AUGUST 10

For the Almost Dead Poets Society "They say it's your birthday" Challenge. All events occurred on August 10 unless noted otherwise. Extremely experimental.

AUGUST 10

 

 

In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.

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Battle at Lech

Battle of Lechfeld

Battle of Maldon

Battle at Zierik Sea

Second Battle of Athenry

Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca

Battle at Brest

Battle at St Quentin

Iconoclasm begins

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Sea battle at Heijde

Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár

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The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico

American Revolutionary War:

word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

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Turkey declares war on Russia

Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI

Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)

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Race riots in Cincinnati

Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery

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Battle of Wilson's Creek MO

Battle of Nueces River TX

Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce Indians

Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur

2nd Balkan War ends; Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

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At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary

German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanelles/Turkey joins Germany

German troops re-conquer Mulhouse in Elzas

Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine

Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed

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Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots

Race riots in Athens Alabama

US recaptures Guam from Japanese

US/French offensive at Alençon

My father was in WWII; during this time he met my mother in Belgium

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Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

I was born, my name�"Colette�"means

“Victory for the people”

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Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock

USSR performs (underground) nuclear test

USSR performs another nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Ecuador adopts its constitution

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My father told me “You’ll never see the end of war in your lifetime.”

Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States.

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On April 10, 2008, with 91 votes out of 130, the Constitutional Assembly approved Article 10 for inclusion in the new constitution

Ecuador became the first country in the world to codify the Rights of Nature

"Buen Vivir"is an alternative concept of development that focuses on the attainment of the "good life" in a broad sense, only attainable within a community that includes Nature.

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I hope I will never see the end of resolution either.

 

For the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the United States plans to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas in Vietnam

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Author's Note

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[Chris]

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