Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 10
This is a list of selected August 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich -
Tuileries Palace, c. 1851~1870 -
Smithsonian castle -
Magellan space probe -
The French warship Cordelière and the English warship Regent ablaze at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu -
The Louvre palace (Richelieu wing) -
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Ecuador (1809) | expansion |
| 991 – Inland-raiding Vikings defeated Byrhtnoth and the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Maldon in Essex, England. | refimprove |
| 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the basis of the prime meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London. | refimprove section |
| 1821 – As per the conditions of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted into the United States as a slave state, despite the fact that most of its territory was north of the parallel 36°30′ north. | outdated |
| 1846 – The United States Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex. | expansion |
| 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The first major confrontation between modern steel battleship fleets took place in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. | refimprove section |
| 1913 – Delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War. | one source |
| 1920 – Representatives of Sultan Mehmed VI signed the Treaty of Sèvres, recognizing the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. | unreferenced section |
| 1990 – NASA's Magellan space probe reached Venus on a mission to map its surface, fifteen months after its launch. | unreferenced section |
| 2009 - Twenty people were killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history. | Stubby |
Eligible
- 955 – Forces under Otto I were victorious at the Battle of Lechfeld near present-day Augsburg, Germany, holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Central Europe.
- 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: England and a combined Franco-Breton fleet engaged in the Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during which an explosion destroyed each navy's most powerful ship.
- 1755 – The first wave of the Expulsion of the Acadians from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces by the British began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign at Chignecto.
- 1793 – The Louvre, today the world's most visited museum, officially opened in Paris with an exhibition of 537 paintings.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
- 1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announced that the Brazilian military would begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
- 1901 – The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers organized an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers of new members.
- 1988 – Japanese American internment: The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing US$20,000 in reparations to each surviving internee.
August 10: Feast day of Saint Lawrence (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1270 – Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the Solomonic dynasty that would last for more than 700 years.
- 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa (salvaged wreck pictured) sank after sailing less than a nautical mile on her maiden voyage from Stockholm on her way to fight in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1792 – French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace, effectively ending the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
- 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
- 1981 – The severed head of kidnapped six-year-old Adam Walsh was found in a canal in Vero Beach, Florida, prompting his father John to become an advocate for victims' rights, helping to spur the formation of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.