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World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.

On July 10, in the year 1940, World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of July 10, one of 488 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era, from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the genocide of about six million Jews in the Holocaust as well as the deaths of millions of other victims.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on July 10, 1940 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Historical Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 6 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 25 June 2026.

On This Date in History 488

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2025 Jul 10 David Gergen, American political consultant (born 1942)
Notable Births 2024 Jul 10 Moo Deng, Thai celebrity pygmy hippopotamus
Notable Deaths 2024 Jul 10 Joe Engle, American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2024 Jul 10 Alex Janvier, Native American Artist (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 2024 Jul 10 Dave Loggins, American musician (born 1947)
Notable Deaths 2022 Jul 10 Maurice Boucher, Canadian outlaw biker (born 1953)
Notable Deaths 2020 Jul 10 Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (born 1992)
Notable Deaths 2020 Jul 10 Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1935)
Historical Events 2019 Jul 10 The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be…
Notable Deaths 2019 Jul 10 Denise Nickerson, American former child actress known for playing Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate…
Historical Events 2018 Jul 10 Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after…
Notable Deaths 2018 Jul 10 Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (born 1917)
Selected Events 2018 Jul 10 The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a…
Historical Events 2017 Jul 10 Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of…
Historical Events 2016 Jul 10 Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Notable Deaths 2016 Jul 10 Katharina Focke, German politician (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jul 10 Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jul 10 Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jul 10 Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jul 10 Robert C. Broomfield, American lawyer and judge (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jul 10 Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jul 10 Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jul 10 Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (born 1912)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jul 10 Gloria Schweigerdt, American baseball player (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jul 10 Philip Caldwell, American businessman (born 1920)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jul 10 Józef Gara, Polish poet and linguist (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jul 10 Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (born 1958)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jul 10 Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jul 10 Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (born 1956)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jul 10 Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (born 1922)
Historical Events 2012 Jul 10 The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
Notable Deaths 2012 Jul 10 Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jul 10 Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jul 10 Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch journalist and author (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jul 10 Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (born 1919)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jul 10 Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (born 1942)
Historical Events 2011 Jul 10 Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
Historical Events 2011 Jul 10 Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World…
Notable Deaths 2011 Jul 10 Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and educator (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2011 Jul 10 Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (born 1924)
Selected Events 2011 Jul 10 The last edition of the British tabloid News of the World was published, closing due to allegations that it hacked the…
Selected Events 2011 Jul 10 The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga River and sank in several…
Notable Deaths 2009 Jul 10 Ebba Haslund, Norwegian writer (born 1917)
Historical Events 2008 Jul 10 Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Notable Deaths 2008 Jul 10 Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2008 Jul 10 Mike Souchak, American golfer (born 1927)
Historical Events 2007 Jul 10 Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Historical Events 2007 Jul 10 The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.
Notable Births 2007 Jul 10 Mason Thames, American actor
Notable Deaths 2007 Jul 10 Abdul Rashid Ghazi, chancellor of Faridia University. (born 1964)

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