August 10

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[edit] Events

• 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
• 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
• 2000 - World Population reaches 6 billion.

[edit] Births

• 1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
• 1915 - Carmelo Borg Pisani, Maltese nationalist (d. 1942)
• 1943 - Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan leader

[edit] Deaths

• 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
• 1994 - Revilo P. Oliver, White nationalist writer (b. 1908)