Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 10

1040: Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1460: Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton
1520: King Charles V & King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais
1553: Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England
1584: Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium
1598: Spanish theater plays Moros y Los Cristianos in Rio Grande
1609: Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
1627: English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20]
1629: 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA)
1652: England declares war on Netherlands
1690: Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet
1690: Neth-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen)
1746: Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1762: Roubiliacs monument for H„ndel unveiled at Westminster Abbey
1775: Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1797: 1st US frigate, the United States, is launched in Phila
1810: Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
1832: Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1847: meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
1847: Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune
1850: VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
1861: Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia & says Union troops will not enter that state
1862: US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1863: Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island) [->SEP 06]
1863: Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals [->JUL 16] US1000 CS1339
1866: Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1873: French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1875: L Schulhof discovers asteroid #147 Protogeneia
1886: calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1886: Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white
1886: George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
1890: Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
1892: 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1898: Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
1905: Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1908: H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269øC)
1910: Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
1911: 105øF (41øC) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)
1912: Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
1913: 134øF (57øC), Greenland Ranch, Calif (US record)
1913: Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1914: Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
1915: British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1917: Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1918: Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1919: Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
1919: Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1920: Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
1923: 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1923: All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1924: Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1924: Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1925: Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
1925: USSR's official news agency TASS forms
1926: Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1928: H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300
1928: Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1929: US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1932: Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd
1933: 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1934: 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934: Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in All star game
1936: 109øF (43øC) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936: 110øF (43øC) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record
1936: 111øF (44øC) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936: 112øF (44øC) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record
1936: New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1936: Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1937: Dutch Django Reinhardts Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club
1938: Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1938: Yankee Clipper completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1940: Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
1940: German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1942: Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbrck Camp
1942: Netherland's govt in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
1943: 6th day of battle at Kursk
1943: US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)
1944: U-821 sinks
1945: Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
1946: Belgian govt of Acker, resigns
1947: 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
1947: Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0
1948: Allegro closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
1948: Ballet Ballads closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
1948: Look Ma, I'm Dancin' closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs
1948: Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1949: 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1949: WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950: Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951: Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1951: E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda
1953: Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1956: 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1956: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958: 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1958: Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1960: Belgium sends troops to Congo
1962: All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
1962: Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962: Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964: Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964: Mo‹se Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1965: Beatles' Beatles' VI, album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965: Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, I Can't Get No Satisfaction
1966: US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1967: Bobbie Gentry records Ode to Billie Joe
1968: NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
1969: Chilean Association of Librarians created
1969: NL votes to split into 2 divisions
1971: Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed
1972: Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1972: Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973: Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution
1974: OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1975: Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
1975: Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
1976: Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1977: Happy End closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1978: Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
1978: E F Helinand & E Shoemaker discover asteroid #3484
1978: Military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1979: Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1980: Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1980: Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5øC temp
1981: CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1982: Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1982: Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1982: Samuel Morses Gallery of the Louvre sells for $3,250,000
1983: E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand, #3751 & #5095 Escalante
1985: A C Gilmore & P M Kilmartin discover asteroid #4154
1985: Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985: French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
1985: Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1989: H E Holt discovers asteroid #6386
1989: Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1990: All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1990: Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1991: Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991: L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
1992: John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
1992: Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1992: SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
1992: US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1993: Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1993: Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
1994: Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt
1994: Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman
1994: Hedda Gabler opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
1994: Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994: Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
1997: Louise Woodward's trial begins in Mass, Nanny murder trial
1997: RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
2002: Earthquake at 4.4 on Richer scale reported
2002: Income Tax Department conducts raids on various establishments and residences of public servants and seizes Rs. 1.52 Crores in cash and Rs. 6.9 Crores documents on fixed assets.
2002: One Contestable dies militants opens fire

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