Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 10
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich -
Tuileries Palace, c. 1851~1870 -
Smithsonian castle -
Magellan space probe -
The French warship Cordelière and the English warship Regent ablaze at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu -
Vasa, today a museum ship -
The Louvre palace (Richelieu wing) -
Louvre Pyramid -
José Antônio Saraiva -
Painting of the insurrection of 10 August 1792 -
The Hungarian Battle of Lechfeld 955 by Michael Echter (1860) -
Sirius A (centre) and Sirius B (bottom left) -
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of Saint Lawrence (Roman Catholic Church) | in popular culture, lots of inline tags |
| Independence Day in Ecuador (1809) | refimprove section, expansion |
| 991 – Inland-raiding Vikings defeated Byrhtnoth and the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Maldon in Essex, England. | refimprove |
| 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: England and a combined Franco-Breton fleet engaged in the Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during which an explosion destroyed each navy's most powerful ship. | unreferenced section |
| 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the basis of the prime meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London. | unreferenced section |
| 1821 – As per the conditions of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted into the United States as a slave state, despite the fact that most of its territory was north of the parallel 36°30′ north. | refimprove section |
| 1846 – The United States Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex. | expansion |
| 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The first major confrontation between modern steel battleship fleets took place in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. | too many references missing |
| 1913 – Delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War. | one source |
| 1920 – Representatives of Sultan Mehmed VI signed the Treaty of Sèvres, recognizing the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. | unreferenced section |
| 1981 – The severed head of kidnapped six-year-old Adam Walsh was found in a canal in Vero Beach, Florida, prompting his father John to become a victims' rights advocate and helping to spur the formation of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. | primary sources |
| 1990 – NASA's Magellan space probe reached Venus on a mission to map its surface, fifteen months after its launch. | unreferenced section |
| 2009 - Twenty people were killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history. | refimprove section |
| Madeleine of Valois |b|1520| | Birthday not cited |
| Alexander Glazunov |b|1865| | Multiple issues |
| Alfred Döblin |b|1878 | refimprove section |
| Anwar Ibrahim |b|1947| | Orange banner re: controversy and POV |
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- 1270 – Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the Solomonic dynasty, which would last for more than 700 years.
- 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sank shortly after departing Stockholm on her maiden voyage to take part in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1755 – The first wave of the Expulsion of the Acadians from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces by the British began with the Bay of Fundy campaign at Chignecto.
- 1792 – French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace (depicted), effectively ending the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
- 1793 – The Louvre (pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the world's most-visited museum, opened with an exhibition of 537 paintings and 184 objets d'art.
- 1844 – From measurements of its motion, German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, had an unseen companion.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
- 1864 – José Antônio Saraiva announced that the Brazilian military would exact reprisals after Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's demands, beginning the Uruguayan War.
- 1901 – The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers began an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers of new members.
- 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
- 1988 – The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
- 2019 – Having already caused severe flooding in the Philippines, Typhoon Lekima made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing 45 people in the province.
- Born/died: | Al-Wathiq |d|847| Therese Forster |b|1786| William Lowndes Yancey |b|1814| Adah Isaacs Menken |d|1868| Eric Harrison |b|1886| Red Holzman |b|1920| Marie-Claire Alain |b|1926| Suzanne Collins |b|1962| Casey Donovan |d|1987| Jennifer Paterson |d|1999| Adam Stansfield |d|2010
German package of aspirin
- 955 – Forces under Otto the Great were victorious at the Battle of Lechfeld near present-day Augsburg, Germany, holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Central Europe.
- 1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovered an improved method of synthesizing aspirin (package pictured).
- 1966 – The Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa, Canada, collapsed during its construction, killing nine workers.
- 2007 – Amid large protests against the impending demolition of the Queen's Pier, in Hong Kong, the High Court dismissed legal attempts to preserve the landmark.
- 2019 – Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.
- Joséphine Fodor (d. 1870)
- Angus Lewis Macdonald (b. 1890)
- Aletta Jacobs (d. 1929)
- Antonio Banderas (b. 1960)