On August 10th these people were born ...
1782 Charles James Napier, British general.
1810 Camillo Benso, Count Cavour, Italian nationalist politician.
1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)
1928 Eddie Fisher, US singer.
1940 Bobby Hatfield, singer. (The Righteous Brothers)
1941 Anita Lonsborough Porter, English swimmer.
1947 Ian Anderson, singer, flautist. ( Jethro Tull )
1947 Ronnie Spector, singer. (The Ronettes)
1959 Rosanna Arquette, actress.
1960 Antonio Banderas, actor..
1966 Charlie Dimmock, TV gardener.
1979 Joanna Garcia, American television and film actress.
1982 Devon Aoki, actress, model.
1997 Kylie Jenner, model, TV personality.
... and these people died ...
1784 Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait painter.
1876 Edward William Lane, traveller and translator.
1906 Otto Lillienthal, German aviator.
1949 John Haigh, mass murderer (confessed to 9),executed at Wandsworth
2004 Bernard Levin, British journalist. (75)
2004 Fay Wray, actress, star of the original King Kong movie. (96)
2008 Bernie Mac, US actor and comedian. (50)
2010 Jack Parnell, British jazz drummer, bandleader on The Muppet Show for its entire five-year run. (87)
2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist, created ET the Extra Terrestrial and Alien. (86)
2012 Mel Stuart, film director, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. (83)
... and these things happened - On August 10th
Independence Day Ecuador. ( 1809 )
1675 Greenwich observatory was established by King Charles II.
1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finished his Eine Kleine Nacht Music.
1809 Ecuador gains its independence.
1842 The Mines Act passed banning women and children from underground.
1846 The Smithsonian Institute was established in Washington DC.
1889 Dan Rylands of Hope Glassworks,Yorks,patented the screw top bottle.
1895 First promenade concert held at Queen's Hall, conductor Henry Wood.
1897 The Royal Automobile Club was founded.
1900 The first lawn tennis Davis cup held in Boston, Britain lost 3-0.
1904 Russo-Japanese war, Russians lose the Battle of Yellow Sea.
1907 The Beijing-Paris motor race of 8000 miles was won by
Prince Borghese, across rugged terrain, in 62 days.
1911 British MP s vote to receive salaries for the first time.
1920 Treaty of Sevres signed between the Allies and Turkey,
ending the Ottoman Empire.
1966 Orbiter I , the first US lunar satellite , was launched.
1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
2000 Port of Split, Croatia, stopped while mother whale and calf left.
2000 Protesters of savings fund collapse in Romania attack police.
2000 Two light planes collide over New Jersey, USA, 10 killed.
2001 Amsterdam jewellery shop assistant disappeared with £5.6 mil.
2001 Large private island off Scotland went on sale for £3.85 mil.
2002 A record 550 authors converged on The Edinburgh Book Festival.
2002 Executives of bankrupt Worldcom were on $100mil salaries.
2002 Inventors exhibited their gadgets at The London Science Museum.
2003 Hottest day ever recorded in the UK - 38.1 C - 100.5 F.
2003 Animals worth $50k were stolen from Venezuela's Caracas zoo.
2003 Nike's new running shoe, the Mayfly, designed to last 62 miles.
2003 UKs first flashmob, in Sofas UK in Tottenham Court Road.
2004 London Marquee Club showed worlds largest Jimi Hendrix collection
2004 Worlds deepest subterranean drop discovered in Croatia - 1700 ft.
2005 AOL ran a sweepstake of the seized assets of a spammer - incl. $20k in gold bars.
2005 Iran broke the UN seals on its' nuclear plant at Isfahan.
2005 Top of CNN/Sports Illustrated Sports characters was John McEnroe.
2006 India banned the sale of Coca-Cola after it was found to contain excessive levels of pesticides.
2006 UK airports were on high alert as 24 people were arrested trying to blow up a number of planes bound for the US.
2007 Mauritania passed anti-slavery laws with prison sentences for offenders and reparations for victims.
2007 Max Yasgurs Farm was up for sale at $8 million, 80 miles north of New York it is the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
2007 UK banned advertising from over 1000 non-EU gambling websites to stop children from betting.
2008 Georgia withdrew its troops from South Ossetia as thousands escaped to Russia to avoid the fighting.
2008 Nicole Cook won GBs first gold medal in the Beijing Olympics in the cycling road race.
2008 The Underage Music Festival was held in London over the weekend exclusively for under-18s.
2009 Nissan launched its' new electric car, The Leaf, in Japan. Priced the same as a normal car by renting the lithium ion batteries.
2009 Public bodies were obtaining access to private telephone and e-mail records about 1,400 times a day, using counter terrorist legislation.
2009 The centre of Playa de Majorca was evacuated when ETA exploded 4 small bombs in bars and shops, no-one was injured.
2010 A Freedom of Information request revealed BBC laptops and mobiles worth £241,019 were lost or stolen over the past two years.
2010 The record for the number of nude people riding a rollercoaster was set; 102 people at Adventure Island in Southend on the Green Scream.
2011 Girls were on top in the music charts with Cher Lloyd top single Swagger Jagger; Amy Winehouse and Adele were top of the album chart.
2011 The Chinese navy's first aircraft carrier began trials, it was built in the 1980s by Russia, bought by China and completely re-fitted.
2012 Foreign Secretary William Hague announced the UK would commit an extra £5 million worth of non-lethal equipment to the Syrian Free Army. Russia committed to the legal government.
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