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What happend on 10. July in History
In our data base we found 347 events happened on 10. July:
• 138: Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1099: El Cid, Castilian military leader, and diplomat (b. 1044) [category: Deaths]
• 1103: Eric I of Denmark (b. 1060) [category: Deaths]
• 1212: The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. [category: Events]
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• 1290: Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262) [category: Deaths]
• 1419: Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471) [category: Births]
• 1452: James III of Scotland (d. 1488) [category: Births]
• 1460: Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military commander (b. 1402) [category: Deaths]
• 1460: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton. [category: Events]
• 1480: René of Anjou (b. 1410) [category: Deaths]
• 1499: Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. [category: Events]
• 1509: John Calvin, French theologian and pastor (d. 1564) [category: Births]
• 1517: Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571) [category: Births]
• 1553: Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. [category: Events]
• 1559: Henry II of France (b. 1519) [category: Deaths]
• 1584: William the Silent, French prince (b. 1533) [category: Deaths]
• 1584: William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard. [category: Events]
• 1590: Charles II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1540) [category: Deaths]
• 1592: Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) [category: Births]
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• 1594: Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554) [category: Deaths]
• 1603: Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish bishop (b. 1538) [category: Deaths]
• 1614: Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish statesman (d. 1686) [category: Births]
• 1621: Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, Roman military commander (b. 1571) [category: Deaths]
• 1625: Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) [category: Births]
• 1638: David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685) [category: Births]
• 1645: English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place. [category: Events]
• 1653: Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600) [category: Deaths]
• 1666: John Ernest Grabe, German-Anglican theologian (d. 1711) [category: Births]
• 1680: Louis Moréri, French priest and encyclopedist (b. 1643) [category: Deaths]
• 1682: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German missionary (d. 1719) [category: Births]
• 1682: Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716) [category: Births]
• 1683: François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610) [category: Deaths]
• 1686: John Fell, English clergyman (b. 1625) [category: Deaths]
• 1711: Princess Amelia of Great Britain (d. 1783) [category: Births]
• 1723: William Blackstone, English politician and jurist (d. 1780) [category: Births]
• 1736: Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807) [category: Births]
• 1776: Richard Peters, English clergyman (b. 1704) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. [category: Events]
• 1789: Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta. [category: Events]
• 1792: George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1794: Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1754) [category: Deaths]
• 1802: Robert Chambers, Scottish author and journalist (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1804: Emma Smith, American religious reformer (d. 1879) [category: Births]
• 1806: George Stubbs,English painter (b. 1724) [category: Deaths]
• 1806: The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. [category: Events]
• 1809: Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1821: The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain. [category: Events]
• 1830: Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1832: U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. [category: Events]
• 1834: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1835: Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880) [category: Births]
• 1839: Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1848: Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1851: Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787) [category: Deaths]
• 1856: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1864: Austin Chapman, Australian politician (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1867: Prince Maximilian of Baden, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1871: Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1874: Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1875: Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1877: The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. [category: Events]
• 1881: Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and educator (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1883: Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1884: Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1888: Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1890: Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. [category: Events]
• 1895: Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1896: Thérèse Casgrain, French-Canadian politician (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1897: Jack Diamond, American gangster (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1897: Karl Plagge, German nazi officer (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1898: Renée Björling, Swedish actress (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1899: Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1899: John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1900: Mitchell Parish, American songwriter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1900: Sampson Sievers, Russian priest (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1902: Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1903: John Wyndham, English author (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1903: Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1905: Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1905: Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1905: Wolfram Sievers, German nazi physician (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1907: Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1908: Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Donald Sinclair, English hotel owner and manager (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1913: Salvador Espriu, Catalan poet (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1913: Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1914: Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1917: Don Herbert, American television host and producer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1917: Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1920: David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1920: Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1920: John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, English admiral (b. 1841) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1921: Harvey Ball, American artist, created the Smiley (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1921: Jake LaMotta, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1921: Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1921: Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1922: Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Earl Hamner, Jr., American writer and producer [category: Births]
