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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
• 988 – The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
• 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 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
• 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 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
• 1859 – Big Ben rings for the first time.
• 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
• 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
• 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 with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• 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.
• 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).
• 1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
• 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1943 – World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
• 1947 – Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 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, lead by Martin Luther King, 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.
• 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 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 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
• 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• 1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
• 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
• 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbor by French DGSE agents.
• 1991 – Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
• 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
• 1992 – In Miami, Florida, 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 Neandertal skeleton which support the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• 1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• 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.
• 2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
• 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 £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
• 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.
• 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
• 2006 – Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
• 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

Births

• 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
• 1452 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• 1509 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
• 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
• 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
• 1614 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
• 1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
• 1638 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
• 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
• 1682 – Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
• 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
• 1711 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
• 1723 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
• 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
• 1792 – George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
• 1802 – Robert Chambers, Scottish author and naturalist (d. 1871)
• 1804 – Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879)
• 1809 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
• 1830 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
• 1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
• 1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
• 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
• 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
• 1864 – Austin Chapman, Australian policitian (d. 1926)
• 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
• 1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
• 1874 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
• 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
• 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
• 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
• 1895 – Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
• 1897 – Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
• 1899 – John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1899 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1903 – John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
• 1905 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Donald Sinclair, British hotel manager, inspiration for Fawlty Towers (d. 1981)
• 1913 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
• 1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Don Herbert, American television host (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1920 – David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer
• 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
• 1923 – Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
• 1923 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
• 1923 – John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi(see Iwo Jima) (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
• 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
• 1927 – David Norman Dinkins, New York City Mayor, 1990-1993
• 1927 – Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
• 1928 – Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
• 1930 – Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer
• 1932 – Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
• 1934 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
• 1935 – Tura Satana, American actress
• 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect
• 1938 – Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
• 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
• 1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British economist
• 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
• 1940 – Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
• 1941 – David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
• 1941 – Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer
• 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician
• 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
• 1945 – John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
• 1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
• 1945 – Virginia Wade, British tennis player
• 1945 – Ron Glass, American actor
• 1945 – Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
• 1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress
• 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American musician
• 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
• 1949 – Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
• 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer and record producer
• 1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
• 1951 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
• 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
• 1952 – Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
• 1952 – Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
• 1952 – Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
• 1953 – Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker
• 1953 – Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
• 1954 – Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
• 1954 – Andre Dawson, American baseball player
• 1956 – Tom McClintock, American politician
• 1957 – Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
• 1958 – Béla Fleck, American musician
• 1958 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
• 1959 – Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
• 1961 – Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
• 1964 – Urban Meyer, American football coach
• 1964 – Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
• 1965 – Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
• 1965 – Ken Mellons, American singer
• 1965 – Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
• 1965 – Scott McCarron, American professional golfer
• 1966 – Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1967 – Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
• 1967 – Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen
• 1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
• 1968 – Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
• 1969 – Jamie Glover, British actor
• 1969 – Gale Harold, American actor
• 1969 – Alexandra Hedison, American actress
• 1970 – Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
• 1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian
• 1970 – Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
• 1970 – Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
• 1970 – John Simm, British actor
• 1971 – Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
• 1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
• 1972 – Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
• 1972 – Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
• 1973 – Annie Mumolo, American actress
• 1974 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
• 1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
• 1976 – Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
• 1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor
• 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
• 1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
• 1976 – Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
• 1976 – Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
• 1977 – Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
• 1978 – Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
• 1979 – Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
• 1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
• 1980 – Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
• 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer
• 1980 – Orlando Jordan, American wrestler
• 1980 – Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
• 1982 – Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
• 1982 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
• 1983 – Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
• 1983 – Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
• 1985 – B.J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Mario Gómez, footballer

