About July 10
July 10, 2024 is the 192nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 203 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 10
- 138 –Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- 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.
- 1778 –American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1806 –The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1821 –The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832 –U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1921 –Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1925 –Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1938 –Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1941 –Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1962 –Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1967 –Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1968 –Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1973 –National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 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.
- 1998 –Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
- 2000 –EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2003 –A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
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