Anniversaries, Holidays, and Observances for August 10, 2021
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Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.
On This Day
- International Biodiesel Day
- 1664: Austria and the Ottoman Empire signed the Peace of Vásvár
- 1675: A Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opened in Amsterdam
- 1678: Netherlands and France signed a peace treaty in Nijmegen
- 1792: A large scale insurrection against the French monarchy occurred in Paris
- 1809: Quito, Ecuador and the surrounding area was the first region to declare itself independent of Spain in Latin America
- 1822: Antioch, Syria was hit by an earthquake resulting in about 20,000 people dying
- 1827: Race riots occurred in Cincinnati, Ohio and about 1,000 blacks left for Canada
- 1831: A hurricane hit Barbados and about 1,500 people died
- 1856: A hurricane washed away 200-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
- 1913: The Second Balkan War ended with the signing of The Treaty of Bucharest
- 1920: The Treaty of Sèvres was signed between World War I’s Allies and Turkey
- 1926: An Italian-Spanish peace treaty was signed
- 1944: Race riots broke out in Athens, Alabama
- 1968: Race riots were experienced in Miami, Chicago, and Little Rock
- 1971: During the internment round-up operation in West Belfast, 11 unarmed civilians were killed in The Ballymurphy Massacre
- 1976: A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer was shot dead by the British Army as he drove in Belfast killing him and his 3 children, sparking “peace rallies” throughout the month by the ‘Peace People’
- 1977: About 100 white sympathisers joined evicted black squatters in protest against the demolition of their homes outside Cape Town, South Africa
- 1980: Hurricane Allen hit Brownsville, Texas. Altogether, the storm killed 269 people
- 1993: A 7.0 earthquake hit the South Island of New Zealand
- 1994: The last British troops left Hong Kong after troops had been stationed there since September 1841
- 2013: 6 people were killed after Paluweh Volcano erupted in Indonesia
- 2014: Michael Brown’s killing by a police officer prompted protests and rioting to break out in Ferguson, Missouri
- 2018: Evidence of one million Uighurs being held by China in “counter-extremism centers” was presented to the UN Committee on Human Rights
- 2018: Anti-government protests began in Bucharest, Romania, resulting in over 400 people being injured in clashes with police
- 2019: Typhoon Lekima made landfall in Zhejiang Province, China, killing at least 32 people and prompting the evacuation of one million people
- 2019: Monsoon flooding in southern and western India killed at least 150 people and left 100,000 people in emergency relief camps
- 2020: A rare Derecho wind storm hit the US Midwest flattening cornfields, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity, and killing two people
Weekly Holidays and Observances including August 10, 2021
- Muharram (Islamic New Year) (August 9-10)
August Monthly Holidays and Observances
- American Indian Heritage Month
- Black Business Month
- Cataract Awareness Month
- Fall of Empires Month
- Happiness Happens Month
- Home Business Month
- National Canning Month
- National FAS Disorders Awareness Month
- National Immunization Awareness Month
- National Inventors Month
- National Publish You eBook Month
- National Runaway Prevention Month
- National Water Quality Month
- National Wellness Month
- National Win With Civility Month
- Professional Speakers Month
- What Will Be Your Legacy Month