What are the important events that happened on July 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 10: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 10 is the 191^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 27, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,696 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontahenagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac 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 222 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,584 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 10 Historical Events

• 988 –
  Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, 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.
• 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.
• 1890 –
  Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• 1913 –
  Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
• 1921 –
  Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 1978 –
  President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1985 –
  Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• 1997 –
  Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• 2000 –
  A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
• 2008 –
  Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

Who were born on July 10?

• 1711 –
  Princess Amelia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
• 1792 –
  George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864)
• 1905 –
  Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1917 –
  Don Herbert, American television host (d. 2007)
• 1940 –
  Helen Donath, American soprano
• 1943 –
  Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
• 1947 –
  Arlo Guthrie, American musician
• 1952 –
  Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
• 1974 –
  Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
• 1983 –
  Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer

Who died on July 10?

• 1480 –
  King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
• 1584 –
  William I of Orange (b. 1533)
• 1603 –
  Joan Terès i Borrull, viceroy of Catalonia (b. 1539)
• 1680 –
  Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
• 1776 –
  Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
• 1851 –
  Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
• 1920 –
  Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1986 –
  Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1987 –
  John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
• 2008 –
  Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)