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

  • 1460
    Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
  • 1499
    Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
  • 1877
    The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
  • 1925
    Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
  • 1938
    Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
  • 1942
    Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
  • 1946
    Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
  • 1966
    The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
  • 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
    National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
  • 1976
    One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
  • 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.
  • 2000
    A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
  • 2000
    EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
  • 2002
    At a Sotheby‘s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
  • 2005
    Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
  • 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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