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July 10 in History
Historical Events on July 10
48 BC
Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat by Pompey in Macedonia.
138
Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
645
Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
988
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, 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.
1086
King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
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 VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1499
The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1512
The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
1519
Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
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
U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1869
Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
1877
The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882
War 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.
1890
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913
The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
1921
Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen 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 of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1927
Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
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.
1941
Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
1942
Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1942
World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1943
World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.[1]
1947
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the 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. As many as 60,000 people attend.
1973
The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973
National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1976
Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1978
ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978
President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1985
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
1985
An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1991
The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1992
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997
In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
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 £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2005
Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
2007
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
2011
Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
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