History Events on August 10
![Candid Camera](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter24QMZ3ky9cwh0oE9nERn.jpg?generation=1608890134784738&alt=media)
Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
#Candid_Camera
![1856 Last Island hurricane](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter2lmhuzDjWKOqs5xEKDcY.jpg?generation=1608890135140768&alt=media)
The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths.
#1856_Last_Island_hurricane
![World War I](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter3scPbJjun60VYQncqw6l.jpg?generation=1608890135521638&alt=media)
World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
#World_War_I
![Vietnam War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter49Nva97zSrUMyTZXS5Wt.png?generation=1608890136266155&alt=media)
Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
#Vietnam_War
![Royal Observatory, Greenwich](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter4kjLXgDZmUbhI6zlL4nX.jpg?generation=1608890136639856&alt=media)
The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
#Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich
![First Indochina War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter5CkihQ9CxDal1V7j7nQ4.jpg?generation=1608890137004698&alt=media)
First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
#First_Indochina_War
![Sharon Tate](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter5pkfiS4Pd2xAMVXMLFJB.jpg?generation=1608890137361577&alt=media)
A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
#Sharon_Tate
![Felix Hoffmann](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter6WsHyJutmzbEaYaCJiin.jpg?generation=1608890137717374&alt=media)
German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
#Felix_Hoffmann
![Murder of Adam Walsh](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter6biRrK3a5IIb3qiKDtH3.jpg?generation=1608890138079014&alt=media)
Murder of Adam Walsh: The head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
#Murder_of_Adam_Walsh
![Chondrite](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilter6dyvF65cnjb4Yzgaqa6F.jpg?generation=1608890138466783&alt=media)
A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
#Chondrite
![Al-Muhtadee Billah](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterAAzw2uKfJxqV2f9kGBpE.jpg?generation=1608890138815782&alt=media)
HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
#Al-Muhtadee_Billah
![Magellan (spacecraft)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterBzWXGGG0KJXb9RbUEIds.png?generation=1608890139574980&alt=media)
The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
#Magellan_(spacecraft)
![National Party (Uruguay)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterC8yX6URmLHA74z4ZyjQC.png?generation=1608890140328451&alt=media)
After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
#National_Party_(Uruguay)
![Okinawa Urban Monorail](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterD0KDsv0cLyLpotPYmIrh.png?generation=1608890141072978&alt=media)
The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
#Okinawa_Urban_Monorail
![Quito](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterD5zlKKlsUoC81sESMpLs.png?generation=1608890141879636&alt=media)
Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
#Quito
![Russo-Japanese War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterDvBy6L16XLWmDqCXPhXX.jpg?generation=1608890142252431&alt=media)
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
#Russo-Japanese_War
![Smithsonian Institution](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterFHvlqk2K7PewDF8bvgD7.png?generation=1608890143019505&alt=media)
The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
#Smithsonian_Institution
![Charles Lawrence (British Army officer)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterHPgEok3vCepExalaL1ks.jpg?generation=1608890143406176&alt=media)
Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
#Charles_Lawrence_(British_Army_officer)
![Battle of Narva (1944)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterIWebos4uKyviPguCu9Wc.jpg?generation=1608890143736163&alt=media)
World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German-Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
#Battle_of_Narva_(1944)
![Ferdinand Magellan](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterIbPnrTQn1GJJIaN93tl4.jpg?generation=1608890144090485&alt=media)
Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
#Ferdinand_Magellan
Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
#Portsmouth,_New_Hampshire
![American Revolutionary War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterKr88bJ2cdTZ8DYh0PM0M.jpg?generation=1608890144914685&alt=media)
American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
#American_Revolutionary_War
![Handlová](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterLh9sjW2zXvqNkN0YQPy9.jpg?generation=1608890145281553&alt=media)
Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Tren?ín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
#Handlová
![List of earthquakes in New Zealand](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterOG9X1OUtMIEiEmNZgycD.png?generation=1608890146049891&alt=media)
Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 Mw? shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 Mw? event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island.
#List_of_earthquakes_in_New_Zealand
![Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterT545qT9teI2VWjCJo0Pu.jpg?generation=1608890146412204&alt=media)
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
#Sepahan_Airlines_Flight_5915
![Ford Pinto](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterVNe19LM6lBb5e5msrYTD.jpg?generation=1608890146803772&alt=media)
Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
#Ford_Pinto
![Battle of St. Quentin (1557)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterVbIAoH5edrTXaeJKZLIk.png?generation=1608890147545646&alt=media)
Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551-59.
#Battle_of_St._Quentin_(1557)
![Massena, New York](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterXO5hZgkeUGzze9sX1MEr.png?generation=1608890148280046&alt=media)
At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
#Massena,_New_York
![Marthanda Varma](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterY2tZ8Lr17eJC1VRGhWLV.jpg?generation=1608890148629608&alt=media)
King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
#Marthanda_Varma
![Yonkers, New York](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfiltereyRQATKjNqJQ37fTb9xN.jpg?generation=1608890148997214&alt=media)
In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
#Yonkers,_New_York
![Second Balkan War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfiltermekGDikEQpHoIMFfT1zy.png?generation=1608890149787671&alt=media)
Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
#Second_Balkan_War
![French Revolution](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfiltermoRf6t1EAeei0iW25Wxk.jpg?generation=1608890150160223&alt=media)
French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
#French_Revolution
![Harry S. Truman](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilternxnM8xTeGZfXmRu8LevL.jpg?generation=1608890150528852&alt=media)
U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
#Harry_S._Truman
![Battle of Maldon](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilteroMjAJGBLP2OzkKoe70cc.jpg?generation=1608890150873784&alt=media)
Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
#Battle_of_Maldon
![World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterrtNhzBIwHGZRC6m1U8iN.jpg?generation=1608890151248892&alt=media)
World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
#World_War_II
![2003 European heat wave](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfiltersP7xWU0OkJFqCNqqhMHk.jpg?generation=1608890151615190&alt=media)
European heat wave: The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England.
#2003_European_heat_wave
![Battle of Saint-Mathieu](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterugGT2wEocY3VvCjGxrlS.jpg?generation=1608890151991915&alt=media)
The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
#Battle_of_Saint-Mathieu
![American Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterxDnIEowzh2r7ieY1puEY.png?generation=1608890152752616&alt=media)
American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
#American_Civil_War
![Vasa (ship)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilterxMcvICDxhuCPV0KgaDiC.jpg?generation=1608890153175452&alt=media)
The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
#Vasa_(ship)
![Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilteryHCNvflSBrSetihgS6IC.png?generation=1608890154065276&alt=media)
Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
#Instituto_Nacional_General_José_Miguel_Carrera
![Oklahoma City bombing](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2FfilteryNKs8BnMxdRwkuJBD7rk.jpg?generation=1608890154437554&alt=media)
Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
#Oklahoma_City_bombing
![Missouri](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FAugust_10%2Ffilterzarox33630UsC3ZuAfiL.png?generation=1608890154938005&alt=media)
Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
#Missouri