Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 10
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Jedwabne pogrom memorial
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973) | refimprove section |
| 48 BC – Caesar's civil war: Julius Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in the Battle of Dyrrhachium in Macedonia. | refimprove |
| 1460 – War of the Roses: King Henry VI of England was captured by Yorkists at the Battle of Northampton. | refimprove section |
| 1584 – William the Silent, the Prince of Orange, was assassinated at his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard. | refimprove section |
| 1796 – German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. | refimprove section, date not cited |
| 1962 – Telstar, the world's first active, direct relay communications satellite, was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – An industrial accident in a chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations. | unreferenced section |
| 1978 – Moktar Ould Daddah, the first President of Mauritania, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Mustafa Ould Salek. | refimprove |
| 1985 – French intelligence agents bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior while docked in the port of Auckland to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Moruroa. | lots of CN tags |
| Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d. 1460) | TFA for 2019 |
| · Eunice Kennedy Shriver (b. 1921) | lots of citation and better source needed tags |
Eligible
- 1553 – Four days after the death of her predecessor, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey was officially proclaimed Queen of England, beginning her reign as "The Nine Days' Queen".
- 1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India.
- 1806 – Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at Vellore Fort, killing at least 100 British troops.
- 1921 – One day after a truce between the Irish Republican Army and British forces, violence between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast resulted in sixteen dead.
- 1940 – The Luftwaffe began attacks on British convoys in the English Channel to start the Battle of Britain.
- 1942 – An American naval aviator discovered a downed Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, US, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against that type of aircraft.
- 1966 – Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights campaigns in the northern United States.
- 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.
- 2011 – The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga River and sank in several minutes, resulting in 122 deaths.
- 2011 – The last edition of the British tabloid News of the World was published, closing due to allegations that it hacked the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, victims of the 7/7 attacks and relatives of deceased British soldiers.
- Born/died: Hadrian (d. 138) · Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo (d. 1576) · Camille Pissarro (b. 1830) · Nikola Tesla (b. 1856) · Ima Hogg (b. 1882) · Calogero Vizzini (d. 1954)
Meher Baba
- 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declared Ming emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion.
- 1645 – English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the West of England.
- 1913 – The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), the highest reading ever recorded on Earth.
- 1925 – Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba (pictured) began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: A group of non-Jewish ethnic Poles from around the nearby area murdered hundreds of Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland
- 1999 – The United States defeated China in the final match of the FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports.
Joan Terès i Borrull (d. 1603) · Eva Ekeblad (b. 1724) · Ed Lowe (b. 1920)