What happened on July 10? There are more than 316 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 10
July 10 is the 192nd day of the year 2024. There are 174 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 28th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Vanderbilt, Texas 77991 sunrise will occur at 06:34 AM and sunset will occur at 08:29 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 203 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 10
- 48 BCBattle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 138Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- 988Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- 1212The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1460Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 1499Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
- 1553Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- 1584William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1645English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 1778American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1806The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1821The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1850Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
- 1877The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- 1882War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- 1890Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 1911The Royal Australian Navy was established by HM King George V of Australia.
- 1913Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- 1921Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1925Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1925Scopes 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.
- 1938Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1940World 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).
- 1940World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- 1941Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1942Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1946Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- 1947Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 1951Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1962Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1966The 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.
- 1967Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1968Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1971Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
- 1973John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1973National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1973The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1976One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1976The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
- 1978World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1978President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1980Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 1992In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1997In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the “out of Africa theory” of human evolution placing an “African Eve” at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1997Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 1998Roman 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.
- 2000A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
- 2000EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002At a Sotheby‘s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- 2003A 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.
- 2005Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2006Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
- 2008Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
- 2011Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
Who Were Born On July 10?
- 1419Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
- 1452King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
- 1509John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
- 1517Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
- 1592Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
- 1614Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
- 1625Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
- 1638David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
- 1666John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
- 1682Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
- 1682Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1711Princess Amelia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
- 1723William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- 1736Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
- 1792George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864)
- 1802Robert Chambers, Scottish author and naturalist (d. 1871)
- 1804Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, American religious figure (d. 1879)
- 1809Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
- 1830Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
- 1832Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
- 1835Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
- 1839Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
- 1856Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
- 1864Sir Austin Chapman, Australian policitian (d. 1926)
- 1867Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- 1871Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
- 1874Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
- 1875Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
- 1883Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
- 1888Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
- 1895Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
- 1896Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
- 1897Jack “Legs” Diamond\", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
- 1897Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
- 1898Renée Björling, Swedish actress (d. 1975)
- 1899Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
- 1899John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
- 1900Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
- 1900Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1979)
- 1901Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese special effects director (d. 1970)
- 1902Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1903John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
- 1903Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
- 1905Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1905Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
- 1907Blind Boy Fuller, American blues guitarist (d. 1941)
- 1909Donald Sinclair, British hotel manager (d. 1981)
- 1913Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
- 1914Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
- 1917Don Herbert, American television host (d. 2007)
- 1917Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1917Reg Smythe, British cartoonist (Andy Capp) (d. 1998)
- 1920David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
- 1920Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1921Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
- 1921Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
- 1921Jake LaMotta, American boxer
- 1921Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1923Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
- 1923G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
- 1923Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
- 1923John Bradley, American Navy corpsman (d. 1994)
- 1924Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1924Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
- 1926Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1927David Norman Dinkins, New York City Mayor, 1990-1993
- 1927Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
- 1927Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
- 1928Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
- 1928Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
- 1928Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar (d. 2010)
- 1929Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
- 1930Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004)
- 1931Alice Munro, Canadian writer
- 1931Jerry Herman, American composer and lyricist
- 1931Julian May, American writer
- 1931Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1932Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
- 1933Jan DeGaetani, American mezzo-soprano (d. 1989)
- 1934Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
- 1935Tura Satana, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1938Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter (d. 1972)
- 1938Paul Andreu, French architect
- 1939Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
- 1940Brian Priestley, English jazz writer and pianist
- 1940Helen Donath, American soprano
- 1940Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British economist
- 1940Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
- 1941David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
- 1941Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer
- 1942Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1942Ronnie James Dio, American musician (d. 2010)
