On this day in History - Aug 10

• .612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
• 612 BC - Sinsharishkun dies. Assyrian king.
• 0258 - Saint Lawrence dies. Martyr.
• 0610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.
• 0955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
• 0991 - 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 immortalized in a well-known poem.
• 0997 - Las tropas de Almanzor saquean y destruyen la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, llevándose como recompensa las campanas de la ciudad.
• 1267 - King James II of Aragon was born (d. 1327).
• 1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg was born (d. 1346).
• 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry.
  
• 1360 - Francesco Zabarella was born (d. 1417). Italian jurist.
• 1382 - Tratado de paz entre D. Fernando e João I de Castela.
• 1397 - Albert II of Habsburg was born. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1415 - Frota portuguesa com 50 mil soldados chega em Ceuta.
• 1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck was born (d. 1553). German statesman and reformer.
• 1500 - Diego Diaz, explorador português, é o primeiro europeu a desembarcar na ilha de Madagascar, situada no Oceano Índico.
• 1511 - Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Malaca.
• 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1520 - Madeleine de Valois was born (d. 1537). Queen of James V of Scotland.
• 1535 - Ippolito de' Medici dies poisoned (b. 1509). Ruler of Florence
• 1557 - Batalla de San Quintín: Las tropas españolas de Felipe II derrotan a las francesas de Enrique II.
• 1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius was born (d. 1629). German composer.
• 1602 - Gilles de Roberval was born (d. 1675). French mathematician.
• 1608 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
• 1633 - Anthony Munday dies (b. 1553). English writer.
• 1637 - Johann Gerhard dies (b. 1582). German Lutheran leader.
• 1645 - Eusebio Kino was born (d. 1711). Italian Catholic missionary
• 1647 - Rodrigo Caro dies. Spanish writer.
• 1653 - Maarten Tromp dies (b. 1598). Dutch admiral .
• 1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar dies (b. 1572). Spanish cardinal and diplomat.
• 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid.
• 1678 - A paz de Nimega põe fim à guerra que Luis XIV da França travava contra Espanha, Holanda, estados alemães e Dinamarca..
• 1680 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1716 - Eugenius Bulgaris was born (d. 10 Jun 1806). Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
• 1723 - Guillaume Dubois dies (b. 1656). French cardinal and statesman.
• 1737 - Anton Losenko was born (d. 1773). Russian painter.
• 1744 - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan") was born (d. 1754). Daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour.
• 1759 - King Fernando VI of Spain dies and Carlos III is proclaimed King.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
• 1784 - Allan Ramsay dies (b. 1713). Scottish painter.
• 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1802 - Franz Aepinus dies (b. 1724). German scientist.
• 1806 - Michael Haydn dies (b. 1737). Austrian composer.
• 1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
• 1813 - Se funda el Instituto Nacional de Chile, actual Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera.
• 1806 - Michael Haydn dies (b. 1737). Austrian composer.
• 1814 - Henri Nestlé was born (d. 1890). Swiss industrialist.
• 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 1821 - Jay Cooke was born (d. 18 Feb 1905). American financier
• 1823 - Charles Keene was born (d. 4 Jan 1891). English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
• 1823 - Antonio Gonçalves Dias was born (d. 1864). Brazilian poet. "I Juca Pirama", "Canção do Exílio".
• 1823 - Hugh Stowell Brown was born (d. 1886). Manx preacher.
• 1837 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov was born (d. 1897). Russian physicist.
• 1839 - John St Aubyn dies (b. 1758). British fossil collector
• 1843 - Joseph McKenna was born (d. 21 Nov 1926). American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925).
• 1844 - Manuel Menéndez assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Peru..
• 1845 - Abai Kunanbaev was born (d. 1904). Kazakh poet.
• 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
• 1856 - William Willett was born (d. 1915). English inventor of Daylight Saving Time.
• 1856 - In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
• 1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was born (d. 1936). Indian musician.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
• 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo dies (b. 1829). Japanese Go player.
• 1865 - Alexander Glazunov was born (d. 1936). Russian composer.
• 1869 - Laurence Binyon was born (d. 1943). British poet.
