About July 10
July 10, 2025 is the 191st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 222 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 10
- 1499 –Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
- 1584 –William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1645 –English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 1789 –Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1806 –The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1821 –The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832 –U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1941 –Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1942 –Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1968 –Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1973 –John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1973 –The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1978 –World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1985 –Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991 –The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 1992 –In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1997 –Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 2003 –A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
- 2006 –Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
- 2011 –Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
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