- What happened on August 10th?
Current Calendar Page for August 10, 2024
Name Day
Astrid, Laurentius, Philomena
Historical Events
2022 - A white whale stuck in a Seine lock for days had to be euthanized. Its condition deteriorated during rescue efforts about 70 kilometers from Paris.
2019 - US businessman Jeffrey Epstein dies in his New York prison cell. Epstein was accused of running an illegal sex trafficking ring involving minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005.
2014 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then prime minister, wins the first direct presidential election in Turkey in the first round.
2004 - Eighteen years after the bombing of the Berlin disco "La Belle" on April 5, 1986, the Libyan Gaddafi Foundation and German victim lawyers agree on compensation payments from Libya.
1994 - Over 300 grams of highly purified plutonium 239 are secured at Munich Airport. The nuclear weapon-capable material was brought from Moscow to Germany. It is later revealed that the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) was involved in the smuggling.
Birthdays
1959 - Rosanna Arquette (65), American actress ("Desperately Seeking Susan", "The Deep")
1944 - Robert Leicht (80), German journalist, editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" 1992-1997
1938 - Grit Boettcher (86), German actress (TV series "Ein verrücktes Paar" with Harald Juhnke)
1874 - Herbert C. Hoover, American politician, 31st President 1929-1933, died 1964
Deaths
1944 - Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German officer and resistance fighter, involved in the failed Hitler assassination attempt in 1944, brother of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, executed in Berlin-Plötzensee, born 1905
On this day in 1964, the Date of death was recorded for the 31st President of the United States, Herbert C. Hoover.In an unfortunate turn of events, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a prominent German officer and resistance fighter, also lost his life on the Date of death of 1944.
