On This Day in History for August 10

Events 1 - 100 of 149

• 612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.

• 610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an
• 654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
• 843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bald divide France
• 955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe.
• 991 Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.
• 1304 -11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
• 1316 Second Battle of Athenry, Anglo-Norman victory over Gaelic clan alliance
• 1461 Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquisition in Spain

• 1500 Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
• 1511 Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca
• 1512 Battle of Saint-Mathieu (also called the Battle of Brest): an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont.
• 1557 Battle of St Quentin in Picardy: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont and Philibert, Duke of Savoy (Spanish Empire) beat the Duke of Montmorency (France)
• 1566 Protestant Iconoclasm "Beeldenstorm" begins in European Low Countries

• 1622 John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine.
• 1627 Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle

• 1653 The Battle of Scheveningen, English fleet beats Dutch
• 1664 Austria and the Ottoman Empire sign the Peace of Vásvár

• 1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
• 1678 Netherlands & France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
• 1680 In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniards
• 1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
• 1759 Carlos III becomes king of Spain
• 1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing

• 1793 Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
• 1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
• 1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
• 1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
• 1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)

• 1831 Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
• 1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
• 1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
• 1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
• 1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
• 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek [Battle of Oak Hills], fought near Springfield, Missouri, General Lyon killed, Confederate victory (US Civil War)
• 1862 Battle of Nueces River TX
• 1869 O B Brown patents moving picture projector
• 1876 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
• 1877 Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians
• 1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
• 1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
• 1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap


• 1893 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act

• 1895 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagner's "Rienzi")
• 1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)

• 1904 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
• 1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea: Japanese fleet prevented Russians breaking out of Port Arthur
• 1904 Higlanders Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
• 1906 Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
• 1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
• 1909 Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
• 1911 Parliament Act reduces power of UK's House of Lords
• 1911 The UK House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members
• 1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
• 1914 At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
• 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
• 1914 German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
• 1914 WWI: French fall back at Alsace
• 1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
• 1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
• 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
• 1920 Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
• 1920 Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate

• 1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
• 1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
• 1929 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
• 1932 A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1936 114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
• 1936 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
• 1938 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
• 1939 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
• 1940 Prince Bernhard Fund forms
• 1941 FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland

• 1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali

• 1944 Race riots in Athens, Alabama
• 1944 Battle for Guam ends, US troops recapture Guam from the Japanese
• 1944 US/French offensive at Alencon

• 1949 US National Military Establishment renamed Depertment of Defense
• 1954 Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
• 1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
• 1960 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New Guinea
• 1961 UK applies for membership of the European Common Market

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 103

• 1267 King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
• 1296 John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
• 1360 Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
• 1397 Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
• 1489 Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
• 1520 Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
• 1602 Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
• 1645 Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
• 1652 Peterus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (tomb stones)
• 1654 Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist
• 1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
• 1708 John Stinstra, baptist vicar

• 1737 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
• 1744 "Fanfan" Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles, daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour, born in Paris, France (d. 1754)
• 1782 Charles Napier, soldier, born in London, England

• 1794 Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
• 1801 Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), (d. 1882)
• 1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
• 1810 Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
• 1814 John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1881)
• 1814 William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), (d. 1863)

• 1821 Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
• 1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
• 1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Thomas Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1895)
• 1823 Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d. 1886)
• 1839 Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
• 1854 J Scott Lidgett, theologist, born in London, England

• 1856 William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, born in Farnham, Surrey, England
• 1861 Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist

