This Day in History, July 10, 2023
Release time:
2023-07-10
July 10, 138: Death of Publius Aelius Hadrianus, Roman Emperor
July 10, 385: Death of Fu Jian, Emperor of Former Qin during the Sixteen Kingdoms period
July 10, 420: Liu Yu, a prominent general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, overthrew the dynasty and established himself as king, marking the beginning of the Liu Song dynasty of the Southern Dynasties.
July 10, 649: Death of Emperor Taizong of Tang (Li Shimin)
July 10, 1509: Birth of John Calvin, renowned religious reformer
July 10, 1856: Birth of Nikola Tesla, the father of alternating current
July 10, 1908: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch physicist, successfully liquefied helium, the last permanent gas
July 10, 1912: Yin Changheng, Sichuan governor, launched a military expedition to Tibet
July 10, 1914: China opposed the signing of the Simla Convention between Britain and Tibet
July 10, 1925: Establishment of TASS, the Soviet news agency
July 10, 1929: Zhang Xueliang forcibly took control of the Chinese Eastern Railway, leading to a severance of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union
July 10, 1932: Death of King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
July 10, 1937: The Japanese Army General Staff decided on a large-scale military operation against China
July 10, 1941: Okamura Neji proposed the "Three Alls" policy
July 10, 1941: The Battle of Leningrad began in the Soviet-German War
July 10, 1943: The Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II began
July 10, 1947: Britain appointed its first non-white Governor-General of a Dominion
July 10, 1949: Lin Biao commanded three armies to cross the Yangtze River and advance into the Hubei and Hunan regions
July 10, 1949: Peng Dehuai annihilated Hu Zongnan's forces
July 10, 1951: The first meeting of the Korean Armistice negotiations was held in Kaesong
July 10, 1975: Discovery of the Terracotta Army of the Qin Dynasty in Lintong County, Shaanxi Province
July 10, 1985: The Greenpeace sinking incident; Mitterrand ordered an investigation
July 10, 1985: The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, was bombed and sunk in New Zealand
July 10, 1991: Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation
July 10, 2005: Shanghai donated its first hematopoietic stem cells to Hong Kong
July 10, 2014: Death of Mr. Sun Futian, author of the film "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain"
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