• 1869 - Gabriel García Moreno assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Equador.
• 1872 - Bill Johnson was born (d. 1972). American jazz musician.
• 1874 - Herbert Hoover was born (d. 20 Oct 1964). 31st President of the United States.
  
• 1875 - Karl Andree dies (b. 1808). German geographer.
• 1877 - Frank Marshall was born (d. 1944). Chess player.
• 1878 - Alfred Döblin was born (d. 1957). German writer.
• 1880 - Robert L. Thornton was born. American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
• 1884 - Panait Istrati was born (d. 1935). Romanian writer...
• 1890 - Angus L. MacDonald was born (d. 1954). Canadian politician.
• 1890 - Béchara El-Khoury was born. President of Lebanon (1943-1952)
• 1890 - Remigio Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru enquanto Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel Salazar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro
• 1891 - Jacques Lipchitz was born (d. 26 May 1973). Russian-born French sculptor.
• 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
• 1893 - Douglas Stuart Moore was born (d. 25 Jul 1969). American composer of folk operas
• 1894 - Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was born (d. 16 Aug 1946). Latvian-born American labor leader
• 1894 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri was born (d. 1980). Fourth President of India.
• 1896 - Otto Lilienthal dies (b. 1848). German aviation pioneer.
• 1898 - Jack Haley was born (d. 1979). American actor.
• 1900 - Arthur Espie Porritt was born. New Zealand politician and athlete.
• 1901 - C A E Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain allegedly experience a time slip, encountering the ghost of Marie Antoinette in the gardens of Versailles
• 1901 - The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
• 1902 - Norma Shearer was born (d. 1983). Actress.
• 1902 - Curt Siodmak was born (d. 2000). Science fiction author.
• 1903 - Morrem 84 pessoas num acidente de metro em Paris.
• 1904 - The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
• 1904 - Clemente Yerovi Indaburu was born. President of Ecuador (1966).
• 1904 - Club Sport Costarricense (Costa Rica) is founded.
• 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
• 1905 - Eugene Dennis was born (d. 31 Jan 1961). American Communist Party leader and labor organizer.
• 1905 - Era Bell Thompson was born (d. 1986). American journalist.
• 1909 - Leo Fender was born (d. 21 Mar 1991). American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments.
• 1912 - Jorge Amado was born (d. 6 Aug 2001). Brazilian novelist.
• 1912 - Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1913 - Wolfgang Paul was born (d. 1993). German physicist, Nobel laureate.
  
• 1913 - Noah Beery, Jr. was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1914 - Jeff Corey was born (d. 2002). American actor.
• 1914 - Carlos Menditéguy was born (d. 1973). Argentine racing driver.
• 1915 - Henry Moseley dies (b. 1887). English physicist.
• 1919 - Sacha Vierny was born (d. 2001). French cinematographer.
• 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
• 1920 - Ádám Politzer dies (b. 1835). Austrian physician.
• 1921 - Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará (d. Lisbon, 1 Jul 1981). Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and writer.
• 1922 - Rui Knopfli was born. Mozambican poet.
• 1923 - US: Carlo Tresca, Italian-American anarchist, arrested.
• 1923 - Rhonda Fleming was born. American actress .
• 1923 - Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida dies (b. 1863). Spanish painter.
• 1924 - Carlos Castro Saavedra was born. Colombian writer and poet.
• 1927 - Vernon Washington was born (d. 1988). American actor.
• 1928 - Gus Mercurio was born. American-born Australian actor.
• 1928 - Eddie Fisher was born. American singer.
• 1928 - Jimmy Dean was born. American singer.
• 1928 - Rex Cherryman dies (b. 1897). American actor.
• 1929 - Pierre Fatou dies (b. 1878). French mathematician.
• 1932 - Rin Tin Tin dies (b. 1918). German shepherd dog.
• 1932 - A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1932 - Intento de golpe de estado en España, protagonizado por el general Sanjurjo, denominado la "sanjurjada". Tras intentar huir a Portugal, es detenido en Huelva, juzgado y condenado a muerte, el Presidente de la República le conmuta la pena por cadena perpetua. En 1934, es amnistiado por el gobierno del partido radical y se traslada a Portugal, donde moriría en accidente de aviación al tratar de volver a España para encabezar la sublevación que dio origen a la guerra civil.
