July 10
is the 191st day (192nd in
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining.
*
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 tournament 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.
*
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)
* 1899 -
Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d.
1978)
*
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 (d.
1998)
*
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
*
1966 -
Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d.
2006)
*
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
*
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 rebel (b.
1965)
*
Bahamas -
Independence Day.
*
Silence Day - celebrated by followers of
Meher Baba.
*
Mauritania -
Armed Forces Day.
*Ancient
Latvia -
Septinu Bralu Diena observed.
Liturgical feasts
*
Saint Etto, bishop, confessor [Mons]
*
Saint Kanute, King of Denmark, martyr [Sleswig, Scandinavia]
*Translation of
Saint Maclovius, bishop of
St. Malo, confessor [St. Malo]
*The
Seven Brothers (Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs [common; Halberstadt, Hildesheim]
*
Saint Amalberga, virgin [Brandenburg, Flanders]
*
Saint Felicitas, martyr [Halberstadt, Hildesheim, Augsburg]
*
Saints Rufina and Secunda, martyrs [common; Albi]
*Saint Declan Quibell Day -England
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
On This Day in CanadaJuly 9 -
July 11 -
June 10 -
August 10 --
listing of all days