- 1943Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
- 1945Hal McRae American baseball player,
- 1945Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
- 1945John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
- 1945Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
- 1945Ron Glass, American actor
- 1945Virginia Wade, British tennis player
- 1946Sue Lyon, American actress
- 1947Arlo Guthrie, American musician
- 1948Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer
- 1949Greg Kihn, American pop musician & radio personality
- 1949John Whitehead, American singer and record producer (d.2004)
- 1949Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
- 1950Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
- 1951Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
- 1951Phyllis Smith, American actress
- 1952Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
- 1952Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
- 1952Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
- 1953Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
- 1953Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker (d. 2011)
- 1954Andre Dawson, American baseball player
- 1954Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
- 1954Tommy Bowden, American football coach
- 1956Tom McClintock, American politician
- 1957Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
- 1958Béla Fleck, American musician
- 1958Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
- 1959Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
- 1960Jeff Bergman, American voice actor
- 1961Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
- 1963Richard Waites, British actor
- 1964Urban Meyer, American football coach
- 1964Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
- 1965Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
- 1965Ken Mellons, American singer
- 1965Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
- 1965Scott McCarron, American professional golfer
- 1966Christian Stangl, Austrian mountaineer
- 1966Gina Bellman, British actress
- 1966Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1967Rebekah Del Rio, Latin American singer/songwriter
- 1967Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen
- 1967Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
- 1968Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
- 1968Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
- 1969Alexandra Hedison, American actress
- 1969Gale Harold, American actor
- 1969Jamie Glover, British actor
- 1969Vicky Morales, Filipina broadcast journalist
- 1970Adam Hills, Australian comedian
- 1970Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
- 1970Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
- 1970Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
- 1970John Simm, British actor
- 1971Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
- 1971Orlando Jordan, American wrestler
- 1972Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
- 1972Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
- 1972Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
- 1973Annie Mumolo, American actress
- 1974Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
- 1974Sharon den Adel, Singer of Dutch band, Within Temptation
- 1975Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975Andrew Firestone, American TV reality show personality
- 1975Brendan Gaughan, American stock car driver
- 1975Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
- 1976Adrian Grenier, American actor
- 1976Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
- 1976Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
- 1976Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
- 1976Lars Ricken, German footballer
- 1976Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 1977Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
- 1977Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
- 1978Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
- 1979Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
- 1980Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1980Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
- 1980Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress
- 1980James D. Rolfe, video game reviewer better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd
- 1980Jessica Simpson, American singer
- 1980Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
- 1981Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1982Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
- 1982Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
- 1983Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer
- 1983Kim Heechul, Korean singer
- 1983Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer
- 1984Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
- 1984Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
- 1985B.J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
- 1985Mario Gómez, German footballer
- 1985Park Chu-Young, South Korean footballer
- 1986Simenona Martinez, American actress
- 1987Brian Belo, British television personality
- 1988Antonio Brown, American football player
- 1988Heather Hemmens, American actress
- 1991Danielle Horvat, Australian actress
- 1991María Chacón, Mexican actress
- 1992Larissa Marolt, Australian fashion model
- 1998Haley Pullos, American actress
Who Died On July 10?
- 138Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
- 649Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b. 599)
- 1099El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
- 1103King Eric I of Denmark
- 1290King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
- 1460Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
- 1480King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
- 1559King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1584William I of Orange (b. 1533)
- 1590Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
- 1594Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
- 1603Joan Terès i Borrull, viceroy of Catalonia (b. 1539)
- 1621Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
- 1653Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
- 1680Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
- 1683François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- 1686John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
- 1776Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
- 1794Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1754)
- 1806George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
- 1848Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
- 1851Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
- 1881Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
- 1884Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
- 1908Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
- 1920Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
- 1941Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
- 1954Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
- 1956Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1962Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875)
- 1963Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
- 1970Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
- 1971Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
- 1972Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
- 1978Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
- 1978John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
- 1979Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
- 1980Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908)
- 1981Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
- 1985Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer and victim of the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (b. 1950)
- 1986Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 1987John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
- 1989Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
- 1993Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2000Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
- 2000Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
- 2002Evangelos Florakis, Greek military officer (b. 1943)
- 2002Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
- 2003Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
- 2003Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
- 2003Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
- 2004Pati Behrs, Russian-born American actress, grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and first wife of American actor John Derek (b. 1922)
- 2005A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
- 2005Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
- 2005Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- 2006Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
- 2007Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
- 2007Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
- 2007Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1944)
- 2008Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
- 2008Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
- 2011Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1921)
- 2011Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
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