• 1869 Lawrence Binyon, poet (Symbolic Wounds), born in Vienna, Austria

• 1877 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
• 1877 Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
• 1878 Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
• 1880 Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
• 1881 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
• 1884 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
• 1886 Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
• 1889 Charles Darrow, Inventor (d. 1967)
• 1890 Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
• 1893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
• 1893 Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
• 1894 V.V. [Varahagiri Venkata] Giri, Fourth President of India (1969-74), born in Berhampur, British India (d. 1980)
• 1895 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1958)
• 1897 Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch novelist (Ciske the Rat)
• 1897 John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
• 1902 Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
• 1902 Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
• 1905 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
• 1905 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
• 1905 Era Bell Thompson, American magazine editor (Ebony), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1986)
• 1909 Frank Bowden, industrialist/landowner
• 1909 George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980- )
• 1909 Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
• 1909 Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
• 1910 Angus Campbell, American psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
• 1911 A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
• 1912 Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)/mayor of Amsterdam
• 1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval)
• 1913 Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
• 1918 Eugene Wilkinson, naval officer (first nuclear sub commander), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2013)
• 1919 Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant
• 1919 Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
• 1921 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)
• 1923 Gillian Brown, diplomat
• 1925 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
• 1925 George Cooper, general
• 1925 Lawrence Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
• 1926 Benjamin Ward, 1st African American NYC Police Commissioner (1984-89), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
• 1930 Barry Unsworth, novelist (Pascali's Island), (d. 2012)
• 1933 Alan Hardcastle, chairman (Lloyds Regulatory Board)
• 1933 Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice
• 1933 David Rowland, chairman (Lloyd's)
• 1933 Doyle Brunson, American poker player
• 1933 Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; d. 2005)
• 1935 Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general
• 1936 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao
• 1937 Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
• 1939 Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973- )
• 1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions
• 1940 Richard Wells, Chief Constable (South Yorkshire)
• 1940 Sid Waddell, Darts Commentator for the PDC
• 1942 Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
• 1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder (Schlager Festival Gay Party)
• 1945 Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
• 1945 Harriet Miers, White House counsel
• 1950 A L Harris, clinicaloncologist
• 1951 Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (2010-present) and Nobel laureate (2016), born in Bogotá, Colombia
• 1952 Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
• 1952 Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist
• 1953 Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer
• 1958 Rami Hamdallah, Palestinian politician, academic and Prime Minister of Palestine (2014-present), born in Anabta, West Bank
• 1959 Mark Price, bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
• 1960 Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit.
• 1963 Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist

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• 1946 Author and founder of the Scientology cult L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds Sara Northrup Hollister

• 2003 Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, marrying Ekaterina Dmitriev (on earth)
• 2003 Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera (60) weds former Rivera Live producer Erica Levy (28) at Manhattan's Central Synagogue

• 612 BC Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
• 258 Saint Lawrence, Christian martyr, burned to death
• 794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30
• 955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
• 1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies
• 1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
• 1535 Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
• 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49
• 1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned
• 1637 Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
• 1653 Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral, dies in battle at 55
• 1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
• 1717 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies
• 1723 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 66
• 1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46
• 1784 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter and artist (b. 1713)
• 1802 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77
• 1839 John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
• 1842 Captain William Hobson, first British Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, dies of a stroke at 49
• 1843 Jakob F. Fries, German philosopher, dies at 69
• 1857 John Wilson Croker, politician
• 1859 George Staunton, writer
• 1861 Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier-General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle at 43
• 1862 Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
• 1875 Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
• 1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
• 1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
• 1905 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
• 1915 Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
• 1918 Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
• 1920 Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
• 1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
• 1929 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and feminist, dies at 75
• 1929 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1934 John Kane, Scottish/US miner/painter, dies at 73
• 1943 C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1943 J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1943 J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies

• 1948 E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63
• 1948 Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
• 1948 Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
• 1948 Montague Summers, English clergyman and writer (Malleus Maleficarum), dies at 68
• 1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies
• 1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician
• 1963 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
• 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of US President JFK, dies at only 3 days
• 1963 Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
• 1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
• 1966 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies
• 1969 Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
• 1969 Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
• 1979 Walther Gerlach, German Physicist (Stern–Gerlach effect) dies at 90
• 1987 I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
• 1988 Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
• 1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68), dies at 86
• 1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
• 1991 Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies
• 1994 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
• 1995 Fay Honey Knopp, American activist (founded a Quaker ministry for men and women in prisons), dies of complications from ovarian cancer at 76
• 1996 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
• 1999 Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
• 2002 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
• 2007 Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
• 2007 James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
• 2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
• 2017 Kim Wall, Swedish journalist killed investigating Danish inventor Peter Madsen, dies at 30 [or 11th Aug]

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