August 10

Events
Up to 1900
612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
654 Eugene I is elected Pope, although his predecessor, Pope Martin I, is still alive at this time.
843 The Treaty of Verdun divides the Frankish Kingdom between Lothair I, Louis the German and Charles the Bald.
AD 955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
1270 Yekuno Amlak takes the Ethiopian Imperial throne.
1492 Alexander VI is elected Pope.
1519 Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1535 The Saint Lawrence River is named by Jacques Cartier.
1628 The Vasa warship, prestige project of King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden.
1664 The Austro-Turkish War ends.
1675 The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
1680 Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1755 Under orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792 French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1793 The Musee du Louvre opens in Paris.
1809 Quito, the present-day capital of Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
1813 Chile's Instituto Nacional is founded.
1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1830 Ecuador separates from Greater Colombia.
1846 The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1856 In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
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.
1864 Start of the Uruguayan War.
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.
1897 Felix Hoffmann produces Aspirin for the first time.
1899 Norwegian Football Club Viking FK is founded.
1901 2000
1904 Russo-Japanese War: Battle of the Yellow Sea.
1905 Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1913 Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920 World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
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, USA.
1944 World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1948 Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
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 Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954 At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1961 Agent Orange is used in Vietnam for the first time.
1969 A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
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.
1981 The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the United States 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.
1986 A Formula One Grand Prix is held in a then-Eastern Bloc country for the first time. The first Hungarian Grand Prix is won by Nelson Piquet.
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.
1990 The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 More than 127 Muslims are killed in Northeastern Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
1993 A magnitude 7 earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand.
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.
1998 Jamil Mahuad becomes President of Ecuador.
From 2001
2001 An attack on a train in Angola kills 225 people.
2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5degC, occurs in Kent; the record holds until 2019, when a temperature of 38.7 degrees Celsius is measured at the University of Cambridge.
2003 Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas.
2006 British police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up Transatlantic airliners.
2009 Slovakia's deadliest mining disaster kills 20 people.
2010 The WHO declares that the H1N1 influenza pandemic is over.
2014 Turkey holds its first direct Presidential election, in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is elected president.
2014 Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes near Tehran, Iran, killing 39 people.
2017 Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappears after going on inventor Peter Madsen's submarine to interview him, in the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden; Madsen is later found to have murdered her and is found guilty of the crime.
2018 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident: Seattle airport employee Richard Russell flies a small plane from the airport and later crashes it on a nearby island.
2019 American billionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell in New York City, from suspected suicide.
Births
Up to 1800
914 Le Hoan, Emperor of Vietnam (died 1005)
1267 James II of Aragon (died 1327)
1296 King John of Bohemia (died 1346)
1397 Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1439)
1449 Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (died 1503)
1489 Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (died 1553)
1520 Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)
1535 Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (died 1587)
1556 Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran minister (died 1608)
1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (died 1629)
1602 Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
1737 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (died 1773)
1740 Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist (died 1802)
1753 Edmund Randolph, United States Secretary of State (died 1813)
1782 Charles James Napier, British general (died 1853)
1794 Leopold Zunz, German Jewish scientist (died 1886)
1799 Samuel Dickinson Hubbard, American politician (died 1855)
1801 1900
1810 Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Italy (died 1861)
1810 Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, President of Uruguay (died 1887)
1814 Henri Nestle, Swiss industrialist (died 1890)
1814 John C. Pemberton, American Confederate general (died 1881)
1814 Ketil Motzfeldt, Norwegian politician (died 1889)
1821 Jay Cooke, financier (died 1905)
1823 Goncales Dias, Brazilian poet (died 1864)
1827 Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (died 1870)
1839 Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (died 1896)
1845 Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (died 1904)
1856 William Willett, British builder and Daylight Saving Time supporter (died 1915)
1860 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (died 1936)
1865 Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (died 1936)
1865 Andreas Heusler, Swiss medievalist (died 1940)
1869 Laurence Binyon, British poet (died 1943)
1871 Aino Sibelius, wife of Jean Sibelius (died 1969)
1872 Bill Johnson, jazz musician (died 1972)
1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
1874 Antanas Smetona, 1st President of Lithuania (died 1944)
1877 Frank Marshall, American chess player (died 1944)
1878 Alfred Doblin, German writer (died 1957)
1887 Sam Warner, Polish-American film producer (died 1927)
1888 Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (died 1940)
1889 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and World War II Resistance activist (died 1968)
1889 Charles Darrow, American creator of the Monopoly board game (died 1967)
1890 Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1954)
1894 Vaharagiri Venkata Giri, President of India (died 1980)
1896 Walter Lang, American film director (died 1972)
1898 Jack Haley, actor (died 1979)
1899 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer (died 1968)
1900 Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1994)
1901 1950
1901 Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verdean poet (died 1975)
1902 Norma Shearer, American actress (died 1983)
1902 Curt Siodmak, science fiction writer (died 2000)
1902 Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist (died 1971)
1907 Su Yu, Chinese Communist military leader (died 1984)
1908 Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish athlete (died 1973)
1909 Leo Fender, American luthier (died 1991)
1909 King Mohammed V of Morocco (died 1961)
1909 Richard J. Hughes, Governor of New Jersey (died 1992)
1910 Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (died 1993)
1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (died 2001)
1913 Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
1913 Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (died 1994)
1914 Ken Annakin, British movie director and screenwriter (died 2009)
1916 Coutoucou Hubert Maga, President of present-day Benin (died 2000)
1919 Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (died 2001)
