July 10
1832 - President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore became president following the death of President 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 would ultimately reject it.)
1925 - Jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee in the John T. Scopes trial, charged with violating the 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.
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.
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, after intense backlash over the introduction of "New Coke," announced it was bringing back the original formula of their flagship product 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.
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 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.
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, brought down by a phone-hacking scandal, published it last 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.
2017 - Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign in the hope that he would receive information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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.
2021 - A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its stone pedestal in Charlottesville, Virginia and hauled away to storage along with a statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson; the Lee monument had become a rallying cry for white supremacists, leading to a deadly 2017 rally in which a peaceful counterprotester was killed.
Birthdays
21 - Isabela Merced (actress)
24 - Angus Cloud (actor)
24 - Yasmin Wijnaldum (model)
29 - Perrie Edwards (singer)
29 - Carla Jeffery (actress)
31 - Angel Haze (singer)
32 - Emily Skeggs (actress)
32 - Cara de la Hoyde (reality star)
34 - Antonio Brown (football player)
38 - Heather Hemmens (actress)
42 - Jessica Simpson (actress/singer)
42 - Thomas Ian Nichols (actor)
45 - Gwendoline Yeo (actress)
46 - Adrian Grenier (actor)
50 - Sofia Vergara (actress)
51 - Erika Jayne (singer)
51 - Aaron D. Spears (actor)
52 - Gary LeVox (singer)
53 - Gale Harold (actor)
57 - Alec Mapa (actor)
61 - Jackie Chung (actress)
64 - Fiona Shaw (actress)
75 - Arlo Guthrie (singer)
77 - Virginia Wade (tennis player)
81 - Robert Pine (actor)
82 - Mills Watson (actor)
83 - Mavis Staples (singer)
95 - 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 each league into two divisions for 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 World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
1832 - President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore became president following the death of President 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 would ultimately reject it.)
1925 - Jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee in the John T. Scopes trial, charged with violating the 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.
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.
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, after intense backlash over the introduction of "New Coke," announced it was bringing back the original formula of their flagship product 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.
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 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.
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, brought down by a phone-hacking scandal, published it last 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.
2017 - Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign in the hope that he would receive information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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.
2021 - A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its stone pedestal in Charlottesville, Virginia and hauled away to storage along with a statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson; the Lee monument had become a rallying cry for white supremacists, leading to a deadly 2017 rally in which a peaceful counterprotester was killed.
Birthdays
21 - Isabela Merced (actress)
24 - Angus Cloud (actor)
24 - Yasmin Wijnaldum (model)
29 - Perrie Edwards (singer)
29 - Carla Jeffery (actress)
31 - Angel Haze (singer)
32 - Emily Skeggs (actress)
32 - Cara de la Hoyde (reality star)
34 - Antonio Brown (football player)
38 - Heather Hemmens (actress)
42 - Jessica Simpson (actress/singer)
42 - Thomas Ian Nichols (actor)
45 - Gwendoline Yeo (actress)
46 - Adrian Grenier (actor)
50 - Sofia Vergara (actress)
51 - Erika Jayne (singer)
51 - Aaron D. Spears (actor)
52 - Gary LeVox (singer)
53 - Gale Harold (actor)
57 - Alec Mapa (actor)
61 - Jackie Chung (actress)
64 - Fiona Shaw (actress)
75 - Arlo Guthrie (singer)
77 - Virginia Wade (tennis player)
81 - Robert Pine (actor)
82 - Mills Watson (actor)
83 - Mavis Staples (singer)
95 - William Smithers (actor)
=============================
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 each league into two divisions for 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 World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
