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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 27, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,936 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 ‘hectaenneacontadigon’ 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 203 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 4,219 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 10 Historical Events
- 1645 –English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 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.
- 1976 –One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1980 –Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985 –Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991 –The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 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.
- 2006 –Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
Who were born on July 10?
- 1517 –Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
- 1902 –Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1905 –Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
- 1917 –Don Herbert, American television host (d. 2007)
- 1940 –Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
- 1963 –Richard Waites, British actor
- 1965 –Ken Mellons, American singer
- 1967 –Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen
- 1975 –Brendan Gaughan, American stock car driver
- 1976 –Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
Who died on July 10?
- 1099 –El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
- 1290 –King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
- 1621 –Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
- 1680 –Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
- 1683 –François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- 1686 –John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
- 1962 –Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875)
- 1981 –Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
- 2005 –Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- 2007 –Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1944)
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