July 10 in History

71 events 138 – 2019

July 10 spans 71 recorded events across recorded history, from 138 to 2019. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.

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1966 — The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr

, holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.

More major events on July 10

The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.

  1. 1991 Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia. Source
  2. 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. Source
  3. 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France. Source

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In 1966, The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.

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The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.

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It was supported by the Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.

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In 1966, The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.

Did you know

In 1966, The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.

138
Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
Calendar year
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420 AD_420
Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.
Calendar year
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518 Justin_I
Justin I is crowned Byzantine Emperor by the patriarch of Constantinople the day after the death of emperor Anastasius.
Roman emperor from 518 to 527
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645 Isshi_incident
Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
645 Japanese assassination and political crisis
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988
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
King of Dublin from 980 to 989
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1212
The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
Disasters before 1666
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1290 Ladislaus_IV_of_Hungary
Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania).
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290
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1460 Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
English peer in the Wars of the Roses
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1499 Nicolau_Coelho
The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
Portuguese navigator and explorer
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1512 Spanish_conquest_of_Iberian_Navarre
The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
Wars over Navarre in Iberia (1512–1529)
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1519
Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
Chinese prince and rebel (died 1521)
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1553 Lady_Jane_Grey
Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
Disputed Queen of England and Ireland in 1553
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1584 William_the_Silent
William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
Dutch revolt leader (1533–1584)
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1645 English_Civil_War
English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
Series of wars in England, 1642–1651
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1668 Anglo-Spanish_War_(1654–1660)
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.
War between the Commonwealth of England and Spain
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1778 American_Revolution
American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Founding of the United States
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1789 Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer)
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
Scottish explorer and fur trader (1764–1820)
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1806 Vellore_Mutiny
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1806 revolt against the East India Company
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1832 Andrew_Jackson
U.S.
President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
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1850 Millard_Fillmore
U.S.
President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
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1877 Villa
The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
Type of house
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1882 War_of_the_Pacific
War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
Territorial conflict between Chile and allied Peru and Bolivia (1879–84)
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1883 War_of_the_Pacific
War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
Territorial conflict between Chile and allied Peru and Bolivia (1879–84)
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1890 Wyoming
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S.
state.
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1920 Arthur_Meighen
Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
Prime Minister of Canada (1920–1921; 1926)
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1921
Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Violence in Belfast in the Irish War of Independence
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1924 Paavo_Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.
Finnish middle and long distance runner (1897–1973)
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1925 Scopes_trial
Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T.
Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
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1927 Kevin_O'Higgins
Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.
Irish politician (1892–1927)
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1938 Howard_Hughes
Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
American aviator, aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
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1940 World_War_II
World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
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1940 Adolf_Hitler
World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
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1941 Jedwabne_pogrom
Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
1941 massacre of Jews in Poland
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1942 Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero
World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft
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1943 Allied_invasion_of_Sicily
World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.
Part of World War II in 1943
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1948 Day_of_the_Foundation_of_the_Republic
The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121
Annual observance in North Korea
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1951 Korean_War
Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1950–1953 conflict on the Korean Peninsula
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1962 Telstar_1
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Defunct Communications Satellite
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1967 New_Zealand
New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.
Island country in the Pacific Ocean
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1973 The_Bahamas
The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
Country of islands in the Caribbean
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1974 1974_EgyptAir_Tupolev_Tu-154_crash
An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.
1974 aircraft accident in Egypt
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1976 Angola
Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
Country in Southern Africa
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1978 Moktar_Ould_Daddah
President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
President of Mauritania from 1960 to 1978
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1985 Greenpeace
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
Environmental non-governmental organization
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1985 Aeroflot_Flight_5143
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1985 plane crash in the north-central Uzbek SSR
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1991 South_Africa_national_cricket_team
The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
National cricket team of South Africa
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1991 Boris_Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
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1991 L'Express_Airlines_Flight_508
A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
1991 aviation accident
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1992 Miami
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
City in Florida, United States
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1995 Myanmar
Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
Country in Southeast Asia
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1995 NIOSH_air_filtration_rating
The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register.
The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.
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1997 DNA
In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Molecule that carries genetic information
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1998 Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
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1999 Association_football
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
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2000 Airbus
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
European aircraft manufacturer
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2000 Bashar_al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
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2002 Massacre_of_the_Innocents_(Rubens)
The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
Painting by Peter Paul Rubens
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2006 Pakistan_International_Airlines_Flight_688
A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
2006 aviation accident in Pakistan
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2007
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Turkish adventurer (born 1961)
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2007 Siege_of_Lal_Masjid
The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.
2007 armed confrontation in Pakistan
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2008 Ljube_Boškoski
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Macedonian politician (born 1960)
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2011 Bulgaria_(1955_ship)
Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
Russian cruise ship
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2011 News_International_phone_hacking_scandal
Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.
UK media scandal
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2012 Episcopal_Church_(United_States)
The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
Anglican denomination
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2016 Portugal_national_football_team
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Men's association football team
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2017 War_in_Iraq_(2013–2017)
Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.
Armed Conflict in the Middle East
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2018 Tham_Luang_cave_rescue
Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.
2018 international rescue mission in Thailand
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2019 Volkswagen_Beetle
The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
Small family car (1938–2003)
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