July 10

is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining.

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.
1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
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.
1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
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.
1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
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.
1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
1976 - The Seveso Disaster occures in Italy.
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC
1978 - Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
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.
1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
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.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006 - French football player Zinedine Zidane is awarded the Golden Ball Award for the 2006 Fifa World Cup, the last game of his career.
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff. All 45 people on board are killed including two brigadiers, two judges, a university Vice Chancellor and many civilians.

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)
1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
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, Croatian Serb inventor (d. 1943)
1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian painter (d. 1971)
1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
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 (d. 1992)
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)
1924 - Bobo Brazil, Professional wrestler
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
1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
1950 - Greg Kihn, American musician
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1953 - Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician
1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
1959 - Janet Julian, American actress
1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
1970 - Ed Chapman, British artist
1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer
1970 - John Simm, British actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1977 - João Jamba, Angolan footballer
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American singer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1984 - Mark Gonzalez, Chilean footballer

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)
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b.1936)
1987 - John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor, voiced Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Barny Rubble, etc. (b. 1908)
1997 - Joe Camel, Cartoon mascot for Camel cigarettes (b. 1950s)
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)
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen Gurrellia leader and terrorist (b. 1965)

Holidays and observances

Bahamas - Independence Day.
Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.
Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.

External links

Saint Declan Quibell Day -EnglandBBC: On This Day
The New York Times: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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