THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 10
July 10 in history
What happened on July 10: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1943 and 1989, each linked to the map that shows it.
Operation Husky: the Allies land in Sicily — their first assault on Axis home soil. Mussolini has fifteen days left in power.
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— Soviet miners’ strikes
10 Jul 1989 — Coal miners at Mezhdurechensk walk out over soap, food and pay, and within days hundreds of thousands of miners in the Kuzbass, the Donbas and Vorkuta join them. The workers’ state faced its largest strike since the 1920s, led by the class it claimed to represent.
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