📜 This Day in History

July 10

• 645In a plot to eliminate the Japanese Soga clan, Prince Naka no Ōe assassinated Soga no Iruka, beginning the Isshi incident.
• 1645English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the west of England.
• 1921Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce was agreed between the Irish Republican Army and British forces, violence broke out between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.
• 1945Three 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.
• 1999The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports.
• 2018The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a flooded cave in northern Thailand.

Born on this day

• 1509John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (died 1564)
• 1856Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (died 1943)
• 1871Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1922)
• 1925Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia