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.
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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
- 1212 –The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1821 –The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1947 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 1968 –Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1971 –Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
- 1978 –World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1985 –Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 2005 –Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2006 –Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
- 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?
- 1666 –John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
- 1875 –Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
- 1897 –Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
- 1899 –John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
- 1902 –Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1921 –Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
- 1927 –David Norman Dinkins, New York City Mayor, 1990-1993
- 1945 –John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
- 1980 –Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1983 –Kim Heechul, Korean singer
Who died on July 10?
- 1290 –King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
- 1460 –Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
- 1956 –Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1978 –Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
- 1979 –Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
- 1981 –Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
- 2003 –Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
- 2005 –Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
- 2007 –Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
- 2008 –Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
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