On this day: July 10

Events on July 10

• 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. Wikipedia
• 1290 Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania). Wikipedia
• 1499 The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. Wikipedia
• 1890 Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. Wikipedia
• 1925 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. Wikipedia
• 1938 Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record. Wikipedia
• 1940 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. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France. Wikipedia
• 1941 The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 300 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland. Wikipedia
• 1948 The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121 Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1967 New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar. Wikipedia
• 1973 The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. Wikipedia
• 1976 Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. Wikipedia
• 1978 President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. Wikipedia
• 1985 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. Wikipedia
• 1992 In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. Wikipedia
• 1995 Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest. Wikipedia
• 1997 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. Wikipedia
• 1999 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. Wikipedia
• 2007 The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants. Wikipedia
• 2008 Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal. Wikipedia
• 2011 The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga and sank in several minutes, resulting in 122 deaths. Wikipedia
• 2017 Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq. Wikipedia
• 2018 The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a flooded cave in northern Thailand. Wikipedia

Born on July 10

• 1509 John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (died 1564) Wikipedia
• 1792 George M. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (died 1864) Wikipedia
• 1830 Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (died 1903) Wikipedia
• 1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (died 1943) Wikipedia
• 1871 Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1922) Wikipedia
• 1888 Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (died 1978) Wikipedia
• 1902 Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958) Wikipedia
• 1903 Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (died 1989) Wikipedia
• 1914 Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (died 1992) Wikipedia
• 1920 Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006) Wikipedia
• 1921 Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley (died 2001) Wikipedia
• 1925 Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia Wikipedia
• 1931 Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024) Wikipedia
• 1942 Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2010) Wikipedia
• 1943 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (died 1993) Wikipedia
• 1950 Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior Wikipedia
• 1951 Rajnath Singh, Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India Wikipedia
• 1972 Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer Wikipedia
• 1975 Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (died 2018) Wikipedia
• 1980 Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer Wikipedia
• 1985 Mario Gómez, German footballer Wikipedia
• 2024 Moo Deng, Thai celebrity pygmy hippopotamus Wikipedia

Died on July 10

• 138 Hadrian, Roman emperor (born 76) Wikipedia
• 649 Tai Zong, Chinese emperor (born 598) Wikipedia
• 983 Benedict VII, pope of the Catholic Church Wikipedia
• 1086 Canute IV, king of Denmark (born 1043) Wikipedia
• 1510 Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (born 1454) Wikipedia
• 1559 Henry II, king of France (born 1519) Wikipedia
• 1584 William I, Dutch nobleman (born 1533) Wikipedia
• 1851 Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (born 1787) Wikipedia
• 1884 Paul Morphy, American chess player (born 1837) Wikipedia
• 1976 Costas Georgiou, Cypriot-born British mercenary in the Angolan Civil War (born 1951) Wikipedia
• 1989 Mel Blanc, American voice actor (born 1908) Wikipedia
• 2006 Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist rebel leader (born 1965) Wikipedia
• 2015 Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (born 1932) Wikipedia
• 2020 Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1935) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Mauritania) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Amalberga of Maubeuge Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Canute IV of Denmark Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Martyrs of Damascus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Rufina and Secunda Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Seven Brothers Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973. Wikipedia
• Nikola Tesla Day Wikipedia
• Statehood Day (Wyoming) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “July 10” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.