July 10

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 10. From 1900 until now. July 10 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Jessica Simpson (1980), Sofia Vergara (1972) and Perrie Edwards (1993). Several movies were released around July 10 over the years, such as Dunkirk in 2017 directed by Christopher Nolan and The Pride of the Yankees in 1942 directed by Sam Wood.
But much more happened on July 10 over the years: find out below

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Historical Events

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Holidays

Mauritania - Armed Forces Day
Bahamas - Independence Day
Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba
Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed

Events

2019 Assailants raid a village in Papua New Guinea's Hela province, killing and dismembering 16 women and children, and burning buildings. (The Guardian)
2018 Television in Iran: A film on IRIB TV1 showing social media users being scolded and tearfully apologizing for promoting dance online angers reformists. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
2017 Battle of Mosul (2016–17): Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declares the battle for Mosul over, after the majority of ISIL militants were defeated. (BBC)
2016 South Sudanese Civil War: An estimated 272 people have been killed between rival Sudan People's Liberation Army factions as clashes in the capital, Juba, continue. According to a spokesman for rebel leader and Vice President Riek Machar, South Sudan is "back to war" despite a peace deal being reached last April. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
2015 Somali Civil War (2009–present): Al Shabaab militants have stormed two hotels in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killing at least 10 civilians. (ABC News AU) (Business Standard via AFP)
2014 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine: Ukrainian forces reclaim control of the city of Siversk from pro-Russian insurgents, and move on to consolidate their position by repairing damaged infrastructure and funneling aid into recently recaptured territory. (Wall Street Journal)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Syrians in Aleppo stage a protest against a rebel siege of government-held areas in the city. (BBC)
2012 A gunman holds a parent hostage at a school in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, on the outskirts of Paris. (BBC)
2011 Bangladeshi police fire tear gas at Islamist activists trying to enforce a general strike in the town of Keraniganj with dozens hurt in the riots. (AP via Washington Post), (Reuters)
2010 After more than a century in British collections, the head of Noongar leader Yagan is ceremonially buried on the 177th anniversary of his last full day of freedom. (ABC) (Perth Now) (The West-Yahoo!-7)
2009 General Motors emerges from bankruptcy protection after 40 days, with 60 percent ownership in the hands of the U.S. government.
2008 Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
2007 A Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children.
2006 Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
2005 Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm, killing ten people after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean.
2004 The World Health Organisation says that six months into its project against AIDS, 440,000 people in developing nations have received antiretroviral drugs. Despite being 60,000 short of its target, the organisation says it is still hopeful of achieving its aim of distributing to 3,000,000 people by the end of 2005 (BBC)
2003 A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2002 Michel Brunet, a paleontologist at the University of Poitiers, France, announced in the journal ''Nature'' that a 7-million-year-old skull found in the desert of Chad is the earliest hominid fossil ever found. But he was immediately met by a firestorm of criticism from other scientists who claim that it is merely the skull of an ape, possibly a proto-gorilla.
2001 Sony CEA releases the Gran Turismo 3: A-spec game for the PlayStation 2 in the USA. Over one million copies are shipped in the first week.
2000 EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aerospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
1999 American soccer player Brandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the FIFA Women's World Cup.
1998 The DNA-identified remains of United States Air Force 1st Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his family in St. Louis, Missouri, after being in the Tomb of the Unknowns since 1984.
1997 Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a New York Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
1996 Harriet the Spy, the first film made by Nickelodeon Movies, is released in cinemas.
1994 Hedda Gabler opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
1993 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President / Sylvie Kinigi, Prime Minister
1992 John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
1991 The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1990 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1988 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1982 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1981 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV).
1980 Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
1977 Happy End closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1976 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1975 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1973 Bahamas declares Independence from the UK and adopts constitution
1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach, Florida (George McGovern wins).
1971 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
1967 Bobbie Gentry records Ode to Billie Joe
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1964 Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo
1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed Premier of Cambodia
1956 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington DC
1954 Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.
1953 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1950 Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1949 WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 Allegro closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
1947 Cleveland Indians' Don Black no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
1946 Belgian government of Acker, resigns
1945 Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
1944 U-821 sinks
1943 US and Britain invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
1942 Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1941 In Black Moshannon Park, Pennsylvania, USA, a meteorite falls to the ground without causing harm or damage.
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
1938 Yankee Clipper completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club
1936 Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1934 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York
1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York
1931 In Malinta, Ohio, USA an overhead cometary fragment explosion occurs, producing a crater, a smell of sulfur, windows broken in a farmhouse, and four telephone poles snapped.
1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1928 Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1926 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto Country Club - Ohio
1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1923 All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy.
1921 Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1920 Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
1919 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established.
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft.
1915 British / South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles.
1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
1910 Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Saint Louis Browns win 2-0.
1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1902 The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners.
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