Deaths

• 138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
• 649 – Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b. 599)
• 1099 – El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
• 1103 – King Eric I of Denmark
• 1290 – King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
• 1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
• 1480 – King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
• 1559 – King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
• 1584 – William I of Orange (b. 1533)
• 1590 – Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
• 1594 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
• 1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
• 1653 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
• 1680 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
• 1683 – François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
• 1686 – John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
• 1776 – Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
• 1806 – George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
• 1848 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
• 1851 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
• 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
• 1920 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
• 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
• 1972 – Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
• 1978 – John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
• 1987 – John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
• 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
• 2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
• 2003 – Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
• 2004 – Pati Behrs, Russian-born American actress, grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and first wife of American actor John Derek (b. 1922)
• 2005 – A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Followers of Meher Baba: Silence Day
• Bahamas: Independence Day
• Mauritania: Armed Forces Day
• Wyoming: Statehood Day

• Ancient Latvia – Septinu Bralu Diena observed.
• Saint Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr
• Translation of Saint Maclovius, bishop of Saint-Malo, confessor
• The Seven Brothers (Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs
• Saint Amalberga, virgin (d. 690)
• Saint Felicitas of Rome, martyr
• Saints Rufina and Secunda, martyrs

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! ~ Michael Palin as "Dennis" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

• selected by Kalki

2005

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. ~ Nikola Tesla (born 10 July 1856)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation of those who are to come and point the way. ~ Nikola Tesla (born 10 July 1856)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. ~ Marcel Proust

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. ~ Nikola Tesla

• proposed by Kalki

2009

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. ~ William Blackstone

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

Suggestions

Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time. ~ Lord Kelvin. Nikola Tesla was born that day.

• 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:59 (UTC) (Surely wtih the likes of Cheryl Wheeler and Arlo Guthrie born on this day, we can do better!)
• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 27 June 2005 11:27 (UTC) (Better than Tesla, to whom all people are indebted to? Tesla made mass-use of computers which generate large amount of electricity possible with alternating current. There are not many people who contributed more to humanity than Tesla has, and very few who got as little thanks).
• 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC)
• 1 Sorry, but bored. Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
• 0 Jeff Q (talk) 10:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC). Better a quote from Telsa himself.
• 1 Kalki 20:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Agree that quotes by Tesla are superior to quotes about him as commemorations of his birthday, but might eventually rank this higher.
• 0 because I agree with Jeffq. Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly — not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. ~ Nikola Tesla (date of birth)

• 4 Kalki 08:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

That's all, folks! ~ Porky Pig voiced by Mel Blanc who died on this day.

• 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC)
• 2 Without context, it sounds not significant. --Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 0 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 0 Ningauble 14:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC) Because (1) Mel Blanc's rendition was original but we cannot render it here, and (2) the closing line was not original to the Porky Pig character, but was borrowed from Bosko.

• "Eh... what's up, doc?" - Bugs Bunny by Mel Blanc
• 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC) both just so that there is a few to choose from.
• 2 Without context, it sounds not significant. --Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC) would be better on Blanc's birthday perhaps.
• 0 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Doubtless all arbitrary powers, well executed, are the most convenient, yet let it be again remembered, that delays, and little inconveniences in the forms of justice, are the price that all free nations must pay for their liberty in more substantial matters; that these inroads upon this sacred bulwark of the nation are fundamentally opposite to the spirit of our constitution; and that, though begun in trifles, the precedent may gradually increase and spread, to the utter disuse of juries in questions of the most momentous concern. ~ William Blackstone (born July 10, 1723)

• 3 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people. ~ Marcel Proust (born July 10, 1871)

• 3 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. ~ Marcel Proust

• 4 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally. ~ Marcel Proust

• 3 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ~ Marcel Proust

• 3 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 because suffering can indeed teach. Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. ~ Marcel Proust

• 3 Kalki 20:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. ~ Carl Orff (born 10 July 1895)

• 3 Kalki 20:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand. ~ Carl Orff

• 3 Kalki 20:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC) (I would probably rank this a 4, if proven to be Orff's comment, but I haven't been able to definitely source it; though I have seen it specifically cited to Orff, it has also sometimes been cited as an "ancient proverb" "ancient chinese proverb" or "old chinese proverb" — since at least as early as 1983 — though it does seem precisely characteristic of Orff's teaching philosophy.)
• 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. ~ Nikola Tesla

