July 10
Today is the 191st day of 2021, there are 174 days left in the year.
138 - Roman Emperor Hadrian, responsible for the construction of opulent temples as well as the barrier in northern Britain known as Hadrian's Wall, died at age 62.
1832 - President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore became the 13th president of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor.
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. (However, the Senate rejected it.)
1925 - Jury selection began in Dayton, Tennessee in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was later overturned on a technicality.)
1940 - The Battle of Britain began during World War II as the German Luftwaffe began attacking southern England.
1943 - U.S. and British forces invaded Sicily during World War II.
1951 - Armistice talks to end the Korean War began at Kaesong.
1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1973 - The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain following 300 years of British rule.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Co., bowing to pressure from irate customers after the introduction of "New Coke," announced that it was bringing back the original formula of Coke and calling it "Coca-Cola Classic".
1985 - The Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed.
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 at age 81.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as Russia's first elected president.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.
1992 - A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to 40 years in prison on drug and racketeering charges.
1995 - Myanmar activist Aung 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.
2003 - Spain opened its first mosque since the Moors were expelled in nearly 500 years.
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.
2006 - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded.
2011 - Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid, the "News of the World," was brought down by a phone hacking scandal and published its final issue.
2015 - To the cheers of thousands, 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.
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
20 - Isabela Merced (actress)
25 - Moon Ga-young (actress)
28 - Perrie Edwards (singer)
28 - Carla Jeffery (actress)
30 - Angel Haze (singer)
31 - Cara de la Hoyde (reality star)
31 - Emily Skeggs (actress)
37 - Heather Hemmens (actress)
41 - Jessica Simpson (actrses/singer)
41 - Thomas Ian Nicholas (actor)
44 - Gwendoline Yeo (actress)
45 - Adrian Grenier (actor)
47 - Imelda May (singer)
49 - Sofia Vergara (actress)
50 - Aaron D. Spears (actor)
50 - Erika Jayne (singer)
51 - Gary LeVox (actor)
52 - Gale Harold (actor)
56 - Ken Mellons (country singer)
56 - Alec Mapa (actor)
63 - Fiona Shaw (actress)
80 - Robert Pine (actor)
82 - Lawrence Pressman (actor)
94 - 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 - Major League Baseball announces it will split the American and National Leagues each into two divisions beginning in 1969.
1984 - Dwight "Doc" Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest player in MLB history to appear in an All-Star Game at age 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old.
1999 - The U.S. women's soccer team won the World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, defeating China 0-0 (5-4 penalty kicks) in the final.
Today is the 191st day of 2021, there are 174 days left in the year.
138 - Roman Emperor Hadrian, responsible for the construction of opulent temples as well as the barrier in northern Britain known as Hadrian's Wall, died at age 62.
1832 - President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore became the 13th president of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor.
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. (However, the Senate rejected it.)
1925 - Jury selection began in Dayton, Tennessee in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was later overturned on a technicality.)
1940 - The Battle of Britain began during World War II as the German Luftwaffe began attacking southern England.
1943 - U.S. and British forces invaded Sicily during World War II.
1951 - Armistice talks to end the Korean War began at Kaesong.
1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1973 - The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain following 300 years of British rule.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Co., bowing to pressure from irate customers after the introduction of "New Coke," announced that it was bringing back the original formula of Coke and calling it "Coca-Cola Classic".
1985 - The Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed.
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 at age 81.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as Russia's first elected president.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.
1992 - A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to 40 years in prison on drug and racketeering charges.
1995 - Myanmar activist Aung 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.
2003 - Spain opened its first mosque since the Moors were expelled in nearly 500 years.
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.
2006 - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded.
2011 - Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid, the "News of the World," was brought down by a phone hacking scandal and published its final issue.
2015 - To the cheers of thousands, 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.
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
20 - Isabela Merced (actress)
25 - Moon Ga-young (actress)
28 - Perrie Edwards (singer)
28 - Carla Jeffery (actress)
30 - Angel Haze (singer)
31 - Cara de la Hoyde (reality star)
31 - Emily Skeggs (actress)
37 - Heather Hemmens (actress)
41 - Jessica Simpson (actrses/singer)
41 - Thomas Ian Nicholas (actor)
44 - Gwendoline Yeo (actress)
45 - Adrian Grenier (actor)
47 - Imelda May (singer)
49 - Sofia Vergara (actress)
50 - Aaron D. Spears (actor)
50 - Erika Jayne (singer)
51 - Gary LeVox (actor)
52 - Gale Harold (actor)
56 - Ken Mellons (country singer)
56 - Alec Mapa (actor)
63 - Fiona Shaw (actress)
80 - Robert Pine (actor)
82 - Lawrence Pressman (actor)
94 - 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 - Major League Baseball announces it will split the American and National Leagues each into two divisions beginning in 1969.
1984 - Dwight "Doc" Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest player in MLB history to appear in an All-Star Game at age 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old.
1999 - The U.S. women's soccer team won the World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, defeating China 0-0 (5-4 penalty kicks) in the final.
