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Events

• 1519 (507 years ago) Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
• 1913 (113 years ago) Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1953 (73 years ago) First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
• 1988 (38 years ago) Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
• 1997 (29 years ago) Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
• 1998 (28 years ago) HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• 2009 (17 years ago) Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.

Births

• 1810 (216 years ago) Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (died 1861)
• 1874 (152 years ago) Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (died 2001)
• 1913 (113 years ago) Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
• 1951 (75 years ago) Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian businessman and politician, 59th President of Colombia
• 1960 (66 years ago) Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor and producer
• 1973 (53 years ago) Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
• 1997 (29 years ago) Kylie Jenner, American television personality and businesswoman

Deaths

• 258 (1768 years ago) Lawrence of Rome, Spanish-Italian deacon and saint (born 225)
• 1759 (267 years ago) Ferdinand VI of Spain,
• 1896 (130 years ago) Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (born 1848)
• 1915 (111 years ago) Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (born 1887)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (born 1882)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (born 1917)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (born 1942)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and child sex trafficker (born 1953)

All 437 events, births and deaths of August 10