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Historical Events for 10th August 2022


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1627 - Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1678 - Netherlands and France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1897 - Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)
1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1954 - Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
1970 - British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
1990 - NASA's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
2018 - US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island

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