On This Day August 10th

  OTD

August 10th is the two-hundredth-twenty-second day of the year, and there are 143 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the expedition after Magellan died in the Philippines.

1856 – The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths.

1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets occurs.

1905 – Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on the radio for a year as Candid Microphone.

1961 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Army began Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.

1978 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.

1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.

2020 – Derecho in Iowa becomes the costliest thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.

 

Birthdays

 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German lawyer and politician (d. 1553)

1782 – Vicente Guerrero, Mexican insurgent leader and President of Mexico (d. 1831)

1814 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (d. 1890)

1870 – Trần Tế Xương, Vietnamese poet and satirist (d. 1907)

1889 – Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly (d. 1967)

1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)

1926 – Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)

1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor and producer

1983 – Héctor Faubel, Spanish motorcycle racer.

 

 

Holiday Spotlight

  World Lion Day

Dereck and Beverly Joubert, passionate about preserving wild cats, initiated World Lion Day in 2013. They established the Big Cat Initiative (B.C.I.) in 2009 in partnership with National Geographic to protect and conserve the remaining lion species in the world. The B.C.I. has made significant progress, receiving over 150 grant awards, mitigating nearly 3,000 threats to wild cats, and removing 13,000 life-threatening snares.

Lions, as apex predators, weigh between 300 and 600 pounds and are the second-largest cat species after tigers. They are known for their distinctive manes, and they form pride’s to enhance their hunting success, typically found in savannas and grasslands near water sources.

 

Holidays And Observance.

 Celebrate Your Lakes Day

International Biodiesel Day

International Vlogging Day

National Bowling Day

National Duran Duran Appreciation Day

National Garage Sale Day

National Lazy Day

National Model Aviation Day

National Shapewear Day

National S'mores Day

Skyscraper Appreciation Day

Smithsonian Day

Spoil Your Dog Day

World Lion Day

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