• 1923: G. A. Kulkarni, Indian writer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1923: John Bradley, American navy corpsman, one of the people raising the flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1924: Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1924: Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1925: Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1926: Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1927: David Dinkins, American politician, 106th Mayor of New York City [category: Births]
• 1927: Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1927: Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1928: Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian race car driver and manufacturer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1928: Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1928: Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli scholar (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1929: Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1930: Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1930: Susan Cummings, German-American actress. [category: Births]
• 1931: Alice Munro, Canadian writer [category: Births]
• 1931: Jerry Herman, American composer [category: Births]
• 1931: Julian May, American writer [category: Births]
• 1931: Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1932: Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1933: Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1934: Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1935: Tura Satana, American actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1936: Selwyn Baptiste, Trinidadian steelband educator (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Lee Morgan, American trumpet player (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1938: Paul Andreu, French architect, designed the Osaka Maritime Museum and the National Grand Theater of China [category: Births]
• 1938: Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world. [category: Events]
• 1939: Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1939: Phil Kelly, Irish footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1940: Brian Priestley, English pianist and arranger [category: Births]
• 1940: Helen Donath, American soprano [category: Births]
• 1940: Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, English economist and politician [category: Births]
• 1940: Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman [category: Births]
• 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). [category: Events]
• 1940: World War II: the Vichy government is established in France. [category: Events]
• 1941: David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist [category: Births]
• 1941: Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1941: Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. [category: Events]
• 1942: Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet astronaut [category: Births]
• 1942: Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf) (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1942: Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1943: Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1945: Hal McRae American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1945: Jean-Marie Poiré, French director [category: Births]
• 1945: John Motson, English sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1945: Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist [category: Births]
• 1945: Ron Glass, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Virginia Wade, English tennis player [category: Births]
• 1946: Sue Lyon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours. [category: Events]
• 1947: Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1947: Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. [category: Events]
• 1948: Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1949: Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1949: Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author (The Greg Kihn Band) [category: Births]
• 1949: John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1949: Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1949: Winston Rekert, Canadian actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1950: Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Richard Maury, American-Argentine engineer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1951: Phyllis Smith, American actress [category: Births]
• 1951: Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong. [category: Events]
• 1952: Kim Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Max Webster) [category: Births]
• 1952: Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1952: Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1953: Rik Emmett, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Triumph and Strung-Out Troubadours) [category: Births]
• 1953: Zoogz Rift, musician, composer and wrestling personality (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1954: Andre Dawson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1954: Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and musician (Pet Shop Boys and Electronic) [category: Births]
• 1954: Tommy Bowden, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1954: Calogero Vizzini, Italian mafia boss (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Tom McClintock, American politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Cindy Sheehan, American activist [category: Births]
• 1958: Béla Fleck, American musician, songwriter, and composer (Sparrow Quartet, New Grass Revival, Strength in Numbers, and Trio!) [category: Births]
• 1958: Fiona Shaw, Irish actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer [category: Births]
• 1960: Jeff Bergman, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. [category: Events]
• 1963: Richard Waites, English actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Urban Meyer, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1964: Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1965: Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1965: Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1965: Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark [category: Births]
• 1965: Scott McCarron, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1966: Christian Stangl, Austrian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1966: Gina Bellman, English actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1967: Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1967: Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen performer [category: Births]
• 1967: Tom Meents, American monster truck driver [category: Births]
• 1967: Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. [category: Events]
• 1968: Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian runner [category: Births]
• 1968: Jonathan Gilbert, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France. [category: Events]
• 1969: Alexandra Hedison, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Gale Harold, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Jamie Glover, English actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Jonas Kaufmann, German tenor [category: Births]
• 1969: Vicky Morales, Filipino journalist [category: Births]
