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| August 10th, 2006 (August 10 2006) | Event | Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes. | |
| August 10th, 1976 (August 10 1976) | Birth | Michael Depoli, American wrestler | |
| August 10th, 1966 (August 10 1966) | Birth | Hansi Kursch, German singer | |
| August 10th, 1956 (August 10 1956) | Birth | Fred Ottman, American wrestler | |
| August 10th, 1956 (August 10 1956) | Birth | Charlie Peacock, American record producer, singer-songwriter | |
| August 10th, 1896 (August 10 1896) | Death | Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (born in 1848) | |
| August 10th, 1856 (August 10 1856) | Event | In Last Island, Louisiana, the 1856 Last Island Hurricane kills between 200 and 400 people. | |
| August 10th, 1856 (August 10 1856) | Birth | William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (died in 1915) | |
| August 10th, 1846 (August 10 1846) | Event | The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson. | James Smith Quotes |
| August 10th, 1806 (August 10 1806) | Death | Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (born in 1737) | |
| August 10th, 1776 (August 10 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. | |
| August 10th, 1316 (August 10 1316) | Event | Second Battle of Athenry | |
| August 10th, 1296 (August 10 1296) | Birth | John I, Count of Luxemburg (died in 1346) | |
