July 10
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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1452 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
- 1509 – John Calvin, Swiss reformer (d. 1564)
- 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)
- 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
- 1888 – Giorgio 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 cartoonist (d. 1992)
- 1920 – David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer
- 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
- 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1931 – Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1931 – Alice Munro, American writer
- 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect
- 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
- 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
- 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
- 1945 – Virginia Wade, British tennis player
- 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American musician
- 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
- 1954 – Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
- 1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
- 1970 – John Simm, British actor
- 1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian
- 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor
- 1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
- 1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
- 1977 – Levan Kobiashvili, Georgian footballer
- 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer
- 1985 – Mario Gomez, German footballer
Deaths [change]
- 138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
- 1103 – King Eric I of Denmark
- 1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1584 – William the Silent (William of Orange), Dutch leader (b. 1533)
- 1590 – Archduke Charles II of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
- 1806 – George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
- 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
- 1920 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
- 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician (b. 1890)
- 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (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)
- 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
- 1987 – John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
- 2003 – Winston Graham, English author (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Raoul Moat, British fugitive criminal (b. 1973)
- 2010 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican musician (b. 1956)
- 2011 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (b. 1924)
Events [change]
- 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in Delft by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River Delta.
- 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832 – US 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 – 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).
- 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.
- 1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth.
- 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 – Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: 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 £49.5 million (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.
- 2003 – Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, is created.
- 2010 – A week-long manhunt comes to an end in Northumberland, England, when fugitive criminal Raoul Moat commits suicide by gunshot after a stand-off with police.
- 2011 – British Sunday tabloid newspaper, the News of the World, ends publication after a major phone-hacking scandal.
