A birthday on the globe
10 July on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 10 July, the English Wikipedia lists 77 events and 274 births. 38 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; eight more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 10 July
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in July 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 10 July the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 22.2° north. In London, the day lasts about 16 hours 20 minutes.
Beyond 68° north the Sun no longer sets; beyond 68° south it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Britain & Ireland · Dublin
988
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
On the map: Dublin.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Latin America · Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
1877
The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
On the map: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Latin America · Puebla
2019
The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
On the map: Puebla.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
North America · Second Bank of the United States
1832
U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
On the map: Second Bank of the United States.
North America · Furnace Creek
1913
The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest recorded on Earth.
On the map: Furnace Creek.
North America · Soldier Field
1966
The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.
On the map: Soldier Field.
10 July
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Seville
1936
In Seville (Spain), the Anthem of Andalusia is presented to the public.
On the map: Seville.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · 1960 European Nations' Cup
1960
At the Parc des Princes football stadium (Paris), the final of the first European Championship in history takes place. It is contested by the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, with the USSR winning in extra time by a final score of 2-1, becoming European champions for the first and only time in its history.
On the map: 1960 European Nations' Cup.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Goiânia
2021
In Brazil, against the host national team, in the "clásico de clásicos", the Argentina national team is crowned champion of the Americas, ending a drought of 28 years without titles. This Copa América is Argentina's 15th and means the first title (at senior level) for Lionel Messi in his nation's colours.
On the map: Goiânia.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
10 July
Born on 10 July#
The English Wikipedia lists 274 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 59 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 10 July
1856
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (died 1943)
Place of birth: Smiljan.
Born on 10 July
1871
Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1922)
Place of birth: 16th arrondissement of Paris.
Born on 10 July
1509
John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (died 1564)
Place of birth: Noyon.
Born on 10 July
1931
Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Place of birth: Wingham.
Born on 10 July
1830
Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (died 1903)
Place of birth: Charlotte Amalie.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1977
Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
Place of birth: Forest Gate.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1958
Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director
Place of birth: County Cork.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1903
John Wyndham, English author (died 1969)
Place of birth: Dorridge.
10 July
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
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The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
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Everything Wikipedia lists for 10 July
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 31 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 138
Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
Europe · BaiaeWikipedia: Castel Sant'Angelo - 420
Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Emperor Gong of Jin - 518
Justin I is crowned Byzantine Emperor by the patriarch of Constantinople the day after the death of emperor Anastasius.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Justin I - 645
Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
Asia · Isshi incidentWikipedia: Isshi incident - 988
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
Britain & Ireland · DublinWikipedia: Glúniairn - 1212
The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Early fires of London - 1290
Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania).
Europe · ToboliuWikipedia: Ladislaus IV of Hungary - 1372
The Treaty of Tagilde was signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and representatives of John of Gaunt of England, marking the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which remains in effect today.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Treaty of Tagilde - 1460
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
Britain & Ireland · Battle of NorthamptonWikipedia: Battle of Northampton - 1499
The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
Europe · LisbonWikipedia: Nicolau Coelho - 1512
The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
Europe · Spanish conquest of Iberian NavarreWikipedia: Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre - 1519
Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
Asia · NanjingWikipedia: Zhu Chenhao - 1553
Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Lady Jane Grey - 1584
William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
Europe · DelftWikipedia: William the Silent - 1645
English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
Britain & Ireland · Battle of LangportWikipedia: Battle of Langport - 1668
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.
Latin America · PortobeloWikipedia: Anglo-Spanish War - 1778
American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
no place on the mapWikipedia: American Revolution - 1789
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Alexander Mackenzie - 1806
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Vellore Mutiny - 1832
U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
North America · Second Bank of the United StatesWikipedia: Andrew Jackson - 1850
U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Millard Fillmore - 1877
The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
Latin America · Mayagüez, Puerto RicoWikipedia: Villa - 1882
War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
Latin America · Battle of La ConcepciónWikipedia: Battle of La Concepción - 1883
War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Battle of Huamachuco - 1890
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
North America · WyomingWikipedia: Wyoming - 1913
The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest recorded on Earth.
North America · Furnace CreekWikipedia: Highest temperature recorded on Earth - 1920
Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Arthur Meighen - 1921
Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Britain & Ireland · BelfastWikipedia: Bloody Sunday - 1924
Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.
no place on the mapWikipedia: 1924 Summer Olympics - 1925
Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Guru - 1925
Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
North America · Dayton, TennesseeWikipedia: Dayton, Tennessee - 1927
Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.
Britain & Ireland · Irish Free StateWikipedia: Kevin O'Higgins - 1938
Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Howard Hughes - 1940
World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
Britain & Ireland · Battle of BritainWikipedia: Operation Sea Lion - 1940
World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
no place on the mapWikipedia: World War II - 1941
Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
Europe · Jedwabne pogromWikipedia: Jedwabne pogrom - 1942
World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
North America · Akutan IslandWikipedia: Mitsubishi A6M Zero - 1943
World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Allied invasion of Sicily - 1945
Three African-American United States Marines who repeatedly raped local women in Katsuyama near Nago, Okinawa were killed by the residents and had their bodies hidden in a nearby cave for over 50 years.
Asia · NagoWikipedia: United States Marine Corps - 1947
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Muhammad Ali Jinnah - 1948
The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121
Asia · North KoreaWikipedia: Day of the Foundation of the Republic - 1951
Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
Asia · KaesongWikipedia: Korean War - 1962
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Telstar 1 - 1966
The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.
North America · Soldier FieldWikipedia: Chicago Freedom Movement - 1967
New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.
Oceania · New ZealandWikipedia: New Zealand - 1973
John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.
no place on the mapWikipedia: John Paul Getty III - 1973
The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
Latin America · The BahamasWikipedia: The Bahamas - 1974
An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.
Africa · 1974 EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 crashWikipedia: 1974 EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 crash - 1976
Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
Africa · AngolaWikipedia: Angola - 1978
President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
Africa · NouakchottWikipedia: 1978 Mauritanian coup d'état - 1985
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
Asia · Aeroflot Flight 5143Wikipedia: Aeroflot Flight 5143 - 1985
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
Oceania · Sinking of the Rainbow WarriorWikipedia: Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - 1991
A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
North America · L'Express Airlines Flight 508Wikipedia: L'Express Airlines Flight 508 - 1991
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Boris Yeltsin - 1991
The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
no place on the mapWikipedia: South Africa national cricket team - 1992
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
North America · MiamiWikipedia: Miami - 1995
Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
Asia · MyanmarWikipedia: Myanmar - 1995
The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.
no place on the mapWikipedia: NIOSH air filtration rating - 1997
In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
no place on the mapWikipedia: DNA - 1997
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
Europe · ErmuaWikipedia: Miguel Ángel Blanco - 1998
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
North America · Roman Catholic Diocese of DallasWikipedia: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - 1999
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
North America · Rose BowlWikipedia: 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final - 2000
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Bashar al-Assad - 2000
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Airbus - 2002
The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Massacre of the Innocents - 2006
A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
Asia · Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688Wikipedia: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 - 2006
Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion).
no place on the mapWikipedia: Typhoon Ewiniar - 2007
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Erden Eruç - 2007
The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.
Asia · Siege of Lal MasjidWikipedia: Siege of Lal Masjid - 2008
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Ljube Boškoski - 2011
Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.
no place on the mapWikipedia: News International phone hacking scandal - 2011
Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
Europe · SyukeyevoWikipedia: Bulgaria - 2012
The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Episcopal Church - 2016
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Europe · Stade de FranceWikipedia: UEFA Euro 2016 final - 2017
Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.
Asia · MosulWikipedia: War in Iraq - 2018
Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.
Asia · Tham Luang cave rescueWikipedia: Tham Luang cave rescue - 2019
The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
Latin America · PueblaWikipedia: Volkswagen Beetle
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
- 1936
In Seville (Spain), the Anthem of Andalusia is presented to the public.
- 1960
At the Parc des Princes football stadium (Paris), the final of the first European Championship in history takes place. It is contested by the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, with the USSR winning in extra time by a final score of 2-1, becoming European champions for the first and only time in its history.
Europe · 1960 European Nations' CupTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in SpanishWikipedia: Eurocopa 1960 - 2021
In Brazil, against the host national team, in the "clásico de clásicos", the Argentina national team is crowned champion of the Americas, ending a drought of 28 years without titles. This Copa América is Argentina's 15th and means the first title (at senior level) for Lionel Messi in his nation's colours.
Who was born on 10 July
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 274 are shown.
