10 August

Events

843 - The Treaty o Verdun splits the Frankish Empire intae three.
1492 - Election o Pape Alexander VI.
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's expedeetion sets sail frae Spain.
1535 - The Saunt Lawrence River in present-day Canadae is named bi Jacques Cartier.
1628 - Swadish warship Vasa sinks on its first voyage in the harbour o Stockholm.
1675 - The foondation stane o the Ryal Observatory, Greenwich is laid.
1792 - French Revolution: Stormin o the Tuileries Palace - Louis XVI o Fraunce is arrestit.
1793 - The Louvre in Paris opens.
1809 - Quito, caipital o Ecuador, declares unthirldom frae Spain.
1821 - Missouri becomes the 24t State o the Unitit States.
1830 - Ecuador splits frae Greater Colombie.
1913 - Serbie becomes the main pouer in the Balkans efter Bulgarie's defeat, bi way o the Peace o Bucharest, in the seicont Balkan War.
1920 - The Reid Airmy crosses the Vistula north o Warsaw in the Pols-Soviet War.
1944 - Warld War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese forces on Guam.
1986 - The first Formula Ane race in the Eastren Bloc taks place in Hungary - won bi Nelson Piquet.
1990 - The Magellan space probe enters intae the orbit o Venus.
1990 - 127 Muslims are kilt in Northren Sri Lanka bi paramilitar groups.
1998 - Jamil Mahuad becomes Preses o Ecuador.
2001 - An attack on a train in Angolae kills 252 fowk.
2003 - Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person tae marry in space, tae a woman on the groond in Texas.
2003 - The Unitit Kinrick's highest-recordit temperatur at the time, 38.5 degrees Celsius, is measurit in Kent, Sootheastren Ingland; the record haulds until it is beaten bi a 38.7-degree measurement at the Varsity o Cambridge on 25 Julie 2019.
2006 - Unitit Kinrick authorities prevent a plot tae blow up Transatlantic airliners.
2016 - Belize decreeminalises homosexuality.
2020 - 2020 Beirut explosions: The entire govrenment demits sax days efter twa splosions in Beirut that devastatit the ceety.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide reaches 20 million.

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Births

1520 - Madeleine o Valois, Queen o Scotland (d. 1537)
1810 - Camillo Benso, Coont o Cavour, Italian statesman (d. 1861)
1874 - Herbert Hoover, 31nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1964)
1874 - Antanas Smetona, Preses o Lithuanie (d. 1944)
1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swadish chemist (d. 1971)
1909 - Keeng Mohammed V o Morocco (d. 1961)
1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (d. 2001)
1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German pheesicist (d. 1993)
1935 - Giya Kancheli, Georgie componer (d. 2019)
1951 - Juan Manuel Santos, umwhile Preses o Colombie
1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spaingie actor
1962 - Suzanne Collins, American writer
1969 - Stephen Frail, Scots fitbawer an coach
1971 - Roy Keane, Erse fitbawer
1973 - Javier Zanetti, Argentine fitbawer
1976 - Ian Murray, Scots politeecian
1997 - Kylie Jenner, American media personality, businesswumman an socialite

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Daiths

258 - St. Lawrence o Roum, Christian mairtyr
1759 - Ferdinand VI o Spain (b. 1713)
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scots penter (b. 1713)
1881 - John Hill Burton, Scots advocate, historian an economist (b. 1809)
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (b. 1848)
1945 - Robert H. Goddard, American ingineer, professor, pheesicist an inventor (b. 1882)
2019 - Jeffrey Epstein, American financier an convictit sex offender (b. 1953)

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