About August 10
August 10, 2023 is the 222nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 143 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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.
- 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.
- 1628 –The Swedish warship ship sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
- 1792 –French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
- 1809 –Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- 1948 –Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
- 1954 –At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
- 1969 –A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson’s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
- 1977 –In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
- 1978 –Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
- 1988 –Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
- 1990 –More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
- 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.
- 2009 –Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia’s history.
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