About August 10
August 10, 2025 is the 222nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 143 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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August 10: More About This Day
The term ‘the 10th of August’is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it is restored in 1814.
What Happened On August 10
- 955 –Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
- 991 –Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex.
- 1270 –Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
- 1519 –Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in command Sebastian Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan’s death in the Philippines.
- 1755 –Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
- 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”.
- 1846 –The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
- 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.
- 1901 –The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
- 1904 –Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- 1905 –Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- 1932 –A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
- 1944 –World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- 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.
- 1954 –At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
- 1961 –First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
- 1978 –Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
- 1990 –The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
- 2003 –The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C in Kent. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F.
- 2003 –Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
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