• 1933 - Doyle Brunson was born. American professional poker player.
• 1933 - Rocky Colavito was born. American baseball player.
• 1934 - US: Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11.
• 1934 - Manuel Ríos was born. Spanish writer.
• 1937 - Anatoly Sobchak was born. Russian politician.
• 1938 - Manuel María Borrero González assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1939 - Kate O'Mara was born. British actress
• 1940 - Julio Enrique Moreno assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador.
• 1940 - Bobby Hatfield was born (d. 2003). American singer (Righteous Brothers).
• 1943 - Louise Forestier was born. French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress.
• 1943 - Jimmy Griffin was born (d. 2005). American guitarist (Bread).
• 1943 - Pervez Musharraf was born. President of Pakistan, the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army.
• 1943 - Ronnie Spector was born. American singer (Ronettes).
• 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
• 1945 - Harriet Miers was born. White House counsel.
  
• 1945 - Robert Goddard dies. American rocket scientist.
• 1946 - James Reynolds was born. Actor (''Days of Our Lives'').
• 1947 - Ian Anderson was born. Scottish musician (Jethro Tull).
• 1947 - Anwar Ibrahim was born. Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• 1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
• 1948 - Patti Austin was born. American singer.
• 1948 - Montague Summers dies (b. 1880). English writer.
• 1949 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishement with the United States Department of Defense.
• 1949 - Gene Johnson was born. Country musician (Diamond Rio).
• 1950 - Rémy Girard was born. Québécois actor.
• 1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Entra em vigor a Comunidade Europeia do Carvão e do Aço (CECA).
• 1954 - At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1954 - Indonesia proclama su independencia y se desvincula de Holanda.
• 1956 - Fafá de Belém was born in Belém do Pará. Brazilian singer.
• 1956 - Fred Ottman was born. American wrestler.
• 1958 - Frank Demaree dies (b. 1910). American baseball player.
• 1959 - Florent Vollant was born. Canadian musician (Kashtin).
• 1959 - Rosanna Arquette was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Né Ladeiras was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1959 - Inauguração, em Salvador, do Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia (Brasil).
• 1960 - Antonio Banderas was born. Spanish actor.
• 1960 - Todd David Hess was born. First USAF Member to receive Military Medical Merit.
• 1961 - Jon Farriss was born. Australian musician (INXS).
• 1961 - Dinamarca apresenta pedido de adesão as Comunidades Européias.
• 1962 - Julia Fordham was born. Singer.
• 1963 - Andrew Sullivan was born. English-born journalist.
• 1963 - Ernst Wetter dies (b. 1877). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• 1963 - Estes Kefauver dies (b. 1903). American polotician, Senator from Tennessee.
• 1963 - João Baião was born at Buraca. Portuguese actor and TV star ("Big show Sic").
• 1964 - Afonso Eduardo Reidy dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1964 - Aaron Hall was born. American singer.
• 1965 - Claudia Christian was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Mike Smith was born. American jockey.
• 1965 - John Starks was born. American basketball player
• 1966 - Hansi Kürsch was born. German singer.
• 1967 - Mart Sander was born. Estonian singer and actor.
• 1967 - Todd Nichols was born. Rock musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket).
• 1967 - Riddick Bowe was born. American boxer.
• 1967 - Lorraine Pearson was born. Musician (Five Star).
• 1968 - Michael Bivins was born. American singer (New Edition & Bell Biv DeVoe).
• 1968 - Greg Hawgood was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1968 - Peter Docter was born. American film director.
• 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• 1969 - Presidente da Zâmbia, Kenneth Kaunda, anuncia a nacionalização das companhias mineiras de cobre indispensáveis para a economia do país.
• 1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (b. 1925) and Rosemary LaBianca (b. 1930), American housewife are murdered.
• 1971 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 1971 - The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1971 - Justin Theroux was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Roy Keane was born. Irish footballer.
• 1971 - Fábio Assunção was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actor.
• 1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa was born. Cuban boxer.
