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10 august

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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar (223th in high). 143 days to the end of the year.

Events
258 C.E.
610 Muhammad began to receive the Koran from God through the angel Gabriel.
654
955
1500 C.E.
In 1535, Jacques Cartier baptized the open river in Canada, St. Lawrence.
The main stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich was laid in 1675.
1792 - French Revolution: In Paris, the crowd attacked Louis XVI's palace and arrested him and his family.
In 1809, Ecuador declared independence from Spain.
1821
The Smithson Institute was founded in 1846 and the largest museum complex in the world.
1848 The first Polish train departed from Poznan.
The world's first long-distance telephone call was held in Ontario, Canada.
1909
In 1913 the Treaty of Bucharest was signed, which ended the Union War.
1915
1920 - World War I: The Severian Treaty between the Winner States of World War I and the Ottoman Empire is signed.
1943
1948 in the US debuted the first broadcast hidden camera (Candid camera) with producer Alan Funt, after the radio broadcast hidden microphone (Candid microphone) was successful since September 1947 to the same producer.
1954 - The Communist Party is banned in the United States.
1970
1971
1974
1985 The secret services are sinking the ship Rainbow Warrior, belonging to the Greenpeace International Environmental Organization.
1985,
1987
The apparatus of NASA Magellan entered orbit around Venus and began mapping its surface.
1990 "Twelve Arab countries decided to oppose Iraq by military force in connection with Kuwait's annexation.
1991