About July 10
July 10, 2023 is the 191st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 215 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.
- 1460 –Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 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.
- 1821 –The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1850 –Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
- 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.
- 1890 –Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 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 –Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 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.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 1967 –Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1973 –National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1973 –The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
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