On This Day In History

#11401 · August 9, 2025, 6:54 am

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Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

Today in History in 1483

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Longest ever hunger strike ends, Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila tastes honey after 16 years

Today in History in 2016

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#11402 · August 9, 2025, 6:55 am

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#11403 · August 10, 2025, 6:44 am

August 10th

612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.

610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an

1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to “Asia”

1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London

1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world’s largest museum and research complex

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#11404 · August 10, 2025, 6:44 am

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Leo Daft opens America’s 1st commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore

Today in History in 1885

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Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts

Today in History in 1793

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