This day in History - August 10

435 Historic Events for August 10
1762 Birth Santiago Ferrer, composer
1774 Event 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1782 Birth Charles Napier, London, soldier
1784 Death Allan Ramsay, artist
1787 Event Turkey declares war on Russia
1787 Event Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
1790 Event Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1792 Event Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
1793 Birth Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1794 Birth Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
1801 Birth Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
1802 Death Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77
1806 Death Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68
1808 Birth Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1809 Event Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1810 Birth Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
1810 Birth Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
1814 Birth Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1814 Birth John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1814 Birth William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863
1821 Event Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1821 Death Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
1822 Event Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1823 Birth Ant“nio G Dias, Brazilian poet
1823 Birth Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist