Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 10
This is a list of selected July 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1966 -
A6M Zero discovered on Akutan Island
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 48 BC – Caesar's civil war: Julius Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in the Battle of Dyrrhachium in Macedonia. | refimprove |
| 1460 – War of the Roses: King Henry VI of England was captured by Yorkists at the Battle of Northampton. | refimprove section |
| 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declared Ming emperor Zhengde to be a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion. | Article says this happened on 14 June |
| 1584 – William the Silent, the Prince of Orange, was assassinated at his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard. | refimprove section |
| 1796 – German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. | refimprove section, date not cited |
| 1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India, founded Fort William College in Calcutta. | Article says this happened on 18 August |
| 1962 – Telstar, the world's first active, direct relay communications satellite, was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – An industrial accident in a chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations. | unreferenced section |
| 1978 – Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Mustafa Ould Salek. | refimprove |
| 1985 – French intelligence agents bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior while docked in the port of Auckland to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Moruroa. | refimprove section, lots of CN tags in one section |
| Ima Hogg |b|1882| | Date not cited |
| Nikola Tesla |b|1856| | [better source needed] x5, [citation needed] x4, [unreliable source?] x3 |
| Dolphy |d|2012| | Too many {cn} tags and footnote-free paragraphs |
| Dorothy Olsen|b|1916| | Recent TFA |
Eligible
- 1372 – The Treaty of Tagilde was signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and representatives of John of Gaunt of England, marking the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which remains in effect today.
- 1553 – Lady Jane Grey (pictured) was proclaimed the successor to King Edward VI of England, beginning her disputed reign as the "Nine Days' Queen".
- 1806 – Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at Vellore Fort.
- 1913 – The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest recorded on Earth.
- 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce was agreed between the Irish Republican Army and British forces, violence broke out between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.
- 1925 – Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Battle of Britain, in which the Royal Air Force defended the UK from attacks by the German Luftwaffe, began.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 340 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland.
- 1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.
- 2011 – The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga River and sank in several minutes, resulting in 122 deaths.
- 2011 – The last edition of the British tabloid News of the World was published, closing due to allegations that it hacked the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, victims of the 7/7 attacks and relatives of deceased British soldiers.
- 2018 – The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
- Born/died: | Hadrian |d|138| Ladislaus IV of Hungary |d|1290| Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham |d|1460| Catherine Cornaro|d|1510| Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo |d|1576| Joan Terès i Borrull |d|1603| Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey |b|1614| Eva Ekeblad |b|1724| Camille Pissarro |b|1830| Pong Tiku|d|1907| Ed Lowe |b|1920| Eunice Kennedy Shriver |b|1921| Bobo Brazil|b|1924| Calogero Vizzini |d|1954| Berthe Meijer |d|2012|
July 10: Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973)
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1645 – English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the west of England.
- 1942 – A downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero was discovered on Akutan Island, Alaska; it was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against the aircraft during World War II.
- 1966 – Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in the northern United States.
- 1999 – The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports.
- 2006 – Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion).
- Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (b. 1614)
- Eva Ekeblad (b. 1724)
- Bobo Brazil (b. 1924)
- Calogero Vizzini (d. 1954)