About July 10
July 10, 2021 is the 191st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 206 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 10
- 1212 –The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1553 –Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- 1584 –William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1778 –American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 –Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1882 –War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- 1911 –The Royal Australian Navy was established by HM King George V of Australia.
- 1913 –Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
- 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.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 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.
- 1973 –The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1976 –One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1978 –World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1978 –President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 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.
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