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Birthday July 10, 1509 John Calvin, theologian |
Birthday July 10, 1723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries). |
Birthday July 10, 1792 George Mifflin Dallas, (D), 11th VP (1845-49). |
Birthday July 10, 1834 James Whistler, artist, mama's boy |
Birthday July 10, 1856 Nikola Tesla, physicist who developed alternating current. |
Birthday July 10, 1867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist, humorist, created Mr. Dooley. |
Birthday July 10, 1871 Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past). |
Birthday July 10, 1888 Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter. |
Birthday July 10, 1915 Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976). |
Birthday July 10, 1920 David Brinkley, newscaster (NBC, ABC). |
Birthday July 10, 1920 Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959). |
Birthday July 10, 1921 Jake LaMotta, Boxer |
Birthday July 10, 1926 Fred Gwynne, Herman Munster |
Birthday July 10, 1931 Alice Munro is born |
Birthday July 10, 1931 Del Insko, harness racer. |
Birthday July 10, 1933 Jerry Herman, Broadway composer |
Birthday July 10, 1942 Pyotr I. Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30). |
Birthday July 10, 1943 Arthur Ashe, tennis pro. |
Birthday July 10, 1945 Virginia Wade, tennis star |
Birthday July 10, 1946 Sue Lyon, in Iowa |
Birthday July 10, 1947 Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans). |
History July 10, 1777 British General Richard Prescott captured in Rhode Island |
History July 10, 1832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US |
History July 10, 1847 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel. |
History July 10, 1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death |
History July 10, 1850 Millard Fillmore sworn in as president |
History July 10, 1863 Siege on Battery Wagner begins |
History July 10, 1887 Dam collapses in Switzerland, kills 70 |
History July 10, 1889 Buckskin Frank Leslie murders a prostitute |
History July 10, 1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state. |
History July 10, 1910 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope dies. |
History July 10, 1917 German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg resigns |
History July 10, 1919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate |
History July 10, 1925 Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial |
History July 10, 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established |
History July 10, 1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits in 1 18 inning game |
History July 10, 1933 1st police radio system operated Eastchester Twp NY |
History July 10, 1940 The Battle of Britain begins |
History July 10, 1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air |
History July 10, 1941 Jazz great Jelly Roll Morton dies |
History July 10, 1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WWII |
History July 10, 1943 Allies land on Sicily |
History July 10, 1945 Robert Goddard died. |
History July 10, 1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo Oh |
History July 10, 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong |
History July 10, 1962 Telstar 1st geosynchronous communications satellite launched. |
History July 10, 1962 U.S. Patent issued for three-point seatbelt |
History July 10, 1965 MiGs shot down as bombing of North Vietnam continues |
History July 10, 1966 Orbiter 1 Launched to moon. |
History July 10, 1967 Heavy fighting continues near An Loc and the Central Highlands |
History July 10, 1973 Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule |
History July 10, 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen |
History July 10, 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze. |
History July 10, 1985 Coca-Cola Co. announces it would resume selling old formula Coke |
History July 10, 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. |
History July 10, 1985 The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior |
History July 10, 1990 Gorbachev re-elected as head of Communist Party |
History July 10, 1992 The Exxon Valdez captain's conviction is overturned |
History July 10, 1995 Hugh Grant appears on Tonight Show after Hollywood arrest |
History July 10, 1999 U.S. women win World Cup |