• 1971 - Sal Fasano was born. American baseball player.
• 1972 - Angie Harmon was born. American model and actress.
• 1972 - Christofer Johnsson was born. Swedish musician.
• 1973 - Lisa Raymond was born. American tennis player.
• 1973 - Javier Zanetti was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1974 - David Sommeil was born. French footballer.
• 1974 - Luis Marín was born. Costa Rican footballer.
• 1976 - Michael Depoli was born. American wrestler.
• 1976 - Bert Oldfield dies (b.1894)., Australian test cricketer.
• 1977 - Danny Griffin was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1977 - Aaron Kamin was born. American musician (The Calling).
• 1977 - Matt Morgan was born. British comedian.
• 1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
• 1978 - Chris Read was born. English cricketer.
• 1979 - Yannick Schroeder was born. French racing driver.
• 1979 - Joanna Garcia was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Jaime Roldós Aguilera becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1979 - Walter Gerlach dies (b. 1889). German physicist.
• 1979 - Dick Foran dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1980 - Kaysar Ridha was born. Iraqi-American reality TV contestant.
• 1980 - Yahya Khan dies (b. 1917). President of Pakistan.
• 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
• 1981 - Natsumi Abe was born. Japanese singer and actress.
• 1982 - Devon Aoki was born. American supermodel and actress.
• 1982 - Abel Manta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1983 - Pinheiro de Azevedo dies (b. 1917). Portuguese politician who was Prime Minister (1975-1976).
• 1983 - Alexander Perezhogin was born. Russian professional ice hockey player.
• 1983 - Mathieu Roy was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1986 - Mark Harrison was born. Brititish music critic and publisher.
• 1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
• 1988 - Rodrigo Borja Cevallos assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1989 - O descarrilamento de um comboio nas proximidades de Guamuchil, estado mexicano de Sinaloa, deixa pelo menos 108 mortos, 20 desaparecidos e 198 feridos.
• 1989 - Ben Sahar was born. Israeli footballer.
• 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
• 1990 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in the North East Sri Lanka by the paramilitaries.
• 1992 - Ko Ah-seong was born. South Korean actress.
• 1993 - Øystein Aarseth dies (b. 1968). Norwegian musician (Mayhem).
• 1994 - President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
• 1995 - Los Angeles Dodgers are forced to forfeit against the St. Louis Cardinals in the only case of baseball forfeit in the latter 30 years of the 20th century after fans throw souvenir baseballs on to the field en masse.
• 1995 - José Valente dies. Portuguese economist.
• 1996 - Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz sorns as President of Ecuador.
• 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow dies (b. 1912). American composer.
• 1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon does (b. 1953). Quebec film director.
• 1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
• 1998 - Jamil Mahuad assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1999 - Morre, em Sintra, Ernesto de Melo Antunes (n. 2 Out 1933). Militar e político português ideólogo da “Revolução dos Cravos”. Foi o principal autor do documento O Movimento das Forças Armadas e a Nação e do programa do MFA. Foi Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros durante os Governos Provisórios e o primeiro subscritor do Documento dos Nove no Verão quente de 1975.
• 1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya dies (b. 1899). Eminent Sanskrit Scholor in India.
• 2000 - World Population reaches 6 billion according to www.ibiblio.org world population tracker.
• 2001 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
• 2001 - Lou Boudreau dies (b. 1917). American baseball player and manager.
• 2002 - Michael Houser dies (b. 1962). American guitarist (Widespread Panic).
• 2002 - Kristen Nygaard dies (b. 1926). Norwegian computer scientist.
• 2002 - Nicolas Cage / Lisa Marie Presley wedding.
• 2002 - Kristen Nygaard dies. Computer scientist.
• 2003 - Carmita Jimenez dies. Puerto Rican singer.
• 2003 - Xenia Seeberg / Sven Martinek wedding.
• 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space.
• 2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent.
• 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2005 - Rui Silva, Portuguese athlete, wins the bronze medal in 1500 m in The World Championships in Helsinki.
• 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
• Roman Empire - Opalia, Festival in honor of Ops.
  
• Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held.
• Independence Day in Ecuador - Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.