald Trump invokes the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination repeatedly during a deposition into his organization's business by the NY attorney's office [1]
A robotaxi, also known as robot taxi, robo-taxi, self-driving taxi or driverless taxi, is an autonomous car (SAE automation level 4 or 5) operated for a ridesharing company. Consultancy firms predict...
Israel airstrike on a school and mosque sheltering displaced people in Gaza, an alleged Hama command post, kills at least 93 people including children [1]
Sean Dunn (37) confronts Customs and Border Protection agents patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. and throws a submarine sandwich at one of the officers; video of the clash goes viral
Charles Napier is born
Herbert Hoover is born
Juan Manuel Santos is born
Jack Haley actor, known for american actor, was born on 1898-08-10. John Joseph Haley Jr.
Norma Shearer, American canadian-american actress, known for canadian-american actress, was born on 1902-08-10.
Rosanna Arquette, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1960-08-10. Rosanna Lisa Arquette ( roh-ZAH-nə ar-KET; born August 10, 1959) is an American actress.
Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor, known for spanish actor, was born on 1961-08-10. José Antonio Domínguez Bandera, known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor.
Kylie Jenner, American media personality and socialite, known for american media personality and socialite, was born on 1998-08-10.
Rocky Colavito athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1933-08-10. Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito Jr.
Riddick Bowe, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1968-08-10. Riddick Lamont Bowe is an American former professional boxer and professional kickboxer who competed between 1989 and…
John C. Pemberton, American confederate army general, known for confederate army general, was born on 1814-08-10.
Hugo Eckener is born
Traditional date of Laylat al-Qadr / Night of Power when Muslims believe the Quran is first sent down from heaven to the world and revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad
BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leads to the sack of one of the greatest cities in the world, the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun [date approximate]
Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German, and Charles the Bald divide France
Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe
Battle of Maldon: English, led by Earl Byrhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The battle and the English defeat are immortalized in the well-known Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon."
Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet
Second Battle of Athenry, Anglo-Norman victory over Gaelic clan alliance
Majorcan explorer Jaume Ferrer sets sail to find the legendary "river of gold" along the West African coast and disappears without a trace
Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma, urges for an Inquisition in Spain
Explorer John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca
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
The War of the League of Cognac (1526–1530) was fought between the Habsburg dominions of Charles V—primarily the Holy Roman Empire and Spain—and the League of Cognac, an alliance including the...
Battle of St Quentin in Picardy: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont and Philibert, Duke of Savoy (Spanish Empire) beat the Duke of Montmorency (France)
Protestant Iconoclasm "Beeldenstorm" (Iconoclastic Fury) begins in the European Low Countries
John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine
Cardinal Richelieu begins the siege of La Rochelle
Battle of Scheveningen: Final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War, English fleet defeats a Dutch fleet led by Maarten Tromp, who is killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship
The Peace of Vasvár was a treaty between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire which followed the Battle of Saint Gotthard of 1 August 1664 (near Mogersdorf, Burgenland), and concluded the...
King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London
The Treaties or Peace of Nijmegen (French: Traités de Paix de Nimègue; German: Friede von Nimwegen; Dutch: Vrede van Nijmegen) were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between...
Tewa medicine man Popé leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
Earliest recorded prizefighting rules are formulated
Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788.
Charles Napier is born
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
Louvre Palace officially opens in Paris as the Musée Central des Arts
Area of Quito is the first to declare itself independent of Spain in Latin America, though put down by the Spanish after 24 days (now Ecuador's National Day)
John C. Pemberton, American confederate army general, known for confederate army general, was born on 1814-08-10.
This is a list of the individual Missouri year pages. In 1821, the United States admitted the Missouri Territory as the 24th U.S. state, establishing the State of Missouri.
Antioch, Syria, is hit by an earthquake, killing about 20,000 people
Hurricane hits Barbados, killing about 1,500 people
Mob of white people and oxen pull Black school to a swamp out of Canaan, NH
US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world's largest museum and research complex
American telegraph Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds second wife, American Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York
Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers on Last Island, Louisiana
Battle of Wilson's Creek [Battle of Oak Hills], fought near Springfield, Missouri, General Lyon is killed in a Confederate victory (US Civil War)
The Nueces Massacre, also known as the Massacre on the Nueces and the Battle of Nueces, was a violent confrontation between Confederate soldiers and Unionist Texas Germans on August 10, 1862, in...
Hugo Eckener is born
O. B. Brown patents a moving picture projector
Herbert Hoover is born
First phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
Leo Daft opens America's first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
Excursion train crashes in Chatsworth, Illinois, killing 101 people
Dan Rylands patents the screw cap
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's...
The Royal Automobile Club is a British private social and athletic club. It has two clubhouses: one in London at 89 Pall Mall, and the other in the countryside at Woodcote Park, near Epsom in Surrey.
Jack Haley actor, known for american actor, was born on 1898-08-10. John Joseph Haley Jr.
Chicago White Sox's Frank Isbell strands a record 11 teammate base runners
Norma Shearer, American canadian-american actress, known for canadian-american actress, was born on 1902-08-10.
