10 August

The **10t o August** is the 222nt day o the year (223rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 143 days bidin.

## Events

* 843 - The Treaty o Verdun splits the Frankish Empire intae three.
* 1492 - Election o Pape Alexander VI.
* 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's expedeetion sets sail frae Spain.
* 1535 - The Saunt Lawrence River in present-day Canadae is named bi Jacques Cartier.
* 1628 - Swadish warship *Vasa* sinks on its first voyage in the harbour o Stockholm.
* 1675 - The foondation stane o the Ryal Observatory, Greenwich is laid.
* 1792 - French Revolution: Stormin o the Tuileries Palace - Louis XVI o Fraunce is arrestit.
* 1793 - The Louvre in Paris opens.
* 1809 - Quito, caipital o Ecuador, declares unthirldom frae Spain.
* 1821 - Missouri becomes the 24t State o the Unitit States.
* 1830 - Ecuador splits frae Greater Colombie.
* 1913 - Serbie becomes the main pouer in the Balkans efter Bulgarie's defeat, bi way o the Peace o Bucharest, in the seicont Balkan War.
* 1920 - The Reid Airmy crosses the Vistula north o Warsaw in the Pols-Soviet War. 
* 1944 - Warld War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese forces on Guam.
* 1986 - The first Formula Ane race in the Eastren Bloc taks place in Hungary - won bi Nelson Piquet.
* 1990 - The Magellan space probe enters intae the orbit o Venus.
* 1990 - 127 Muslims are kilt in Northren Sri Lanka bi paramilitar groups.
* 1998 - Jamil Mahuad becomes Preses o Ecuador.
* 2001 - An attack on a train in Angolae kills 252 fowk.
* 2003 - Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person tae marry in space, tae a woman on the groond in Texas.
* 2003 - The Unitit Kinrick's highest-recordit temperatur at the time, 38.5 degrees Celsius, is measurit in Kent, Sootheastren Ingland; the record haulds until it is beaten bi a 38.7-degree measurement at the Varsity o Cambridge on 25 Julie 2019.
* 2006 - Unitit Kinrick authorities prevent a plot tae blow up Transatlantic airliners.
* 2016 - Belize decreeminalises homosexuality.
* 2020 - 2020 Beirut explosions: The entire govrenment demits sax days efter twa splosions in Beirut that devastatit the ceety.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide reaches 20 million.

## Births

* 1520 - Madeleine o Valois, Queen o Scotland (d. 1537)
* 1810 - Camillo Benso, Coont o Cavour, Italian statesman (d. 1861)
* 1874 - Herbert Hoover, 31nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1964)
* 1874 - Antanas Smetona, Preses o Lithuanie (d. 1944)
* 1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swadish chemist (d. 1971)
* 1909 - Keeng Mohammed V o Morocco (d. 1961)
* 1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (d. 2001)
* 1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German pheesicist (d. 1993)
* 1935 - Giya Kancheli, Georgie componer (d. 2019)
* 1951 - Juan Manuel Santos, umwhile Preses o Colombie
* 1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
* 1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spaingie actor
* 1962 - Suzanne Collins, American writer
* 1969 - Stephen Frail, Scots fitbawer an coach
* 1971 - Roy Keane, Erse fitbawer
* 1973 - Javier Zanetti, Argentine fitbawer
* 1976 - Ian Murray, Scots politeecian
* 1997 - Kylie Jenner, American media personality, businesswumman an socialite

## Daiths
* 258 - St. Lawrence o Roum, Christian mairtyr
* 1759 - Ferdinand VI o Spain (b. 1713)
* 1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scots penter (b. 1713)
* 1881 - John Hill Burton, Scots advocate, historian an economist (b. 1809)
* 1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (b. 1848)
* 1945 - Robert H. Goddard, American ingineer, professor, pheesicist an inventor (b. 1882)
* 2019 - Jeffrey Epstein, American financier an convictit sex offender (b. 1953)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Ecuador
* Statehood Day (Missouri)
* St. Lawrence o Roum (Christian mairtyr)