About August 10
August 10, 2024 is the 223rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 143 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 172 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
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
- 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.
- 1557 –Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
- 1680 –The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- 1793 –The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
- 1809 –Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
- 1821 –Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
- 1846 –The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
- 1904 –Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- 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.
- 1961 –First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
- 1969 –A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson’s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
- 1971 –The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1981 –Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh’s son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America’s Most Wanted.
- 1993 –An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
- 1998 –HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
- 2003 –Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
- 2006 –Scotland Yard disrupts a major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
- 2009 –Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia’s history.
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