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Events on August 10

• 1519 Ferdinand Magellan begins the first circumnavigation of the world with the voyage of his five ships from Seville downriver via the mouth of the Guadalquivir to Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
• 1628 The Swedish warship Vasa, Gustav II. Adolf's prestige project, sinks in the harbor on its maiden voyage. Between 30 and 50 people lose their lives.
• 1792 The storming of the Tuileries by the Sansculottes brings the monarchy in France to an end. Louis XVI is captured.
• 1822 In Doberan in Mecklenburg, the first gallop race on German soil is held.
• 1897 Felix Hoffmann produces acetylsalicylic acid for the first time; it is later sold as Aspirin.
• 1948 The Constitutional Convention on Herrenchiemsee convenes to develop a constitutional draft for the three western occupation zones in Germany. The text is intended to serve as the basis for the deliberations of the Parliamentary Council.
• 1975 The first xenophobic pogroms in Germany after 1945 begin with a manhunt through Erfurt's city center. The victims of the Erfurt pogroms are Algerian contract workers.
• 1986 For the first time, a Formula 1 race is held in an Eastern Bloc country. The Brazilian Nelson Piquet wins the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring.
• 1990 The Magellan space probe enters an orbit around Venus to map the surface of the planet.
• 1994 The world's largest plutonium smuggling operation is discovered at Munich Airport. A German Bundestag committee of inquiry into these events later determines that this was staged by the Federal Intelligence Service.
• 2003 The cosmonaut Juri Iwanowitsch Malentschenko, who is at that time on the ISS space station, marries his partner Jekaterina.
• 2016 By a ruling of its Constitutional Court, Belize, as the last Central American state, repeals the ban on homosexual acts.

Born on August 10

• 1900 Hans Otto, German theatre actor
• 1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer
• 1913 Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1931 Renate Holm, German-Austrian singer
• 1940 Les Humphries, British musician
• 1940 Marie Versini, French actress
• 1960 Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• 1961 Nicolas Berggruen, German-American financial investor
• 1971 Roy Keane, Irish footballer
• 1971 Justin Theroux, American actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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