Events of july 10
Events
48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1410 - Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 - President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.
1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).
1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
1951 - Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC
1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
1985 - In response to market demand, Coca-Cola re-introduces its old formula cola as "Coca-Cola Classic" (see New Coke).
1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1998 - The remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie are returned to his family in St. Louis, Missouri from the Tomb of the Unknowns upon identification through DNA analysis. The remains had been in the first tomb since 1984.
1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest bus accident to date in Hong Kong.
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Births
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1723 - William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
1842 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian physicist (d. 1943)
1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1888 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist
1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist
1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Malaysian Prime Minister
1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician
1959 - Janet Julian, American actress
1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American singer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 - Mark Gonzalez, Chilean footballer
1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
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Deaths
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
1298 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1987 - John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
Holidays and observances
Bahamas - Independence Day
Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba
Mauritania - Armed Forces Day
Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed
New Zealand - Rainbow Warrior Commemmoration
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