August 10: Feast Day of Saint Lawrence (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: England and a combined Franco-Breton fleet engaged in the Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during which an explosion destroyed each navy's most powerful ship.
- 1793 – The Louvre (Louvre Pyramid pictured), today the world's most visited museum, officially opened in Paris with an exhibition of 537 paintings.
- 1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announced that the Brazilian military would begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
- 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
- 1990 – NASA's Magellan space probe reached Venus on a mission to map its surface, fifteen months after its launch.
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