About July 10
July 10, 2024 is the 192nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 203 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 10
- 1584 –William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1778 –American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1806 –The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1850 –Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
- 1882 –War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- 1925 –Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1940 –World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- 1946 –Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 1951 –Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1962 –Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1966 –The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
- 1973 –John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1973 –National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1997 –In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the “out of Africa theory” of human evolution placing an “African Eve” at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1998 –Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
- 2000 –A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
- 2000 –EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002 –At a Sotheby‘s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- 2008 –Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
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