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
- 988 –Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- 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.
- 1645 –English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 1778 –American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 –Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1877 –The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- 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.
- 1913 –Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in 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.
- 1940 –World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- 1941 –Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 1951 –Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1978 –World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1992 –In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 2000 –EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2011 –Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
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