August 10

August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining.

Events

• 258 - Saint Lawrence martyred in Rome
• 654 - Saint Eugene I becomes Pope
• 955 - The Battle of Lechfeld ends 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West
• 1492 - Alexander VI becomes Pope
• 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the globe
• 1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain
• 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state
• 1831 - Nat Turner leads slave rebellion
• 1846 - Smithsonian Institution created
• 1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek[?]
• 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos
• 1907 - Peking-to-Paris road race[?] completed, won by Prince Borghese[?] of Italy
• 1913 - Second Balkan War ends
• 1920 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives signed the Treaty of Sevres[?].
• 1945 - Japan agrees to unconditional surrender, ending World War II
• 1977 - David Berkowitz[?] ("Son of Sam[?]") arrested
• 1990 - Magellan space probe reaches Venus

Births

• 1821 - Jay Cooke, financier (+ 1905)
• 1874 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (+ 1964)
• 1898 - Jack Haley[?], actor (+ 1979)
• 1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, physicist (+ 1958)
• 1902 - Norma Shearer, actress (+ 1983)
• 1902 - Curt Siodmak[?], science fiction author (+ 2000)
• 1912 - Jorge Amado[?], novelist
• 1923 - Rhonda Fleming[?], actress
• 1928 - Jimmy Dean, country and western singer
• 1940 - Bobby Hatfield[?], singer, the Righteous Brothers
• 1943 - Ronnie Spector[?], singer
• 1947 - Ian Anderson, musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1960 - Antonio Banderas, actor
• 1967 - Riddick Bowe, world champion boxer

Deaths

• 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Go player
• 1945 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
• 1963 - Estes Kefauver[?], United States Senator from Tennessee
• 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
• 2002 - Kristen Nygaard, computer scientist

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Ops
• Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held

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