Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 10

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  Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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  Tuileries Palace, c. 1851~1870
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  Smithsonian castle
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  Magellan space probe
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  The French warship Cordelière and the English warship Regent ablaze at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu
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  Vasa, today a museum ship
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  The Louvre palace (Richelieu wing)
• Louvre Pyramid
  Louvre Pyramid
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  José Antônio Saraiva
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  Painting of the insurrection of 10 August 1792
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  Sirius A (centre) and Sirius B (bottom left)
• Louvre Pyramid
  Louvre Pyramid
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  German package of aspirin

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Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Saint Lawrence (Roman Catholic Church)	in popular culture, lots of inline tags
Independence Day in Ecuador (1809)	refimprove section, expansion
991 – Inland-raiding Vikings defeated Byrhtnoth and the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Maldon in Essex, England.	refimprove
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: England and a combined Franco-Breton fleet engaged in the Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during which an explosion destroyed each navy's most powerful ship.	unreferenced section
1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the basis of the prime meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London.	unreferenced section
1821 – As per the conditions of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted into the United States as a slave state, despite the fact that most of its territory was north of the parallel 36°30′ north.	refimprove section
1846 – The United States Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex.	expansion
1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovered an improved method of synthesizing aspirin (package pictured).	Date not cited in article.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The first major confrontation between modern steel battleship fleets took place in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.	too many references missing
1913 – Delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War.	one source
1920 – Representatives of Sultan Template:Nowrap signed the Treaty of Sèvres, recognizing the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the [[Aftermath of World War I|aftermath of World Template:Nowrap]].	unreferenced section
1981 – The severed head of kidnapped six-year-old Adam Walsh was found in a canal in Vero Beach, Florida, prompting his father John to become a victims' rights advocate and helping to spur the formation of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.	primary sources
1990 – NASA's Magellan space probe reached Venus on a mission to map its surface, fifteen months after its launch.	unreferenced section
2009 - Twenty people were killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.	refimprove section
Madeleine of Valois |b|1520|	Birthday not cited
Alexander Glazunov |b|1865|	Multiple issues
Alfred Döblin |b|1878	refimprove section
Anwar Ibrahim |b|1947|	Orange banner re: controversy and POV

Eligible

• 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sank shortly after departing Stockholm on her maiden voyage to take part in the Thirty Years' War.
• 1755 – The first wave of the Expulsion of the Acadians from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces by the British began with the Bay of Fundy campaign at Chignecto.
• 1792 – French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace (depicted), effectively ending the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
• 1793 – The Louvre (pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the world's most-visited museum, opened with an exhibition of 537 paintings and 184 objets d'art.
• 1844 – From measurements of its motion, German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, had an unseen companion.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
• 1864 – José Antônio Saraiva announced that the Brazilian military would exact reprisals after Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's demands, beginning the Uruguayan War.
• 1901 – The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers began an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers of new members.
• 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
• 1988 – The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
• 2019 – Having already caused severe flooding in the Philippines, Typhoon Lekima made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing 45 people in the province.
• Born/died: | Al-Wathiq |d|847| Therese Forster |b|1786| William Lowndes Yancey |b|1814| Adah Isaacs Menken |d|1868| Eric Harrison |b|1886| Red Holzman |b|1920| Marie-Claire Alain |b|1926| Suzanne Collins |b|1962| Roxanne McKee |b|1980| Casey Donovan |d|1987| Mugi Kadowaki |b|1992| Jennifer Paterson |d|1999| Adam Stansfield |d|2010|

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• 955 – Hungarian invasions of Europe: Forces under Otto the Great were victorious at the Battle of Lechfeld (depicted) near present-day Augsburg, Germany, holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Central Europe.
• 1270 – Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the Solomonic dynasty, which would last for more than 700 years.
• 1966 – The Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa, Canada, collapsed during its construction, killing nine workers.
• 2007 – Amid large protests against the impending demolition of the Queen's Pier, the High Court of Hong Kong dismissed legal attempts to preserve the landmark.
• 2019 – Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.