July 10
1509 - Theologian John Calvin, a key figure in the Protestant Reformation, was born in France.
1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the U.S. Senate and urged its ratification. (The Senate, however, would later reject it.)
1925 - Jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee, in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)
1929 - American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller.
1940 - The Battle of Britain began during World War II as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England. (Britain's Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.)
1951 - Armistice talks to end the Korean War began at Kaesong.
1973 - The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain.
1985 - The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was bringing back the original Coke formula and calling it "Coca-Cola Classic."
1989 - Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices," including such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, died in Los Angeles.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as Russia's first elected president.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.
1995 - Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest.
2002 - The House of Representatives approved, 310-113, a measure to allow airline pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their planes against terrorists. (President George W. Bush later signed the measure into law.)
2003 - Spain opened its first mosque since the Moors were expelled in the early 1500s.
2005 - A search-and-rescue team found the body of a missing U.S. commando in eastern Afghanistan, bringing an end to the desperate search for the last member of an ill-fated, four-man special forces unit that had disappeared the previous month.
2013 - In a first, the Navy succeeded in landing a drone the size of a fighter jet aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, off the Virginia coast.
2015 - South Carolina pulled the Confederate flag from its place of honor at the Statehouse after more than 50 years.
2018 - A daring rescue mission in Thailand was completed successfully, as the last four of the 12 boys who were trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks were brought to safety along with their soccer coach. The other eight had been brought out in the two preceding days.
2018 - Rancher Dwight Hammond and his son Steven, who had been convicted of intentionally setting fires on public land in Oregon, were pardoned by President Donald Trump.
2020 - President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and concerned Trump's own conduct; the move came days before Stone was to begin serving a 40-month sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation into whether Trump's 2016 campaign had colluded with Russia.
Birthdays
22 - Isabela Merced (actress)
25 - Yasmin Wijnaldum (model)
26 - Alba Baptista (actress)
27 - Moon Ga-young (actress)
30 - Perrie Edwards (singer)
32 - Angel Haze (siner)
33 - Emily Skeggs (actress)
39 - Heather Hemmens (actress)
43 - Jessica Simpson (actress/singer)
43 - Thomas Ian Nichols (actor)
46 - Gwendoline Yeo (actress)
47 - Adrian Grenier (actor)
49 - Imelda May (singer)
51 - Sofia Vergara (actress)
52 - Erika Jayne (singer/actress)
52 - Aaron D. Spears (actor)
53 - Gary LeVox (singer)
54 - Gale Harold (actress)
58 - Alec Mapa (actor)
62 - Jackie Chung (actress)
65 - Fiona Shaw (actress)
78 - Virginia Wade (tennis player)
82 - Robert Pine (actor0
83 - Mills Watson (actor)
84 - Mavis Staples (singer)
84 - Lawrence Pressman (actor)
96 - William Smithers (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 10
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights as Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown.
1968 - MLB announces each league will split into two divisions beginning in the 1969 season.
1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden (New York Mets) became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.
1999 - The U.S. Women's soccer team defeated China to win the 1999 World Cup tournament.
2013 - David Ortiz doubled in his first at-bat to become baseball's career leader in hits as a designated hitter and hit a two-run homer an inning later, leading the Boston Red Sox to an 11-4 victory over Seattle.
1509 - Theologian John Calvin, a key figure in the Protestant Reformation, was born in France.
1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the U.S. Senate and urged its ratification. (The Senate, however, would later reject it.)
1925 - Jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee, in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)
1929 - American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller.
1940 - The Battle of Britain began during World War II as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England. (Britain's Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.)
1951 - Armistice talks to end the Korean War began at Kaesong.
1973 - The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain.
1985 - The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was bringing back the original Coke formula and calling it "Coca-Cola Classic."
1989 - Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices," including such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, died in Los Angeles.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as Russia's first elected president.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.
1995 - Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest.
2002 - The House of Representatives approved, 310-113, a measure to allow airline pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their planes against terrorists. (President George W. Bush later signed the measure into law.)
2003 - Spain opened its first mosque since the Moors were expelled in the early 1500s.
2005 - A search-and-rescue team found the body of a missing U.S. commando in eastern Afghanistan, bringing an end to the desperate search for the last member of an ill-fated, four-man special forces unit that had disappeared the previous month.
2013 - In a first, the Navy succeeded in landing a drone the size of a fighter jet aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, off the Virginia coast.
2015 - South Carolina pulled the Confederate flag from its place of honor at the Statehouse after more than 50 years.
2018 - A daring rescue mission in Thailand was completed successfully, as the last four of the 12 boys who were trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks were brought to safety along with their soccer coach. The other eight had been brought out in the two preceding days.
2018 - Rancher Dwight Hammond and his son Steven, who had been convicted of intentionally setting fires on public land in Oregon, were pardoned by President Donald Trump.
2020 - President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and concerned Trump's own conduct; the move came days before Stone was to begin serving a 40-month sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation into whether Trump's 2016 campaign had colluded with Russia.
Birthdays
22 - Isabela Merced (actress)
25 - Yasmin Wijnaldum (model)
26 - Alba Baptista (actress)
27 - Moon Ga-young (actress)
30 - Perrie Edwards (singer)
32 - Angel Haze (siner)
33 - Emily Skeggs (actress)
39 - Heather Hemmens (actress)
43 - Jessica Simpson (actress/singer)
43 - Thomas Ian Nichols (actor)
46 - Gwendoline Yeo (actress)
47 - Adrian Grenier (actor)
49 - Imelda May (singer)
51 - Sofia Vergara (actress)
52 - Erika Jayne (singer/actress)
52 - Aaron D. Spears (actor)
53 - Gary LeVox (singer)
54 - Gale Harold (actress)
58 - Alec Mapa (actor)
62 - Jackie Chung (actress)
65 - Fiona Shaw (actress)
78 - Virginia Wade (tennis player)
82 - Robert Pine (actor0
83 - Mills Watson (actor)
84 - Mavis Staples (singer)
84 - Lawrence Pressman (actor)
96 - William Smithers (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 10
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights as Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown.
1968 - MLB announces each league will split into two divisions beginning in the 1969 season.
1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden (New York Mets) became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.
1999 - The U.S. Women's soccer team defeated China to win the 1999 World Cup tournament.
2013 - David Ortiz doubled in his first at-bat to become baseball's career leader in hits as a designated hitter and hit a two-run homer an inning later, leading the Boston Red Sox to an 11-4 victory over Seattle.
