August 10

The 10th of August is the 222nd day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 223rd in leap years), thus still 143 days remain until the end of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 18th century
  • 2.2 18th century
  • 2.3 19th century
  • 2.4 20th century 2.4.1 1901-1950
  • 2.4.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 19th century
  • 3.2 19th century
  • 3.3 20th century
  • 3.4 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • 0612 BC: Nineveh, the last capital of Assyria, was destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians.
  • 2003: The cosmonaut Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko, located at that time on the space station ISS, marries his bride Ekaterina.
  • 2011: The first Chinese aircraft carrier, the former Varyag is running out for its first test drive.

Economy

Science and Technology

Culture

Society

Religion

  • 0654: Eugene I. is elected pope, though his predecessor Martin I was still alive.
  • 1906: The letter sent to the French Bishops' Conference encyclical Gravissimo officii munere Pope Pius X rejects the worship of membership associations and cult associations, as it allows the French State, the Church strongly from.

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 18th century

Caspar Olevian (* 1536)

Philipp Nicolai (* 1556 )

Raban of Canstein (* 1617)

Susanna Maria von Sandrart (* 1658)

18th century

Friedrich Joseph Haass (* 1780)

Charles James Napier (* 1782 )

Johann C. Hundeshagen (* 1783)

Leopold Zunz (* 1794)

19th century

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (* 1810)

Henri Nestlé (* 1814)

Antônio Gonçalves Dias (* 1823)

Aino Sibelius (* 1871)

Herbert Hoover (* 1874)

Alfred Doblin (* 1878)

Zofia Kossak - Szczucka (* 1889)

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 19th century

  • 0612 BC: Sin Template Risch -kun, the Assyrian king
  • 0258: Lawrence of Rome, Roman deacon, Christian martyr
  • 0353: Magnentius, Roman Gegenkaiser
  • 0725: Plectrude, Austrasian nobles and saints
  • 0847: al- Wathiq bi- ' llāh, Abbasid Caliph
  • 0955: Conrad the Red, Duke of Lorraine and Count in Speyergau, Wormsgau and Nahegau
  • 1051: Drogo of Hauteville, count of Apulia
  • 1153: Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne
  • 1202: Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia
  • 1250: Erik IV, King of Denmark
  • 1346: Philippe Monsieur, Count of Auvergne and the County of Boulogne
  • 1432: Hans von Burghausen, German architect
  • 1517: Aymon de Mont Falcon, Bishop of Lausanne
  • 1530: Konstanty Ostrogski, Ruthenian Knjas and Great Hetman of Lithuania
  • 1589: Martin Schenk of Nideggen, Dutch military commander in various services
  • 1590: Christina of Denmark, Danish princess
  • 1599: Johann Münch, German legal scholar
  • 1628: David Kollenberger, mayor of Heilbronn
  • 1645: Jürgen Pavel, Lübeck councilor
  • 1653: Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral
  • 1659: . Friedrich III, Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp
  • 1668: Johann Erich Ostermann, German Hellenist
  • 1680: Jacob Tappe, German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt

19th century

20th century

21st Century

  • 2001: Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager
  • 2001: Werner Pirchner, Austrian composer
  • 2001: Otto Schulmeister, Austrian journalist, editor and publisher
  • 2002: Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician, pioneer of programming languages
  • 2003: Jacques Deray, French film director
  • 2005: Jaroslav Koutecký, Czech Professor of Physical Chemistry
  • 2005: Ilya Prachař, Czech actor
  • 2006: Irving São Paulo, Brazilian actor
  • 2006: Yasuo Takei, Japanese banker
  • 2007: Tony Wilson, British music manager, night club owner and television journalist
  • 2008: Isaac Hayes, American soul musician, composer and actor
  • 2009: Josef Burg, Austrian writer
  • 2010: Erwin Frühbauer, Austrian Minister of Transport
  • 2010: Antonio Pettigrew, American track and field athlete
  • 2010: Al Freeman Jr., American actor and director
  • 2010: Carlo Rambaldi, Italian artist
  • 2013: László Csatáry, Hungarian Nazi war criminals

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances St. Lawrence of Rome, deacon, martyr and patron saint ( Anglican, Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox )
  • Anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem ( Protestant)
  • Name Days Astrid (only in Germany ), Lorenz
  • State Holidays and observances Ecuador, the beginning of independence from Spain (1808 )

More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.

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