1920 Red Holzman, American basketball player (died 1998)
1923 Rhonda Fleming, American actress
1924 Martha Hyer, American actress (died 2014)
1926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (died 2013)
1927 Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect
1928 Jimmy Dean, American country music singer (died 2010)
1928 Eddie Fisher, American singer and entertainer (died 2010)
1930 Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (died 2018)
1930 Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
1932 Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
1933 Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, English judge
1935 Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer
1937 Lucinda Williams, American athlete
1937 Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (died 2000)
1939 Kate O'Mara, British actress (died 2014)
1940 Bobby Hatfield, American singer, (Righteous Brothers) (died 2003)
1942 Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer
1942 Giovanni Leodetti, Italian footballer
1943 Ronnie Spector, American singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
1945 Harriet Miers, former White House counsel
1947 Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
1947 Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
1950 Patsy Austin, American singer
1951 1975
1951 Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia
1952 Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 Diane Venora, American actress
1956 Fred Ottman, American professional wrestler
1956 Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter and producer
1957 David Crane, American television producer and screenwriter
1957 Fred Ho, American musician, composer, bandleader, playwright and social activist (died 2014)
1958 Wolfgang Funkel, German football manager
1958 Rosie Winterton, English politician
1958 Don Swayze, American actor
1959 Rosanna Arquette, American actress
1960 Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1960 Kenny Perry, American golfer
1962 Suzanne Collins, American screenwriter and writer
1963 Phoolan Devi, Indian political figure (d. 2001)
1963 Andrew Sullivan, journalist
1965 Toumani Diabate, Malian musician
1965 Claudia Christian, actress
1965 Mike Smith, Hall of Fame jockey
1965 John Starks, American basketball player
1965 Eduardo Campos, Brazilian politician (d. 2014)
1966 Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer
1967 Riddick Bowe, American heavyweight boxer
1967 Lorraine Pearson, musician (Five Star)
1967 Mart Sander, Estonian actor, singer, director and author
1968 Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Japanese footballer
1968 Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (died 2011)
1971 Mario Kindelan, Cuban boxer
1971 Justin Theroux, actor
1971 Roy Keane, Irish footballer
1972 Christofer Johnsson, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1972 Angie Harmon, American model and actress
1972 Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby player
1973 Daijiro Takakuwa, Japanese footballer
1973 Javier Zanetti, Argentine footballer
1973 Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
1974 Luis Marin, Costa Rican footballer
1974 David Sommeil, French footballer
1975 Ilhan Mansiz, Turkish footballer, actor and ice skater
From 1976
1976 Ian Murray, Scottish politician
1977 Luciana Aymar, Argentine field hockey player
1978 Danny Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
1979 Joanna Garcia, American actress
1979 Ted Geoghegan, American author, screenwriter and producer
1979 Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1980 Roxanne McKee, British actress
1981 Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer (formerly of Morning Musume)
1981 Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
1982 Josh Anderson, American baseball player
1982 Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
1983 Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
1986 Kazuma Watanabe, Japanese footballer
1988 Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
1989 Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1990 Lucas Till, American actor
1991 Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (died 2016)
1991 Amy Dowden, Welsh professional dancer
1992 Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
1993 Andre Drummond, American basketball player
1993 Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor and singer
1994 Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
1996 Jacob Latimore, American singer, actor and director
1997 Kylie Jenner, American model, television personality and entrepreneur
Deaths
Up to 1900
258 Saint Lawrence of Rome, Christian martyr.
1241 Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (b. 1184).
1250 King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216).
1535 Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1509).
1590 Princess Christina of Denmark (b. 1521).
1637 Johann Gerhard, German church leader and theologian (b. 1582).
1655 Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572).
1723 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656).
1759 King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713).
1784 Allan Ramsey, Scottish painter (b. 1713).
1802 Franz Aepinius, German natural philosopher (b. 1724).
1806 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737).
1862 Horinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829).
1875 Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808).
1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (b. 1848).
1901 2000
1904 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846).
1915 Henry Moseley, British physicist (b. 1887).
1918 William P. Kellogg, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1831).
1920 Adam Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician (b. 1835).
1929 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878).
1929 Aletta Jacobs, first female physician in the Netherlands (b. 1854).
1932 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918).
1939 Carlo Galimberti, Italian weightlifter (b. 1894).
1945 Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882).
1960 Frank Lloyd, Scottish-American actor (b. 1886).
1963 Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1877).
1963 Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903).
1971 Federico Callori di Vignale, Italian cardinal (b. 1890).
1979 Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889).
1980 Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan (b. 1917).
1986 Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (b. 1951).
1987 Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek politician (b. 1893).
1992 Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (b. 1914).
1993 Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1958).
1999 Jennifer Paterson, English chef (b. 1928).
From 2001
2001 Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917).
2002 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926).
2007 Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot and Civil rights figure (b. 1925).
2008 Isaac Hayes, American musician (b. 1942).
2010 Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967).
2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (b. 1925).
2013 Eydie Gorme, American singer (b. 1928).
2013 William P. Clark, Jr., American politician (b. 1931).
2013 Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian Nazi war criminal (b. 1915).
2014 Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician (b. 1912).
2014 Shree Krishna Shrestha, Nepalese actor (b. 1940).
2014 Ann Rowan, Irish actress (b. 1929)
2015 Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physicist, geneticist and professor (b. 1935)
2015 Fred Eckhardt, American beer expert (b. 1926)
2017 Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun, physician and activist (b. 1929)
2017 Kim Wall, Swedish journalist (b. 1987)
2018 Lillian Cox, American supercentenarian (b. 1907)
2018 Richard Russell, American mechanic and hijacker (b. 1989)
2019 Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and sex offender (b. 1953)
2019 J. Neil Schulman, American novelist (b. 1953)
2019 Candido Sibilio, Dominican-Spanish basketball player (b. 1958)
2019 Piero Tosi, Italian costume designer (b. 1927)
Observances
Independence Day in Ecuador
Saint Lawrence of Rome (Christian martyr)
Days of the year