On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

* " The Nobels in Baku " in Azerbaijan International, Vol 10. 2 ( Summer 2002 ), 56 – 59.

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

* 1971 – Mack 10, American rapper and actor ( Westside Connection )

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

* Architect / Designer III: Licensed architect or non-registered graduate with 8 – 10 years of experience ; responsible for significant aspects of projects.

* 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor ( d. 54 )

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue

* 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.

* Article 10 – All treaty states will discourage activities by any country in Antarctica that are contrary to the treaty ;

Joseph Dongell, professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, states " the most conscipuous feature of Ephesians 1: 3 – 2: 10 is the phrase ' in Christ ', which occurs twelve times in Ephesians 1: 3 – 4 alone ... this means that Jesus Christ himself is the chosen one, the predestined one.

* 1957 – Dennis Drew, American keyboard player ( 10, 000 Maniacs )

* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )

* 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

* 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around, killing at least 138, 000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.

To determine palatability, different levels of amaranth grain flour were mixed with the wheat flour and baking ingredients ( 1 % salt, 2. 5 % fat, 1. 5 % yeast, 10 % sugar and 52 – 74 % water ), fermented, molded, pan-proved and baked.

It has a short stem bearing a tuft of long, narrow, arching leaves 10 – 35 cm long and 1 – 2 cm broad, and a central flower stalk 25 – 60 cm tall, ending in an umbel of 20-30 white, or bright blue, funnel-shaped flowers, each flower 2. 5 – 5 cm diameter.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

April 10 marked a memorable date in New York's musical history -- indeed in the musical history of the entire eastern United States.

He gave a further $ 10 million in 1913 to endow the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, a grant-making foundation.

One unit of alcohol is defined as 10 millilitres in the United Kingdom, and as 10 grams ( 12. 7 ml ) in Australia.

John Young, a captain in the United States Navy, had flown on three spaceflights prior to Apollo 16: Gemini 3, Gemini 10 and Apollo 10, which orbited the Moon.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

In the Great Plains of the United States a 10 metre turbine can supply enough energy to heat and cool a well-built all-electric house.

With United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, the bombing campaign ended on June 10, 1999.

On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.

In the United States in 2004 ( the most recent year for which EPA statistics are available ), forests sequestered 10. 6 % ( 637 MegaTonnes

They also argue that satellite radio will boost Canadian culture by giving vital exposure to independent artists, instead of concentrating just on the country's stars, and point to the CRTC's successful extraction of promises to program 10 % Canadian content on satellite services already operational in the United States as important concessions.

Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.

The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years.

Chagas disease affects eight to 10 million people living in endemic Latin American countries, with an additional 300, 000 – 400, 000 living in nonendemic countries, including Spain and the United States.

Clive Anderson ( born 10 December 1952 ) is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

* 10 Metropolises, out of which 7 Metropolises are in Egypt, 1 Metropolis in the Near East and 2 Metropolises are in Europe ; served by 4 Metropolitan Archbishops and 4 Metropolitan Bishops, while 2 Metropolis remain vacant ; out of the 8 Hierarchs, 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in the Near East, 2 in Metropolitan Archbishops are in Egypt and 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in The United Kingdom, while all 4 Metropolitan Bishops are in Egypt.

The commandant performs all other functions prescribed in Section 5043 in Title 10 of the United States Code or delegates those duties and responsibilities to other officers in his administration in his name.

The responsibilities of the Commandant are outlined in Title 10, Section 5043 the United States Code and is " Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of the Navy ".

10 of the 1864 amending Pacific Railroad Act ( 13 Statutes at Large, 356 ) additionally authorized the company to issue its own " First Mortgage Bonds " in total amounts up to ( but not exceeding ) that of the bonds issued by the United States.