• 3 Kalki 04:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 17:11, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer. ~ Carl Orff

• 3 Kalki 10:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 05:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
• 988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
• 1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
• 1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
• 1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
• 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
• 1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
• 1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
• 1800 - The British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
• 1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was 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 - President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.
• 1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
• 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
• 1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
• 1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
• 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
• 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
• 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
• 1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
• 1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
• 1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
• 1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
• 1951 - Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
• 1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
• 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
• 1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
• 1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
• 1976 - The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
• 1976 - One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• 1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC
• 1978 - Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
• 1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbor by French DGSE agents.
• 1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
• 1991 - South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
• 1992 - In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
• 1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• 1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• 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.
• 2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
• 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 £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
• 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.
• 2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
• 2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

Births

• 1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
• 1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• 1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
• 1517 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
• 1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
• 1614 - Arthur Annesley, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
• 1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
• 1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
• 1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
• 1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
• 1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
• 1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
• 1723 - William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
• 1736 - Maria (d. 1807)
• 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
• 1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
• 1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
• 1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
• 1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
• 1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
• 1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
• 1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
• 1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
• 1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
• 1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian painter (d. 1971)
• 1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
• 1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
• 1888 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
• 1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
• 1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
• 1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
• 1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
• 1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
• 1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
• 1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
• 1903 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
• 1905 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
• 1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
• 1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (d. 2007)
• 1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
• 1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
• 1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist
• 1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
• 1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
• 1923 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
• 1924 - Bobo Brazil, professional wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Malaysian Prime Minister
• 1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
• 1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
• 1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
• 1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
• 1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
• 1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
• 1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
• 1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
• 1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
• 1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
• 1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
• 1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
• 1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
• 1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
• 1941 - Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer
• 1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
• 1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
• 1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
• 1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
• 1945 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
• 1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
• 1945 - Ron Glass, American actor
• 1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violonist
• 1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress
• 1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
• 1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
• 1950 - Greg Kihn, American musician
• 1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
• 1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
• 1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
• 1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
• 1953 - Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker
• 1953 - Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
• 1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
• 1954 - Andre Dawson, American baseball player
• 1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
• 1957 - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
• 1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
• 1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
• 1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
• 1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
• 1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
• 1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
• 1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
• 1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
• 1969 - Alexandra Hedison, American actress
• 1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
• 1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
• 1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
• 1970 - John Simm, British actor
• 1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
• 1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
• 1975 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
• 1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
• 1976 - Adrian Grenier, American actor
• 1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
• 1976 - Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
• 1976 - Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
• 1979 - Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
• 1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
• 1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
• 1980 - Orlando Jordan, American wrestler
• 1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
• 1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
• 1992 - Brendan McEntee, Korean musician

Deaths

• 138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
• 649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)
• 1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
• 1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
• 1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
• 1460 - Humphrey Stafford, English military leader (b. 1402)
• 1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
• 1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
• 1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
• 1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
• 1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
• 1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
• 1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
• 1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
• 1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
• 1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
• 1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
• 1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
• 1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
• 1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
• 1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
• 1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
• 1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
• 1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
• 1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
• 1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
• 1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
• 1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
• 1987 - John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
• 1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
• 2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
• 2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
• 2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
• 2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
• 2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
• 2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
• 2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
• 2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
• 2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
• 2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Bahamas - Independence Day.
• Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.
• Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
• Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.

Liturgical feasts

• Saint Etto, bishop, confessor [Mons]
• Saint Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr [Sleswig, Scandinavia]
• Translation of Saint Maclovius, bishop of Saint-Malo, confessor [St. Malo]
• The Seven Brothers (Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs [common; Halberstadt, Hildesheim]
• Saint Witger of Hamme
• Saint Amalberga, virgin (died 690) [Brandenburg, Flanders]
• Saint Felicitas of Rome, martyr [Halberstadt, Hildesheim, Augsburg]
• Saint Maria Amandina of Schakkebroek and Companions (died 1900)
• Saints Rufina and Secunda, martyrs [common; Albi]

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada