Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 10 throughout history.
The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a small family car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. A global cultural icon known for its bu…
The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be…
In June 2018, a junior football team became trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and…
Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after…
The War in Iraq (2013–2017) was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State. Following December 2013, the insurgency escalated into a full-scale war follow…
Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of…
The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in men's international football competition since 1921. The national team is controlled by the Portuguese Football Fed…
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
The Episcopal Church (TEC), also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, based in the U…
The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
Bulgaria was a class 785/OL800 Russian river cruise ship which operated in the Volga-Don basin. On 10 July 2011, Bulgaria sank in the Kuybyshev Reservoir of the Volga River near S…
Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
Beginning in the 1990s, and going as far as its shutdown in 2011, employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising…
Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World…
Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia.
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Erden Eruç is a Turkish-American adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July…
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
The siege of Lal Masjid was an armed confrontation in July 2007 between a Islamist fundamentalist private militia and the government of Pakistan, led by president Pervez Musharraf…
The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 was a domestic passenger flight from Multan to Islamabad with a stopover in Lahore, operated by Pakistan's flag carrier Pakistan Interna…
A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45…
The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the …
The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million…
Airbus SE is a European aerospace corporation. While the company's primary business is the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, it also operates separate divisions for D…
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a former Syrian politician, doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil…
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ba…
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los…
Reports of the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and members of religious orders have been documented in numerous countries. Beginning in the late 20th century, allegation…
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who…
Deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the devel…
In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of…
Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a Spanish economist and municipal politician and a member of the People's Party, in Ermua, the Basque Country. He was kidnapped and murdered by the…
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of…
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Sou…
Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
The NIOSH air filtration rating is the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s classification of filtering respirators. The ratings describe the abili…
The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register.…