Major Events
- 612 BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leads to the sack of one of the greatest cities in the world, the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun [date approximate]
- 610 Traditional date of Laylat al-Qadr / Night of Power when Muslims believe the Quran is first sent down from heaven to the world and revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- 1497 Explorer John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to “Asia”
- 1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London
- 1846 US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world’s largest museum and research complex
Aug 10 in Film & TV
- 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 pm (WJZ, NY)
Aug 10 in Music
Aug 10 in Sport
- 1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
Did You Know?
Leo Daft opens America’s first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
Fun Fact About August 10
Louvre Palace officially opens in Paris as the Musée Central des Arts
Famous Weddings
- 1848 American telegraph Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds second wife, American Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York
- 1912 British “To the Lighthouse” author Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) at the St Pancras (London) Register Office, until her deathsuicide in 1941
- 1933 Austro-Hungarian actress Hedy Kreissler, later known as Hedy LaMarr (18) weds Austrian arms manufacturer Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33); divorce in 1937
Famous Divorces
- 2007 Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 years of marriage
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