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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 [[Magyars|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 [[Sweden|Swedish]] warship ''[[Vasa (ship)|Vasa]]'' sinks in the [[Stockholm]] harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage. 
-*[[1680]] - [[Pueblo Revolt]] begins in New Mexico. 
-*[[1776]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: Word of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] reaches [[London]]. 
-*[[1792]] - [[French Revolution]]: [[10th of August (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]].  
-*[[1821]] - [[Missouri]] is admitted as the 24th [[U.S. state]].  
-*[[1846]] - The [[Smithsonian Institution]] is chartered by the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist [[James Smithson]].  
-*[[1856]] - In [[Last Island, Louisiana|Last Island]], [[Louisiana]], the [[1856 Last Island Hurricane]] kills between 200 and 400 people.  
-*[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Wilson's Creek]] - The war enters [[Missouri]] when a band of raw [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops defeat [[United States|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. 
-*[[1901]] - C A E Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain allegedly experience a [[time slip]], encountering the ghost of [[Marie Antoinette]] in the gardens of [[Versailles]] 
-* 1901 - The [[U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901|U.S. Steel Recognition Strike]] by the [[Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers]] begins. 
-*[[1904]]- The [[Battle of the Yellow Sea]] between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets. 
-*[[1905]] - [[Russia]]n and [[Japan]]ese [[Russo-Japanese War|peace]] negotiations begin in [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth]]. 
-*[[1913]] - [[Balkan Wars|Second Balkan War]] ends: Delegates from [[Bulgaria]], [[Romania]], [[Serbia]], [[Montenegro]], and [[Greece]] sign the [[Treaty of Bucharest, 1913|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]]. 
-*[[1923]] - US: [[Carlo Tresca]], Italian-American [[anarchist]], arrested. 
-*[[1932]] - A 5.1-[[kilogram|kg]] (11.2-pound) chondrite-type [[meteorite]] breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of [[Archie, Missouri|Archie]] in [[Cass County, Missouri]].  
-*[[1934]] - US: [[Anarchist]] conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11 
-*[[1944]] - [[World War II]]: American forces defeat the last [[Japan]]ese troops on [[Guam]].  
-*[[1948]] - ''[[Candid Camera]]'' makes its [[television]] debut after being on [[radio]] for a year as [[Candid Microphone]].  
-*[[1949]] - US President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs the [[National Security Act of 1947|National Security Act Amendment]], streamlining the defense agencies of the [[United States government]], and replacing the [[National Military Establishment]] with the [[United States Department of Defense]].  
-*[[1954]] - At [[Massena, New York]], the groundbreaking ceremony for the [[St. Lawrence Seaway]] is held.  
-*[[1969]] - A day after murdering [[Sharon Tate]] and four others, members of [[Charles Manson]]'s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. 
-*[[1971]] - [[Harmon Killebrew]] becomes the 10th member of the [[500 home run club]] with a [[home run]] at [[Metropolitan Stadium]] in [[Bloomington, Minnesota]].  
-* 1971 - The [[Society for American Baseball Research]] is founded in [[Cooperstown, New York]]. 
-*[[1977]] - In [[Yonkers, New York]], 24-year-old postal employee [[David Berkowitz]] ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a [[serial killer|series of killings]] in the [[New York City]] area over a year's period.  
-*[[1981]] - The head of [[John Walsh]]'s son [[Adam Walsh|Adam]] is found in [[Hollywood, Florida]]. This event will later prompt the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] to pass the [[Missing Children's Act]], giving the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of [[America's Most Wanted]].  
-*[[1988]] - [[Japanese American Internment]]: US President [[Ronald Reagan]] signs the [[Civil Liberties Act of 1988]], providing $20,000 payments to [[Japanese-American]]s who were either interned or relocated by in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. 
-*[[1990]] - The [[Magellan probe|Magellan space probe]] reaches [[Venus (planet)|Venus]].  
-*1990 - The Massacre of more than 127 [[Muslims]] in the North East [[Sri Lanka]] by the paramilitaries.  
-*[[1995]] - [[Oklahoma City bombing]]: [[Timothy McVeigh]] and [[Terry Nichols]] are indicted for the bombing. [[Michael Fortier]] pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony. 
-*[[1998]] - The Royal Proclamation of [[Al-Muhtadee Billah|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 [[United Kingdom|UK]], 38.5[[celsius|°C]] (101.3[[Fahrenheit|°F]]), occurs in [[Kent]] [http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/2003/]. It is the first time the [[United Kingdom|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. 
-*[[2006]] - [[London Metropolitan Police|Scotland Yard]] disrupts [[2006 transatlantic aircraft plot|major terrorist plot]] to destroy [[aircraft]] travelling from the [[United Kingdom]] to the [[United States]]. 
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