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What are the important events that happened on August 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 10 is the 222nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 143 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 28, 2022 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 461,136 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 ‘dihectaicosadigon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 165 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 3,519 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 10: This Day In History
The term ‘the 10th of August’is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it is restored in 1814.
August 10 Historical Events
- 1557 –Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
- 1680 –The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- 1755 –Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1920 –World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI’s representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
- 2006 –Scotland Yard disrupts a major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
Who were born on August 10?
- 1860 –Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musicologist (d. 1936)
- 1947 –Alan Ward, English cricketer
- 1968 –Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 –Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union footballer
- 1982 –Devon Aoki, American model and actress
Who died on August 10?
- 1948 –Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
- 1976 –Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1982 –Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (b. 1962)
- 1999 –Paṇḍit Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
- 2003 –Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer (b. c. 1944)
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