July 10

Historic Events

2019

The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. ›

2018

Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission. ›

2017

Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq. ›

2016

Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title. ›

2012

The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage. ›

2011

Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths. ›

2011

Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print. ›

2008

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal. ›

2007

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. ›

2007

The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants. ›

2006

A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board. ›

2002

The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. ›

2000

EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. ›

2000

Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria. ›

1999

In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event. ›

1998

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest. ›

1997

In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. ›

1997

Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. ›

1995

Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest. ›

1995

The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard. ›

1992

In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. ›

1991

The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. ›

1991

Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia. ›

1991

A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board. ›

1985

The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. ›

1985

An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster. ›

1978

President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. ›

1976

Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. ›

1974

An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board. ›

1973

The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. ›

1967

New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar. ›

1966

The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend. ›

1962

Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. ›

1951

Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong. ›

1948

The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121 ›

1947

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. ›

1943

World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins. ›

1942

World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics. ›

1941

Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne. ›

1940

World War II: The Vichy government is established in France. ›

1940

World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain. ›

1938

Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record. ›

1927

Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA. ›

1925

Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. ›

1924

Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races. ›

1921

Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ›

1920

Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada. ›

1890

Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. ›

1883

War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war. ›

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. ›

1877

The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. ›

1850

U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death. ›

1832

U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. ›

1806

The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. ›

1789

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta. ›

1778

American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. ›

1668

Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city. ›

1645

English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place. ›

1584

William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard. ›

1553

Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. ›

1519

Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing. ›

1512

The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta. ›

1499

The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. ›

1460

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton. ›

1290

Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania). ›

1212

The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. ›

988

The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin. ›

645

Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace. ›

518

Justin I is crowned Byzantine Emperor by the patriarch of Constantinople the day after the death of emperor Anastasius. ›

420

Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty. ›

138

Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. ›