• 1970: Adam Hills, Australian comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter and musician (Rascal Flatts) [category: Births]
• 1970: Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Take That) [category: Births]
• 1970: John Simm, English actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1971: Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: George Kenner, German artist, made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a POW (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11. [category: Events]
• 1972: Peter Serafinowicz, English comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Tilo Wolff, German singer-songwriter and pianist (Lacrimosa) [category: Births]
• 1972: Francis Gailey, Australian born American freestyle swimmer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Lovie Austin, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Annie Mumolo, American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy. [category: Events]
• 1973: National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh. [category: Events]
• 1973: The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. [category: Events]
• 1974: Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Andrew Firestone, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1975: Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1975: Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Adrian Grenier, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Brendon Lade, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist (Deadsy) [category: Births]
• 1976: Lars Ricken, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Ludovic Giuly, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. [category: Events]
• 1976: The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. [category: Events]
• 1977: Gwendoline Yeo, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Jesse Lacey, American singer-songwriter and musician (Brand New and Taking Back Sunday) [category: Births]
• 1977: Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler [category: Births]
• 1977: Alexandr Zagirnyak and Gennadi Sheludko hijack a Tupolev Tu-134 en route from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad and try to force the pilot to fly to Sweden. The plane lands in Helsinki instead. The hijackers surrender the next day and are returned to the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1978: Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Asia Society (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. [category: Events]
• 1978: World News Tonight premieres on ABC. [category: Events]
• 1979: Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1980: Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Elfonía and Stream of Passion) [category: Births]
• 1980: Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1980: James Rolfe, American filmmaker and actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1980: Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time. [category: Events]
• 1981: Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Ken McElroy, American criminal and murder victim (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Alex Arrowsmith, American musician and producer (The Shaky Hands) [category: Births]
• 1982: Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: José Joelson Inácio, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Kim Heechul, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior and Super Junior-T) [category: Births]
• 1983: Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian model, Miss World 2004 [category: Births]
• 1984: Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: B.J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1985: Mario Gómez, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Park Chu-Young, South Korean footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer, victim of the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. [category: Events]
• 1986: Simenona Martinez, American actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Brian Belo, English-Nigerian actor [category: Births]
• 1987: John H. Hammond, American record producer, critic, and actvist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Antonio Brown, American football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Heather Hemmens, American actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Atsuko Maeda, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48) [category: Births]
• 1991: Danielle Horvat, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1991: María Chacón, Mexican actress [category: Births]
• 1991: The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. [category: Events]
• 1992: Larissa Marolt, Austrian model [category: Births]
• 1992: In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. [category: Events]
• 1993: Carlon Jeffery, American actor [category: Births]
• 1993: Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1997: Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. [category: Events]
• 1998: Haley Pullos, American actress [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2000: Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. [category: Events]
• 2000: EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. [category: Events]
• 2002: Evangelos Florakis, Greek military officer (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 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 Lord Thomson. [category: Events]
• 2003: Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, English lawyer and politician (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2004: Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio personality (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage. [category: Events]
• 2006: Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel leader (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board. [category: Events]
• 2007: Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani cleric (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese director of the State Food and Drug Administration (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founder of Benihana (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes. [category: Events]
• 2011: Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths. [category: Events]
• 2012: Cheryll Heinze, American politician (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Fritz Langanke, German SS lieutenant (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Maria Hawkins Ellington, American singer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Pappu Yadav, Indian politician (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Peter Kyros, American politician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 48_bc: Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. [category: Events]
• 649: Emperor Taizong of Tang (b. 599) [category: Deaths]
• 988: Norse 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. [category: Events]
• _: Amalberga of Maubeuge [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Armed Forces Day (Mauritania) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973 [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nikola Tesla Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Rufina and Secunda [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Seven Brothers [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Silence Day (Followers of Meher Baba) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Statehood Day (Wyoming) [category: Holidays and observances]