Notable Historical Events on July 10th
July 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
48 |
Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. |
BC AD | |
552 |
Origin of Armenian calendar |
988 |
The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. |
1040 |
Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes |
1212 |
The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. |
1460 |
Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton |
1520 |
King Charles V France & King Henry VIII of England sign treaty of Calais |
1568 |
Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish |
1584 |
Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium |
1598 |
Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande |
1609 |
Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League |
1627 |
English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20] |
1629 |
1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA) |
1645 |
Battle at Langport, Somerset: Cromwell's New Model Army beats Royalists |
1652 |
England declares war on Netherlands |
1690 |
Battle of Beachy Head - French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen |
1739 |
King George II authorised the Admiralty Board to seek maritime reprisals against Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) |
1746 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye |
1762 |
Roubiliac's monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey London |
1775 |
Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army |
1778 |
American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
1796 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. |
1800 |
The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. |
1806 |
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. |
1832 |
President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US |
1847 |
Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune, meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel |
1850 |
Millard Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor) |
1861 |
Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia & says Union troops will not enter that state |
1862 |
US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad |
1863 |
Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island) [->SEP 06] |
1863 |
Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals [->JUL 16] US1000 CS1339 |
1866 |
Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass |
1873 |
French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol |
1877 |
The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. |
1884 |
1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out |
1886 |
George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company |
1886 |
Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) |
1890 |
Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage) |
1892 |
1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) |
1898 |
Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo |
1905 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court |
1908 |
H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C) |
1910 |
Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0 |
1911 |
105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) |
1912 |
Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6) |
1913 |
134°F (57°C), Greenland Ranch, California (US record) |
1913 |
Romania declares war on Bulgaria |
1913 |
Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. |
1914 |
Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles |
1915 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
1917 |
Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft |
1918 |
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms |
1919 |
Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage |
1919 |
US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate |
1920 |
Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary |
1922 |
42nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats R Lycett (6-3 6-4 6-2) |
1923 |
2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia) |
1923 |
All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy |
1924 |
Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim |
1924 |
Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam |
1925 |
Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial |
1925 |
USSR's official news agency TASS forms |
1925 |
Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration. |
1926 |
30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio |
1926 |
Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage |
1928 |
Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout |
1929 |
In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning |
1929 |
US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency |
1932 |
Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job |
1933 |
1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY |
1934 |
1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia |
1934 |
2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York |
1934 |
Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in All star game |
1936 |
109°F (43°C) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record) |
1936 |
110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record) |
1936 |
111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record) |
1936 |
112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record) |
1936 |
New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles |
1936 |
Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game |
1937 |
Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club" |
1938 |
"Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic |
1938 |
Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours |
1940 |
Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attacked shipping convoys in English Channel |
1941 |
Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. |
1942 |
Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp |
1942 |
Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union |
1943 |
6th day of battle at Kursk |
1943 |
US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky) |
1944 |
U-821 sinks |
1944 |
"Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan |
1945 |
Adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff |
1946 |
Belgian government of Acker resigns |
1947 |
200 die when train derailed & fell into a river in Canton, China |
1947 |
Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0 |
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. |
1948 |
"Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances |
1948 |
"Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances |
1948 |
"Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs |
1948 |
Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army |
1949 |
1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Ohio |
1949 |
WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
"Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV |
1951 |
18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
1951 |
Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong |
1953 |
82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees |
1953 |
Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist] |
1956 |
23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash DC |
1956 |
650,000 US steel workers go on strike |
1956 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
1956 |
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, South Africa, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC |
1958 |
1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed) |
1958 |
Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia |
1960 |
Belgium sends troops to Congo |
1960 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open) |
1962 |
32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington |
1962 |
All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers) |
1962 |
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia |
1962 |
Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1964 |
Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game |
1964 |
Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo |
1964 |
Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo |
1965 |
Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
1965 |
Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" |
1966 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
1966 |
US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon |
1967 |
Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" - single goes on to win 4 Grammys |
1967 |
Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1968 |
US Major League baseball announces it will split into 2 divisions for 1969 |
1969 |
Chilean Association of Librarians created |
1971 |
100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale |
1971 |
Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed |
1972 |
Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern) |
1972 |
Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India |
1973 |
Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution |
1974 |
OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands |
1974 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975 |
Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV |
1975 |
Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair |
1976 |
105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale |
1976 |
Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud) |
1976 |
The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. |
1976 |
One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. |
1977 |
"Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances |
1977 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
1978 |
Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, President Moktar flees |
1978 |
World News Tonight premieres on ABC. |
1979 |
Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion |
1980 |
Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp |
1980 |
Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time. |
1981 |
CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) |
1981 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze |
1982 |
Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week |
1982 |
Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000 |
1982 |
Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
1985 |
Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke |
1985 |
French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, New Zealand |
1985 |
Playboy (and also Penthouse) publish nude pictures of Madonna |
1988 |
Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1989 |
Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) |
1990 |
61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
1990 |
All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers) |
1990 |
Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show |
1990 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee |
1991 |
Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Federation |
1991 |
L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 |
1991 |
Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa |
1992 |
John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners |
1992 |
Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup |
1992 |
SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival |
1992 |
US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons |
1993 |
Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM |
1993 |
Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38) |
1994 |
"Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances |
1994 |
Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning |
1994 |
Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns |
1994 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36) |
1997 |
Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3 |
1997 |
Louise Woodward's trial begins in Mass, Nanny murder trial |
1997 |
RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads |
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 |
EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. |
2000 |
A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. |
2001 |
72nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Safeco Field, Seattle |
2001 |
Amerada Hess agrees to acquire Triton Energy for $2.7 billion in cash |
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 Kenneth, Lord Thomson. |
2002 |
10th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Venus Williams win |
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. |
2007 |
78th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-4 at AT&T Park, San Francisco |
2008 |
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes. |
2011 |
British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal. |
2012 |
The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages |
2012 |
83rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-0 at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City |
2013 |
40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China |
2016 |
Wimbledon 2016: Venus and Serena Williams win doubles |
2016 |
Wimbledon 2016: Serena Williams beats Angelique Kerber to win 22nd Grand Slam |
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