- 1856
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (died 1943)
SmiljanWikipedia: Nikola Tesla - 1871
Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1922)
16th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Marcel Proust - 1925
Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia
Alor SetarWikipedia: Mahathir Mohamad - 1509
John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (died 1564)
- 1931
Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
WinghamWikipedia: Alice Munro - 1830
Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (died 1903)
Charlotte AmalieWikipedia: Camille Pissarro - 1951
Rajnath Singh, Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India
Chandauli districtWikipedia: Rajnath Singh - 1980
Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
AbileneWikipedia: Jessica Simpson - 1972
Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer
BarranquillaWikipedia: Sofía Vergara - 1975
Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (died 2018)
HafnarfjörðurWikipedia: Stefán Karl Stefánsson - 1902
Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
ChorzówWikipedia: Kurt Alder - 1942
Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2010)
PortsmouthWikipedia: Ronnie James Dio - 1985
Mario Gómez, German footballer
RiedlingenWikipedia: Mario Gómez - 1920
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
San FranciscoWikipedia: Owen Chamberlain - 1888
Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (died 1978)
- 1950
Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior
KalamataWikipedia: Prokopis Pavlopoulos - 1943
Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (died 1993)
RichmondWikipedia: Arthur Ashe - 1895
Carl Orff, German composer and educator (died 1982)
MunichWikipedia: Carl Orff - 1977
Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
Forest GateWikipedia: Chiwetel Ejiofor - 1451
James III of Scotland (died 1488)
Stirling CastleWikipedia: James III of Scotland - 1792
George M. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (died 1864)
PhiladelphiaWikipedia: George M. Dallas - 1867
Prince Maximilian of Baden (died 1929)
Baden-BadenWikipedia: Prince Maximilian of Baden - 1979
Gong Yoo, Korean actor
Sumin-dongWikipedia: Gong Yoo - 1976
Edmílson, Brazilian footballer
TaquaritingaWikipedia: Edmílson - 1958
Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director
County CorkWikipedia: Fiona Shaw - 1976
Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 2001
Isabela Merced, American actress
ClevelandWikipedia: Isabela Merced - 1723
William Blackstone, English lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1780)
CheapsideWikipedia: William Blackstone - 1903
John Wyndham, English author (died 1969)
DorridgeWikipedia: John Wyndham - 1983
Gabi, Spanish footballer
MadridWikipedia: Gabi - 1945
Virginia Wade, English tennis player and sportscaster
BournemouthWikipedia: Virginia Wade - 1985
Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer
- 1724
Eva Ekeblad, Swedish noble and agronomist (died 1786)
StockholmWikipedia: Eva Ekeblad - 1835
Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (died 1880)
- 1883
Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (died 1948)
Bolshaya PolyanaWikipedia: Johannes Blaskowitz - 1902
Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (died 1989)
CamagüeyWikipedia: Nicolás Guillén - 1942
Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
DetroitWikipedia: Sixto Rodriguez - 1961
Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and film actor
British Hong KongWikipedia: Jacky Cheung - 1922
Jake LaMotta, American boxer and actor (died 2017)
The BronxWikipedia: Jake LaMotta - 1914
Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (died 1992)
TorontoWikipedia: Joe Shuster - 1919
Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (died 2009)
ToulouseWikipedia: Pierre Gamarra - 1921
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (died 2009)
BrooklineWikipedia: Eunice Kennedy Shriver - 1965
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, European Princess
Kingdom of GreeceWikipedia: Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark - 1899
John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1936)
- 1928
Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (died 1999)
9th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Bernard Buffet - 1949
Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1954
Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
North ShieldsWikipedia: Neil Tennant - 1976
Adrian Grenier, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Santa FeWikipedia: Adrian Grenier - 1980
Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter
São GonçaloWikipedia: Claudia Leitte - 1998
Angus Cloud, American actor (died 2023)
OaklandWikipedia: Angus Cloud - 1875
Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (died 1955)
MayesvilleWikipedia: Mary McLeod Bethune - 1947
Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Coney IslandWikipedia: Arlo Guthrie - 1969
Gale Harold, American actor
DecaturWikipedia: Gale Harold - 1419
Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (died 1471)
- 1682
Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1716)
BurbageWikipedia: Roger Cotes - 1982
Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
KoszalinWikipedia: Sebastian Mila - 1904
Lili Damita, French-American actress (died 1994)
- 1931
Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (died 1968)
NanticokeWikipedia: Nick Adams - 1927
David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City (died 2020)
TrentonWikipedia: David Dinkins - 1938
Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (died 1972)
PhiladelphiaWikipedia: Lee Morgan
What is celebrated on 10 July
- Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
- Christian feast day: Amalberga of Maubeuge
- Christian feast day: Canute IV of Denmark
- Christian feast day: Martyrs of Damascus
- Christian feast day: Rufina and Secunda
- Christian feast day: Seven Brothers
- Christian feast day: Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax
- Christian feast day: July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.
- Nikola Tesla Day
- Statehood Day (Wyoming)
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How an event gets onto the map
The place comes from Wikidata. If the sentence links to the article about the event itself (a battle, an opening, an earthquake), dated to the same year, the ray stands on its coordinates or on those of its location. Otherwise it stands on the first place the sentence links to: a town, a building, a mountain, an island. This second step can be wrong: sometimes the sentence only mentions the place. That is why the page says, under each event, which place the ray stands on.
When the sentence links to a single state or province, or to a single sea, lake or desert larger than 5,000 km², the globe shows a dashed circle, not a ray. The circle has the area Wikidata gives, with its radius kept between 1.2° and 16°, or a radius of 4.5° when Wikidata gives no area; it says only that the sentence links to that place. Organisations, ships, spacecraft, museum objects, rivers, mountain ranges, languages and continents are never used as places. When a sentence names several states and no exact place, the event stays in the list only.
What the height means
The height of a ray shows how many years have passed, on a logarithmic scale: 10 years, 100 years and 1,000 years are equal steps apart; anything older than about 2,600 years has the tallest ray. The colour runs from pale yellow for recent years to violet for antiquity.
Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.