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Events
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* 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
* 610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.
* 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
* 991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalized in a well-known poem.
* 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry
* 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
* 1557 - Battle of St. Quentin Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars
* 1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
* 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid.
* 1680 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
* 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
* 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
* 1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
* 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
* 1904- The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
* 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
* 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
* 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
* 1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
* 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
* 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
* 1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
* 2000 - World Population reaches 6 billion according to www.ibiblio.org world population tracker.
* 2001 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
* 2003 - The highest temperature ever is recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
* 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
* 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours. [hmmmmmm....vezi adi? vezi ??? si tu ticule, la fel...]
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Birthdays
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1267- King James II of Aragon
1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor
1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time
1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer
1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist,Nobel laureate
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1965 - John Starks, American basketball player
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Holidays
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Roman festivals - Opalia, festival in honor of Ops
Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held
Independence Day in Ecuador
