What are the important events that happened on July 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 10 is the 191st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 27, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,201,760 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontahenagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 222 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,584 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 10 Historical Events
- 48 BC –Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 1212 –The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1789 –Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1806 –The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1941 –Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1968 –Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1973 –National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1976 –One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1980 –Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985 –Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
Who were born on July 10?
- 1899 –John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
- 1920 –David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
- 1940 –Helen Donath, American soprano
- 1963 –Richard Waites, British actor
- 1967 –Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
- 1968 –Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
- 1969 –Alexandra Hedison, American actress
- 1980 –Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1980 –Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress
- 1992 –Larissa Marolt, Australian fashion model
Who died on July 10?
- 138 –Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
- 1594 –Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
- 1621 –Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
- 1680 –Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
- 1970 –Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
- 1978 –John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
- 1986 –Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 1993 –Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2004 –Pati Behrs, Russian-born American actress, grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and first wife of American actor John Derek (b. 1922)
- 2005 –Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
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