July 10 - Events

Events

• 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
• 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
• 988 – The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
• 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
• 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VIprisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
• 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
• 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
• 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
• 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
• 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
• 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
• 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
• 1832 – U.S.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 upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
• 1859 – Big Ben rings for the first time. [first strike on July 11, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5801737/Big-Ben-celebrates-150th-anniversary.html]
• 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), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
• 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers 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 the Butler Act.
• 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
• 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
• 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
• 1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
• 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1943 – World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
• 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
• 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
• 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
• 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
• 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 Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
• 1971 – Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
• 1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
• 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• 1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
• 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
• 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killingFernando Pereira.
• 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
• 1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeeringviolations.
• 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the "out of Africa theory" ofhuman evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• 1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) 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) toLord 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 traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
• 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
• 2006 – Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
• 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.