Famous Viking ship, the Oseberg, dating to 820 AD, is uncovered in a burial mound near Tønsberg, Norway, with two female skeletons and the bones of 15 horses [1]
Pope Pius X condemns the 1905 French "Law on the Separation of the Churches and State," which grants the state authority to control aspects of Catholic orthodoxy and worship (Encyclical "Gravissimo Officii Munere")
Prince Scipione Borghese wins the Beijing to Paris 7,500-mile auto rally
The Parliament Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 13) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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
The Treaty of Bucharest (Romanian: Tratatul de la București; Serbian: Букурештански мир; Bulgarian: Букурещки договор; Greek: Συνθήκη του Βουκουρεστίου) was concluded on 10 August 1913, by the...
At Liège, German 12"/16.5" guns reach the Belgian border
Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
"Gasoline Alley" comic strip by Frank King premieres in the Chicago Tribune
Czechoslovakia ( CHEK-oh-sloh-VAK-ee-ə, CHEK-ə-, -slə-, -VAH-; Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a country in Central Europe created in 1918, as Czecho-Slovakia (until 1920),...
Hurricane strikes Borculo, Netherlands, killing four people
Italian-Spanish peace treaty is signed
Grover Alexander beats the Phillies 7-1 for his 373rd and final National League win
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
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
Rocky Colavito athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1933-08-10. Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito Jr.
Plain Dealing is a town in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 893 in 2020. It is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area.
°F (48°C) recorded in Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
Second Dutch De Geer government forms (first with Social Democrats)
Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms
Łachwa (or Lakhva) Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Łachwa, Nazi German-occupied Poland (now Lakhva in Belarus) during World War II.
The Battle of Guam was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II that took place from 8 to 10 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between Japan and the United States.
Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor, known for american physicist and inventor, died on 1945-08-10.
ABC enters network TV at 7 pm (WJZ, NY)
Juan Manuel Santos is born
All-time great English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle with a British record 4,870 winning rides
23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000 attendees)
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
Discoverer 13 launches into orbit and returns the first object from space
Rosanna Arquette, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1960-08-10. Rosanna Lisa Arquette ( roh-ZAH-nə ar-KET; born August 10, 1959) is an American actress.
UK applies for membership of the European Economic Community
Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor, known for spanish actor, was born on 1961-08-10. José Antonio Domínguez Bandera, known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor.
USSR conducts a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches an altitude of 51.3 miles (82.6 km) and a top speed of 3,550 mph (5,713 km/h) (Mach 5.20)
The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
Race riots in Miami, Chicago, and Little Rock
Riddick Bowe, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1968-08-10. Riddick Lamont Bowe is an American former professional boxer and professional kickboxer who competed between 1989 and…
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
During the internment round-up operation in West Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kills 11 unarmed civilians in what becomes known as the Ballymurphy Massacre
A one-million-kilogram meteor grazes the atmosphere above Canada
First BART train travels through Transbay Tube to Montgomery St. Station
About 100 white sympathizers join evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
USSR conducts a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
Hurricane Allen was the most powerful Atlantic hurricane by wind speed on record. The second tropical depression and first named storm of the 1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Allen was also the...
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. agrees to invest $34 million in Black-owned businesses
Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
The Marquis Theatre is a Broadway theater on the third floor of the New York Marriott Marquis hotel in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S.
Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
A's bat out of order against White Sox in the third inning
NASA's Magellan spacecraft arrives at Venus
NFL sportscaster Paul Maguire suffers a heart attack at 53
TOPEX Poseidon helped revolutionize oceanography by providing data previously impossible to obtain.
An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand
Last British troops leave Hong Kong; they have been there since September 1841
The Dodgers lead 2-1 in the 9th and forfeit the game to the Cardinals as fans become unruly
Anaheim Angels' Tony Phillips is arrested for purchasing cocaine
Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni Hassanal Bolkiah is the eldest son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and his wife Queen Saleha.
Kylie Jenner, American media personality and socialite, known for american media personality and socialite, was born on 1998-08-10.
New Zealand beats South Africa 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score four tries to two
The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK: 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, the first time the UK records a temperature over 100°F
Scotland Yard disrupts a major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States; all toiletries are banned from commercial aircraft
Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 years of marriage
Paluweh, also known as Rokatenda, is a stratovolcano that forms the small island of Palu'e, north of Flores Island in Sikka Regency in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to a 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
°F (43°C) in Apalachicola, Florida, breaks the state record of 109°F (42.8°C) set in 1931
18-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates a huge upset when he swims a junior world record of 47.58 to win the men's 100 m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
-year-old fruitcake by Huntley & Palmers is deemed "almost eatable" after being discovered in a hut used by Captain Scott's expedition in Antarctica
Alaska Airlines ground crew member steals a plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island
Know is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. The album was released on August 10, 2018 by Atlantic Records.
71 people die while trying to siphon gas from an overturned tanker that explodes in the Morogoro region, Tanzania
Global COVID-19 cases pass 20 million and are accelerating; the first 10 million take almost 6 months, while the second 10 million take just 43 days (Reuters)
"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]
Former US President Donald Trump invokes the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination repeatedly during a deposition into his organization's business by the NY attorney's office [1]
A robotaxi, also known as robot taxi, robo-taxi, self-driving taxi or driverless taxi, is an autonomous car (SAE automation level 4 or 5) operated for a ridesharing company. Consultancy firms predict...
Israel airstrike on a school and mosque sheltering displaced people in Gaza, an alleged Hama command post, kills at least 93 people including children [1]
Sean Dunn (37) confronts Customs and Border Protection agents patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. and throws a submarine sandwich at one of the officers; video of the clash goes viral