10th Of August: On This Day In History

   

1776 : American Revolutionary War : word of the United States Declaration of independence reaches London.

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Engrossed copy of the US declaration of independence

1893 : Rudolf Diesel’ s prime model internal combustion engine , a single 10 - foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base , ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg , Germany .

                  

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1904 : Angelo G Roncalli ( pope John XXIII ) becomes priest.

             

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1942 : General Bernard Montgomery appointed Commander British 8 th army in North Africa .

Bernard M .

1943 : US general George Patton calls injured soldiers “ coward ” .

George P .

1983 : Michael Jackson buys ATV music ( every Beatle song ) for $ 47 million .

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1994 : Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as U s Supreme Court Justice .

Ruth Ginsburg

2015 : Google announces its restructure as Alphabet , a holding company with You Tube , Android and Chrome as subsidiaries .

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