Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 10
This is a list of selected July 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Jedwabne pogrom memorial
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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. | refimprove section, lots of CN tags in one section |
| 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".
- 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.
- 1806 – Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at Vellore Fort, killing at least 100 British troops.
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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) | Humphrey Stafford (d. 1460) | Joan Terès i Borrull (d. 1603) | Eva Ekeblad (b. 1724) | Camille Pissarro (b. 1830) | Nikola Tesla (b. 1856) | Ima Hogg (b. 1882) | Calogero Vizzini (d. 1954)
July 10: Independence Day in The Bahamas (1973)
- 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declared Ming emperor Zhengde (portrait shown) to be a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion.
- 1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India.
- 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce between the Irish Republican Army and British forces was agreed, violence broke out between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Battle of Britain, in which the Royal Air Force defended the UK from attacks by the German Luftwaffe, began.
- 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.
- Ladislaus IV of Hungary (d. 1290)
- Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo (d. 1576)
- Ed Lowe (b. 1920)